We are pleased to announce our first post-Covid in-person Rotary Foundation Event on Saturday, November 16, 2024, at 12:30PM. We will be holding a celebratory lunch at the Little Red School House in Wallingford Vermont. Our chef is Wallingford Past President and gourmet chef Erika Berner. Price $35/person. Registration is open on the District Website, or you can click on the link below:

https://www.crsadmin.com/eventportal/Registrations/PublicFill/EventPublicFill.aspx?evtid=d4510d1d-c190-4e8d-8858-478215c512b0

Chef Erika tells me that we will start with a selection of appetizers. The main course will be a choice of Beef Medallions or Poached Salmon.

Our keynote speaker will be Rotary Foundation Trustee Marty Peak Helman. Marty is a member of the Rotary Club of Boothbay Harbor Maine; she was District Governor of District 7780 in 2012-13 and is an Arch Klumph Society Member. Among many topics, she will be talking about Rotary launching a new peace center at Bahçeşehir University in Istanbul, Turkey.

Our District Governor Bill Stevens will be the master of ceremonies. Our District Rotary Foundation Chair Dianne Barclay will talk about why we give to the Rotary Foundation. Some of our fellow Rotarians will talk about their District and/or Global Grant experiences. We will also recognize Rotarians who have increased their support for The Rotary Foundation and why it is their charity of choice.

Youth Exchange BOS, NY & End of Year Trip Fees

The incoming Rotary Youth Exchange students will be making trips to Boston in September 2024, New York in April 2025 and an End of Year Trip in June 2025. If you wish to pay the $1,500 for a student to make these three trips, please click Buy Now.

Rotary Leadership Institute – Fall in Love with Rotary!

If love is the language for all generations across all continents, Rotary Leadership Institute should be the language of all Rotarians! Here is what you will get from attending RLI sessions:

1.Personal Growth and Development: RLI sessions enable you to enhance your human relations and personal development skills. Every module of this program is interactive with long time, (sometimes multi-generational Rotarians), and new Rotarians! You will learns something new every time.

2. Continuing Education: While Rotary doesn’t officially call what you learn at RLI continuing education with CEU’S, every program developed and designed for RLI teaches valuable information about Rotary in the community, our nation, and the world. Each topic presented provides an opportunity to learn from a variety of different participants and facilitators.

3. Fun: Rotary Leadership Institute is fun, a lot of fun! Each topic is interesting and fun. The class projects are fun. Social interaction is fun.

Rotary’s code of ethics, our “Four Way Test,” reminds us to be gracious, generous, and positive in our dealings with others—to enhance relationships with others rather than diminishing others or selfishly boosting ourselves.

You can register for our D7870 virtual RLI at https://rlinea.org/ for Parts I, II & III and our Graduate Program (Succession Planning) being held on Tuesday & Thursday, 3/19 & 3/21 from 6pm to 9pm. Both days are necessary in order to obtain your graduation certificate.

If you have any questions or need help with enrolling, please contact carol.powis@comcast.net