President-elect, Pat Beckel welcomed everyone to the Centerville Rotary Club and led the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance. Bishop Brian Hayes provided the prayer.
Today’s quote provided by Don Overly: "You can get everything in life you want if you help enough other people get what they want.” Zig Ziglar
Today’s Announcements:
- Thanks to today’s greeter, Dale Berry.
- Tonight is the Uptown Witches Pub Crawl along with the Sip and Shop.
- Welcome today’s guest, Timothy Depp, back for another visit after helping out at Pancake Day!
- If you are responsible for someone with a red ribbon, please help them achieve it!
- Sing Out Polio was a fun event and well represented by Centerville Rotary. Aaron Smith did an awesome job, and all helped raise $1,238, which becomes $3,700 with the Gates Match.
- Pancake King, Adam Manning gave a Pancake Day update:
- 917 attended, including the wonderful volunteers
- Turn in outstanding invoices so we can complete the financial report.
- The estimated profit for this year’s fundraiser is $25,000!
- Thanks to all who volunteered and sponsored, and a big shout out to the Interact students who were a BIG help.
- Feedback from guests was positive.
- Tuesday 7:30 am the Centerville Rotary Coffee Club will meet at ContempoRoast.
- November 18, 5:30 pm is our next Club Social at Midnight Bloom. Mark your calendar now.
Happy Bucks this quarter will go to the Fairy Godmother Foundation.
Pat Beckel was our Sergeant at Arms, with assistance by Brian Hayes.
Happy Bucks were generously given for:
- Pat B’s son cheered for UC’s Homecoming, and they destroyed their top 10 opponent.
- Brad H for a great Pancake breakfast, noting many he talked to had never been there before and enjoyed it thoroughly.
- Carol K for a great Pancake Day and thanks to Aaron Smith for representing our club well at Sing Out Polio.
- Sofie A for Pancake Day, and especially to Adam for his great leadership, and also for the nice weather.
- Lisa GM for Pancake Day - it was an awesome time, and thanks to everyone who helped.
- Dan J noted two of his daughters worked the breakfast for the first time, and out worked him!
- Rand O was here one week in a row, and wished Carol & John a happy anniversary.
- Arnie B’s son mixed pancake batter and Pat said his son was good looking!
- Elda GG for Pancake Day and the committee, and she shared the feedback she got was that they learned about it on our social media channels.
- Boyd P said there were no complaints about cold pancakes, and people thought the sausage was great. Also, welcome to Frank Scott!
- Mark K shared he thought Pancake Day was great, everyone he talked to enjoyed the food, and good luck to OSU this weekend.
- Gary H was happy to be back, sorry to miss Pancake Day, and his staff members who attended said it was great!
- Frank S noted it is always great to visit Centerville Rotary!
- Ron H for our Pancake King, Adam and the committee, noting his neighbors had a blast, and welcome to Frank Scott.
- Lee H celebrated his 5th wedding anniversary; the 2nd bin at his farm is getting filled from the last 50 acres of his farm. He asked all Pancake kitchen workers to stand up and gave thanks to the kitchen chefs who made the product great behind the scenes.
- Chuck K gave thanks to Adam for his leadership, said it was good to be back from their Eastern Europe trip.
- Susan S for a great Pancake breakfast.
- Adam M for the great work at Pancake Day, for his co-chair, Lisa, and pancake committee. Also, he was in Columbus yesterday as his dad appeared on the Cash Explosion show and won quite a bit! His show airs Nov 7.
- Gina S for Pancake Day, the hard working Interact club kids, Interact Advisor, Ben Lawson who is great at greeting, hosting and keeping the kids motivated.
- Brian H for Pancake Day.
Our speakers today were Frank Scott and Ron Hollenbeck sharing information about Rotary Foundation month.
Ron shared information about the November Rotary Foundation Month project in our club. We have a club match for donations made in November up to $500. This can help members achieve their next level of Paul Harris Fellow (PHF), $1,000. We encourage people to participate in November, taking advantage of this matching program.
There are several areas of designation under the Rotary Foundation, including:
- Annual Fund gives to RI to direct where greatest need
- Polio Plus
- Disaster Response
- Environment
- And more
Letters were distributed to all members showing where you stand on your next PHF.
PHF+8 is the highest level to achieve at $1,000 increments. The next level is Major Donor Level 1 ($10,000 donation.)
If interested in taking advantage of this opportunity, get your info to Ron this month. All will be recognized at a meeting in January. This is a great opportunity to get your first or next level PHF, utilizing points. Points are earned every time a donation is made, and although you can’t use your own points, they can be used for other Rotarians. We’ve had some generous donors over the years who have donated their points for others.
Write a check to: Rotary International Foundation or donate online at
rotary.org. If you donate online, please let Ron know.
Can also make donations monthly - set up auto pay at
rotary.org. It was suggested to set up auto pay rather than donating with your quarterly bill, as that reduces the burden on record keeping.
Dan Johnson reminded all that your first $1,000 single/$2,000 married filing jointly of charitable contributions are now tax deductible.
A portion of your donation comes back to the District after 3 years, which is then distributed through district grants.
Frank Scott is the District RI Foundation chair and member of Dayton Rotary, has held various Rotary leadership roles including District Governor. He is a great friend to Centerville Rotary and helps us get district grants.
Frank noted that Design Outreach’s goal was to raise $15 million to reach 1 million people with their water pump, and actually beat it. Our club continues to support their efforts.
Frank said in 1917, Arch Klump started the Rotary Foundation with just $26.50. It has now grown to a $4 billion foundation. However, it’s not about the dollars raised, but the projects that have been funded with those funds.
50% of the earnings from the Rotary Annual Fund goes back to the district. The other 50% goes toward global grants.
Frank thanked our club, as we have been one of the top clubs in the district for many years. They look at 5 year blocks of time for per capita giving:
2022-2023 Centerville Rotary was $518 per person, which is 5x the Rotary metric or $100 per person. We were the #1 club in the District and the District average that year was $103 per capita
2024 $519 per capita (District $70)
2025 $364 per capita
2026 $351 per capita
Centerville is generally the #1 club in the district per capita giving.
There are currently 43 clubs in District 6670.
$1.2 million was raised in the mid-80s for polio plus, as the program started. Since then, $2.7 billion has been spent in polio eradication. There are only 40 cases worldwide now. Afganistan and Pakistan are the remaining countries with polio. Since they are primarily nomadic people, it is harder to reach for the required vaccination 2 years in a row.
Frank also mentioned in Malawi, one Design Outreach well has been working for over a decade without issues.
The All OH District conference in April will be held in Columbus and includes a celebration of the 40 year anniversary of allowing women in Rotary. All 5 districts in OH will be there, along with great speakers.
Advice is don’t write a check, they get washed and can be changed. Online donations securely with a credit card is best.
Heart to Heart collaborated with Mexico Heart. District 6670 pledge $25,000 to that program. Our District is currently participating in 8 global grants, and every year makes a 20% donation to Polio.
There is a good article in this month’s magazine about a polio patch that doesn’t require refrigeration, which could really help reach more people.
ROTARY MEMBER'S NEWS
Just in time for Halloween, Rotary Chuck King sent these photos from his recent trip: Vlad the Impaler (Dracula) birthplace, Bran Castle - Bram Stoker’s inspiration for Dracula’s home. Near Brasov in Transylvania in Romania
