March 21, 2007
Issue 20
Dear Rotary Leaders,
Youth Protection Training at District Assembly
The
District
Assembly is coming this Saturday, March 24. Please take a minute to
make sure that your club will be represented by your Youth
Protection Officer. According to the new
District
Youth Protection Policy, having somebody from your club at one of the
2 Youth Protection classes at District Assembly is
mandatory to ensure that you club can
participate to the Youth programs next year. The "Youth Protection
Officer" is a new position that has been added to the
2007-08 club leadership pages in the online directory.
District Conference Alternate Hotel
You may have heard that the Official District Conference Hotel
(Hotel Coral and Marina) is sold
out. We have now taken a new block of 25 rooms at an alternate hotel in
downtown Ensenada. This is the Hotel Posada del Rey
Sol, with rates of $60 per night plus 12% tax. This hotel is at a
short drive to the Conference Hotel, and we will organize some shuttle
service for your convenience. You can continue to
register
online for the Conference. Check out
www.Rotary5340.org/conference07 for more information on the hotel,
FAQs, and conference flyer. We will also add a summary of the Conference
program very soon.
Alumni Association Official Charter
RI is now presenting Charter Certificates to the 40
existing Alumni Associations worldwide. There are only 2 of
these associations in the US, and one of them is in our District! It has
been in existence for the last 6 years, possibly one of the first in the
world! Congratulations to the Alumni Association Chairs Bill Stumbaugh
and David Detwiler for making sure we were included in this first charter
batch.
Alumni of
the Rotary Foundation are past Ambassadorial Scholars, past GSE Team
Members, past resipients of Grants for University Teachers and Rotary
Volunteers.
TRF Donations numbers
I just published the latest
TRF
Donation Report on the District website. Comparing it to last year's
Annual Giving numbers at the same date, we are behind by $2,000 only out
of $340,000! Time to make an extra push to finish the year with record
breaking numbers!
Leftover International Service Funds?
Do you have any leftover International Service funds for
2006-07? Contact me urgently if you
would like to use them for Matching Grants. We still have a few
projects looking for funding that we can still send in this year,
including one project in India being pushed by Rotary International
President-Elect Wilf Wilkinson.
Rotarians At Work Website
We now have 51 projects listed on the
Rotarians At Work
website, for a total of 1520 volunteers. I know we will
have even more than that on April 28, so keep entering your projects on
the website (make sure there are no duplicates for your own club). Some
clubs are grouped together on projects, making it more difficult to enter
their project on the website. To make it easier on all of us trying to
track down the club projects I would ask that each club creates
their own page and list their own contact information and number
of volunteers. Do not try to count the volunteers from the other clubs or
we might end up with volunteers being counted multiple times. You can add
to the project description that the project is done in collaboration with
other clubs, and you can point to the other project pages. Contact
Rotarians At Work chair Jim Roth if you are not sure how to publish
your project or make updates to your existing page.
Philippe Lamoise
District Governor 2006-07
Rotary District 5340
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You can find more information on District events on the District Website.
Rotary District 5340 - 2245 San Diego Avenue, Suite 221, San Diego, CA 92110 - 619-299-5341 - www.Rotary5340.org