This is a very busy Club! Here are some highlights of what has happened over the last week and what is yet to come!
A BIG THANK YOU to everyone who made it out to our new meeting location at Superior last week! We had over 40 members in attendance. There are some learning curves and kinks we will be working out over the next few weeks. I appreciate your cooperative and helpful responses to our meeting and look forward to us feeling right at home soon. I hope to see a good turnout to the meeting this week. We have a special guest this week! District 7430, District Governor Len Gieseler will be our speaker. Let's give him a warm welcome and thank him for his service to Rotary.
On Sunday the Fellowship Committee put together a lovely Pumpkin Painting Party! We had a great turn out by Rotarians and Friends. Lots of happy smiles from the kiddos and grownups! There were a lot of creative ideas and artistic expression going on making it a great day for memories. Thank you to Jean, Don, Ceil, Diane, Nelly and the entire committee for organizing are special day and keeping this young tradition alive for ERC. I look forward to this event every year.
I'm excited to see what ERC puts together for the Miracle League Trick or Treat on Wednesday. Karen and her Committee are working with EHS Interact Club to create a fun experience for the Miracle League. It is so great to see that ERC and Interact are collaborating on meaningful service projects like this. Thank you to everyone who donated to make sure we have enough candy to supply the kids enjoying the event! You are all very sweet!
RICE RICE BABY! ANGEL NETWORK RICE COLLECTION! Please remember to bring boxed rice to any meeting now through November 17th. We can make a difference to struggling families one small donation at a time!
Board meeting this week! For anyone interested in attending our monthly Board Meeting, we will meet promptly after our normal program wraps up at 8:30am. Our DG Len will be in attendance.
UP NEXT! Meal Prep for Rescue Mission and Turning Point - Saturday, November 12, 2022. 8am - 11:30am
It's time for our annual meal prep for the Rescue Mission and Turning Point! We are going to be using Zion Lutheran Church again at 5901 Kings Hwy S. Old Zionsville, Pa 18068. We're going to be making a meal for about 80 people at the Rescue Mission plus a group at Turning Point and we'd love to have your help! Karen will also need a few people to help her deliver the food as well. If you're interested, please respond sign up using ClubRunner by clicking here. If you have any questions, please reach out to Nicole at 484-695-1802.
The Knauss Homestead and Emmaus Remembrance Garden Cleanup will also take place on November 12th from 9am - 11am! 150 East Main Street, Emmaus - enter through Cintas Car Park. See Karen and Nicole to sign up.
BIG REMINDER! This week we move our weekly breakfast meetings to Superior Restaurant in Emmaus. Same time; 7:30am start time. Doors open as early as 7:00am. The cost is STILL $15.00. BE SURE TO LOOK AT THE CLUB MEETING DUTIES TO SEE IF YOU ARE SCHEDULED! We will need all hands on deck to make this a smooth transition!
Check out the new menu below. Your breakfast will be made to order. I don't know about you but I'm already looking forward to some eggs over easy!!! We've got a great program in store for you as well...it is time to start thinking about the ERC Centennial!
ERC Breakfast Menu
Two eggs any style with choice of meat
Western Omelet- 3 egg omelet w/ ham, pepper, onions and American cheese
Bowl of Oatmeal topped blueberries & Honey accompanied with muffin
Bacon, Egg Cheese Croissant
Fruit Parfait – Greek yogurt topped with strawberries, blueberries & granola
French Toast with choice of meat
Pancakes with choice of meat
Cheese omelet served with home fries and choice of meat
Remember we now meet at the Superior restaurant in Emmaus. 102 Main St. next to Shangy's.
We are making adjustments weekly until we get a routine set up.
We are going to do a buffet again this week, so be patient as the fun continues.
If you don't like the coziness of our half of the room, please call your Rotarian friends to come join us again. Once we are back to our regular number of 50 Rotarians, each week, we can have the entire room!
THIS week is our food collection week. Joanne and Ashley are the new leaders of this great cause.
As you're doing your grocery shopping or cleaning out your pantry this weekend, please keep in mind the following items that the Emmaus Food Pantry needs to support our community.
Let's see what we can do to help. Rice has been hard to get lately for our school program also.
Rotary is working with the Angel Network to collect food items for their semi annual food drive. We have been asked to contribute Rice for this collection. Please bring Rice to any meeting for this drive. We will be collecting until the week before Thanksgiving. We need to collect 150 boxes of rice. You have been most generous in the past for this Food Drive and I thank you in advance for your support.
1) Worldwide polio cases have decreased an astounding 99% since 1988 due to Rotary’s PolioPlus participation in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Rotarians have vowed not to stop until polio is wiped from the earth to prevent this deadly disease from ever making a comeback.
2) $1.5 billion could be saved annually around the world if polio were eradicated. This money could be applied to other public health priorities, and the savings in human suffering is immeasurable.
3) More than $650 million have been contributed by Rotary members to PolioPlus.
4) The Gates & Buffett Foundation offered to donate $355 million to PolioPlus for polio immunization campaigns in developing countries if Rotarians contributed an additional $200 million by June 2012. Success is imminent as $160 million had already been raised by December 2010.
5) 9,000 secondary-school students annually experience life in another country through the Rotary Youth Exchange.
6) How big is Rotary International? 32,000 clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas around the world initiate service projects to address today’s challenges, including literacy, disease, hunger, poverty, lack of clean water, and environmental concerns. The clubs get to work immediately whenever a crisis strikes; at this very moment Rotarians are busy in the earthquake regions of New Zealand and Japan.
7) 1.2 million business, professional, and community leaders make up the Rotary global network of community volunteers who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards, and help build goodwill and peace in the world numbers.
8) The organization that holds the highest consultative status given by the United Nations to nongovernmental organizations is Rotary International.
9) The first Rotary club meeting was held in Chicago on February 23, 1905. Five years later in 1910 Canada welcomed its first Rotary club to Winnipeg.
10) The furthest a Rotary Club banner has ever traveled: In 1968 astronaut Frank Borman, member of the Houston Space Center Rotary club, carried a banner on the Apollo 8 flight to the moon!
For more information about Rotary International please visit the website http://www.rotary.org/
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Alicia Ruiz-Orbin Receiving The Rotary Foundation Major Donor Award. Congratulations Alica and Thank You for generosity!
Photos Below. Cindy Hornaman and Mike Mihalik share their experiences in Mfuwe, Zambi while completing a HUGE Global Grant Project. The project built a new science wing, provided computers and lab equipment, and provided vocational training to the teacher at the local school. Congratulations Cindy and Mike on the coordination and completion of this incredibly life changing project for the students of Mfuwe.
Two found memories of past Rotarians. Bob Halsey and Carl Frantz working the table at Miracle League. The Rotary sign is at the veterinary clinic in Emmaus, set up by Rocky Rockwell many years ago.
Every once in awhile we will do a virtual meeting with our Live meeting. This week is one of those times.
The virtual meeting should be started by 7:15a.m. Feel free to chat with your virtual friends and the members in attendance. Please mute yourself when the President starts the meeting. Use the Chat feature to chat with the Zoom Master and others on the virtual meeting. We'll do our best to give you the same feel of the meeting as if you were able to attend in person.
Please Note that if you are attending virtually please use the following ZOOM link!
Can Tabs For The Miracle League LV / Submitted By Bob Halsey
In 2018 We started collecting the Tabs from all types of cans Soda, Beer, Seltzer, Tuna Fish, Sardines, Soup Cans, Etc. In 2018 we were able to deliver Five Full One Gallon Jugs of Tabs…Last year, 2019 we were able to deliver Three Full One Gallon Jugs of Tabs. So far this year 2020 we now have One Full One Gallon Jugs. I would hope we can again this year, 2020, can fill at least another Five Full One Gallon Jug OR MORE. I turn these into the Miracle League in the Middle of October, right before Halloween. They turn them into the Dupont Children’s Hospital in Wilmington Delaware. Other organizations also collect these Tabs, in total the Hospital has been able sell these for enough Money to pay 75% of the Utilities Cost in their Ronald House, where Families to stay at a very Nominal Cost when their Handicapped Children need to go for Treatment. You can bring Tabs every Thursday to our regular Breakfast Meetings.
Meghan's tab collection pictured. How is yours looking?
• District 9100 which comprises 14 West African Countries is recognized as the largest geographical District in the Rotary world. It was created in 1985 and uses three official languages - English, French, and Portuguese.
• The Rotary Club of Papeete, Tahiti, which is located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is the club that is most remote from any other.
• The southernmost Rotary meeting is that of the Rotary Club of Base Marambio Antartida in Antarctica. If in the area you can also visit the Rotary Club of Base Antarctica Esperanza. Both are Spanish speaking clubs that meet Wednesday evenings
• To visit the northernmost club you must travel above the Arctic Circle to the Rotary Club of Barrow, Alaska, U.S.A.
• If you attend the El Aguilar club in Argentina, you are meeting with the highest club in the world at 16,000 feet (4,880 meters) above sea level.
• The lowest club meets at 40 feet (12.2 meters) below sea level at El Centro, California, USA.
• There are 69 Rotary clubs with the word “Tokyo” in their club names.
• It is said that there is a Rotary meeting being held someplace in the world every hour of every day. If you attended one meeting per day, it would take nearly 80 years to visit all of the more than 34,500 Rotary clubs in the world, and by that time, no doubt, there would be thousands more new clubs to attend
Credit cards will now be accepted for breakfast as long as Eric is there. If you wish to use your credit card for breakfast, just sign in at the sign-in table and then go to Eric Loch so he can process your card for you.
Rotary International Theme for 2022-2023 Have you heard? Rotary International President-elect Jennifer Jones (who is also our first female president) has announced the 2022-23 theme Imagine Rotary. “Imagine, a world that deserves our best, where we get up each day knowing that we can make a difference.” The theme is a special one: the theme graphic was designed by an Australian Indigenous artist to link with the Melbourne Convention in 2023. Some of the symbolism includes: Circle connections to one another Dots around it - our people There are 7 Dots for Rotary's 7 areas of focus Circle + dots around it - a navigation star, our guiding light Green solid line - digging stick (used when doing hard work); for us it's People of Action, represents the tools for getting things done The colors purple, green & white - celebrate diversity, equity and inclusion Freedom to express ourselves differently but still with a special connection Purple is also the color of Rotary's Polio campaign Green represents the Environment White stands for peace; it also represents Empowerment and Newness and also the colors were utilized for the women's movement, highlighting the opportunity to grow our female membership.
The Emmaus Rotary Club embraces, practices and promotes the Rotary International Core Values of Service, Fellowship, Diversity, Integrity and Leadership.
