The club’s International Projects Committee has been hard at work preparing a global grant proposal, in partnership with the Rotary Club of Georgetown, Guyana, to provide a safe supply of drinking water to a second small village in that small South Amer- ican nation. The target community is Old Eng- land, a village of 215 people, which relies on the polluted Demarara River as its sole water source. It is about two miles from Coomacka, a similar but larger town on the same river. In 2014, a Global Grant project in which our club took the lead role pro- vided a well, solar-powered pump, storage tanks, underground distribution pipes and standpipes to supply clean was to Coomacka’s 1,000 people. A major partner in that project was Aubrey Roberts, a Rotarian in George- town, who works for the Guyana Water Initiative. He drafted the proposal for Old England, which calls for a system that can provide 26,000 liters of clean water a day. Estimated total cost is $53,500. Since the draft was written in March, Roberts’ employer has agreed to donate the solar power array, reduc- ing the project’s cash total by $15,000. The community’s residents would contribute in-kind services valued at $5,000, including digging trenches for the supply lines and providing security for the well and pump site. A proposed second phase would in- stall a nano filtration system and a bot- tle-filling station, where 18-liter bottles could be filled for sale to surrounding communities. This would help to offset the system’s operating costs. This “wa- ter shop” would add $9,500 to the sys- tem’s capital cost. The project would be funded with a $38,000 Global Grant from the Rotary Foundation, $19,000 from Wilming- ton-area clubs, with our club contrib- uting $10,000 and smaller donations from the Wilmington East and Cape Fear Rotary clubs; and $2,500 from the Georgetown Rotary Club. Addi- tional support will be requested from two Rotary districts: up to $2,500 from 7030, which includes Guyana; and up to $5,000 from our own 7730. The next committee meeting will be at 11:30 a.m. Sept. 27, at which an up- dated proposal from Georgetown Ro- tarian Roberts will be discussed. Several committee members have committed to traveling to Guyana in early 2017 if the Zika virus threat has abated by then. Founded April 1915 • A Century of Service Above Self The Wilmington Club CLUB NEWS September 20, 2016 New Guyana water proposal advances; Georgetown Rotary to be partner again Old England, Guyana is just two miles from Coomacka, also on the Demarara River. The new project, like the existing system in Coomacka, would consist of a solar-powered well, underground distribution pipes, and standpipes. Victorious teammates Rick Lawson, John Meyer, Cleve Callison and Todd Turner, with champions’ trophy ~ Photo courtesy Cape Fear Literacy Council Club team takes spelling bee honors; fund-raiser supports Literacy Council For the second time, our club’s team won the Cape Fear Literacy Council’s annual spelling bee on Sept. 15. We have participated in this annual event for more than 20 years, with entry fees supporting the council’s work. Our $500 contribu- tion earned us “honey bee sponsor” status. We also won the competition for best team name, “Spells Like Teen Spirit.” The Wilmington Rotary Club’s previous win was in 2014. Also participating in this year’s contest was Rotarian Susan Harrell, on behalf of her new employer, The Hill School. Another perennial competitor, John Meehl, was a sponsor, as were Rotarians Joe and Erin Payne.
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The club’s International Projects Committee has been hard at work preparing a global grant proposal, in partnership with the Rotary Club of Georgetown, Guyana, to provide a safe supply of drinking water to a second small village in that small South Amer-ican nation.
The target community is Old Eng-land, a village of 215 people, which relies on the polluted Demarara River as its sole water source. It is about two miles from Coomacka, a similar but larger town on the same river.
In 2014, a Global Grant project in which our club took the lead role pro-vided a well, solar-powered pump, storage tanks, underground distribution pipes and standpipes to supply clean was to Coomacka’s 1,000 people.
A major partner in that project was Aubrey Roberts, a Rotarian in George-town, who works for the Guyana Water Initiative. He drafted the proposal for Old England, which calls for a system that can provide 26,000 liters of clean water a day. Estimated total cost is $53,500. Since the draft was written in March, Roberts’ employer has agreed to donate the solar power array, reduc-ing the project’s cash total by $15,000.
The community’s residents would contribute in-kind services valued at $5,000, including digging trenches for the supply lines and providing security for the well and pump site.
A proposed second phase would in-stall a nano filtration system and a bot-tle-filling station, where 18-liter bottles could be filled for sale to surrounding communities. This would help to offset the system’s operating costs. This “wa-ter shop” would add $9,500 to the sys-tem’s capital cost.
The project would be funded with a $38,000 Global Grant from the Rotary Foundation, $19,000 from Wilming-ton-area clubs, with our club contrib-uting $10,000 and smaller donations from the Wilmington East and Cape Fear Rotary clubs; and $2,500 from the Georgetown Rotary Club. Addi-tional support will be requested from two Rotary districts: up to $2,500 from 7030, which includes Guyana; and up to $5,000 from our own 7730.
The next committee meeting will be at 11:30 a.m. Sept. 27, at which an up-dated proposal from Georgetown Ro-tarian Roberts will be discussed.
Several committee members have committed to traveling to Guyana in
early 2017 if the Zika virus threat has abated by then.
Founded April 1915 • A Century of Service Above Self
The Wilmington
Club
CLUBNEWSSeptember 20, 2016
New Guyana water proposal advances; Georgetown Rotary to be partner again
Old England, Guyana is just two miles from Coomacka, also on the Demarara River. The new project, like the existing system in Coomacka, would consist of a solar-powered well, underground distribution pipes, and standpipes.
Victorious teammates Rick Lawson, John Meyer, Cleve Callison and Todd Turner, with champions’ trophy ~ Photo courtesy Cape Fear Literacy Council
Club team takes spelling bee honors;fund-raiser supports Literacy Council
For the second time, our club’s team won the Cape Fear Literacy Council’s annual spelling bee on Sept. 15. We have participated in this annual event for more than 20 years, with entry fees supporting the council’s work. Our $500 contribu-tion earned us “honey bee sponsor” status. We also won the competition for best team name, “Spells Like Teen Spirit.”
The Wilmington Rotary Club’s previous win was in 2014. Also participating in this year’s contest was Rotarian Susan Harrell, on behalf of her new employer, The Hill School. Another perennial competitor, John Meehl, was a sponsor, as were Rotarians Joe and Erin Payne.
Rotary news briefsNew board members chosen: The club’s Board of Direc-
tors added two new members at a special meeting in July, fill-ing unexpired terms. Brad Donnell will serve for one year. Ernie Olds will serve a two-year term.
Wednesday social at Wheel: The next after-hours social gathering for Rotarians will be 5:30 p.m. tomorrow, Sept. 21, at the Rotary Wheel Garden in Greenfield Park, on West Lake-shore Drive. Fellowship Wednesdays are open to members of all area Rotary clubs, plus guests and prospective members.
District grant approved: District 7730 has approved our top request for grant funding, $2,500 to support the Cape Fear Literacy Council’s “Learn To Earn” project. It was one of three requests totalling $4,500 that the club submitted. All district grants require a 50-50 match. The club’s other requests were for the Blue Ribbon Commission’s after-school program and Phoenix Hometown Hires’ Life Skills program.
“Learn to Earn” will be the subject of our Oct. 4 program.Generosity recognized: Our mem-
bers’ giving to the Rotary Foundation and to Coins for Alzheimer’s Research was honored with two recent awards. On Aug. 16, Norm Rogers, the district CART chairman, presented us with the “Golden Bucket” trophy for giving more than $4,400 out of the district’s total of $22,000. At the district’s Foundation lun-cheon Aug. 27 we were honored as the top club for contributions, having given more than $46,000 in 2015-16.
Cottage boys go fishing: On Aug. 5, the club sponsored an offshore fishing trip for six of the residents of the Rotary Cottage at the N.C. Boys & Girls’ Home at Lake Wac-camaw. Past president Hansen Matthews led the outing on the Vonda Kay, with help from two of the Rotary Cottage staff, Rotar-ian Rick Hunt and a friend.
Club brand shirts: to help raise aware-ness of the club as we do work in the com-munity, President Mike Beaudoin arranged to acquire several dozen blue T-shirts embla-
zoned with the Rotary Wheel logo and the words “Wilmington Rotary Works.” These loaner shirts are used during projects, then washed and returned for re-use. So far these have been used during our fishing expedition Aug. 5 (see above) and at the spelling bee Sept. 15. (See spelling bee photo on page 1.)
Club gifts for Williston: On July 26, the club presented Williston Principal Ron Ron Villines and members of his staff with two checks: $750 to buy music books and new reeds for the school band’s woodwind instruments, and $1,000 to buy new fiction and non-fiction books for classroom use and for the Battle of the Books. Also, the club gave each of Willis-
ton’s twelve new teachers a bag of class-room supplies plus a $35 gift card.
Linprint donates paper to Williston: To help teachers cope with a shortage of funds to acquire supplies, Rotarian Brad Donnell, owner of Linprint, donated and delivered paper, cut to the sizes needed.
New banners to feature battleship: club members voted to use the Battleship North Carolina as the image on our exchange ban-ners. These are the small flags that travel-ing members trade with other Rotary clubs.
New Paul Harris Fellows Eight Rotarians were recognized
earlier this year for contributing $1,000 to the Rotary Foundation, which will have its hundredth anniversary in 2017.
At the June 28 banquet: Rhonda Amoroso, Doug Jennings, John Lyon, Bill Paris and Nick Rhodes.
On Aug. 30: Sterling Cheatham, Julie Wilsey and Cleve Callison.
Several other Rotarians have received additional Paul Harris Fellow awards to mark having given an additional thousand — or more.
On May 10, Julie Rehder, Chad Pearson and Bob Williams were honored as Paul Harris Fellows “plus one.”
On April 28, R.B. Richey received a pin designating him as a PHF “plus 8.” A member of the Paul Harris Society, he has pledged $1,000 a year for ten years.
Donated paper leaves Linprint’s plant, above, and on delivery at Williston Middle School. ~ Photos by Brad Donnell
Rogers: CART chair
New Paul Harris Fellows honored on Aug. 30: Sterling Cheatham, Julie Wilsey and Cleve Callison, with generous Rotarian Pat Watts, who helps first-time fellows by matching their donations.
Musical entertainment followed lunch on July 19, with a presentation by and about the new Opera Wilm-ington series. Jerry Fingerhut in-troduced the program, which fea-tured a duet between soprano Nancy King, the troupe’s director, and ten-or Joshua Collier, and an aria from soprano Sophie Amelkin.
The huge new River Lights devel-opment, along the Cape Fear River south of Wilmington, was the sub-ject when Livian Jones spoke on July 26.
The Aug. 2 program was present-ed by Rotarian Ben David, who is chairman of this year’s Cape Fear United Way campaign. He talked about how programs supported by UW can help counteract the poverty that breeds crime.
Dr. Kenneth White discussed new developments in plastic surgery at the Aug. 9 meeting.
District Governor John Scibal’s official visit to the club was the pro-gram for Aug. 16.
Wilmington’s Mayor Bill Saffo
spoke to the club on Aug. 23 about the state of the city, with special at-tention to the parks bond issue pro-posed for a vote this fall.
The Aug. 30 program featured Brandon Knox, who discussed how he has built a business that of-fers personal fitness training to resi-dents of selected apartment and con-dominium developments.
Development on the Cape Fear River’s banks and the prospect of making the entire river a linear park were Capt. Doug Springer’s topic on Sept. 6.
On Sept. 13, Olympic gold med-alist and championship-winning college and professional basketball coach Anne Donovan talked about highlights of her career in sports.
Have a program idea? Please suggest it to Program Committee Chairman Cleve Callison or to any other member of the committee.
For upcoming programs, please see page 4.
Opera, basketball, plastic surgery, river, and city’s future are program topics
Knox: fitness business Donovan: basketball
Saffo: City of Wilmington
Fingerhut: OperaWhite: Plastic Surgery
Jones: River Lights
David: United Way Springer: Cape Fear River
Soprano Sophie Amelkin performs an aria from Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutti at the July 19 meeting, far left. Soprano Nancy King, Opera Wilmington’s founder and artistic director, sings a duet from the same opera with tenor Joshua Collier.
Scibal: district governor
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Upcoming programs & eventsTUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
Wilmington’s new waterfront park, with Amy Beatty, parks and recreation superintendent.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21Fellowship Wednesday, 5:30 p.m., Rotary Wheel Garden
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26Board meeting, 5:30 p.m., LS3P Architects
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27UNCW men’s basketball for the 2016-17 season, with head coach Kevin Keatts.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4 Cape Fear Literacy Council’s “Learn to Earn” program, with Yasmin Tomkinson and Nancy Woolley.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11 The economic impact of the arts, with Rotarian Rhonda Bellamy of the Wilmington Arts Council.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12Student of the Month presentation, 9:30 a.m., Williston Middle School library, 410 S. Tenth St.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18 Vocational Fellowship Day, 12 noon, various locations.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25 Men’s colon and prostate health, with Rotarian Dr. Joe Payne, colorectal surgeon, and Dr. Roc McCarthy, urologist.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1Farm-City Week program, introduced by Al Hight.
THURSDAY-SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3-6District Conference cruise, aboard Carnival Valor, Port Canaveral, FL to Nassau, Bahamas and return.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8Seventy-fifth anniversary of the Hannah Block USO, with Tony Stimak, playwright and author of Mrs. World War II Wilmington: We Fell in Love at the USO.
New members join, introduce themselves
The club’s membership is growing again, after a mid-year purge of several who failed to meet attendance and/or dues-payment requirements.
Matt Lawson was inducted on Aug. 2. He is an endodontist; his sponsor is Melissa Gott.
On Aug. 9, Terry Smith was inducted. His profession is business broker and he was sponsored by Howard McCain.
Two new members joined the cluh on Aug. 16. Debby Gomulka, sponsored by Shannon Sandlin, is an interior designer.
Van Dempsey is dean of the Watson School of Education at UNCW. His sponsor is Bo Dean.
A week later, on Aug. 23, long-time R o t a r i a n C h u c k W i l s o n joined the club. He had most r e c e n t l y been a member of the Coastal P e n d e r
and Burgaw Rotary clubs. A retired public affairs executive, he was sponsored by RB Richey.
Recently inducted member Anne Coffee gave her new-member talk on Sept. 6. Her business is drug and alcohol testing in the transportation industry; she was sponsored by Anne LaReau and joined on April 19.
Introductions: be discreetPresident Mike Beaudoin has issued several reminders
recently about the club’s protocol for recruiting new members. It’s important that Rotarians introducing guests should never mention that the guest is looking to join, has submitted an application or has been approved. The application process requires consideration by several committees and the Board of Directors before a name is placed on the table for review by the membership. Remember that not every prospective member is accepted. Also, avoid using phrases like “second visit,” which imply the guest is going through the application process.
