District 5650 News

Rotary District 5650 March 2011—Governor’s Newsletter—governor@rotarydistrict5650.org

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“Think about major projects, because that’s what gives Ro-

tarians pride in their club, and if those projects also are visible in the community, people be-come interested in Rotary and

join, if asked. If you get that cycle going, clubs will be big-

ger, better, and bolder.” - RI President,

Ray Klinginsmith

Table of Contents

INSIDE PAGE Assistant Governors .......... 2 Awards .............................. 4 BRAN ................................ 8 Calendar............................ 3 District Chairs .................... 3 District Newsletter .............. 5 District Officers .................. 2 District Website.................. 5 1 day Double Recognition .. 2 E-Club Program ................. 4 Governor’s Greeting .......... 1 Heifer Project ..................... 12 Heifer Project Order Form .. 13 International Convention .... 4 Lincoln South Chili ............. 8 Lincoln Sunrise News ........ 10 Lincoln Sunrise & Books .... 11 Membership....................... 6 New Members ................... 10 Object of Rotary................. 7 PETS/SETS....................... 2 Polio Run/Walk .................. 7 Rotary Leadership Institute 3 Saving the Children ........... 9 Super Bowl Results ........... 7 Wayne’s Rotary World ....... 5 World Polio Day ................. 6

Dear Rotarians, The count down has begun to “B” Rotary at The District Conference!

Registration form is attached- Deadline is April 16th. This will be your Conference! At the start of the Rotary Year I mentioned that You (clubs and Rotarians) need to “Toot” your Horn” in a Bigger, Better and Bolder way regarding projects for Building Communities and Bridging Continents. The Conference will be held at Coco Key Family Resort (Formerly Holiday Inn) located at 72nd and Grover (I-80 and 72nd St). Fami-lies are invited and discounted water passes and passes to the

game room will be offered. Guest speaker for the Friday District Luncheon will be Mr. Mike Kelly from the Omaha World- Herald. His topics are current, heart touching and most informative- Plan to attend; Club meet-ings in the metro area will be canceled; and double attendance credit will be given. The conference is casual so pack light and attend often! Friday and Saturday night dinners will be Business dress. Remember that Friday night is the District Governor-elect’s night so all Presidents-elect are asked to attend. Saturday night is the District Governor’s night of Jazz and a night of recognition to all Presidents, Club and District Officers; highlighting the Cadwallader Award and many other awards. District Conference Chair, Peggy, has sent a questionnaire to all club presidents. Please take a moment to complete and send to those indicated on the form and also to her by March 31st. She is hoping to fill the conference with club speakers and displays of your projects (complete or ongoing). The newsletter indicates that awards (only) be in by March 31st. The District has been filled with outstanding projects and a lot of hard work. Soon it will be time to Celebrate at the District Conference raising our glasses and toasting to a “Job Well Done!” Mark your calendars for May 6th and 7th I would like to encourage all clubs and/or Rotarians to participate in my District Project. To help families be-come self sufficient and reproductive with animals and plants, The District is supporting the International Heifer Project. We are trying to get that ARK built (one of every animal offered)- a $5000.00 goal. Please check out the flyer and form in this newsletter. A donation of $115 from each club or individual purchase would make our ARK float!! Your Governor, Roger

Be sure to watch http://www.rotarydistrict5650.org

for conference updates and information!

This is not one to miss or you will surely “B” Sad!

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2010-11 District Officers

District Governor (DG) - C. Roger Carrell

DG-elect—Bob Perrin

DG-nominee—Dick Galusha

Secretary—Mary Q. Garrison

Treasurer—Jim Mastera

Trainer—Rick Stone

2010-11 Assistant Governors

Area 1—Prent Roth Columbus, Columbus Morning,

Norfolk, Schuyler, Wayne

Area 2—Kevin Zadina Aurora, David City, Seward,

York

Area 3—Open Fairbury, Friend, Geneva,

Hebron

Area 4—Todd Dierberger Auburn, Falls City, Humboldt,

Nebraska City

Area 5—Allan Bash Clarinda, Glenwood, Red Oak,

Shenandoah

Area 6—John Mock Avoca, Council Bluffs, Council

Bluffs Centennial, Omaha Downtown

Area 7—Bill Dick

Lincoln, Lincoln East, Lincoln South, Lincoln Sunrise

Area 8—Carol Ebdon Blair, Fremont, Omaha North,

Western Douglas County

Area 9—Jim Leslie Bellevue, Omaha Morning,

Omaha Suburban, Plattsmouth

Area10—Dorothy Zimmerman Beatrice, Crete, Pawnee City,

Wilber

Area 11—Ginger Hiscock Ashland, Om Millard, Om No, Om West, SW Omaha Night

District Conference Schedule of Events

May 6-7, 2011 CoCo Key Water Resort ~ Hotel ~ Convention Center

(formerly Holiday Inn) 3321 S. 72nd Street, at the 72nd St exit of I-80

Omaha, NE

Friday, May 6th ~ Breakfast ~ Luncheon with Keynote Speaker, Mike Kelly, Omaha World-Herald ~ District Governor-elect’s dinner for all incoming club presidents. Keynote Speaker, Mr. Rick Tinucci, Rotary International President’s representative. Saturday, May 7th ~ Memorial Breakfast for deceased Rotarians with special music by Dr. Pete Heineman on his bagpipes. ~ Luncheon with Keynote Speakers, Outbound Youth Exchange Students who have returned from Japan ~ Afternoon program by Inbound Youth Exchange Students ~ District Governor’s dinner for all outgoing club presidents. Keynote Speaker will be Mr. Howard Buffet. There will be jazz musicians before and after din-ner. Throughout the Conference ~ Small programs from clubs about community and international commitments. ~ Door prizes! ~ Silent Auction benefiting Youth Exchange and Heifer International ~ Discounted water park and game room passes for the family! Watch http://www.rotarydistrict5650.org for actual times—details will be posted as they are confirmed!

District Awards fast Approaching

Be sure to visit the Awards page on the district website. There you will find forms to nominated clubs, district officers, club projects, club newsletters, etc for consideration in the awards that will be presented at District Confer-ence. Questions? E-mail exec@rotarydistrict5650.org

“B” Rotary!

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2010-11 District Chairs

Health and Hunger—

Zoe Baumel

Literacy—Dr. Ed Walsh

Water—Dr. Cody Knutson

Speaker’s Bureau—

Ward Peters

Marcia Antworth

Membership Development—

Kris Winter

John Hoich

Public Relations—Roxy Orr

Group Study Exchange,

Inbound—Ken Hurt

Group Study Exchange,

Outbound—Robert Rapp

Vocational Services—

Gary Bren

Community Service—

Joanne Peters

Rotaract—Yolanda Hoffman

The Rotary Foundation—

Bob Collins

Youth Exchange—

Steve Gerdes

Calendar See full details at

www.rotarydistrict5650.org

Awards Info Due

Mar 31, 2011

Presidential Citation due to Dis-

trict Governor

Mar 31, 2011 - Mar 31, 2011 April is Magazine Month

Apr 01, 2011 Clubs Appoint Voting Delegates

for District Conf Apr 01, 2011

District Team and Assistant Gov-ernor Training Apr 02, 2011 PETS/SETS Salina, KS

Apr 07, 2011 - Apr 09, 2011

Area 11 at a Glance by AG Ginger Hiscock RO T A RY F O UNDA T I O N 100% S UP P O RT Our district's newest club, Southwest Omaha Rotary Night Club, chartered in 2009, builds a $100 donation to The Rotary Foundation into their quarterly dues. Six mem-bers are already Paul Harris Fellows!

A P P L Y F O R A S I M P L I F I E D G R A N T Northwest Rotary did and used the funds to purchase three benches for their Adopt A School, Saddlebrook Ele-mentary and Community Center. These venues will be the site of reading partnerships with students and Northwest R o t a r i a n s .

C O M M U N I T Y E X P O S U R E Millard Rotary has supported Nebraska Children's Home Society for eight years by participating in the Sand in the City Competition. Nebraska Children's Society oversees fos-ter care, early childhood education an outreach, pregnancy, parenting and adoption services. Millard's teamwork and problem solving were rewarded in 06 with the People's C h o i c e A w a r d f o r b e s t s c u l p t u r e .

S U P P O R T P O L I O E R A D I C A T I O N To celebrate their birthday Omaha West Rotarians are asked to donate $20 to Polio eradication. Rotary is in its third year of a four year effort to meet the "200 million dol-lar" challenge by the Gates Foundation. West surpassed i t ' s g oa l t h i s y e a r d on a t i ng $ 4 , 1 24 .

A D O P T Y O U R S C H O O L S Ashland Rotary reaches out to all grade levels. They provide dictionaries to all 2nd graders and two $500 scholarships to graduating seniors who exemplify the ideals of Rotary. These Rotarians provide the manpower for tract meets and science fair judging. They also host the teacher appreciation breakfast and the Achievement Banquet for top ten junior and senior students.

The Object of Rotary The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of a service as a basis of worthy enterprise an, in particular, to encourage and foster: FIRST. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service; SECOND. High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the wor-thiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society; THIRD. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s personal, business, and community life; FOURTH. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.

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Planning is well underway for the 31st Bicycle Ride Across Nebraska, a Northwest Rotary service project undertaken annually with the assistance of the Omaha Pedalers Bicycle Club. Riders will start the tour this year in Brady, Nebraska on Sunday, June 5th. Overnight host towns include Calloway, Burwell, Bassett, O’Neill, Battle Creek, Oakland. The ride will end Saturday in Waterloo with the annual rider’s reception hosted by Northwest Rotarians after traveling 437 miles across the State of Nebraska.

Registration is open and riders have the option of registering with the usual “paper” registra-ton form or they can register online by going to the BRAN website . Registration forms and additional information can be found on the website. Costs include camping, route marking, Tour Guide, T-shirt, water bottle, & host community and lunch stop coordination. A bus ride from the Omaha area to the ride start is available for an additional fee.

Cyclists will travel three of the seven days through Nebraska’s sand hills, one of the largest grass stabilized sand dune regions in the world. The sand hills contain dunes over 400 feet tall and up to 20 miles long. The world’s largest aquifer is also found in the area. Organiz-ers suggest prospective riders “get your motors runnin’, head out on the Nebraska by-ways and go lookin’ for adventure in whatever comes our way.”

Proceeds raised from this annual event fund scholarships offered to Nebraska graduates to attend Nebraska colleges and universities. At present scholarships totaling $25,750 are awarded annually to ten colleges and universities, seven community colleges, eight host towns and one local high school.

Rotary E-Club of Southwest USA

Need attendance credit? It’s easy to do online, just visit www.recswusa.org! It is a global E-Club of 81 members in 12 countries on 6 continents. You can makeup a meeting with them anytime you want, from anywhere in the world. Simply click the Meeting tab and login. We'll send an email to you and your club secretary to confirm your attendance with us. Please look around and learn. Program of the week:

Center for Global Leadership The Center for Global Leader-ship teaches young people around the planet hard core leadership, management, and business skills. Learn more about this great program in this week's program.

I am interested in going on a Polio Plus inoculation trip. Who should I contact to get information about doing this?

by Gretchen Bren, director@omaharotary.org Immunization trips are not set up by Rotary International and there is no repository of when/where these trips will be and no set guidelines on who can lead a trip. The two trips I've been on have been lead by Ann Lee Hussey, District Governor from District 7780 (Rotary Club of Casco Bay Sunrise, Maine). She has been going on National Immuniza-tion Days (NID) trips for the last 10 years and has been leader for the past 5 or 6 years. Ann Lee has worked hard to get local contacts in Nigeria and truly makes you work! I've heard of other trips that are more like tours, where you see people working, but you really don't help anyone. Because I am also interested in going to India, I asked Ann Lee for a recommendation for a team leader that goes there regularly. The contact she gave me is Anil Garg, who leads an annual trip to India in February. Anil is PDG from District 5240 in California. The problem with these trips is that you have to go when the country sets the date for the im-munization days, which they rarely do until about a month or two in advance. I found out the date for my November NIDs at the end of October, and Anil set the date for his February trip on December 30, then had to change it. This conflicted with a trip I had already planned, so I was not able to go with him this year. You have to be flexible to be able to make these trips! If you want to contact me, I would be glad to you in touch with either person or just keep you notified when I know about the next trip. Gretchen Bren, director@omaharotary.org

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District Website and

District Newsletter

New District Website…

Sort of! We have up-

graded our district website

from Version 1.0 to Version

2.0. While the site looks

similar to the old one, but

with a much needed facelift

on the home page, the ad-

ministration and member

access is much easier to

navigate.

Be sure to create a user

profile and log-in periodi-

cally to update your infor-

mation! ALL Rotarians in

District 5650 can log into

the district site. If you

haven’t seen it yet, please

take the time to visit

www.rotarydistrict5650.org.

Your feedback is much ap-

preciated! Send all sugges-

t i o n s / c o m m e n t s t o

exec@rotarydistrict5650.or

g.

District Newsletters

If you have an article, event

or information you would

like posted on the district

website AND/OR in the dis-

trict newsletter, e-mail the

information to District Ex-

ecutive Director, Erin Ober-

h a u s e r , a t

exec@rotarydistrict5650.or

g or mail to her at 17010 K

ST, Omaha, NE 68135.

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Lincoln Sunrise Becomes a Sustaining

Club Lincoln Sunrise this year accom-

plished something that few clubs

have been able to do. Lincoln Sun-

rise became an all member Sus-

taining Club, as well as, giving

$100 per member to “Every Rotar-

ian Every Year.” As a small club

that is a great accomplishment.

Welcome

New Members!

Lincoln East - Al Burdick, Gene Frederick, John

O'Keefe, Dennis Duckworth, Na-

than Rink, Milton Schmidt

Beatrice -

Bed Kidder

Columbus Morning - Rebecca Rayman

Council Bluffs -

Dr. Chris Olson

Lincoln #14 -

Darren Parker, David Conrad,

Stuart Shepherd

Norfolk -

Del Fuelberth

Omaha Downtown -

Karie Keown

Omaha Millard -

Brad Johnson

Omaha Suburban -

Mike Corrado, Walt Price,

Tom Kerfoot

Omaha West -

Dale Ratliff, Doug Gillespie

Seward -

Melanie Ayrres, Jim Pink,

Bonnie Kruse

Southwest Omaha Night Club—

Danielle Rinke, Philip Bland,

Barbara Echtenkamp,

Matt Saathoff, Mike Ware,

Cory Sevening

Western Douglas County -

Jack Ott

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What: Fun Run & Walk to Stamp Out Polio Who: A community wide event that is open to sponsorship by all Rotary Clubs. When: Saturday Morning June 25th, 2011 Where: Rockbrook Village 108th & Center, Omaha Why: To put an end to polio and for all clubs to help fulfill their fundrais-ing commitment for the Polio Plus program. This opportunity is open to all Ro-tary clubs. Most of the clubs have already agreed to join forces and work together to end polio by rais-ing money through selling corpo-rate and individual sponsorships as well as through registrations for participants in the Fun Run & Walk. It will be a fun morning filled with a little exercise followed by food, en-tertainment, prizes, and an opportu-nity to meet fellow Rotarians in an informal setting. For more information contact: David Kutler 402-397-8866 dkutler@bodybasics.com

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Member Name Call Name Last First Middle Initial

Rotary Club of Rotary Title Address City State Zip Code E-mail Address Is this Your First District Conference Attendance? Yes No Is this Guest’s First Time Attendance? Yes No Spouse or Guest Name Call Name Last First Middle Initial

Is Spouse or Guest a Rotarian? Yes No If yes, Rotary Club of

“BUILDING COMMUNITIES” Number Amt Per Total

Attending Person Due

Registration Fee (Admission Button and Door Prize Eligibility) ......................................... $5.00 $

Friday, May 6th ....... ALL meetings and meals for one day ................................................. $75.00 $

Saturday, May 7th .. ALL meetings and meals for one day ................................................. $75.00 $

“BRIDGING CONTINENTS” Number Amt Per Total

Attending Person Due Friday, May 6th

Breakfast ..................................................................................................................................... $15.00 $

District Luncheon w/ Mike Kelly of the Omaha World-Herald ....................................................... $25.00 $

Governor-elect’s Dinner w/ RI President’s Representative, Mr. Rick Tinucci ............................... $40.00 $

Saturday, May 7th

Foundation/Memorial Breakfast w/ Bagpipes ............................................................................... $20.00 $

Lunch w/ Youth Exchange Students returned from Japan ........................................................... $15.00 $

Governor’s Dinner w/ Mr. Howard Buffet ...................................................................................... $45.00 $

“BIGGER, BETTER, BOLDER” Payment Totals:

Total Registration Fees $

Total From “Building Communities” $

Total From “Bridging Continents” $

Total prior to Convenience Fee (credit cards only – see below) $

PAYMENT BY CHECK: PAYMENT BY PAYPAL: Make Checks Payable to: PayPal invoices will be sent to the e-mail address listed above for Rotary District 5650 - District Conference Credit Card/PayPal Account payments. You must have a PayPal Mail (or e-mail) this form with your payment to: account. There will be a $0.45 - $4.95 convenience fee charge* per Erin Oberhauser registrant on all PayPal payments. 17010 K St. *Convenience fee is approximately 2.9% plus $0.30 per transaction. Omaha, NE 68135 exec@rotarydistrict5650.org Questions? Contact Peggy Carrell, 402-926-6428

HOTEL

Reservations: Call 402-393-3950, option 2. Mention Rotary District Conference for special rate of $79.00 + taxes. Also ask about family discounts for Water Resort and Game Room. http://www.cocokeywaterresort.com/omaha

“B” ROTARY Rotary District 5650 Conference and Assembly

Friday, May 6th and Saturday, May 7th, 2011 CoCo Key Water Resort – Hotel – Convention Center

(formerly Holiday Inn), 3321 S. 72nd St, Omaha, NE 68124 (72nd & I-80)

NO REFUNDS AFTER APRIL 17, 2011