BELLEVUE PAPILLION ROTARY CLUB NEWSLETTER
August 2016
Meetings: Mondays at Noon
DJ’S Dugout
10308 South 23rd St.
Bellevue, NE 68123
OFFICERS FOR 2016-2017
President………...... Colm Breathnach
President-Elect…...... Denise Dolezol
Secretary……………….Herb Barelman
Treasurer…………………Jerry Monson
Sergeant-at-Arms…………..Paul Reed
Program Chair………………..Jeff Smith
Board Members…...... Charles Adams
Herb Barelman
Jerry Monson
Paul Reed
Fred Simon
Jeff Smith
Matt Willis
Colm Breathnach
Denise Dolezal
AUGUST SPEAKERS
August 8: Tim Weander (State highway engineer)
August 15: Mike Jackman (DAV)
August 22: Don Kelly (Sarpy County Commissioner
August 22: Tinca Joyner (Exchange Student)
GREETER AND INVOCATION
August
Greeter.……...... Sarah Conaway
Invocation………...... Herb Barelman
FROM THE PRESIDENT
I hope you’ve enjoyed the last 6 months’ newsletters – wait?? You didn’t receive them? Possible reasons for this:
· We do not have your updated email address on file
· They are all in your spam folder
· The government confiscated them due to possible terrorist involvement
Whatever the reason may be, we are glad that you’ve gotten things worked out and are back online.
I want to personally thank Colm and everyone who filled in for me over the past 6 months. I am excited to be back and even though I am not 100% yet, I am getting stronger every day.
It’s time to officially welcome Colm as President (even though he was thrown into this role six months ago!) and Denise as President-elect. The 2016-2017 Rotary year has many exciting things planned and I look forward to hearing about some of them from Colm next month.
Again, thank you to everyone for the Paul Harris award and everything you did to support me over the past year.
Sarah Conaway
FROM ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
From theJuly 2016 issueof The Rotarian
When Brad Rubini was reading a bedtime story to his seven-year-old daughter, Claire, she asked him why he was reading the words wrong.
“I’m dyslexic, so I thought I was reading the words right,” recalls Rubini, a past president of the Rotary Club of Toledo, Ohio.
After he explained his problem, she began to read to him on most nights instead. “She was a voracious reader and storyteller. She was always telling stories, even when she was a toddler,” he says.
Three years later, while Claire was away at summer camp, she died unexpectedly as a result of a heart ailment. Rubini and his wife, Julie, channeled their grief and honored their daughter’s love of reading by creating Claire’s Day, now one of Ohio’s largest children’s book festivals. Since 2001 the event has grown into a weeklong celebration that includes visits by about 15 authors and illustrators to 32 area schools. The week concludes with a book festival on the third Saturday in May, near Claire’s birthday (May 24). Claire’s Day operates with a budget of $60,000, funded through corporate and community donations, including about $5,000 from area Rotary clubs. The 2016 event was expected to reach up to 27,000 children and families.
“The goal of mine has been to have Claire’s Day be in Rotary clubs all throughout the world,” says Rubini, who is now the literacy chairman of District 6600 (Ohio). “It’s not that hard, and the reward of it is so tremendous.”
By Nikki Kallio
The Rotarian
23-Jun-2016
THE FOUR WAY TEST—of the things we think, say, or do:
Is it the TRUTH?
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
QUOTE OF THE MONTH
It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rather than upon matters in which they are in disagreement.
-Paul Harris
ROTARY TRIVIA
(Answer in next month’s newsletter)
1. February 23, 1905 Chicago attorney Paul Harris organized the first Rotary meeting, which lead shortly thereafter to the formation of what?
ROTARY TRIVIA ANSWERS FROM LAST MONTH (OK 6 MO AGO)
1. What was founder, Paul Harris’s profession?
Answer: Lawyer
AREA MEETINGS
Monday:
Omaha Millard, Noon @ German American Society
Omaha North, Noon @ Eppley Airfield Conference Center
Tuesday:
Omaha Morning, 7:00 am @ Happy Hollow Country Club
Northwest, Noon @ Champions Run
Southwest Omaha Rotary Night Club, 5:15pm @Millard Plaza Ballroom
Wednesday:
Council Bluffs Centennial, 7:00am at HyVee
Downtown, Noon @ Field Club
Plattsmouth, Noon @ Plattsmouth State Bank
Thursday:
Suburban, Noon @ Anthonys
Friday:
Omaha West, Noon @ Champions Run