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Today's Events:

President Pansy Graham presiding

We welcome all our visitors…

·        Buck Reilly

 from Roots DNA architecture LEED accredited design nature architecture sustainable habitations (Asaad)

·        Alan Sells – Rotary Club of Miami

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We’re happy because…

~To thank you for Sean’s dictionary – Raquel

~I’m vacationing in Santa Fe next week - Peter

~After today, I’m done for the door prizes – Britt

~I won $5 – David J

~I’m enrolled in Master Gardening classes – Ellen

~To be here – Azam & Sid

~To be back – Stan & Pansy

~That Ed has a new job – Marty

~That my first jury trial lasted 4 days downtown dealing with elderly abuse, and a deceptive niece who took out a reverse mortgage for an 87 year old -  jury verdict $194,000 – Brett

~That last week my family and I went to Elliot Key with a friend and haven’t been there for 20 years – Felipe

~I’m back at FIU covering the Chair’s classes – Ed F.

~We balanced the budget, while lowering the millage without laying off anyone or cutting services! – Horace

~I’m going to Denver for a few days – Mike M.

~It’s a pleasure to sit across from Horace – Diana

~It’s getting into the Fall season – Donna

Funeral for Pansy’s mom – large family reunion during a very sad time.

Board Meeting Monday, October    6pm FNBSM

Charles, Britt and Diana went to Ludlem to 100 3rd graders.  Has no end to the project – impacts children and enhances their homes with a ready reference

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Football Mania Winners:

~ David Jacobs - $5 (sold by D. Jacobs)

~ Britt won $3 last week

~ Jack Thompson, attorney won last week (sold by Ed Fischer)

You all know Det. Guzman, our singing detective – and we have had The Singing Miamians sing at our Rotary Club.

Henry is now a Singing Miamian and he has provided me tickets to sell for:

The Singing Miamians of Pinecrest, musical tribute to “The Music Man”.

This will be on November 7^th, 7:30pm, at the Old Cutler Presbyterian Church, 14401 Old Cutler Road.

Tickets are only $15 and I will have them available on Tuesday.

Pansy, please place this on your agenda – thanks.

Sounds like a lot of fun & quite inexpensive.

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Dictionary Giveaway

Friday, September 25, 2009 at 8:45 a.m.

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·       President Pansy Graham reminded the membership that the District Governor’s visit, has been rescheduled for October 13^th and that the Club’s leadership and committed chairs need to be here by 11:00AM with their plans for the coming year.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 @ 8:00 pm

Miami Sundown Classical Concert benefiting POLIO PLUS

presents

Annika Kaschenz & Francesco Attesti

St. Louis Catholic Church

12000 SW 72 Avenue, Pinecrest 33156

Individual tickets $25 or

consider the offer below for sponsorship!

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”Rotary Rocks”

Register for the District Conference at the “Hard Rock Hotel and Casino” to be held on November 6,7,and 8^th

Let’s make out Saturday Night gala dinner a fun and unforgettable event.

You and your fellow Rotarians will sing, dance, play an instrument, tell a joke, clown around and more….

The “Rotary Rocks” talent show is now open for registration

Don’t be left out of this once in a lifetime opportunity!  Show us all how talented Rotarians are!!!

To reserve your space in the show please contact:

Joe Roth- Rotary Club of Weston

(954) 646-6844

e-mail  prescent0405@aol.com

“You never know who may be watching”………………

Let’s all have some fun together and make this conference one not to forget!

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Rotary District 6990 

Rotary Day at Land Shark Stadium

with a tail gate party!

Miami Dolphins vs the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 1:00 pm

ALERT – ALERT – ALERT

ROTARY EVENT

FOOD, FUN, FELLOWSHIP and NFL FOOTBALL

There is still time to purchase Tickets!

To insure seating with fellow Rotarians purchase date extended to September 28th

Miami Dolphins Vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Purchase game tickets direct from Miami Dolphins

$45.00 per person – Upper Deck

Game Ticket Link: www.miamidolphins.com/rotaryclub.asp 

 Tailgate Party 11:00 AM

Join us before the game in RV parking lot number #8

Catered by Char Hut – Cost $15 per person

Purchase Tailgate coupon on the (DaCdb) calendar

LOG-IN (DaCdb) Link on District 6990 website front page:

http://www.ri6990.org/

Tailgate Party must be purchased by November 9th

Located at Dolphin’s RV lot #8

Catered by Char-Hut

Purchase online:  www.miamidolphins.com/rotaryclub.asp

Or contact Thomas Eugene at 305-626-7296 or teugene@dolphinstadium.com

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Cathy Miller for the RI Foundation:

$ is available from club funds for matching your contribution to Rotary International’s foundation.  If you donate $50 then $100 will be sent to Rotary towards your Paul Harris Fellowship (a $1,000 goal.) Up to $150 per member will be matched.

Help the cause!

Thursday, Nov. 11, 1:30 p.m.

Biltmore Golf Course, Coral Gables

 $25 donation each ticket

1st, 2nd & 3rd place prizes!

Contact Chris Morrison, 305-582-7690

morrisonclan@att.net

If everyone of us sells two tickets, this can raise $105,000. 

WE CAN DO THIS!!  

This fundraiser is a top priority!  We need to sell tickets to meet the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. They donated  $355 million in the last two years. Of that amount $200 million is a matching grant for polio eradication.  Our district is expected to donate $300,000. 

We have raised $195,000 towards this goal to date. The balance is $105,000 yet to be raised.  If the 2,100 district’s club members can all sell just 2 tickets this year at $25 per ticket, we’d sell 4,200 tickets.

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Next show:

Saturday & Sunday, February 27 – 28, 2010

www.southmiamiartfest.com  (official site)

DID YOU MISS A MEETING ‘CAUSE YOU WERE AWAY?

Our club goal is 100% Attendance!

If you miss a meeting, it can be made-up within 2 weeks, before or after, of the missed meeting date.

For online make-ups:

Visit www.ri6990.org to find a club to make up an absence. 

Attendance credit for a 30-minute interactive club Web site activity offers an alternative to making up a meeting at another club.

To earn this credit, Rotarians log on to the site, read up on a range of subjects, post comments, & submit a form to the club secretary.

How to do a Make-Up On-Line via Rotary eClub One?

Perfect attendance is now possible for every Rotarian with computer access. Rotary’s eClub One is a full-service online charted Rotary Club. Meetings operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week. What an easy way to make up for a meeting that you have missed! During the last Rotary year, Rotary eClub One welcomed more than 120,000 visitors from 161 countries. Of these, about 800 per week participated in one of eClub One’s meeting programs and applied for make-up credit.

Here’s what you have to do to earn make up credit. Go to http://www.rotary.org/RIdocuments/en_pdf/eclub_list.pdf

It is mandatory that you spend at least 30 minutes on the website for qualify for a make-up credit. (Remember Rotarians are guided by the principles of the 4 Way Test).

1.  Read a variety of current articles in the programs section and/or choose articles from the Archived Programs list and/or information from the Avenues of Service pages. You will be required to answer questions. There is space on the makeup request form for up to three articles to be reviewed, however you will need to read more than three to meet your 30 minute visit obligation.

2.  At the end of your 30 minute visit, click on Make-up Request Form from the drop-down menu at the top of the page OR the bottom of each make-up program.

3.  Read the Makeup Request Form carefully, and follow instructions. The form will appear once you press the SUBMIT button (one time only) and an email copy will be sent to the email address you proved. This can be forwarded to your club secretary so your attendance records are properly updated.

Rotarians can also designate eClub One as their home club.

Members in eClub One are usually experienced Rotarians who are unable to belong to a traditional club because they reside in a remote location or they are engaged in a demanding travel schedule. Those applying for membership in eClub One must provide an endorsement from their current District Governor, current Rotary club President, along with letters of reference from two Rotarian colleagues of their current club..

eClub One has standard requirements for memberships, including charges for dues and administrative fees. Participants also must be willing to take part regularly in the Rotary eClub One community by taking on tasks and responsibilities. Members are required to also have regular access to the Internet and be willing to acquire the necessary skills to participate in the activities of Rotary eClub One.

Rotary and eClub One are on the cutting edge of the technology age. How this evolves will only be determined by periodic evaluation and the involvement of its members. For today, however, it is an outstanding tool for Rotarians to makeup missed meetings and keep in touch with Rotary happenings throughout the world.

For make-ups anywhere around the world when traveling internationally: http://rotary.org/support/clubs/index.html

NOTIFY Brett Trembly, RCSM Secretary

of ALL make-ups:   b.trembly@gmail.com

Meeting Functionaries
Invocation:	Horace Feilu
Pledge:	Ellen Book
Guests:	Asaad Masoud
Happy $:	John Sorgie
Door Prize:	Fabio Fernandez
$$$ Prize ($7/$208.5)	Horace Feliu
Future Speakers:
October, 6, 2009	Margaret Sotham- South Miami Drug-Free Coalition (tentative)
October 13, 2009	District Governor Lee Phares

2009-10 RCSM OFFICERS:

President:  Reverend Pansy Graham
pansygraham@bellsouth.net

President Elect:  Doreen Reitnauer
dhiker217@aol.com

Vice President:  Bill Enright
yukonbill@bellsouth.net

Secretary:  Brett Trembly  

b.trembly@suttonlawgroup.com

Treasurer: David Jacobs
david@jnccpas.com

Sergeant at Arms:  Fabio Fernandez   

fernandezfabio@bellsouth.net

Club Board of Directors:

Ellen Book, Ed Fischer, Roy Gonas, Linda Kaplan, Mike Mills, Diana Phillips, Don Streaker, Donna Gaines, Felipe Vidal

Club Foundation Board of Directors:

Pansy Graham, Bill Enright, Doreen Reitnauer, Brett Trembly, Don Streaker, Fabio Fernandez, Treasurer Artfest, Linda Kaplan, Diana Phillips, Ellen Book

To send an E-mail to the Rotary Club of South Miami’s Board of Directors, board@southmiamirotary.org

South Miami Rotary Club:
www.southmiamirotary.org

Rotary District 6990:

www.ri6990.org / 305-860-8060

District Governor Lee Phares & Eliju Phares District Foundation Chair

World Organization:
www.rotary.org

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Mission Statement

The mission of Rotary International, a worldwide association of Rotary clubs, is to provide service to others, to promote high ethical standards, and to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through its fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.

THE 4-WAY TEST OF THE THINGS WE THINK, SAY OR DO:   

Benefits of Being A Rotarian (Membership)
Rotary membership provides the opportunity to:

¨       Become connected to your community.

¨       Work with others in addressing community needs.

¨       Interact with other professionals in your community;
assist with RI's international humanitarian service efforts.

¨       Establish contacts with an international network of professionals.

¨       Develop leadership skills.  Involve family in promoting service efforts.

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Renewing or Joining
To Renew ($275) or to become a New Member ($325) contact

Asaad Massoud at www.racharters.com

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Fundraisers
Interested in putting together a fundraiser?

Contact Club Fundraising Chair Wendy Lapidus at wendylapidus@bellsouth.net

Service Projects

Interested in helping others?

Contact Club Service Chair Linda Kaplan at lk@lindakaplan.com

Programming Chair Donna Introduced today’s speakers:

Joseph Padron, Engineer at Turkey Point with FPL for 9 years and Maria, Customer Service Unit

FPL Alternative Energy

MISSION: To delivery affordable, reliable, clean energy solutions now and in the future.

Our two speakers wear four hats which cover their:

1)  Regular Job Duty

2)  Storm Duty

3)  Ambassadors – talk to the public

4)  Customers of FPL – gives us perspective

To meet the customers’ expectations, FPL is investing to make our infrastructure stronger, smarter, cleaner, more efficient and less reliant on any single source of fuel.

FPL Group is the largest group of companies FPL Group comprised of:

1)  FPL Company

2) NextEra Energy Resources (renewable and solar energy in 25 states and Canada)

·       4.5 million customer accounts

·       27,000 sq miles in 35 counties

·       50 other utility companies in FL

Why does FPL ask for customers to conserve?  So that they do not have to expand power plants.

FL ranks 19^th amongst states for clean burning energy resources.

More than half of FPL’s fuel mix is from natural gas.

-       It is clean and efficient

-       Only two natural gas pipelines coming in to FL from the Gulf of Mexico

Benefits of fuel diversity

-       Reduces supply disruptions

-       Reduces price flux

To improve:

Modernizing facilities to improve efficiencies Nuclear power options Renewables in FL Solar Wind and Water

Life cycle of a company – retirement of facilities + growth

West County Clean Energy Center (Southern Blvd in Loxahatchee)

-       Generates more electricity using less fuel

-       Saves customer’s money

-       Very low emissions

-       Uses reclaimed water to save electricity and water

15 miles water pipeline with a Palm Beach partnership to bring wastewater to the plant

Next generation energy centers – tear down of Cape Canaveral and Riviera Beach (near Singer Island open since 1950’s) Significant reduction in emissions Will use 33 % less fuel to generate same amount of power Sleeker profile with half as tall stacks Reduce use of imported fuel oil y 1.5 million barrels per year.

Rooftop solar panels will help power office facilities Permanent manatee viewing area at Riviera facilities where the discharge water flows out.

Riviera Beach Energy Center completion date 2014.

Nuclear – 2 sites in FL

Turkey Point was built in 1972

Port St. Lucie, Hutchinson Island

Clean electricity source

Zero CO2 emissions

Five year plan

-       upgrade plants

-       increase emission-free power generations

Never shuts down at night

7-8,000 more homes can be powered with no extra fuel Unit 3 and 4 will be upgraded

Only industry that’s never suffered a fatality Going through federal license for the improvement to Turkey Point – this stage is to be completed in 15 months.

2018 and 2020 to go operational if approved

WIND

56 wind farms in 16 states

-       Aggressive plans to add new wind capacity each year through 2012

-       1,500 to 2,000 megawatts each year

-       Enough to power 2.5 million homes

-       $2.4 billion committed for the next decade

SOLAR

CA Mojave desert – largest solar field in the world

$2.4 billion investment program to increase US solar output

1)  Martin County:

First hybrid solar facility in the world to connect to an existing combined cycle power plant Powering 26,000 homes

2)  Desoto County:

Nation’s largest solar photovoltaic facility – traditional solar panels Operational October 2009 Powering 8,750 homes

3)  Kennedy Space Center

First private/public partnership on solar in the US Joint venture on photovoltaic Powering 3,500 homes

HYDROELECTRIC – TRADITIONAL WATER POWER

26 stations in Maine

Powering 100,000 homes

Water is fuel, but subject to droughts

Most potential sites are already developed FPL is exploring underwater Gulf Stream ocean current technology in partnership with FAU

FPL is a leader in clean, efficient energy production Five consecutive #1 rankings by Innovest WWF Power Switch! Program

“Smart Meters” allow homeowners to track reverse energy sending from solar panels back into the power grid.  Takes the Public Service Commission regulates FPL to approve these meters.

Wisconsin and Australia (uranium) are the areas mined for fuel for FPL’s nuclear power plant

TX – 52% bought natural gas

Turkey Point holds fuel in storage bromide solution pools for 30 years. They are building housing out of concrete silos to store the least radioactive materials from 30 years until Yucca Mountain opens. 

There are currently 103 nuclear power plants in the country