Welcome our visiting friends:
Patricia Pardiñas PhD, Coral Gables Rotary, Linda Singer, Miami Rotary, and Roberta Gallagher (Linda)

1. Art Festival committee meeting – tomorrow, Wednesday @ 6:15 pm at South Miami Library.
    

2. Donna – the club had $1,000 in matching funds. We will match your donation up to $125 per person. This money is sent to RI for your Paul Harris Fellowship. The funds are now down to $700!!
    

3. Service Committee volunteers – Peter Wendshuh’s committee looking for members
    

4. NEXT WEEK: Officers / directors / committee chairs – meet at 10:30 AM – BEFORE the club meeting with Jack Martin , DG
    

5. Ellen Book is the 2006-07 Chair of the District Literacy Resource Group
    

6. To have a booksale during the Art Show, we need to find volunteer space to store books – got any ideas?

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Cycling to Serve  

Patricia Pardiñas PhD
Coral Gables Rotary
786 423-0900 (mobile)

Thank you all for making my visit to Rotary of South Miami so special. It was a pleasure to have met all of you during today's meeting.

I look forward to bike-riding with Rotary aficionados. Nothing fancy; just fun. Hopefully through Cycling to Serve we can : 1) Offer Rotarian-Cyclists and their families a network of homes from South Miami to Key Biscayne for fellowship and safe-harbor. 2) Build awareness for Club projects and support for fundraising events 3) Enjoy a calendar of fellowhsip activities.

As I meet other members in Key Biscayne and Grove Clubs, I'll be adding
names to our group.

Will work on a group list of 'aficionados' ; feel free to distribute the idea of Cycling to Serve to your friends and would love to hear from them as well. I truly appreciate your support.

And, if a Saturday gathering sounds good for a fellowship (my home), let me know (August 5th looks good)...! Send back an E/m if these thoughts sound reasonable to you :)


CLOTHING DRIVE

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.

DoubleTree Grand Key Resort, the official hotel & site of almost all conference events
Register early! There is MUCH competition for these rooms

Located on the eastern end of the island, the hotel room block will be released on
October 1st. Reserve 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

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

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

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

For online make-ups:

http://www.rotary.org/newsroom/downloadcenter/pdfs/eclub_list.pdf

Attendance credit for a 30-minute interactive club Web site activity. This offers an alternative to making up a meeting at another club. To earn an attendance credit, Rotarians usually log on to the Web site, read online material on a range of subjects, post comments, and submit a form to the club secretary.

For make-ups anywhere around the world when traveling internationally:

http://rotary.org/support/clubs/index.html

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Rotary is the largest nongovernmental financial contributor to the global polio eradication effort. By the time the world is certified polio-free, Rotary's contributions to the global polio eradication effort will exceed US$600 million.

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