Sunday, March 31st is the last day to receive the registration discount for the Rotary International Convention in Lisbon, Portugal. The convention schedule and registration information can be found here.
As the Rotary year nears the finish line, I would be remiss if I didn’t look back…and look forward. I did just use the “I” word, let’s use the “we” word from this point forward. We are one big team, with one common cause…Service Above Self!
Here are the clubs that have registered completion of the 2012-13 Presidential Citation objectives. Congratulations!
District Governor-Elect Ken Messer has announced that the District’s Club Leadership Retreat scheduled for April 20th has been cancelled.
Show Me Pets and Sets Council making last minute plans for Rotary officer training this weekend.
Niemann discovered that his Kiwanian club mates developed a great deal of knowledge and satisfaction from their membership due to the regular practice of making visits to nearby clubs. Taking advantage of a good idea, Charles encouraged a number of his Laurie-Sunrise Beach Rotary club mates to join with him in visiting Rotary clubs around the Lake region.
If you were to walk into the Camdenton McDonald’s on any given day between 7:30 and 9 a.m., chances are you will see a group of locals sitting at a round table laughing, sharing stories and relishing on the latest gossip. The obvious leader of the pack is no other than 93-year-old Grant Richards. Stories are Richards’ specialty. If you want to know how this came to be or why something is the way it is, chances are Richards will know the answer. And at 93, he still remembers it all.
As the District Delegate I want to remind you that the Council will be meeting in Chicago April 21 – 26, 2013. The Council of Legislation, sometimes referred to as Rotary’s Parliament, meets every three years. Each of Rotary’s 532 Districts is represented by a single delegate. As a Past District Governor I was selected to serve and PDG Jim McCloud is my alternate should I not be able to attend.
The Branson Daybreakers Rotary Club, the Branson-Hollister Rotary Club, the Hollister Rotary Club, and the Table Rock Lake Rotary Club recently donated $8000.00 to the Salvation Army-Branson
Rotary clubs the world over are annually invited to participate in a recognition program that provides initiative, identity and direction for the global organization; this is the Presidential Citation process. For Rotary year 2012-13, RI President Sakuji Tanaka challenges clubs to brand the theme – Peace Through Service – by conducting a peace event or
