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Dear Fellow Rotarians, visitors and guests!
WELCOME TO OUR E-CLUB!
Thank you for stopping by our club meeting! We hope you will enjoy your visit.
Our E-Club banner is shown at left! Please send us a virtual copy of your club banner and we will send you a copy of our new club banner in exchange. We will also display your club banner proudly on our meeting website.
Although our E-club has Provisional status at this time, we hope you will find the content of our meeting enlightening and will give us the benefit of your opinion on the content.
August is approaching - Rotary Membership Month!
Visiting Rotarians. Click this link to Apply for a Make-up. We will send you and your club secretary a make-up confirmation.
Active Members. Click for Attendance Record.
Happy Hour Hangout. We are adjusting the time of our Happy Hour Hangout to Saturday mornings - early enough so that you can join before your day gets away from you. A second get-together is scheduled for Wednesday evenings.
We meet for a live chat and sometimes business discussion. If you are interested in dropping by, please click the link below. Morning coffee is on the house! (Your house, that is...) Hope to see you there!
Please note: Now, attending our HHH will earn you a make-up!
The link to the Happy Hour Hangout for Saturday is at the bottom of this meeting.
Interested in joining us? Click the link Membership Application and Information.
Our Provisional President, Kitty, would now like to welcome you to this week's meeting. Please listen in...
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ROTARY E-CLUB OF THE CARIBBEAN, 7020
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ABCs OF ROTARY (Cliff Dochterman)
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| Cliff Dochterman RI President, 1992-93 |
Interact
Interact, the Rotary youth program, was launched by the RI Board of Directors in 1962. The first Interact club was established by the Rotary Club of Melbourne, Florida.
Interact clubs provide opportunities for boys and girls of secondary-school age to work together in a world fellowship of service and international understanding.
The term "Interact" is derived from "inter" for international, and "act" for action. Every Interact club must be sponsored and supervised by a Rotary club and must plan annual projects of service to its school, community, and communities in the world.
"Interactors" develop skills in leadership and attain practical experience in conducting service projects, thereby earning the satisfaction that comes from serving others. A major goal of Interact is to provide opportunities for young people to create greater understanding and goodwill with youth throughout the world.
Rotaract
After the success of Interact clubs for high school-age youth in the early 1960s, the RI board created Rotaract in 1968. The new organization was designed to promote responsible citizenship and leadership potential in clubs of young men and women, aged 18 to 30. The first Rotract club was chartered by the Charlotte North Rotary Club in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 1995, there were more than 113,500 members in almost 5,000 Rotaract clubs in 114 countries.
Rotaract clubs emphasize the importance of individual responsibility as the basis of personal success and community involvement.
Each club sponsors an annual project to promote high ethical standards in one's business and professional life. Rotaract also provides opportunities leading to greater international understanding and goodwill. Rotaractors enjoy many social activities as well as programs to improve their community. A Rotaract club can exist only when continuously sponsored, guided, and counselled by a Rotary club. The programs of Rotaract are built around the motto "Fellowship Through Service."
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POLIO - JOHN HEWKO, GENERAL SECRETARY
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ROTARY ANTHEM
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THE ROTARY FOUNDATION
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POLIO UPDATE
The Gates Foundation will match two-to-one, up to US$35 million per year, every dollar Rotary commits to reduce the funding shortfall for polio eradication through 2018,” said Jeff Raikes, the foundation’s chief executive officer, in a prerecorded video address shown during the plenary session on 25 June.
“If fully realized, the value of this new partnership with Rotary is more than $500 million. In this way, your contributions to polio will work twice as hard.”
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10-minute video
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A LITERARY INTERLUDE
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THREE STRATEGIES for a more resilient you
(Jody Downie, Parry Sound Family Service)
Feeling overwhelmed, tired, not enough time to do or get things done, feeling trapped in your mundane daily life?
Intriguing research suggests that positive thinking can help you weather the routine ups and downs of life and also build resilience for times of greater difficulty.
Here are three ways to capture the benefits of positive thinking.
Express Gratitude
Gratitude is a thankful appreciation for what you have - from a roof over your head to good health to people who care about you. When you acknowledge the goodness in your life, you begin to recognize that the source of that goodness lies at least partially outside yourself. In this way, gratitude helps you connect to something larger than your individual experience - whether to other people, nature, or a higher power.
Set aside a few minutes every day and think about five large or small things you're grateful for.
Write them down if you like. Be specific and remember what each thing means to you. Feel free to share them if you like.
Leverage your strengths
To reap the benefits of your strengths, you first need to know what they are. Unfortunately, according to a British study, only about one-third of people have a useful understanding of their strengths.
If something comes easily, you may take it for granted and not identify it as a strength. If you are not sure of your strengths, you can identify them by asking someone you respect who knows you well, by noticing what people compliment you on, and by thinking about what comes most easily to you.
Certain strengths are most closely linked to happiness.
They include gratitude, hope, vitality, curiosity, and love. These strengths are so important that they're worth cultivating and applying in your daily life, even if they don't come naturally to you.
Savour the "good"
Most people are primed to experience the pleasure in special moments, like a wedding or a vacation. Everyday pleasures, on the other hand, can slip by without much notice.
Savouring means placing your attention on pleasure as it occurs, consciously enjoying the experience as it unfolds. Appreciating the treasures in life, big and small, helps build happiness.
Multitasking is the enemy of savouring. Try as you might, you can't fully pay attention to multiple things.
If you're scanning the newspaper and listening to the radio during breakfast, you're not getting the pleasure you could from that meal - or the newspaper or radio program.
If you're walking the dog on a beautiful path but mentally staring at your day's to-do list, you're missing the moment. Practising being mindful - being in the present is an integral part o "savouring the good."
We cannot change the past. Worrying about the future is not helpful. We can only control what is occurring in this moment, including our thoughts and actions.
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READING - THE COOKIE JAR (6 minutes)
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A HUMOROUS INTERLUDE
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AN INTRODUCTION TO ROTARY - presentation at HHH on Wednesday
The video below is about 50 minutes in length, recorded at our most recent Happy Hour Hangout. A PowerPoint presentation - an overview of Rotary.
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TO END OUR MEETING
To end our meeting, please recite aloud (on your honour!) the Rotary Four-Way Test of the things we think, say, or do.
Rotarian Marston Winkles, from St. Thomas, leads us.
1. Is it the TRUTH?
2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
3. Will it BUILD GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
...and official close of meeting
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Thank you for stopping by our E-club meeting! We wish you well in the next week in all that you do for Rotary!
The meeting has now come to an end. Please do have a safe and happy week! If you have enjoyed our E-club meeting, please leave a comment below.
Rotary cheers!
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Visiting Rotarians. Click this link to Apply for a Make-up. We will send you and your club secretary a make-up confirmation.
Active Members. Click to indicate your Attendance.
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HAPPY HOUR HANGOUT - Wednesday evening, July 31 at 7:00 p.m. Atlantic/Eastern Daylight Time
Rotary E-Club of the Caribbean, 7020 is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Join from a PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone or Android device:
- Please click this URL to start or join. https://zoom.us/j/417685259
- Or, go to https://zoom.us/join and enter meeting ID: 417 685 259
Join from dial-in phone line:
- Call +1(424)203-8450 (US/Canada only).
- For Global dial-in numbers: https://zoom.us/teleconference
- Meeting ID: 417 685 259
- Participant ID: Shown after joining the meeting
Here is a photo from a recent Happy Hour Hangout - Locations represented in this group include Canada, St. Thomas (USVI), New York, Barbados, Wales.
All, however, represent Rotary District 7020.
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