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Don Fipps looking at the rescue dive gear with Del Mar Lifeguard Tyler Grant
Del Mar Lifeguards Tyler Grant and Scott Henson didn’t have too far to walk to join us at the Powerhouse Park pavilion to thank us again for the dive gear that we donated.
What’s Rotary?
We’re a leadership organization of local business, professional and civic leaders.
We meet regularly, get to know each other, form friendships, and through that, we’re able to get things done in this community.
Philippe Lamoise sporting a hat that was a gift from Rotarians in India
Philippe Lamoise expanded the talk he gave at the recent District Foundation Seminar on the Gamru Village School, a project he’s been involved with for over 15 years. Gamru Village School is located in Dharamsala in the Himachal Pradesh region of India. The area gained fame for its monastery, where the Dalai Lama lives in exile from Tibet. It’s also home to many Tibetan refugees, which brings attention to the region, but many donations go to support the refugees while few funds go to the locals.
In 2003, Philippe volunteered his software engineering and video editing skills to Tibetan monks in Dharmsala, and while there he visited the Rotary Club of Dharamsala. In 2004, he returned to help locals learn computer skills as part of a project sponsored in conjunction with the Rotary Club La Mesa Sunrise. During this trip, he visited a school for local children that was founded by Philip Adams. Although school in India is free, the uniforms, book and transportation is not, and these additional costs represented an insurmountable barrier to education for many children in India.
Through district grants Rotary helped fund resources for the school, including furniture, books and updated kitchen equipment (the school provides many children with their main daily meal). This support helps cover the $22,000 annual budget for the school, which has 9 teachers, two staff members and serves around 150 children. The school recently started a nursery to help relieve female students of child care duties for their younger siblings that would otherwise keep them out of school. The Gamru School is an example of how Rotarians like Philippe see needs on their travels and engage the power of Rotary to help fulfill those needs.
Dugan and Philippe Lamoise receive recognition from PDG Marge Cole for becoming Level 3 Bequest Society members (with PDG Janice Kurth and current DG Marta Knight)
PDG Janice Kurth speaks about the importance of supporting the Rotary Foundation
PDG Scott Carr congratulates current DG Marta Knight on becoming a member of the Paul Harris Society
San Pasqual High School SuperNurds robotics team (with faculty advisor Yun Lutgen, far right) demonstrate the skills of their latest robot
Rotarians from across District 5340 gathered at the Institute of the Americas at UCSD to learn about different community and international club projects, hear from Peace Scholars, and thank those whose generous donations to their clubs and Rotary International help make these projects possible.
Past Rotary Foundation Trustee Steve Brown remembered the five Past District Governors (PDGs) we lost in the past year: Bob Tomko (PDG ’68-’69), Jack Mayo (PDG ’92-’93), Larry Scott (PDG ’02-’03), Dave Breeding (PDG ’10-’11), and, most recently, Wayne Cusick (PDG ’96-’97). All of these PDGs made important contributions to the District, and Wayne founded the Paul Harris Society (PHS). PHS members now provide nearly 1/3 of annual donations to Rotary International.
PDG Scott Carr recognized current District Governor Marta Knight as one of our newest Paul Harris Society members. PDG Janice Kurth explained that the apples scattered around (including on the podium) represented importance of continued giving- gifts made now plant the seeds for future Rotary successes. This point was echoed by PDG Pam Russell, who outlined options for Legacy Giving, including the Bequest Society. Pam recognized Dugan and PDG Philippe Lamoise as Bequest Society Level 3 donors.
Rotary Peace Fellow Bogdan Matuszynski spoke about the training he received as a fellow in Peace and Conflict Resolution and his founding of iSERVE, an organization that uses education and mentorship to promote the idea of global citizenship. Philippe Lamoise spoke about the Gamru Village School (see separate story for November 14, 2019 meeting) and Al Chalfant from Old Mission Rotary Club covered the support his club gives to the Thousand Smiles Clinic.
The UCSD Rotaract Club was represented by Kaeley O’Shea who explained what a WAPI is (water pasteurization indicator) and WAPI-making projects they hosted to produce WAPIs for use in Africa. Yun Lutgen, a math teacher at San Pasqual High School, introduced her SuperNURDs (Never Underestimate Robotic Domination) Robotics Team, sponsored by Rotary Club of Escondido- and the team members spoke about what the team has meant to them (for many, a change of career path).
For our November 21, 2019 meeting we'll again gather at Powerhouse Park while St. Peter's is hosting the Interfaith Shelter. Free on-street parking is available north of the Del Mar Motel or park in the St. Peter's lot (be sure to display your parking pass) and walk to the park.
All members are welcome to attend our monthly Board of Directors meetings, held in the Youth Room of St. Peter’s. This month’s meeting will be held Tuesday November 19, 2019 at 7:30 AM and will last no more than one hour. Red Badgers need to attend one Board meeting to achieve Blue Badge status.
"Krispie" ducks from Donna Fipps
Chili & Quackers Chair Matt Kurth with Bronze-level sponsors Jim and Kathy McClellan
The Line of Succession: Vice President Dugan Lamoise, Past President Don Fipps, President-Elect Sharon Schendel and Current President Brett Mattei
Beth Westburg, Garrie Rhodes, Sharyn Daly and Mary Alice and Marty Peters (along with Reid Westburg in the back) enjoy the potluck food
Janice Kurth with Chili & Quackers hot dog grill master Reid Westburg
Robert Muller and Dee House with Miles Fleming
Thank you to Matt and Janice Kurth for hosting an Open House for everyone who helped make the recent Chili & Quackers “friendraiser” such a success. Matt in particular went beyond the call- chairing the event just one week before his daughter’s wedding.
Dr. Todd Morgan with happy patient Patti Kurtz
Dr. Todd Morgan, DMD, ABDSM joined our October 31 meeting to talk about his work with sleep apnea patients. Dr. Morgan grew up in El Cajon, and after studying dentistry at Washington University dental school, returned to the San Diego area to practice. His interest shifted from traditional dentistry to sleep medicine and the importance that having good quality sleep can have on overall health. Dr. Morgan focuses on use of Oral Appliance Therapy that involves custom-made devices that are similar to a retainer or athletic mouth-guard. The appliance helps pull the lower jaw forward to open the airway to increase airflow. For many patients, this simple treatment is sufficient to resolve sleep apnea and snoring. Dr. Morgan has other approaches that help patients increase muscle tone to enhance airway function.
The 46th annual District 5340 Foundation Seminar will be on November 9, 2019 from 8:30 to noon at UCSD Institute of the Americas. Come a bit early to get a free flu shot before the main program begins. The District Seminar provides a great opportunity to hear about the many projects that clubs all over the district are undertaking. Click here to register.
Garrie Rhodes has some salad
Janice Kurth and Dee House study the vegetarian options
Ronnie working the front desk
Thank you to Pat Dougherty for sponsoring our lunch on Halloween (Flavor Chef was away in Las Vegas for a large event). Within minutes of being asked, Pat had secured a dozen pizzas of all varieties and four trays of salad along with fantastic dough knots from Pizza Nova. Thank you to Pat and to all those who came early and stayed late to set up and break down the tables and chairs. Thanks as well to those who came in costume!
Wayne and LeAnn Cusick with Rotary Foundation trustee Wilfred Wilkinson
Marty Peters expressed his fond remembrance of one of his Rotary mentors, Past District Governor Wayne Cusick, who passed away October 30. He was 76 years-old Wayne had the idea for the first Paul Harris Society that was launched at the District 5340 Foundation Seminar when Marty was District Governor (RY 1997-1998). The idea was simple: create a special level of recognition for Rotarians and friends who pledge to contribute at least $1,000 annually to the Rotary Foundation. Now the Society has over 25,000 members worldwide and has raised over $30 million dollars to support RI projects. Services will be handled by El Camino Memorial in Sorrento Valley and information is forthcoming. An online guestbook is available for condolences.
Foundation Chair Matt Kurth congratulates Chandra Collure on being a Paul Harris Fellow + 1
Congratulations to Chandra Collure on his Paul Harris Fellow + 1. Make your annual pledges to Rotary International to get yourself a bit closer to your next Paul Harris Fellow.
Author Andra Watkins with one of the many pictures she took along the Natchez Trace
Andra Watkins, author of several books that have appeared on the New York Times best seller list (and a Rotarian), began with a dream to be an actress. Her family reacted with horror at that aspiration, so she took a safer path to be an accountant. She left that job in 2008 to form her own consulting business, which was doing well until the 2009- a year in which she saw the economy crash, her business fail, and the first digit of her age change to a 4.
That year, Andra was inspired by Stephen Ambrose’s book “Undaunted Courage”, a biography of Merriweather Lewis, a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition who was eventually governor of the Louisiana Territory. Andra wanted to write a novel starring Lewis. Again, her family was doubtful and thought she should get a real job- writing was just a hobby. But her husband was in her corner and supported her efforts to write the book.
Book written, Andra went to launch it, but had trouble convincing any agents that the book would have broad appeal. She hatched the idea of walking the Natchez Trace, a 10,000 year old path first forged by animals that later became a road. But the Trace now is not designed to be walked- she need a wingman. Friends declined, and expressed skepticism given their assessment that Andra had minimal athletic inclination.
On March 1, 2014, she began her journey, with the goal to reach Nashville on April 3, 2019, when author Ann Patchett, owner of the independent bookstore, Parnassus Books, agreed to host Andra and publicize her book. On the third day, the weather was 20˚ and sleeting. By the second week she was in agony with every step, but the physical didn’t compare with the mental challenge of being with her eventual wingman- her 80 year-old father. At mile post 135, her dad forgot to come pick her up. A few days later, around mile post 160 she was violently ill with intestinal distress and hadonly three squares of toilet paper left (the Trace has few facilities within a mile of the route)- she resorted to Gatorade for the clean up job.
At one point during her walk, she collapsed in a field and laid there, exhausted. So focused was she on the misery and the agony, that at least 15 minutes passed before she realized that she was surrounded by thousands of daffodils. The experience in the field taught her that we’re often too focused on the minor pains of life to notice the amazing in the every day.
Scholarships, RYLA, LEAD, Interact and Rotaract, Eagle Scouts, Model UN, Torrey Pines High School Robotics Club- all activities that the Youth Services Committee, chaired by Larry Cook, contributes to each year. Our club sponsors Interact clubs at three high schools: Cathedral Catholic, Sunset and Torrey Pines High School in addition to the Rotaract Club at University of San Diego. Klaus Gubernator is chief advisor for our teams participating as delegates to the District 5340 Model United Nations. In Model UN, teams of two students study a resolution, which is debated and amended at the district-wide conference held in early spring. For RYLA 2019, Don Fipps, Sharon Schendel and Chris Stewart attended as facilitators and we sponsored six high juniors to attend. Chris Stewart led mindfulness and meditation workshops at the recent Lead conference for eight graders held at Camp Cuyamaca. We sponsor Eagle Scout projects for Boy Scout Troop 713, which this year added nine female members. The Youth Committee disbursed around $10,000 in scholarships to students in the area and is looking forward to continuing its sponsorship of young instrumentalists in the District 5340 music competition in February. Garrie Rhodes leads our contest and asks that we encourage any high school-aged instrumentalists to enter.
Rotary's efforts to eradicate polio (that's the atomic structure of the polio virus to the left)
Forty years ago, Rotary International began in earnest its campaign to eradicate polio and in 1985 launched PolioPlus to provide polio vaccines and disease surveillance to children across the world. In 1988, Rotary was the leading partner in the formation of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, a global consortium that brings together efforts of the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In the last 30 years, the incidence of polio decreased by 99.9%, from around 350,000 case to just 33 cases of wild poliovirus in 2018.
On World Polio Day 2019, wild polio virus Type 3 (WPV3) was declared to be eradicated. There are three immunologically distinct wild polio types, 1, 2 and 3. Although the disease caused these three virus types is similar, the immune system responds differently to each type, so each must be eradicated. Only wild polio virus 1 remains, and only in two countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
This past summer, Rotary International pledged to fund $100 million in grants to make the final push to eradicate this disease. In particular, funding will focus on Pakistan and Afghanistan, where children remain vulnerable to infection.
Past District Governor Marty Peters had the idea in 1998 of printing a bumper sticker to raise awareness about Rotary’s efforts against polio. Some 400,000 have since been sold, with all funds going to the PolioPlus fund. Marty continues to dispatch bumper stickers to those who request them through our website.
Enjoying food and drink at Viewpoint Brewing Company (clockwise l to r): Jeff Matthews, Val Myers, Keith Ward, Karl and Suzy Wagner, Don and Donna Fipps
Healthy and not- watermelon and petipa salad with truffle fries
A small crowd (was it competition with the first game of the World Series? The odd time that Sharon put on the club website?) came to Viewpoint Brewing Company to enjoy craft beers and great food while looking out over the San Dieguito lagoon. The social was our chance to thank Viewpoint Brewing Company for providing beer and entering a chili in the recent Chili & Quackers Challenge.
Pete and Jan Grossnickle with Karin and Jim Davies
Jan Grossnickle, our speaker at the October 17, 2019 meeting, has been a RN for over 50 years. She said that she’s done all kinds of nursing, but her current position with the Community Christian Service Agency (CCSA) has been her favorite.
San Diego County has the fourth largest homeless population in the nation. The latest Regional Task Force Survey on the Homeless found that over 8,000 individuals in the County were homeless and of these, nearly 4,500 were classified as unsheltered. High rents and stagnant wages in particular have contributed to the increase in the homeless population in our region over the past decade. The fastest growing sector of this population is the elderly, many of whom lost savings in the 2008 recession and are unable to work or have difficulty finding work.
Jan said that the homeless population is more likely to have chronic illness than the general population, and access to healthcare for these individuals is particularly challenging. She works with CCSA, which was founded in 1972 by a group of churches to serve low income individuals living in the San Diego region. In 2018, the CCSA provided assistance for over 30,00 clients and distributed over $1 million in food as well as over 60,000 clothing items. CCSA has two facilities in Pacific Beach and Claremont. Both sites provide food, clothing and referrals to social service agencies. The Pacific Beach site, where Jan works, also houses a Nurse’s Clinic where clients can be assessed, receive first aid, medical referrals and other support.
Jan and her colleagues at the CCSA Pacific Beach branch are one part nurse, one part social worker and one part cheerleader. In all interaction with their clients, the CCSA nurses exude respect, which can counteract one of the largest problems of the homeless: feeling isolated.
Clients can receive help with problem solving and goal setting, advocacy with health care providers, assistance in applying for benefits and health insurance program enrollment, but most of all, Jan and the other CCSA nurses provide hugs and reassurance that are critical for the clients to transition to independence and self-sufficiency.
Join fellow Rotarians for evenings at the Cygnet Theatre. Attend one or all of the upcoming Friday night performances and $10 of the ticket price will be donated to support in-school theatre workshops and student matinee performances sponsored by Cygnet Theatre. Rotarians are always early, so take advantage of the time by enjoying the Theatre on Tap beer event one hour before curtain time and stay late to talk with the cast and director about the performance. Visit cygnettheatre.org for more information or to purchase tickets.
Congratulations to our Rotarian of the Month for September, Kathy Reed. Kathy is our treasurer- one of the most important positions in the club. Kathy ensures that our club finances are in order, that billings are up to date and funds are transferred to our projects. In addition to her treasurer duties, Kathy also arranged for embroidered shirts and caps for our clubs. Thank you, Kathy!
The weather was perfect on Saturday October 12, 2019 for the 8th annual Chili & Quackers Challenge. We had all different chilis of all varieties- from mild to spicy, white to red, and chunky to smooth- even vegetarian and vegan chilis. This year we even had dessert in the form of a giant cookie donated by U-Touch, one of our partners on an international grant that brings digital literacy to students in Uganda. Thank you to Rotary Club of Del Mar Solana Beach for loan of the canopies that provided our chili cooks with much-needed shade.
Viewpoint Brewing Company and Prohibition Brewing Company provided their craft brews to wash down that chili. Karin and Jim Davies organized games and crafts for the kids in attendance, many of whom visited Kristin Brakespear’s face painting booth (Kristin is owner of DiamondPrincessParties and also teaches at Painting With a Twist in Rancho Bernardo). They also could get a balloon sculpture from Happy Twist Balloons by Keiko. Dano’s Island Sounds provided steel drum music for the event.
The Del Mar Lifeguards also played a big role. They had on display their surf rescue equipment (some of the dive gear was funded by our club) and gave a demonstration of a surf rescue- Don Fipps again played a swimmer in distress. At around 3:30 the Lifeguards loaded more than 1,000 ducks into their surf rescue boat and piloted them to the surf line for launch. The ducks all found their way to shore quickly and everyone on the beach (and even one doodle) helped us ensure that all our ducks got back home safely.
All attendees who purchased chili tastes were invited to vote for their favorite recipe. The overall winner was Don Fipps with his waterless IPA Chili and Chef Pedro of Flavor Chef took home honors for the professional division. Haley Merkel’s vegan Chil-E was voted best vegetarian chili.
Special thanks go to organizer Matt Kurth, for all his work on all aspects of the event, all our chili chefs, Philippe Lamoise for spearheading the online duck and chili sales and providing smooth check-in and registration; Beth Westburg and her husband Reid for coordinating the hot dogs and other food; Keith and Jeanie Ward for staffing the registration desk; Dugan Moore Lamoise for coordinating members of Boy Scout Troop 713, who provided all sorts of help, John Baranowski for serving as MC, Val Myers for coordinating the prizes and counting the votes (thanks as well to members of her State Farm office for helping serve chili), Miles Fleming for transporting the ducks, Sharyn Daly for handling the rentals and the Sno-Cone booth, Chandra Collure for making sure the propane kept flowing, Garrie Rhodes, for staffing the drink tent, Tony Villasenor for help with event break-down, Jim Brunner with Minuteman Press helped produce the banners and other event signage and Dee House for help coordinating volunteers. Thank you as well to everyone who attended the event!
Our event sponsors provided critical support. Thank you to Janice and Matt Kurth, Philippe and Dugan Lamoise, Marty Peters, who all donated at the Platinum level; Dan Smargon and Monty Woolley for donating at the Silver level, and Kathy and Bill Dougherty, Jim McClellan, Val Myers, and Ole Prahm, who all donated at the Bronze Level.
We’re indebted to the local restauranteurs who competed in the Chili Cook-off: Flavor Chef, International Smoke, Jimmy O’s, Milton’s Deli, Ranch 45, Viewpoint Brewing Company, and West End Del Mar.
This “friendraiser” is a way for our club to give back to the community and to raise the visibility of Rotary and our many projects, both local and international. Please see our Facebook page or the Club’s website for more photos. Visit the Google photo album to download any you like and please share any photos you have!
Kevin O'Beirne from San Diego Gas and Electric
Kevin O’Beirne of San Diego Gas & Electric spoke at our October 3, 2019 meeting about the ways that SDGE is working to keep pace with the growing energy demands of San Diego county. The setting was fitting- the building that now houses eMolecules has been open for less than one year and represents the growth in both infrastructure and population that SDGE must service.
As the population of San Diego county grew by more than 10-fold in the past 70 years, so did the need for energy, particularly with the expansion of the list of items that require power. The region was originally serviced by the South Bay and Carlsbad Encina power plants as well as the San Onofre Nuclear plant, with supplements from peaker plants. Now power supplies are more varied and draw on a broader range of energy sources including natural gas, wind and solar. SDGE even installed what is now the second largest lithium ion battery storage facility involving 400,000 batteries that store up to 120 mW hours of energy that can service 20,000 homes for four hours.
Despite these improvements, the county’s energy infrastructure, particularly that which supplies natural gas, is aging. One of the main gas pipelines in San Diego was first laid in the 1940s when fewer then 300,00 people lived in the county. Meanwhile, over 90% of natural gas supplies originate outside California, with most gas delivered from Texas or Oklahoma via pipeline to storage fields located around Los Angeles. Following the natural gas pipeline failure in San Bruno that claimed the lives of 8 people, energy providers now must increase the safety and reliability of natural gas infrastructure. In response to California Public Utility Commission mandates, SDGE is created the Pipeline Safety Enhancement Program (PSEP) and the Pipeline Safety and Reliability Program (PSRP) that will ensure safe and reliable supplies of natural gas to meet energy demands.
As part of the PSEP, more than 20 miles of pipeline around San Diego have been replaced and over the next five years more than 37 miles in both populated and rural areas will be replaced. Existing pipeline will be subjected with strength testing while new pipelines will have multiple safety features including warning mesh to protect against damage from digging and fiber optic cables that enable remote real time monitoring. The pipe itself will be thoroughly tested prior to installation and will be constructed of stronger materials that are resistant to corrosion.
All of these actions are needed to allow SDGE to continue to safely and reliably satisfy the energy needs of the San Diego region, both today in the future.
District Governor Marta Knight (right) with Assistant District Governor Susie Callahan (left) and President Brett Mattei (center)
District Governor Marta Knight was our special guest at the September 26, 2019 meeting. She asked us to consider our Rotary “Aha” moment- the moment when we realized that Rotary was an important part of our lives. Marta’s “Aha” moment came as she was preparing to become president of her club, Rotary Club of Chula Vista Sunrise and was attending the Rotary International Convention held in Los Angeles in June 2008. In the convention hall she saw thousands of Rotarians from across the globe and listened to the Rotary International President speak about how Rotary allowed ordinary people to do extraordinary things. As she watched the parade of flags from each country in which Rotary had a presence Marta realized: this is my Rotary family!
Marta is a third generation Rotarian. Her grandfather was a founding member of a Rotary club in Mazatlán, Mexico and her father, Dr. Adalberto Rojo, a radiologist, served as District Governor for District 4100 twice, once for Rotary Year 1957-58 and again in 1972 when he stepped in for a District Governor Elect who died suddenly shortly before beginning his term. Marta tells people that her father was so devoted to Rotary that if there had been Rotary diapers, she would have worn them.
As team leader of Rotary Foundation Group Study Exchange that traveled to Ecuador for one month, Marta lived her “Aha” moment. She saw a “mechanical cow” funded by a Global Grant secured by her club and Rotary Club of La Mesa that provided much-needed nutrition to local children and their families. Rotary logos marked bathroom facilities for one of the schools they visited. At all schools they brought the children pencils and sharpeners. Marta said the children were fascinated by the sharpeners, and at one school, a young boy demonstrated how they used to use a knife to sharpen their pencils. Examples of the ordinary becoming extraordinary.
For her Rotary Year, Marta’s main goal follows that of Rotary International President Mark Maloney: Grow Rotary. She challenged each club to find community-minded people who are passionate and fun, and practical and resourceful to join us in helping Rotary fulfill its mission. But most of all, Marta wants Rotarians to have fun while working together to make good things happen.
Our Rotary Superhero Donna Fipps (left, with Emerald) with District Governor Marta Knight
At each club, Marta Knight presents a Rotary Superhero award to one member who works largely behind the scene and can always be counted on. Our Superhero is Donna Fipps. As Club Secretary, Donna works to ensure that our member information is current and correct and that members have the resources they need. Donna has a flair for design that we all enjoy at member events- from beautiful cookies at the holiday party, to the gift card tree at the Soiree, to name tags at club events, Donna’s many talents are evident. We also love to have her Canine Companions for Independence puppies in training join our meetings.
Filling up the conference room at eMolecules
eMolecules CEO Niko Gubernator
Ongoing construction complicated access to our usual St. Peter’s venue, so Klaus Gubernator generously offered a conference room at the new offices of the company he founded, eMolecules. CEO Niko Gubernator described how eMolecules serves as a platform to help researchers find the chemical reagents they need to fuel drug discovery. eMolecules also recently launched a foundation to help provide treatment options for a range of neglected tropical diseases that affect millions of people globally but are not the target of pharmaceutical industry efforts due to low return on investment. In partnership with Novartis, eMolecules already demonstrated success in this research area through the development of GNF179, a potential treatment for malaria that is already in the late stages of clinical testing.
Paddling standing and seated with dogs after helping serve beef sandwiches with Lakeland Rotarians at Beef-A-Rama
Even Moses had a beef roast- cooked in his own fatted calf- entered in the Beef-A-Rama
In addition to getting in the last paddles of the season, I helped at the 2019 Beef-A-Rama Rotary Beer Garden in Minocqua, Wisconsin. I hadn’t planned to volunteer this year, but a chance meeting with PDG Sue Morris (District 6220) at PJ’s Burger Barn roped me in. Members of the Lakeland Noon Rotary are fortunate in their fundraisers- selling beer and beef in Wisconsin is simple! I worked the beef sandwich line- we served more than 500 pounds of beef brisket in around three hours. Proceeds from the Beef-A-Rama Beer Garden, together with those from the Lakeland Sunrise Rotary’s Rump Roast Run, go to fund the club’s many projects, including their very active youth exchange program.
Mel Gallegos presents Don Fipps with a certificate in recognition of our Rotary Citation with Silver Distinction
Immediate Past District Governor Mel Gallegos is visiting all the clubs that earned Rotary Citations during his Rotary Year. During his Rotary Year 2018-2019, President Don Fipps steered the club to a Rotary Citation with Silver Distinction, meaning that the club fulfilled its goals and did a bit extra.
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What’s Rotary?
We’re a leadership organization of local business, professional and civic leaders.
We meet regularly, get to know each other, form friendships, and through that, we’re able to get things done in this community.
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