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These are the more than 3,000 diapers our club contributed for our Diaper Dash Project The diapers had to first be sorted into bundles of 25 by our members at each table, during our quarterly evening social meetig last week. As the other members at this table sorted and assembled the diapers, Club Secretary Mel Berry was efficiently handling the bundling process. Each bundle included an information card and an encouragement card. Some of our members and representatives from the Wrapped in Love Diaper Bank, who directed the bundling process, exhibited the results of this successful Community Service Project. Thanks to Marsha Teller, our Community Service Director, for her enthusiastic leadership of this project.  Rotary's Peace-Building WorkOne of Rotary's 7 Areas of Focus  Presidential Peace Conference: Healing in a Divided World
Background
2024-25 RI President Stephanie Urchick seeks to convene a Presidential Peace Conference in Türkiye on February 20-22, 2025. The event will coincide with the first cohort of Rotary Peace Fellows studying in Rotary’s newest Peace Center, Otto and Fran Walter Rotary Peace Center, in the MENA region, located at Bahçeşehir University (BAU) in Istanbul, Türkiye. The 2025 Peace Conference will: • inform and inspire participants through conversations and presentations that share knowledge, suggestions, and considerations for peacebuilding projects, programs, and initiatives • create dialogue and facilitate connections to further exchange ideas, consider new perspectives, and form friendships and partnerships • showcase the strategies, examples, and leadership of Rotary members, alumni, and participants who are addressing these issues locally and globally. Event Objective The event will • celebrate the launch of a new Rotary Peace Center in the Middle East and Africa region in partnership with Bahçeşehir University, based in Istanbul, Türkiye • celebrate Rotary’s contributions to peacebuilding through its Peace Centers program and other activities within the Peace and Conflict Prevention Area of Focus, • recognize supporters, movers, and shakers, and educate the broader Rotary community and public on opportunities to take action to advance healing in a divided world COMMUNITY SRVICE Cindy Daniels, the new Superintendent of Schools in Chino Valley, recently presented a request to our club to consider picking up the sponsorship of a very successful Reading Incentives Program, which had been begun and funded by the former Chino Valley Rotary Club before its demise. When that club decided not to continue, they had turned over all of the club's remaining funds to help underwrite this literacy program. Cindy informed us that those funds have now been exhausted, and she encouraged us to pick up the ball with this project, to enable the school to contine to provide incentives to the students each year to read as many books as possible. Our Club Treasurer, John Scholl, also pictured above, recently retired as the CV Superintendent. Cindy spent 16 of her 34 years in education serving as John's Assistant Superintendent. YOUTH SERVICE  PHS Interact President Sophia Brown leading her club officers in planning service opportunities for the club members, and setting up an incentives points system for the club, to encourage attendance at meetings and participation in service projects. The club will be unveiling their newly-created Peace Pole in a garden area on campus on Saturday, Sept. 28. When people say, "Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too."
What good is a stupid cake you can't eat?
What, should I eat someone else's cake instead?? __ I put my Grandma on my speed dial. I call that InstaGram. __ Not all math puns are bad — Just sum of them. __ Past, Present and Future walked into a bar. It was tense. __ Saw a baguette at the zoo. It was bread in captivity. __ If you boil a funny bone it becomes a laughing stock. __ My kids and grandkids keep laughing about me losing my memory. They won’t be laughing at Christmas when there’s no eggs under the tree! __ |
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