STEFFEN RECOGNIZED AS NEWEST ROTARY STAR!

Reimar Steffen was recognized as January’s Rotary Member’s   S T A R   Award for his  outstanding Volunteer in the community and in Haiti. Congratulations Reimar.  

Reimar joins former honorees Howard Griffin, Bill Alsbrook, Tom Knapko, Arnold Howel, Lyn Donley, and Rick Smith. Please consider nominating your own candidate by filling in the Rotary Star nomination form on the home page or by CLICKING HERE!

 

STOP HUNGER NOW PROJECT SET FOR FEBRUARY 20TH

Haywood County Rotarians will be joining with students from Haywood County schools and members of Long's Chapel Methodist Church on Saturday, February 20th to package 60,000 meals for the Stop Hunger Now Foundation. The meals will all be delivered to Haiti and distributed at local schools. The cost of a meal is 25 cents. Teams of Rotarians will work together in a 3rd shift beginning at 2:30 p.m. and running to 4:30 p.m. with a goal of packaging 25,000 meals. Blake Stanberry is the Waynesville Rotary Club Champion for this event and Cecil Yount is the District 7670 Team 7 Coordinator. Please plan to dedicate 2 hours of your time on Saturday, February 20th in support of this important project. Individuals wishing to make additional donations of money may do so by writing a check to the Waynesville Rotary Foundation and earmarking it for Stop Hunger Now. All proceeds will go toward the approximate $3,250.00 cost of purchasing the materials for the project. The 3 Rotary clubs will share in the costs based upon relative size of each club. The event will be held in the Media Library of Waynesville Middle School. If you do not wish to wear a hair net, be certain to bring your own cap. You will be required to wear one or the other.

OPPORTUNITIES FOR SERVICE!

Manna BackPack Challenge: 31 Waynesville Rotarians accepted Karen Denny’s and Floyd Rogers’s challenge to match their donation to the Manna Food Bank Backpack program. A sponsorship is $122.00 per student. If you have made this commitment, please make your check payable to the Waynesville Rotary FOUNDATION instead of Waynesville Rotary. Your leadership has determined that it would be best for these monies to go directly to the Foundation rather than through the club account. This will also give you the advantage of some tax breaks by making the donation. Simply indicate on your check that the donation is for the Manna Food Bank Backpack Challenge. If additional members wish to join this effort, please feel free to do so. Simply make out your check as noted above and give it to Scot Worley, Lynne Barrett, Bill Bird, or Neal Ensley at one of the Friday meetings.

For more information, contact Past President Lynne.

Boy Scout Troop support: An additional opportunity to support our community is by making a donation to the Boy Scout Troop led by our own Rotarian Billy Dinwiddie, Jr. The Pack is in serious need of a trailer and some other items. Any interested Rotarian, especially former Scouts, are urged to support this effort. Again, please make your check payable to the Waynesville Rotary Foundation.

For more information, contact Bill Bird.

 

ROTARY NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Shelter Box Update - You may view the latest on Shelter Boxes and the recent catastrophe in Myanmar by CLICKING HERE! Waynesville Rotary participated in the world wide Shelter Box project by donating a Shelter Box in this current fiscal year. You, as a Waynesville Rotarian, helped make District 7670 one of the TOP 10 suppliers of Shelter Boxes within Rotary!

 

NEW FUNCTION ON CLUB WEBSITE!

Club members will find a new link on the home page of the club website. The link, Directory On-Line, will take you to the District 7670 database where you can access your Rotary account to handle updates, your Rotarian subscription, and many other items related to your membership in Rotary. This is a secure site and you will be asked for your user id (your email address as entered by our Executive Secretary) and your password, which is your account number found on the mailing label of your Rotarian magazine. As of 07/16/2009, all current members have their Rotary International ID number entered into the District database.

Need the contact information for a fellow Rotarian? Log into the database and look it up under "My Club". Of course, the information is ONLY as GOOD as what gets updated! Please log in and check your own account for accuracy!

The financial module is now up and running. Members were sent, via email, invoices and statements on Friday, Octoer 16th for the 1st quarter of our fiscal year (07/09 through 09/09). Members without email will have printed copies of the invoice and statement available at the regular Friday meeting. The current financial and attendance data is available on-line for all Rotarians. To view your data, log into the District Database by entering your email address and Rotary International number for the password. Click on the Member tab and then click on either "member dues history" or "member attendance". The member dues history is in REAL TIME so members may now see their current financial information.

Questions regarding the information should be submitted via email by CLICKING HERE!

 

UPCOMING PROGRAMS IN DECEMBER

December 4

“New Academic Programs at Haywood Community College” Chad Bledsoe, Vice President, Academic and Workforce Development, Haywood Community College

December 11

“UNC-Asheville’s University Enterprises:  Athletics, NCCHW (NC Center for Health and Wellness), NCCCR (NC Center for Creative Retirement), and Community Relations”   Janet Cone, Senior Administrator of University Enterprises and Director of Athletics, UNC-Asheville

December 18

Musical Program, Voices in the Laurel, Martha Brown, Director

December 25

No Meeting!