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Today's Events:

President Bill Enright presiding  

1.    Camelia abd el Masih  (Asaad’s sister)
2.    Patricia Pardinas  Rotary Club of Coral Gables
3.    Hank Langston, Rotary Club of Coral Gables
4.    Daniel Berger  (Ellen)
5.    Elaine Peckford (Pansy’s cousin from Toronto, Canada)
6.    Shawn Crews  (Peggy and Merrill Crews’ son who’s running for S. Miami citycouncil)

7.    Brett Trembly, Attorney

WOW, great guests!

* * * A N N O U N C E M E N T S  * * *

See you back at Rotary on Tuesday 1/6/09

ED FISCHER

On Tuesday, January 6, 2009, at our next meeting there will be elections for 10 positions on the Board of Directors (2 are appointed by the President) with a follow-up of a second round of ballets on January 13^th.

President-Elect Pansy Graham / V. President Bill Enright

Cathy Miller

TAX DEDUCTION INCENTIVE!

The club has $1,500 in matching funds to send to Rotary International Foundation.  We are offering to match each member’s donation up to $150 towards your Paul Harris Fellowship for your contributions to the RI Foundation. 

Gloria Burns will be mentioning in her column that "South Miami Rotary teams with Take Stock in children to mentor a South Miami Middle School eighth grader child throughout his high school years.  Through our combined funding, he gets two years at M-DC or other community college plus two years at a university.

Football Mania:

This is Otto's Second time winning $50!

 Week # 15

High Score   

Book # 112    Otto Fuentes    $50.00        Sold to himself

Low Score

Book # 156    Leo Haskins        5.00        Sold to himself

Book # 295    Karen Dorfman  5.00         Sold by Diane Phillips

Tuesday, January 13, 2009 @ 9:00 a.m. – NEW DATE

Atlas + Dictionary Giveaway

South Miami K-8 Center

6800 SW 60th Street,

South Miami, FL 33143.

305-667-8847 Ext. 119

with Loretta P. Nelson, School Guidance Counselor.

Let Ellen Book know if you wish to participate  d007078C@yahoo.com

  Make Reservations Now

for

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Districts 6990 & 6930 present

2008-2009 Rotary Foundation Chairman

Jonathan Majiyagbe

“Rotary Foundation: The Second Century”

Westin Ft. Lauderdale Hotel

Cocktails at 6:00 / Dinner at 7:00

Preferred seating for Major Donors

and Paul Harris Society Members

$75 per person

We are extremely fortunate to have Jonathan Majiyagbe, Past President of Rotary International and now Chair of The Rotary Foundation, as our keynote speaker for the 2009 Foundation Gala.  It is January 11 at the Westin Ft. Lauderdale Hotel. He will be discussing RI's Future Vision for The Rotary Foundation in the 21st Century. This is a unique opportunity to have dinner with one of the most knowledgeable and dedicated Rotarians in the world and learn what the future holds.  You don't want to miss this!

Space is limited as we are co-hosting Chairman Majiyagbe with District 6930. Tickets are $75 per person, black tie is optional. Cocktails are at 6 p.m., A delicious dinner is at 7. Reserve your place or table now at www.rotary6990.org.

Have a wonderful holiday and a safe and prosperous New Year. We look forward to seeing you on January11th.

Arnold B. Galperin
District Foundation Chair

Yours in Rotary Service, Sally Baumgartner
Email: sallybsez@yahoo.com
HPhone: 305-448-8384
OPhone: 305-491-4180

David Jacobs

Last chance to purchase: 

Entertainment Books:

Save time / Save money!

GIVE THEM AS HOLIDAY GIFTS!

$30 per book for discounts all over town. 

COUPONS VALID UNITL 11/09

Coupons include Miami City Ballet – Keys Dive Center – TCBY – Cold Stone Creamery – and hundreds more.  Our club earns half of the proceeds

Mark your calendars:

SOUTH MIAMI ROTARY ARTS FESTIVAL

Saturday & Sunday, February 21 – 22, 2009

Thank you to our newest member LAKITSIA GAINES & her company State Farm Insurance who are now Emerald $5,000 sponsors of the Festival.

~~ this money allows our club to offer future scholarships~~

www.southmiamiartfest.com  (official site)

 www.myspace.com/southmiamiartfest (unofficial site)

$$$ PRINTER CARTRIDGES

 RECYCLING FUNDRAISER $$$

DO YOUR PART!

DID YOU MISS A MEETING‘CAUSE YOU WERE AWAY?

Oscoda, Michigan

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:

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

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

Mark Your Calendars
January 11, 2009		Foundation Gala An Evening with Jonathan Magiyabe: There will be limited seating because of the venue, and we’re joining with District 6930. Fort Lauderdale Westin – a wonderful venue with fantastic food! Ticket prices are $75
January 17, 2009		Rotary Leadership Institute  American Intercontinental University 2250 N Commerce Pkwy Weston, FL 33326
January 24, 2009 – February 22, 2009		Inbound GSE Team from the Phillipines The Rotary Foundation’s Group Study Exchange (GSE) program is a unique cultural and vocational exchange opportunity for business people and professionals between the ages of 25 and 40 who are in the early stages of their careers. The program provides travel grants for teams to exchange visits in paired areas of different countries. For four to six weeks, team members experience the host country's culture and institutions, observe how their vocations are practiced abroad, develop personal and professional relationships, and exchange ideas. RI District 6990 is looking for 5 GSE team members for this year’s trip to Quezon City in the Philippines, which is RI District 3780. Deadline for applications is December 8th, 2008. Click here for application form. For more information, contact GSE Chair Yolanda (Yoli) Woodbridge at 305-301-5024 or email her.
February ?		Polio National Immunization Day Interested in participating in a District 6990 Polio National Immunization Day Trip to India in February 2009?
February 19th – 23rd 2009		District 6990 District Conference Cruise to Cozomel with North Carolina District 7730 The Filipino GSE team will be joining us and some of the GSE Team from Argentina! It’s a beautiful new ship and cabins are selling fast!
February 21st & 22nd 2009
February 24th–March 24th  2009		Outbound GSE Team to the Phillipines
May 2, 2009		Rotary Leadership Institute  American Intercontinental University 2250 N Commerce Pkwy Weston, FL 33326
June 21 – 24, 2009		RI Convention - Birmingham
Meeting Functionaries DOOR PRIZE  - Hampton Booker MONEY PRIZE – Doreen Reitnauer $218 / $7 4 WAY TEST -
Invocation:	Pansy Graham
Pledge:	Howell Watkins
Guests:	Hampton Booker
Happy $$:	Asaad Masoud
Door Prize:	Hampton Booker  (winner of a $500 airboat tour plus lunch for four people with Shawn Meiman’s Fort Lauderdale Airboat Adventure)
$$$ Prize $218 / $7 K of Hearts	Doreen Reitnauer
It’s Your Turn ( in alphabetical order unless a switch is requested)
December 23, 2008	NO MEETING
December 30, 2008	NO MEETING
January 6, 2009	Door Prize: Ann Fisher
January 13, 2009	Door Prize: Ed Fischer
January 20, 2009	Door Prize:  Fabio Fernandez
Future Speakers:
December 23, 2008	NO MEETING
December 30, 2008	NO MEETING
December 6, 2008	TBA
December 13, 2008	TBA

President:  Bill Enright
yukonbill@bellsouth.net

President Elect:  Pansy Graham
pansygraham@bellsouth.net

Vice President: Mike Mills
millsmike@aol.com

Secretary:  Doreen Reitnauer
dhiker217@aol.com

Treasurer: David Jacobs
david@jnccpas.com

Sergeant at Arms:  Azam Malik
azam@sdsol.com

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.rotary6990.org

World Organization:
www.rotary.org

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.

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

Asaad Massoud, at www.racharters.com

Fundraisers
Interested in putting together a fundraiser? Contact Club Service Chair Linda Kaplan at lk@lindakaplane.com

Bob Straile introduced today’s program as he is a member of this Fellowship (which is unofficially affiliated with Rotary):  

Shawn Meimen and Dave Rice

International Fellowship of Hunting and Fishing Rotarians

http://fortlauderdaleairboatadventure.com/

Our speakers are members of the Davie Rotary Club

This group has been in existence for over 20 years.  They are Rotarians who want to promote fishing to inner city kids.  Most of these children have never caught a fish, never been on the water even though the ocean and the Everglades are in our own backyards.

They’ve probably taken over 1,000 kids at risk, foster kids, orphans.  They go on two trips a year in Broward and two in Dade. They take the kids fishing from drift boats.

Once a month they meet at different locations.  The fellowship consists of about 40 members who first want to change the direction our youth is taking.  Promoting fishing is goal #2. 

Our speaker was very fortunate to have a grandfather with a passion for the outdoors.  He can’t imagine not having a father figure that didn’t love the outside enjoying nature. 

The fellowship sends about 20 kids to wildlife camp in North Florida.  The kids spend three days outside learning about wildlife, flowers, beauty FL has to offer outside of the concrete walls.

Shawn lives three miles from the Everglades in Davie spending time on Lake Ochechobee or air boating with his kids.  He’s been in Rotary for 15 years and Dave is over has 20 in Rotary.

Rotary is the hand that reaches out across the world to help. If we don’t help, if we don’t promote and lift up inner city kids, there’ll be no one to fill our shoes in 20 – 30 years. 

These children live in our own backyard, in our community.  Our members take such joy taking them out and catching their first fish, sometimes getting sea sick for the first time.

A day spent on the water with these kids, ends up being one of the best in your life.

For twenty years, we’ve been going on these trips 2-3 times. One of the last ones was a fishing trip at Flamingo Park where they rented houseboats and meet in the bay and spend F, Sat, Sun in Whitewater Bay.

At each house meeting they cook up dolphin, quail, duck and have a good ol’ bar-b-que atmosphere.

The average fishing trip takes 30-40 children. The kids are picked from Boys and Girls Club, SOS, and other organizations that support children at risk.  The youngest was age 2 but they range to 18 years old. Typically they are school aged children.

Funding for the kids to attend the programs is derived from Rotary Clubs and a Blue Fish Tournament where they pour alcohol for tips.  100% of the money received goes to the children. 

RCSM gave $500 plus members dues goes to the kids, extra money for functions goes to the kids.

From our club:  Fabio is  a member – Howell – Roy – Otto Fuentes, Darryl Hickey,
The cost to join is $40 per year plus $15 per meeting. 

Rotary's Fishing Fellowship promotes friendship between Rotarians who enjoy recreational fishing.  Further, it encourages social activities among its members and supports interaction between Rotarians and the youth of their respective communities so that young men and women may learn more about Rotary, sport fishing, and the value of protecting and conserving the fisheries of the world.

Rotary Fellowships encourage camaraderie and shared experience among Rotarians, and with fellowship at the core, Recreational Fellowships unite Rotarians internationally through a common activity.

The International Fellowship of Fishing Rotarians is open to any of the 1.2 million Rotarians residing in over 161 different countries where Rotary International has a presence.  Our membership includes Rotarians who fish inshore, offshore, fresh water, saltwater, fly fishing, bass fishing and, in some