Today’s Events:

President Linda Kaplan presiding

ROTARY THEME 2006-07

We welcome our Guests:
Nikki Konefsky (Assad)
& Greg Ingersoll (Ed)
(Uh, we don’t normally sing that way, please come back….~ed.)

ANNOUNCEMENTS

MARK YOUR CALENDARS
TWO MEETINGS WILL BE CANCELLED DUE TO THE HOLIDAYS:
DECEMBER 26, 2006 & JANUARY 2, 2007

Got a few club banners at home?

Please bring them to the next meeting as we are almost out of them.

VOLUNTEER HOME(S) NEEDED

for a much needed fundraising
GARAGE SALE

We’ll work within your schedule. Please step up and help replenish our dwindling budget reserves. All proceeds benefit our charities.
& our annual

HOLIDAY PARTY
for good tidings and cheer

Membership Minute:

As most Rotarians know, one of the responsibilities of membership in a Rotary Club is fulfilling the attendance requirement. Its purpose is to foster fellowship. Attending meetings is your opportunity to make new friends, keep in touch with established friends, and keep you current with events of the club, District, and Rotary International.

The club constitution states each member must meet the following conditions:

Rotarians must also be present for at least 60% of a Club’s meeting for it to count towards the attendance requirement.

At least 30% of your home Club’s regular meetings in each half of the year must be attended. So, if your home Club holds 26 regular weekly meetings in a half year, you must attend at least eight.

If you cannot attend a club meeting, other ways you can receive credit include:

• Attending a meeting of another club
• Attending a meeting of a Rotaract or Interact club or Rotary Community Corps
• Attending certain District or RI meetings
• Participating in a Club-sponsored event
• Attending a Club board or Service Committee meeting subject to authorization by the Club’s Board of Directors
• Making-up a meeting must be within 14 days before or after the regular time of your missed meeting.

You can make up at clubs anywhere in the world. Attending another club’s meeting is an opportunity to:

• Meet a new group of Rotarians.
• Observe how another club operates.
• Share information about your club.
• Make contacts for club projects.

Absences may be considered excused if

• it complies with the conditions and under circumstances approved by the Club’s board. The board may excuse an absence for reasons it considers to be good and sufficient.
• If the sum of the member’s years of membership and age equals 85 or more. However, the member must notify the club secretary in writing regarding their desire to be excused from attendance and the request for the exception to the attendance requirement must be approved by the Club’s board.

Termination of membership results if the member fails to:

• Attend or make-up at least 60% of club meetings in each half of the year
• Attend 30% of their own club’s regular meetings in each half of the year
• Attend or make-up four consecutive meetings

Thanks to Ed Fischer for this concise breakdown of our responsibilities to our club.

Miami Herald Hunt
http://www.heraldevents.com/heraldhunt/index.asp
Next Hunt: Sunday, October 29, 2006 in South Miami

Join the club team!!! Sign up sheet is being passed around at the next meeting.

Tuesday, 4 PM – 6 PM on Sunset Drive
between US1 and Red Road.

For Safestreets Halloween, the street closes at 3:45pm and the event is 4-6pm. If Rotarians could be there no later than 3:45pm, they should spread out to the various different avenues and courts between US1 and Red Road.

For ID purposes, I would think the white Rotary shirts would be best. If anyone needs one, let Mike Mills know.

Michael S. Mills
13275 SW 102 St.
Miami, Fl. 33186
Tel. 305-382-0516
Office 305-663-6310
Cellular 305-283-6735
E-mail (home): millsmike@aol.com
E-mail (office):mmills@cityofsouthmiami.net

YOUR TRASH IS OUR TREASURE
$$$$

PRINTER CARTRIDGES FUNDRAISER

We cannot solve the entire recycling issue, but we can make a difference with your help. Each empty inkjet cartridge that we recycle back into circulation decreases the amount of solid waste that is put into our landfills. It also reduces the amount of limited natural resources required to produce new cartridges.

BRING IN YOUR OLD, USED LASER CARTRIDGES AND INK JETS – THERE’S A BOX IN THE CLOSET AT BERNIE’S THAT WE FILL UP AND SEND IN FOR CASH. IN THE BOX, YOU’LL FIND A PRINT LISTING OF WHAT CARTRIDGES ARE ACCEPTED.

Also, for old cell phones: Mike collects them for Women in Distress

ARTFEST COMMITTEE:
Meets the last Tuesday of every month : October 31st, November 28th & December 26th
@ 5:30 p.m. South Miami Library

Sponsorship Packets have arrived
to market ourselves. Most local companies want in at the last minute. Tell your network of friends about the artshow.

CYCLING TO SERVE FELLOWSHIP

Date change:
Saturday November 11th at 4 pm

Meeting at
Rosendo Castillo’s home
7107 SW 148th Street, Pinecrest

A ride to the Deering Estate before sunset

FIRST SUNDAYS from 11 am to 2 pm

Beginning on November 5, the City of Coral Gables will open its roads to cyclist of all levels in a police-escorted ride for the Coral Gables Cycling Celebration.

Family and friends can participate in this healthy exercise and fun ride the first Sunday of each month starting at Ponce de Leon Middle School and continuing through Alhambra Circle, Miracle Mile, Coral Way, University of Miami and ending back at Ponce de Leon Middle School. The ride is free for anyone but you must bring your own bike and wear helmets for safety. Meet your friendly riders at the starting point by 10:30 a.m. This event is organized by the Rotary Club of Coral Gables, South Miami, Key Biscayne and Aventura.

Contact Calvin from Bikes To Go at 305-666-7184

Doug Weinman won $50!! And last week he won $5

COUNTING DOWN TO:

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. Reserve now at www.rotary6990.org.

Share Rotary

When our club does a community service project, invite non-Rotarians to participate in the project.

Show them the fellowship of Rotary and how we come together to service the community. Invite them to a meeting and let them see for themselves the benefits of being a Rotarian.

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A Coral Gables Rotarian for twelve years, Sally has been their Foundation Chair twice. She holds the record for most new Paul Harris Fellows in her club – 33 in one year. She chaired the 2000 Prominade fundraiser earning $40,000 for the YMCA Children’s Center.
Born in Miami, she has a background and degree in Marketing. She is the founder/producer/executive director of the Jr. Orange Bowl Parade Carolining Competition in its twentieth year. She is aptly appointed to the District Foundaiton Committee for 2006-07 as she truly believes in the Rotary Foundation.

You are a citizen of a
very diverse world.
If we shrank the earth’s population to a
“global village” of only 100 people and kept
all the existing human ratios, there’d be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
8 Africans
52 would be female 48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
89 would be heterosexual
11 would be homosexual
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States.
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death;
1 would be near birth
1 would have a college education
1 would own a computer
When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.

The following is also something to ponder...

• If you woke up this morning with more health than illness - you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.
• If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep - you are richer than 75% of this world.
• If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace - you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.
• If you can read this message, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.

Rotary Foundation utilizes donations for the causes of health, peace, scholarships.

Our members are the haves in a have-not world. You are a Rotarian because you recognize this and want to change the world for the betterment of humanity.

From: http://www.rotary6990.org/html/foundation.html

Rotarians in the 53 clubs that comprise District 6990 have long supported The Rotary Foundation, both financially and through participation in the programs that make up much of the work of the Foundation.

Two particular programs that play in central role in any Rotary year in this district are Group Study Exchange and Educational Grants and Scholarships, more commonly referred to as Ambassadorial Scholars

To assure the funding for these and other programs Rotarians give generously to the Annual Programs Fund.
This year’s goal is to achieve a district total of $300,000 or approximately $125 per Rotarian.