Bell will ring at 7:27 this week – be ready to join the breakfast line!
I think it’s no coincidence that Valentine’s Day is also associated with “Rotary Has Heart” month! With plans for a Blood Drive on March 9th, we may be a little late to the party, but I don’t think there is ever a bad time to give a pint of blood for someone in need. Mickey Rogers will give us some more detail soon, but plan to stay after our meeting on 9 March to participate!
Our speaker this week will be Alpharetta Mayor, David belle Isle. Earlier in the week, the Mayor delivered his final “State of the City” address and a reflection of his term of office. David will deliver a similar message to our Rotary Club Friday morning. I hope you will make a special effort to attend our meeting as we say “fare-well” to a fellow Rotarian who has served our City for many years as both our Mayor and as a Councilman.
We will also recognize four of our members transitioning from Red to Blue badges: David Cochran, Meredith Moore, Olga Narvaez and Richard Owen.
We will learn more about Alex Paulk, as he will give us our Vocational Minute this week.
Special congratulations to our newest Rotarians, inducted last week: Sergio De La Torre, Jill Bernard, and Fran Schefer. If you have not already, please seek them out and get to know them. They will need our support as they run through the Red Badge program and seek to find their points of impact within Alpharetta Rotary and beyond.
Once again, I am going to keep this detailed information in the body of this update for your reference. PLEASE take action and register for one of the Rotary Leadership Institutes, put the District Assembly on your calendar, AND be sure to register for the District Conference!
Opportunities:
- Sign-up for Fresh Market – questions? Contact Lee Doernberg 678-773-1039
- Women of Rotary will meet Feb 21st 5:30-7:30 at Colletta’s - Avalon
Rotary Leadership and Conference Opportunities
- Contact Steve Corder (stevecorder1@gmail.com 770-855-5225) for more information.
Rotary Leadership Institute (RLI)
(Club will reimburse you for the cost of RLI training. Submit receipt to Will Daniel)
- 10 March in Tucker (RLI Parts 1, 2, 3 and Graduate Course)
- Information link: http://www.rlitraining.org/event/rli-tucker-ga-6900/
- Registration link: http://www.ismyrotaryclub.org/register4/index.cfm?EventID=77363326
- 17 March in Cartersville (Parts 1, 2, 3, Graduate Course, Discussion Leader)
- Information link: http://www.rlitraining.org/event/rli-cartersville-ga-6910/
- Registration link: http://www.ismyrotaryclub.org/register4/index.cfm?EventID=77348682
General Assembly 24 March at Ironworks in Columbus, GA.
- All Club members encouraged to attend!
- More information to come!
District Conference San Destin! April 26 – 29th Join us at the BEACH!
- All Club members encouraged to attend!
- Link to information and registration: https://rotary6900.org/v2/event/2368
2018 Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA)
If you have a son or daughter 15 – 17yrs old (preferably a junior this school year) you will want some information on Rotary’s youth leadership experience, called RYLA. The dates are June 2-6th at Georgia Southwestern State University (Americus). It’s an outstanding experience for our youth. Please contact Deborah Swofford (770-781-4100, dswofford@mhtlegal.com ) for more information. Deadline for application will be end of February.
I look forward to seeing everyone on Friday!