Today's Events:

President Linda Kaplan presiding

ROTARY THEME 2006-07

We welcome all of our Visitors:

Roshunda Slaton – Artfest Coordinator
Jennifer Dewsnapp (Ellen)
Neil Hersch (Ed) Life and Health Insurance
 

Give him a ring or an email: szelts@bellsouth.net

And from an old friend who’s moved away…

"Just wanted to say I was inducted at New York Rotary, and I'm already serving on two committees…"

Therol "Terry" Voche telvoche@yahoo.com

Art Festival SPONSORS determine its success

May 22nd ArtFest Committee meeting

at Bob Straile’s home

Matching Grants – Donna Gaines, Chair

Hey! Someone is reading this thing!!! J

The District Conference is in the fall. The District Assembly is held in Spring. The Assembly lasts for 2/3’s of a day with updates on various Rotary projects and developments. The assembly offers new ideas for great things to do.

UM Rotaract Club Medishare Project presented RCSM with a certificate of appreciation as our original pledge was $1,000 and then doubled to $2,000.

The Haitian nutrition project one month ago was short $15,000. They are now very close to their total goal. At the Assembly a donor cut their shortfall in half.

From DG Jack Martin’s Blog:
 
"The funds will be used to support Project Medishare in Haiti, and that organization’s Akamel nutrition project in particular.

Project Medishare, founded in 1992, conducts a variety of projects across the central plateau of Haiti. While broad in scope, the various projects have a core goal: the improvement of health conditions among the most vulnerable of the region’s population such as women, children, the elderly and malnourished.

The Akamil nutrition project is a sustainable hunger alleviation undertaking. Small factories are being constructed to house machines that will produce and bag quantities of AK-1000, or Akamil, for public distribution. The Akamil is a highly nutritious powder mix consisting of two parts cereal (rice, corn, millet, wheat) and one part beans.

While there might be more appetizing meals readily available to the rest of the western world, in Haiti there is virtually nothing. Deforested land, barren and otherwise unable to support crop production this is a crisis of major proportions. The Rotaract club members have been to Haiti and have seen this firsthand. "

Thank you members for supporting this project. What effects our neighbors in Haiti eventually effects Florida.

GET OUT AND HELP OUR COMMUNITY

Choose from 2 service projects:

1) National Volunteer Day – House Painting

This Saturday, April 28, 2007 ~ 8:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Refresh an elderly woman Coconut Grove house by painting the exterior walls. No charge to Annie Moore the homeowner. Doing a total of THIRTY houses to commemorate this day. With 5-6 Rotarians, the project will take approximately 3 hours, done by 11am.

Meet at St Matthews Church between 7-8am in the Grove House is less than 2 blocks from there For a map and directions see Cathy T=Shirt will be provided

Breakfast provided by Deli Lane & lunch provided by Shorty’s

Cathy Miller, Coordinator
(305) 665-1146 / cathy@firstflorida.com

2) Hands on Miami Projects :
 
Helping Young Mothers

 http://www.handsonmiami.org/
 

Description: Help improve the quality of life for young mothers and their families at Wings for Life. Legal community volunteers will transform this safe haven for girls from a shelter into a home with vibrant color, and new appliances & furniture. Volunteers will landscape, paint, clean, beautify the dorms, nursery and campus grounds.

Bill Enright, Coordinator
786-662-7057 / bille@handsonmiami.org

Club Fundraiser

Coral Gables Cycling Celebration
Attendance in activities related to the Cycling to Serve Fellowship constitutes a make-up attendance for our club’s weekly meetings.

BICYCLING THROUGH THE GABLES

OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY

For ROTARIANS: Meet to cycle @ 7:30am
EVERY Saturday
@ Patricia’s (5911 Maynada, Coral Gables)

Maxene Graham introduced Diana Phillips.
"The word Rotary is emblazoned on her heart…"

Diana Phillips
Looking Ahead to 2008’s Art Festival
 

The 2007 festival was a success but with that knowledge and institutional memory we can now do it better!!

Diana has accumulated four pages of step-by-step notes over the years from committee meetings. Below are a few of the details big and little:

Registration packets for HQ have all of the info stipulations by Ltn. Ross and SM Police regulations for booths, name badges, survey cards, assembly line of info needed to be included in envelopes in the box

The storage unit is located at A+ Mini Storage across from the Big Cheese. Stuff inside: shopping carts to transport ice from coke booths signs, water bowls for dogs, magic markers, table clothes, misc. items

Sponsor Packets – in process of being composed level of sponsorship – with pictures of previous years

Press coverage – needs improvement – we had little coverage from Channel 6 We need to expand our coverage conscious that the profit needs to go to charity.

Artists – throughout the year Roshanda receives and handles querries that are emailed questions about booths, local hotels, general about the area

Registration table at HQ require lists of artist by booth and by name – registration packets, lists of contacts if something goes wrong Set up of coffee and donuts, listing of volunteers assignments, a call list for how to reach no shows

Handbills – rack and window posters timely printing. Chris Marsh, great guy, went store to store distributing.

City of SM Budget request – July we make a formal request for funding at a Tuesday night meeting. Last year our funding was cut and the Policy and Public Works bill doubled.

Banners – AAA Banners – yearly we need to apply for city permits – to hang them all over the county – We also write a formal request to other cities.

We now have 50 pole banners – used to have 28. For 2007, we had them hanging on Kendall Drive and Bayshore Drive

We advertise in Sunshine Artist and Where the ArtShows Are?
Let Diana know if you find any other website and magazines that appeal to artists – we may advertise in new media to get them interested in our show.

When Diana said We’ll need a printer at HQ – Felipe said "I’ll get you one" – such a good Rotarian!!

Street Marking – 6 people will be needed @ 4:30am with police measure booth sizes in 1 ½ hours start at Red Road and go westbound.

Dog watering and tool bucket – storage room bowls for pooches – family friendly

Williamson’s booth placement and car placement – tents booth and tender loving care

From just these few points, you can tell how much work went into this –

Diana and Roshunda, her able right-hand lady, put so much effort into our primary fundraiser.

While Roshunda was hired to help with the administrative work, she’s gone above and beyond including designing banners and pictures.

WE ARE ALL TRULY LUCKY TO HAVE BOTH WOMEN DRIVING THIS PROJECT TOWARD CONTINUED SUCCESS.