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Waynesville, NC 28786

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Waynesville Rotary Bulletin

February 26th, 2009

 

THIS WEEKS PROGRAM:

Dr. Henry Nathan, a local gastroenterologist, will speak on Colon Cancer awareness. The month of March is Colon Cancer Month. Dr. Nathan is a member of the Haywood Regional Medical Center’s governing board, and is on the new Med West Board of Directors operating the three hospitals in the region in conjunction with Carolinas Healthcare System, in Haywood, Jackson and Swain Counties.

LAST WEEK’S PROGRAM:

Nick Honerkamp, Senior Pastor of new Covenant Church, will speak on the Community Homeless Shelter that was started last year. This is the county's first-ever overnight homeless shelter thanks to the efforts of some local church groups.

NEXT WEEK'S PROGRAM:

Cecil Yount will show images of naked Waynesville Rotarians that he has been compiling for the past 8 years. You DON'T WANT to miss this ONE as he has a picture of YOU! Should that presentation not work, Yount will demonstrate how to use the electronic tools available to Waynesville Rotarians in managing their Rotary accounts and making the most use of the club's website.

 

HONERKAMP ADDRESSES COMMUNITY HOMELESS SHELTER

Nick Honerkamp

 

Nick Honerkamp, Senior Pastor of new Covenant Church, spoke on the Community Homeless shelter program.  There is a coalition of a group of charities, non-profits, and churches from all over the county. They operate the shelter six months out of the year at Camp New Life and it is manned with volunteers from different churches along with a security guard. They provide transportation from the Community Kitchen in Canton, and The Open Door in Waynesville each evening, and return the homeless there the following morning.
There are 30 churches participating, and they have served 61 clients.  The clients are either transients, temporarily homeless (evicted or foreclosed), and permanent homeless within the region. They average serving 12 clients per night, and have housed as many as 21 at times.

The encouraging thing is that few of the clients they helped last year are back this year. They have helped then gain dignity, and strive to make them self sufficient, many have been helped securing jobs.    

 

 

WAYNESVILLE ROTARY WELCOMES FIVE NEW MEMBERS!

New members inducted

President Mark welcomed into Waynesville Rotary what might be the largest class of new members in many years. Shown above are new members, Phil Inglis, John Baxley, Alan Schork, Mo Fer, and Eddie Wells along with their sponsoring Rotarians.

WELCOME TO ALL!

STOP HUNGER NOW OFF TO GREAT START!

Stop Hunger Now!

Approximately 80 Rotarians and their family and friends packed in excess of 16,000 meals on Saturday, February 20th at the Waynesville Middle School. The Rotarian group was the 3rd shift in the day’s event following Haywood County School students and Long’s Chapel Methodist Church members. It total for the day, the event shipped 41,418 meals to Stop Hunger Now. Local Rotarians were joined by District Governor Carol King and SHN District Coordinator Bruce Bingham along with several Rotarians from other clubs that came to observe the event in advance of their own efforts. The packaging event was the first of District 7670’s 1 Million Meal Goal that will culminate on April 24th in Asheville. District Gov. Carol invites all Rotarians to join the effort in Asheville as the 1 millionth meal is reached.

The Rotarians packed meals until the supplies gave out. Due to a shipping miscalculation, sufficient supplies were not available to reach the initial goal of 25,000 meals packed by local Rotarians. The remaining 9,000 meals will be moved to the April 24th date for packaging. Rotarians from Haywood County matched $3,125.00 in donations made by District 7670 for a total contribution of $6,250.00 or 25,000.00 meals. Additional events will be held in Macon County on March 13th and on several dates in the Asheville/Hendersonville areas. District 7670 Team Leader, Cecil Yount, expressed his heartfelt thanks to the local Rotarians, who came together on a relatively short notice and supported this event both financially and with the gift of their time. Yount especially highlighted the contributions of the individual club champions, Blake Stanberry, Lee Starnes, and Rich Egan.

 

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.

 

GROUP STUDY EXCHANGE WITH THE PHILIPPINES IN THE WORKS!

Tom Knapko announced that our club will be involved in a GSE (Group Study Exchange) with the Philippines, who will be in Haywood County in February, 2010.  A group from America will go to the Philippines August 29th through September 5th, 2010.  Listen for more information.

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!

The January 2010 edition of the Rotary District 7670 newsletter has been released. You may access it by clicking HERE!

 

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!

 

 

 

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