Thank you Guest Speaker District 5495 Governor Larry Horton
Notes by Laura Vanderberg and Chelsea Sederstrom. Edited by Lisa DeLeo.
Area Governor Joe Sweeney introduced District Governor Larry Horton to the Club.
Larry presented Laura Vanderberg with a beautiful Rotary International Presidential Theme Banner for 2022-2023. He described the meaning behind the Aboriginal symbol that Jennifer Jones, RI President 2022-2023, came up with to celebrate the women of Rotary.
Her goal is trying to have women make up 30% of Rotary Membership. What does that look like, how can we as membership, represent the composition of communities in our own club?
Our district is 35% women right now, so we are doing very well. We have multi club service projects that really contribute to many places and people in our tri-city area.
Larry gave kudos to the club for all of the work that we do!
He talked about making donations to the
RI Foundation, and also about a range of projects that are going on in the District. So many exciting things!
One example that he shared was about a huge initiative part of Rotary's new Environmental focus. The Rotary clubs in Havasu did a huge trash clean up and filled two giant dumpsters along with 20 other organizations and was a very successful trash pick up for the town.
Elsewhere in the district, a fully virtual club decided to become the very first Environmental Rotary Club, focusing exclusively on this focus area. He invited us to grow environmental committees and efforts.
He announced an upcoming District-wide project called
Pints for Polio to raise funds to combat Polio. Pints for Polio is on
October 24th at participating breweries throughout the District. For a $50 donation, you get a pint glass, shirt and kuzi!
Go online to the
District website to sign up. Then, on the 24th, you'll go to a local brewery (location TBD) to pick up your Polio Plus swag.
He also shared that, as a District, we don't have a problem getting new members, the challenge is retaining them.
DG Larry proposed that the Membership Committee Chairs are no longer recruiters, they need to become retention- connection managers; people who find out what current members want and need so that they can continue to be fulfilled by being a part of our Rotary family.
He also named the Community Service Chair as the new Recruiting Manager.
Reminder: It's everyone's job to bring friends to community service events.
In honor of Rotary week of service (April 15th - April 22nd), DG Larry gave us each a pair of work gloves to symbolize (and be useful!) for the work we do that week.
There is a lot going on in the district for servicing our communities.
Finally, he noted that Rotarians see a problem and find ways to fix it, do service projects that change our communities and change our world.
Grants are huge in our district.
We do a great job spending money, and so we need to contribute to the RI Foundation so we can continue to have money to spend on District projects and Imagine Rotary.
Dream Big! and turn our Dreams Into Reality.
You're Invited! Join the Prescott Area Shelter Services Open House
Wednesday, October 12th @ 2:30 - 5:30pm
Pink Patch for Breast Cancer Awareness
As you know, October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. Once again, we have created an amazing patch to add to your collection!
Get yours at one of our community events (schedule forthcoming) or anytime at the
Police Station.
We ask for a $5 donation with all proceeds going to the
Breast Care Center at Dignity Health YRMC East Campus.
A huge thank you to Auto Trim Plus for another gorgeous pink ribbon wrap on our police car and the Prescott Police Foundation for their continued support of this very important program!
Stay tuned for the community event schedule!
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