Wacky bunch of club officers / board ready to take on challenges!

Our President!

Hampton, Fabio, Ann, Carolyn and Bruce smiling with the sea breeze

Boogying down

We are collecting denim for the Community Enhancement Collaboration, providing services to people having trouble making ends meet.

Bring in Jeans and Shorts for the summer for men, women, & children. Our club is organizing a June Jean Drive.

Leave them on Barbara Kornblau & Larry Sherry's porch at 9040 SW 64th Court until the last week of August.

Welcome to the President’s Column

Welcome to my first “President’s Column” or we can name it Rotary Forum if others wish to communicate and share their thoughts in this way.

Rotary and Peace

Israel, Lebanon, North Korea, India, Iraq, Iran, Nigeria, Congo, etc, - the news seems to get worse by the minute. So what can we do other than hide under the covers ?

Many of you will remember me talking about Jeffrey Sachs, his presentation at the Rotary International convention and his book – The End of Poverty. One chapter in his book is
titled -Why We Should Do It? One of the reasons he gave: ”Whether the terrorists are rich or poor or middle class, their staging grounds – their bases of operations – are unstable societies plagued by poverty, unemployment, rapid population growth, unsafe water, hunger, illiteracy and lack of hope. Without addressing the root causes of instability, little will be accomplished in ending terror. Poverty abroad can indeed hurt us at home, and has repeatedly done so.”

This leads us to the Rotary part. Rotary must do more of what it has always done - help our neighbors – even those who are far away. Ending extreme poverty is not just the Rotarian thing to do but will ultimately lead to peace. You can call me a dreamer but so were the Rotarians who decided we could eliminate Polio.

At the convention I spoke to a member of a club in Denmark that helped a village in Nepal with no school. This 50 member Rotary club provided $10,000 for materials and the local community provided the labor to build the school. The club now spends $3000 per year to operate the school for 55 children. Modest amounts of our money combined with our dedication, time and our Rotary network can do so much.

We in South Miami can do more. I would propose a new service project in Haiti – a close neighbor whose poverty has created many local challenges. It is the poorest nation in the western hemisphere and it will be a lot easier for us to oversee than a project in Nepal or Africa.

So please join me in my commitment to pay more attention to the “International” in RI. To do so we will need a new fundraiser to finance this and a committee to investigate and implement the project. Talk to Raquel Hickey, Chair of the Fundraising Committee if you have ideas for and/or wish to help on a new fundraiser. If you wish to help in investigating and implementing our new service project, please tell Peter Wendshuh that YOU want to work on the Service Committee.

~ PRESIDENT LINDA

The Art Show Festival Committee has hired an Artist Coordinator for our 2007 event.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR…

DoubleTree Grand Key Resort, the official hotel & site of almost all conference events

Located on the eastern end of the island, the hotel room block will be released on
October 1st. So book now at www.rotary6990.org

Registration for this year’s district conference is a 2-step process. Participants

1. register for the event itself, enabling you to attend all meetings and meals.
   Conference participants are, of course, free to make hotel reservations at the lodging establishment of your choice. If you wish to stay at the official hotel click on the link below after registering for the event. You must first register for the event and

2. then make your hotel reservation.

Just booking the event will not reserve a hotel room and just booking the hotel won’t register you for the event.

We’ll See You in Key West!

NEED TO MAKE-UP A MEETING?

Visit www.rotary6990.org

1. On the left side of the page, scroll to “Where Clubs Meet”

2. The list of clubs is sorted by meeting day & time.

3. Email your make-up to our club’s Secretary.

While hypnosis has been thought as entertainment, it is a lot more than that. Mr. Webster regards himself as a guide, a coach that creates a partnership with the person who desires change in their life. All hypnosis is self-hypnosis.

In 1973, as a news reporter, he covered a story about a “bunch of nuts” and was so intrigued he became a hypnotist within six months.

Hypnotherapy can be used to: lose weight, stop smoking, reduce stress, overcome insomnia, conquer fears, build self-confidence, eliminate habits, improve memory, enhance performance, develop concentration, pass exams, improve grades, improve learning skills.

Hypnosis does not:

1. Make you sleep or be unconscious

2. Take away your control or free will

3. Make you do something you do not want to do

4. Make you tell your secrets

Hypnosis does:

1. Help you take control of something in your life that you could not control before such as pain, stress, smoking, weight, migraines, anger, insomnia, and other areas of your personal and professional life

2. Help you take back control of your mind, body, and spirit by focusing on both your conscious mind and your subconscious mind on the same goal.

Hypnosis is:

1. Focus, guided concentration

2. Completely natural and normal

3. Relaxation at its best

4. Control at its easiest

Everyone has two distinct minds: the logical conscious mind and the larger and more powerful unconscious mind (which controls about 90% of our activities.) The unconscious mind has two functional elements: the subconscious which stores all memories and the super conscious which deals with the spiritual.

The subconscious mind receives, accepts, and stores, literally and without analyzing all the information that enters our lives. Habits, behaviors, and attitudes are stored in our subconscious mind, which is why willpower (a conscious mind activity) is often not successful in changing habits, behaviors, and attitudes.

Many human problems, habits, stresses, anxieties, attitudes, and fears can be traced to misunderstandings by the subconscious mind, which when understood by the conscious mind can reduce or resolve specific problems.

Mr. Webster demonstrating with Ed Fischer