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It is the 50 yard line of my Rotary year. I have enjoyed the 55 official club visits, the collected stories, the trips to Haiti and Honduras, the PDG luncheon in November and this month’s Zone Institute for Zones 33 and 34 at The Homestead in Hot Springs, VA. I have attended four fundraisers and have been overwhelmed with the sweep and scope of the club service projects and I have probably just scratched the surface in understanding. We have or will distribute $27,000 in District Service Grants and over $100,000 in District Designated Funds. More. Mid-Year Assembly Jan. 30January 30. The Hilton in Greenville. Registration at 9:00 AM. Meeting starts at 9:30 AM. The target audience for this meeting is current Presidents and Presidents Elect, District Officers, AGs, Club Officers and anyone else interested in learning more about Rotary and the District. It will include a separate session for Presidents Elect called Pre PETS. Read more. Pre-PETSPre-PETS training for all President-elects will take place at Mid-year Assembly from 1:00-2:30 on January 30. Presidents-elect will meet with me, district leadership and their AGs to begin work on their Presidential Planning Guides which will be due at PETS in March. All President-elects should have received their registration materials for PETS training in Greensboro, NC on March 19-20, 2010. If you have not received their registration information, contact me immediately. Attendance at PETS is mandatory. -DGE Becky Faulkner Foundation Facts for January
Rotarians continued to give generously to The Future Vision Plan, developed to help the Foundation take a simplified and more focused approach to grant making, moved closer to its pilot phase. Of the 277 districts that applied to participate in the pilot, 100 districts from 74 countries and all Rotary zones were selected. Read more from Foundation Facts from our Foundation's general manager John Osterland. Come to district conferenceThe dates are Friday, April 30 through Sunday, May 2, 2010. The venue is the Westin Poinsett Hotel in downtown Greenville. The awards luncheon will be at the Embassy Suites at 11:30 am on Friday, May 1. Following the luncheon is a community service project and a golf tournament. Friday night opening reception will be an "Art Walk" along the Reedy River culminating in a dinner at Overlook Grill in Falls Park. One confirmed speaker is former ambassadorial scholar and Greenville native Billy Campbell. Billy is a former president of president of the Discovery Network and current president of Panavision. He was aboard on US Airways flight that landed in the Hudson River and was the last to get off the plane with pilot Sully Sullenberger, Bo Porter from Alabama will serve as representative of RI president John Kenny. More details to come but mark your calendar now. Come to MontrealTo experience all that Montreal has to offer, come to the International Convention there June 20-23. Remember to register early for the best discount and get your hotel res |
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erved as soon as possible. Here are the links for registration and housing on the RI web site and for the Host Organizing Committee web site where you can purchase event tickets. In order to register for the Convention, you’ll need to use Member Access on the RI site. If you’re not yet signed up for that, you can take care of it before you register.