Today’s Events:

President Linda Kaplan presiding

ROTARY THEME 2006-07

We welcome all of our…

VISITING ROTARIANS:
Patricia Pardiñas (RCCG) & Larry Brutlag (RCParker, CO)

VISITING GUESTS:
Rene Cibran, Gregg Ingersoll, & Felipe Vidal

ANNOUNCEMENTS

FOOTBALL MANIA DEADLINE!!
260 books have been sold. Although the season started, winners will be paid retroactively. This has been the lowest sales in 10 years!!! PLEASE SHOW JOHN YOUR $$$!

Daniel now needs a Host Counselor.

The District has asked us if there is someone in our club that can be the host counselor. The student is staying in the law school dorm so he does not need a place to stay. Please check out what is needed and please volunteer to do this for this academic year.

UM is taking care of his housing and all school affairs. The only sponsor responsibilities remaining are those listed:

DURING THE AWARD PERIOD

• Work with the scholar to fulfill ambassadorial goals through

  • fulfillment of presentation requirements -10 to 15 visits to Rotary and non-Rotary groups per academic year (Cultural Scholars - 3 to 6 visits);
    
  • involvement in club and district service projects, or in a local Rotaract club;
    
• Invite the scholar to your weekly club meetings and to the district conference;
• Contact your Governor to suggest using the district newsletter to advertise the scholar’s availability for speaking engagements and to publicize scholar activities;
  
• Encourage other Rotarians to share in providing home hospitality;
  
• If counseling a Cultural Scholar, visit the scholar’s home stay location and meet the family;
  
• Remind your Academic-Year or Multi-Year Scholar that the first report should be submitted two months after the start of classes (Academic-Year Scholars also must submit tuition payment receipts). If these documents are not received by the scholar’s coordinator in Evanston, the second payment will be sent to the host counselor and held until this requirement has been met;
  
• Be available to provide advice to the scholar as questions or problems arise; encourage open communication;
  
• Remind the scholar who is considering remaining in the study country beyond the validity of the airline tickets that the Foundation should be contacted at least four months before the end of the scholarship to allow time to provide required documentation and obtain approval.
  
• Remind the scholar to finalize return home travel arrangements with the airline at least two months before planned departure.
  

AT THE CLOSE OF THE AWARD PERIOD:

• Invite the scholar to make a farewell speech to your club.
• Meet with scholar to make sure that all necessary closing tasks have been completed (e.g. housing arrangements, bank accounts).

Please help this worthy young man.

Cycling to Serve

8th from the left - RCSM’s own Doug Weinman looking healthy and fit

Sunday, September 10th 2006, Rotarians from multiple South Florida Clubs gathered at Terry Long’s home to celebrate Fellowship in Cycling to Serve.

Why is this event important?

Because Rotary Fellowship of any sorts sustains better clubs, supports stronger communities and raises awareness in areas of national interest.

It is uncanny then, that in our calendar driven everyday life it should fall upon 9/10 to celebrate “Literacy” as the framework project leading Cycling to Serve’s mission.

What is Literacy? Literacy is – in a nutshell – a culture’s will to survive; and Monday-- as a nation -- we will mark 9/11 as the fifth reminder of our very own Literacy Awareness Call (LAC).

So, for “LAC” of a better thing to do, or if you want to feel useful – yet wish not to bike because you hate spandex– come and join us this afternoon and help us build a vested framework for Literacy Awareness in our very own Cycling to Serve Fellowship. If by chance we should be having a jolly good time in leading the way, so be it.

The wheels of life go around but once; enjoy the ride; but” Share the Road” with others less fortunate.

Best to you and yours,
Dr. P.Pardiñas
Cycling to Serve/Foundation
Coral Gables Rotary Club

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MARK YOUR CALENDAR
November 10-12, 2006
2006 Rotary International District 6990 Conference
 

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

Register early! There is MUCH competition for these rooms as there will be power boat races – 110-120 mph speedboats competing two hours after the last Conference meeting is completed

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

We’ll See You in Key West!

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News from Kelsey Vaughan, Ambassadorial Scholar, Budapest, Hungary Note from your DICO: Here is an email from your Ambassadorial Scholar Kelsey Vaughan from Budapest, Hungary. Send her an email to keep her company...kvaughan@gmail.com I send you greetings from Budapest and from the Budapest-Budavar club, my host Rotary club here in Budapest. It is my sincere intention not to abuse this mailing list; however, I thought you would be interested to hear about my first meeting at my host club. I attended my first Rotary meeting at the Budapest-Budavar Club this past Wednesday. It is a small, all-male club; on Wednesday 17 members were in attendance, who range in age from the late 30s to late 70s and primarily work in business, engineering and government. The meeting was conducted entirely in Hungarian and I was able to understand about 10%. For only being here 3 weeks I think that is an accomplishment! The major topic of discussion was visiting a Hungarian Rotary club in Romania. As a result of power changes and defeats in wars, over the years the size of the country of Hungary has unfortunately decreased tremendously. Much of Romania used to belong to Hungary and there are approximately 2 million Romanians (who used to be Hungarians) who speak Hungarian. This club in Romania that the Budapest-Budavar club will visit is a club of Romanians that speak Hungarian and conduct their meetings in Hungarian. The primary reason for the visit by the Budapest-Budavar club will be to lend their support to the Hungarian club in Romania. There is a Roteract club connected to the Budapest-Budavar club and they have invited me to participate in their meetings and activities. There are a total of five Ambassadorial Scholars here in Budapest this year, all being sponsored by different clubs. There are 8 Rotary clubs in Budapest and nearly 60 in all of Hungary. This number has grown in the past few years as Hungary will become a separate Rotary district this coming year (moving from district 1910 to the new district, 1912) and they needed to open new clubs to meet the district minimum. The Budapest-Budavar club is also currently hosting a Rotary Youth Exchange student from Australia. Joey has been in Hungary for 7 months and fully understands Hungarian. He spoke in Hungarian at the meeting to update the club on his activities this past month. It was encouraging to see that it IS possible to learn Hungarian in one years time! If you are interested in learning more about my experiences as an Ambassadorial Scholar in Hungary, please visit my blog at http://kelseyinbudapest.blogspot.com. Sincerely, Kelsey Vaughan Ambassadorial Scholar 2006-2007 Rotary International, District 6990

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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After earning her MBA, Jamie followed her dream of building a business in which she could share her knowledge and passion for orchids by working independently. Raised on a small farm, Adams Groves, the love for these wonders of nature was planted in her at a very young age by her mom, who is an orchid expert as well.

On a trip to Thailand to find orchids

ORCHID CARE TIPS

• Filtered indirect light is best. Avoid direct sunlight and strong drafts.
• Keep moist and water when planting medium becomes almost dry. Water weekly and drain excess water to prevent root rot and protect furniture. Use tepid water and mist leaves.
• Keep temperature from 60-85°F (15-29°C). Higher humidity is preferred.
• Fertilize with a water-soluble orchid formula every other week. No fertilizer is required while flowering.