Thursday's Lunch Presentation
Let's Celebrate Our Charity Partners!
At our Roswell Rotary Club meeting this week, we'll highlight the community charities, Roswell Rotary Action projects, and Community Enhancements we are supporting through charitable giving this year. Representatives from many of the recipients of charity funds will attend our meeting this week to share lunch and fellowship.
You’ll hear how we raise funds as a club and highlights of the types of organizations receiving funds this year. This will be a great opportunity to meet club members and liaisons from many community charities.
Past President Moment
Dave McCleary - 2011-2012
The District 6900 theme for 2011-12 was Rotary Heroes. We
celebrated local heroes each month with a "Chief Aubrey Reeves Hero of the
Month". Little did we know that within a year mild mannered Dave McCleary
would heroically tackle End Human Trafficking with Rotarians around the
globe. Come check out Dave’s scrapbook on the big screen before the
meeting and hear what Roswell Rotary did in the Rotary year 2011-12.
After Hours to Hold Fellowship Meeting Tonight
Did you know? Fellowship is a core value of Rotary.
With this in mind, After Hours is doing something different for their meeting tonight. The group will focus on strengthening their bond as a club and host a special "community building." The club will get to know each other better and share their hopes and dreams for the club as they move into year 2. There are some fun things planned! No speaker, no agenda, just fellowship.
Tuesday, March 21, 6:00pm
Who's Responsible for Revenue Growth? Attend Business Networking with Rotarians (12-club event)
For you, or someone on your staff, grow your business by doing business
with Rotarians in an environment that supports “Service Above Self”
Bonus: This is also an opportunity for someone you are interested
in recruiting to Roswell Rotary.Tuesday, March 21 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm. Location: Eclipse Di Luna, 4505 Ashford Dunwoody Rd NE,
Atlanta, GA 30346
For more information, contact Ken Carter 404-386-3214 ken.carter@floorcoveringsinternational.com or
Hal Schlenger 770-335-0077 HSchlenger@GreatSouthBenefits.com
Hump Day, Wednesday, March 22, 5:30pm
Saturday March 25
13th Annual “Sweep the Hooch” River Cleanup
This is a joint event sponsored by the Chattahoochee Riverkeeper and supported through Roswell Rotary, Trout Unlimited, Keep North Fulton Beautiful and several other organizations. In 2022, more than 2,300 volunteers collected almost 60 tons of trash across the Chattahoochee.
We need walkers, waders and floaters to clean up the “Hooch” along Riverside Road, including the trails, the riverbank and possibly the islands.
To volunteer you must:
- Advise Dutch Earle, including number in your group/family participating.
- Sign Up at: https://chattahoochee.org/sweep-the-hooch/ check the Roswell Rotary group and walker or wader. If you can float, check wader and let me know that you will be floating. If the signup is full, let me know and we will open more slots.
- Participants can park at my house, 9030 Bluffview Trace, Roswell 30076; in the Northcliff subdivision. We will then meet at the guard house, 9 AM and begin our adventure. Please wear old clothes. We will supply gloves and bags. Also, bring a “grabber” if you have or can buy one, makes picking up the trash easier!
Call me or email me if you can participate and/or have any questions!
Dutch Earle, dutchearle@gmail.com, 770.403.0755
March 27 Blood Drive at Gate City 10:00am-6:00pm
It's Worth Asking About
"I have never donated my blood," shared prospective member Greg Roth.
"More than thirty years ago I had a minor virus. The doctor told me that I could never give blood so I never did nor did I ever research why not. After signing up to volunteer at our blood drive at Gate City Brewery I decided to finally research why I couldn't give blood. After contacting the Red Cross I learned that I can, in fact, donate my blood. That made my day!
Blood is needed every day of the year. There is no
substitute for blood. Donors provide the only supply of life-saving blood
for those in need.
I plan on making up for lost time and will donate my blood at every Roswell Rotary Club Blood Drive in the future."
Please join me -- or have a friend or coworker join me in this lifesaving effort. Click here to reserve a space March 27th to donate at Gate City Brewery.
For more information, contact Jonathan Crooks 770-841-8686, Darrell Bartlett 770-883-7757, Greg Roth 346-287-4990 or Hal Schlenger 770-335-0077.
As always, we want to thank Pat Rains and Michael Curling for the current and past help saving lives in our community.
Phase two of our Panama Water Project has begun!
1,600 Panamanians Helped by Roswell Rotary's Water Project
1,600 people (more than half children) are being lifted by your efforts. Clean water means better education, efficiency, and exponentially greater opportunities for them and their children for future generations.
Because of the remote locales - inaccessible by heavy equipment and conventional government project processes - local labor is used extensively by necessity AND design. This has resulted in a cash cost estimated to be 80% less than what it would have cost the government to achieve the same results.
And our Rotary project is far more sustainable. In building the water system themselves, the villagers understand and can repair it, as well as having a pride-filled sense of ownership. They are aware, and deeply grateful, that their lives have been fundamentally altered and improved.
In recognizing our efforts, the government articulated an unexpected dividend from the project - greater national security and community strength. A stronger and more united citizenry in remote - especially border - areas stabilizes the society amid the current immigration crisis and criminal oppression.
We had not expected that. Many good things come from doing good. Seeing Rotarians truly living out "Service above Self" reverberates in ways we may never know.
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