Proceeds from the breakfast benefit club projects including college scholarships, Adopt a Family, Operation Warm, and many other local and international service projects.
Thank you to these Centerville Rotarians who are giving of their time by serving in leadership positions for the 2023-24 Rotary year!
From left: Uriah Anderson, Rotary Foundation Director; Don Stewart, Treasurer; Susan Schnell, New Generations Director; Brian Hayes, Secretary; Sofie Ameloot, President-Elect; Kelly McDonald, Vice-President; Adam Manning, President; Arnie Biondo, Past-President.
Missing from photo: Crissy Allums, Community Service Director; Bill Menker, International Service Director;
Congratulations to the 2023 Centerville Rotary Scholarship Recipients!
We wish you luck with your post high school ventures!
Pictured: Erin Lynch, Sam McLain, Julianne Marzluff. Thomas Morris, Eddie Kuper, Nate Dixon. Missing from photo: James Erwin
Please help us congratulate the 2023 Centerville Rotary Club Scholarship recipients. Such a talented group of young adults! For more information, visit our website page HERE.
PLEASE NOTE: Based on information from the Ohio Department of Health showing more people getting vaccinated against coronavirus and some restrictions being loosened, Centerville Rotary has returned to HYBRID meeting - both in person and Zoom meeting, so you have a choice. Here is the information to join the Zoom weekly meetings:
Time: THURSDAYS at noon
To Join Zoom Meeting, please email Frank Perez, frankop49@gmail.com or Carol Kennard, cgkennard@woh.rr.com
If you come to Yankee Trace for the in-person meeting, please note that you will be required to wear a mask when not seated and actively eating. If you don't feel well, please join us on Zoom from the safety of your home.
The health and safety of our members and their families is most important of all. We look forward to seeing you on Zoom!
Wow - support from the community at this year's Pancake Day was outstanding! Thanks for helping us raise funds to provide student scholarships and support local charities!
The 2018 Rotarian of the Year recognition was presented to Adam Manning at a recent Rotary meeting. Adam has been the driving force behind the past two Pancake days that have raised over $40,000 for our scholarship programs and other charitable activities. He was our face on TV: appearing on Centerville Reports Today and Living Dayton to promote Pancake Day, managed the inventory, and organized the kitchen during the day, to ensure quality, on-time product. He also strongly supported our mixer program that generate new members and gives members a chance to socialize in a casual manner. Please join us in congratulating Adam for his valuable service to our club!
THANKS TO YOUR SUPPORT OF THE 16TH ANNUAL CENTERVILLE ROTARY PANCAKE BREAKFAST!
Centerville Rotary held its sixteenth annual pancake breakfast on Saturday, Oct. 22, from 7 am to noon, in the West Commons at Centerville High School.
Forty-seven volunteers from the Centerville Rotary Club, some 60 members strong, donned their gold Rotarian at Work shirts March 19 for an all-inclusive service day at six Dayton area charity venues. Six more volunteers will work a make-up day March 26 in the Centerville Washington Park District.
Sadly we lost our dear member Fred in 2016, but his wonderful life story is a joy to read!
Fred, who has been a member of the Centerville Rotary for 23 years, said he was born in his parent's farm house on Kemp Road in Dayton. His mother was a nurse. He was the first of three children. He has a younger brother and then six years later his younger sister was born. He went to Kemp School in East Dayton, being held back a year before he could go and then attended school in Beavercreek from third grade through eighth grade before going to Wilbur Wright High School, where he graduated in 1949.
Mark Balsan said he has two older and one younger siblings. He grew up in a two-story home in southwest Chicago. He played soccer but his primary sport was baseball. He studied business management at the University of Illinois in Chicago. He and his wife are now expecting their second child in March. He works for his father-in-law, Erich Eggers and moved to the Dayton area to become part of the second generation in his father-in-law's business, Remodeling Design.
He noted that one thing people probably don't know about him is that he is one of the minority of people who don't like peanut butter. (So sad...comment from a PB lover), He said his father-in-law is "a good chef behind the scenes. He's a great supportive person," he said.
It's Pancake Time again - Centerville Rotary's largest fundraiser and GREAT community event! You can be a part of our efforts by sponsoring the 2014 Pancake Day. A new opportunity this year for donations of $500 or more includes an ad in a Dayton Daily News insert to be distributed to all subscribers in Centerville and Washington Township the week of Pancake Day!
Download the Sponsor Form here or in our downloads section on the website and send it with your check no later than October 1 to be included in the Dayton Daily News insert and on the Pancake Day placemats. Thanks for your support!
Centerville Rotary Club member Ed Flohre was recently interviewed at a club meeting so we could learn more about him. He is a 14-year member of the Centerville Rotary and has served as Secretary of the club the past 12 years.
The Centerville Rotary Club has been busy this fall doing what they do best - providing “Service above Self,” which happens to be the motto of Rotary. Hopefully you had a chance to participate in the annual Pancake Breakfast fundraiser in October, which provides funds for the club’s service projects. Thanks to the generosity of the community, Centerville Rotary has been able to make some significant contributions to help others this fall.
Act Now!Only Good FROM 26 OCTOBER TO 30 NOVEMBER 2013
Chili’s vouchers are on the Centerville Rotary website! All you have to do is copy the vouchers and take with you when you eat at Chili’s on Miamisburg-Centerville Road! Our Club will receive 10% back from people who present this voucher when dining at Chili’s on Miamisburg-Centerville Road. So visit this location only and often, oh, and eat a lot. What an easy way to raise money for our Rotary Club.
In fine print: Each person eating must have their own voucher (coupon). Do not cut up! Take in whole sheet of 4 each time you eat a Chili's on Miamisburg-Centerville Road.
What’s round and brown and hard to turn down? Pancakes, of course, and the Centerville Rotary Club will be whipping them up by the thousands, for eat in or carryout, during its 13th Annual Pancake Breakfast on Saturday, October 26 from 7 a.m. until noon at Hithergreen Center, 5900 Hithergreen Drive.
Here is an essay by our member Rotarian Cynthia, reflecting on the changes that have come about in Rotary in a very short time. Take a minute to reflect and enjoy..................................
The time is here to nominate the Rotarian you feel deserves to be named our Rotarian of the Year. Nomination ballots will be accepted from now until June 20. Please refer to the nomination form available under the Download section on the website and submit your nomination to President Kim no later than June 20. Good luck to everyone!
Long time Centerville Rotarian, Nunzio Donald Cotrone passed away this week. Rotarians gave happy bucks at this week's meeting to share fond memories of Don, who was known as a gentle spirit and caring friend, with a humorous attitude. Services for Don will be held Saturday, May 19, 10 am at Centerville United Methodist Church. Obituary
In the March 2012 issue of "the Rotarian" this article appeared about the Maji Mazuri project in Nairobi, Kenya. Our club has financially supported this project in the past. The aim of the project was to "rescue" children from one of the worst slums in Africa and bring them to a safe place where they can live, go to school, get to eat and help on the farm. The project was - after 5 years - completed earlier this year.
June 13, 1972 the Centerville Rotary Club was formed. In preparation for our 40th anniversary, we are collecting stories and photos depicting the activities of the club. If you have any old photos, programs, stories, etc. please share them with Judy Budi or Hans Berkel.
There was a counselor of a school in Centerville who wrote this letter:
“I find myself in a position to help a little boy and his family. A 10 year old at our school has been diagnosed with a terrible, rare disease, called "Dock 8 Mutation". He has basically little or no immune system and the prognosis is not good. Mom is a single mother with 4 kids. Her paycheck depends on her being at work, which is tough because she is so often at the hospital. My heart breaks for her. We are reaching out in every way at our school with fundraisers, church donations, staff donations, clubs and groups. We are hoping to provide mom with enough money to pay her bills for four months. If he gets a bone marrow transplant, that’s about what she will need since she will have to stay near him at the children's hospital in Cincinnati.I have known this family for eight years and I know this to be a hard working woman doing her best for her children. She often works 50 hours a week, which is difficult on her children, but what choice does she have? She is not on welfare. This, finally is just a bit more than she can handle alone.
I am writing to all of you to ask if you would like to help. Maybe you are in a position to help a little, maybe a lot. So many of us hear sad stories on the news and don’t know how to help. Here’s a little guy who I know, and we can touch his life. I know whatever we collect will go directly to paying her rent, heat, food and car. Money should not be her primary worry at this most heart breaking time.”
Our Centerville club heard about this sad story and decided to give the "Christmas jar" money to this sick child. But how do we get enough money into a jar?? Just our small change would never amount to much. So we did crazy things, having members pay for chocolates in crystal dishes bought from rummage sales. Raffling off champagne with glasses, signed by a district governor from two years ago. Giving a dinner for $100.- / person which was attended by 16people.
We wrote the counselor our good news, we were able to pay at least for one month “less problems” for the family.
We received a note back which said:
“OH MY GOSH!!! This is so exiting. You brought a tear to my eye! THANK YOUR CLUB. I hope you all know you are the embodiment of the Christmas spirit! There are no words to express how much this will help this family. Blessing to you all.”
Now WHAT is a Christmas jar? Just a jar where we saved money in, but the story started with the “Christmas Jar” book written by Jason Wright. Money is given anonymously to people in need and this problem fit the story perfectly. So some “elves” got together having great fun and bringing three jars filled with money to the home of the sick boy. They rang the bell and ran away, but made sure that the door was opened and the jars taken in.
Then we received an e-mail with a story submitted by a Lady from Centerville in Ohio and this is what she wrote:
“My Christmas miracle was the Christmas jars I received on my front porch two nights ago from an anonymous Christmas angel! I am a single mother of 4 children and in October my youngest son was diagnosed with a very rare life threateningdisease called Dock 8 mutation The only treatment currently being tried for these patients is a bone marrow transplant. Due to the many appointments and with needing to be home more with my children I have been unable to work much these past few months. When I opened the door and saw these jars and the book “Christmas Jars”, me and my son broke down and cried. We were so touched! My youngest son said while in tears “mommy people really love me and they are helping me”. The Christmas jars are a true Christmas miracle and we are so grateful. The Centerville community have been so wonderful to me and my family during this difficult time. The community is beyond Amazing! Thanks again for bringing cheer and joy to our hearts. We are so grateful.”
Centerville Rotary is a small club of 56 members, they were able to bring together $3.600.- for this sick boy who now feels so much loved. Isn’t this what Rotary is all about?
“SERVICE ABOVE SELF”
Believe me, this club feels blessed being able to serve.
Thanks to the community for coming out in record numbers to support our annual Rotary Pancake Breakfast! We are grateful for the generous support from our sponsors and patrons. Check back here later for the final fundraising report.
After Pancake Day has come and gone, you can still support the Centerville Rotary Club just by eating at Bob Evans in Centerville on Monday, October 24. Take this flyer with you, give to your server and our club will receive 15% of your bill back in donations! It's that simple! Print out the flyer located under the Downloads section of the website, cut in half and share with a friend or neighbor. Support a great local business while supporting a great local service club! Hope to see you there!
Centerville Rotary members asked friends and relatives all over the world to vote for the video in order to garner the most votes for the Food 4 Summer program. The show of support won $1000 to buy all the milk for the program during school vacation.
Congratulations go out to the outstanding students who were recipients of the 2010 Rotary Scholarships. Pictured here are: Robin Gimm, Katy Steele, Andrew Kolpitcke, Sunny Xu and Nolan Plate. Missing is Matthew Wall, who received a scholarship for a second year.
One of President Mark Koogler's first official duties was to induct two new members into our club on July 1. Please give a warm welcome to Terry Smith and Sandy Miles!
Welcome the 2010-2011 Centerville Rotary Board. President Mark Koogler, Club Service Director Brad Thorp, Treasurer Steve Hinshaw (hiding), Community Service Director Kim Paras, Secretary Bob Fry, Past President Jeff Senney, President-Elect Erich Eggers, Publicity Chair Joyce Young. Other board members not present include: Vice President Bob Kidd, Vocational Service Director and Interact Chair Mae Berkel, and Sergeant-at-Arms Don Stewart.
A few hearty Centerville Rotarians supported Polio Plus and survived the intense heat at the Great American Ballpark on Sunday! Too bad the Reds weren't able to pull one out for us.
Vineela Appalaneni from Centerville High School will represent the Centerville Rotary Club at the District Four-Way Speech Contest on April 3 at Wittenberg University in Springfield. Vineela treated our club to her winning speech at this past week's meeting. Vineela is the daughter of Rotarian Vas Appalaneni. Many thanks to Mae Berkel and Kim Senft-Paras for their work on selecting a student to represent our club!
Check out this new video about our annual Pancake Breakfast fundraiser. It is a terrific community event, held the 4th Saturday in October at the Hithergreen Center in Washington Township. Hope you can join us! Centerville Rotary Pancake Day
PDG Harvey Smith inducted Vas Appalaneni into the Centerville Rotary Club last week, shown here with stand-in sponsor Sally Beals and President-Elect Erich Eggers. Vas learned about our club while attending our annual Pancake Breakfast, Mae Berkel invited him to a meeting, and a few short months later, he is an official member! Vas lives in Washington Township with his wife and two children and works for a software company. Please welcome Vas to the club!
PDG Harvey Smith inducted two new members to the Centerville Rotary Club on Thursday, December 2. Lindsey Daugherty was sponsored by Bob Fry and Amy Constable was sponsored by Lindsey Daugherty. Both Lindsey and Amy are employed by Elmcroft of Washington Township. Amy has two boys, ages 4 & 6 and Lindsey has four girls ranging in age from 5 months to 13 years. Lindsey was a member of the Xenia Rotary and Amy is getting involved in Rotary right away – she has agreed to serve sa Secretary on the Board! Congratulations and welcome to both Lindsey and Amy! Pictured here are President Mark Koogler, PDG Harvey Smith, Amy Constable, Lindsey Daugherty & Bob Fry.
Centerville Rotarians joined Rotarians from Kettering, Oakwood, Beavercreek and Moraine to spread the word of Rotary to thousands of people at the annual Holiday at Home parade in Kettering on Labor Day. Thanks to Lee H. & Cathy, Jeff S. & Sharon, Kim P. & Bruce, Carol K. & John, Don G. & his grandson, Hans B., John C., and Dan S. for displaying your Service Above Self!! To see photos of the event, view the photo album on the Rotary website.
Please give a warm Centerville Rotary welcome to our newest member, Bob Jackson, who was inducted on August 5, 2010. Bob comes to us from the Fairborn club.
Our newest partnership gives us the opportunity to provide food for needy children in our community. See Kim Paras for information on how you can help.
Read some interesting information on awareness of personal security in this fast-changing world, presented by a recent speaker at the Centerville Rotary Club.
On May 2nd, Centerville Rotary Club participated in Operation 1000 Cherry Trees Project by planting five Yoshino cherry trees on the front lawn of Centerville Library, 111 W. Spring Valley Rd. The trees are complemented by a Peace Pole to commemorate this year’s Rotary International theme of “Peace through Service”.
Gather your golfing friends and register to participate in our May 2 Yankee Trace golf outing. The games will begin sequentially after our club meeting at 1:00 pm at 8-minute intervals. The amenities include 18-holes of championship golf; practice balls prior to play; EZ-Go RXV golf car; professional bag drop service and one roaming concession cart! Pat tells us that there will be activities for non-golfers, too. The cost is $35.00/player to join the fun! Contact Pat Beckel at (937) 436-2333 for more information.
Rotary District 6670 Conference will celebrate Rotary's success, share Rotary stories, recognize excellence in our activities, achievement among our new generations, and contributions to humanity.
April 19-20, 2013
Cincinnati Marriott Northeast
9664 S Mason-Montgomery Road
Mason, OH 45040
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of our Rotary friend, and Past District Governor, Hans Berkel. Hans was diagnosed with stage four lymphoma in June, and although he put up a good fight, he passed away peacefully this morning at home, surrounded by his family. Hans was District 6670 Governor from 2009-10, and served in many leadership positions at his local Rotary Club, in the District, and for Rotary International.
Each spring, local Rotary Clubs partner with local school districts to select one or more High School sophomores and juniors (Award Winners) to attend a leadership development program known as RYLA, which stands for Rotary Youth Leadership Awards. This camp is a terrific 48 hour Leadership training event for your Award Winners.
Watch a video message from RI President Kalyan Banerjee
Rotary club members worldwide are cautiously celebrating a major milestone in the global effort to eradicate polio. India, until recently an epicenter of the wild poliovirus, has gone one year without recording a new case of the crippling, sometimes fatal, disease. India’s last reported case was a two-year-old girl in West Bengal State on 13 January 2011. The country recorded 42 cases in 2010, and 741 in 2009.
A chief factor in India’s success has been the widespread use of the bivalent oral polio vaccine, which is effective against both remaining types of the poliovirus. Another has been rigorous monitoring, which has helped reduce the number of children missed by health workers during National Immunization Days to less than 1 percent, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Rotary has been a spearheading partner in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative since 1988, along with WHO, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is also a key supporter of the initiative.
Sporting their signature yellow vests and caps, the nearly 119,000 Rotarians in India have helped administer vaccine to children, organize free health camps and polio awareness rallies, and distribute banners, caps, comic books, and other items.
“With the support of their Rotary brothers and sisters around the world, Indian Rotarians have worked diligently month after month, year after year, to help organize and carry out the National Immunization Days that reach millions of children with the oral polio vaccine,” says RI President Kalyan Banerjee, of the Rotary Club of Vapi, Gujarat.
“The achievement of a polio-free India for a full year is a significant step towards a polio-free world -- an example as to what can be accomplished no matter what problems need to be overcome,” says Robert S. Scott, chair of Rotary’s International PolioPlus Committee. “Rotarians of India are and should be proud of the key efforts they have made at all levels, without which the world would not be marking this milestone.”
Deepak Kapur, chair of the India PolioPlus Committee, also credits the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare for its commitment to ending polio. To date, the Indian government has spent more than US$1.2 billion on domestic polio eradication activities. “Government support is crucial if we are to defeat polio, and we are fortunate that our government is our biggest advocate in this effort,” Kapur says.
“Marching ahead, the goal is to sustain this momentum,” he adds, describing as potentially “decisive” the upcoming immunization rounds this month and in February and March.
If all ongoing testing for polio cases recorded through 13 January continues to yield negative results, WHO will declare that India has interrupted transmission of indigenous wild poliovirus, laying the groundwork for its removal from the polio-endemic countries list, which also includes Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nigeria. However, because non-endemic countries remain at risk for cases imported from endemic countries, immunizations in India and other endemic and at-risk countries must continue. Neighboring Pakistan, which has reported 189 cases so far for 2011, is a major threat to India’s continued polio-free status. Last year, an outbreak in China, which had been polio-free for a decade, was traced genetically to Pakistan.
“As an Indian, I am immensely proud of what Rotary has accomplished,” Banerjee says. “However, we know this is not the end of our work. Rotary and our partners must continue to immunize children in India and in other countries until the goal of a polio-free world is finally achieved.”
A village in Bolivia now has access to clean water as the result of a project supported by The Rotary Foundation’s Clean Water for Coffee Growing Countries Donor Advised Fund. Photo courtesy of Five for Water
By selling fair trade coffee to Rotary clubs throughout the United States, a former Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar is helping to raise money to fund worldwide clean water initiatives.
A pump provides water to a village in Tanzania -- part of a project made possible by the Foundation’s donor advised fund. Water and sanitation is one of Rotary’s areas of focus under the Future Vision Plan. Photo courtesy of Five for Water
Five for Water, a project started by Bill Prost, a member of the Rotary Club of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA, finances a Rotary Foundation donor advised fund for water projects in coffee-producing countries. After forming a partnership with Green Mountain Coffee, Prost invited clubs to purchase the organic coffee and sell it in their community. Funds generated from the sales would go toward water projects throughout Africa, Central and South America, and Indonesia.
“I wanted to create a year-round project that’s fit for any size club,” says Prost, who studied in England as a 1979-80 Rotary Scholar. “Any club, no matter how large or small, can help be a part of this. It’s a really simple project.”
Coffee sales
Even though the project was launched only a year ago, more than 300 clubs in the United States are already selling the coffee. Their efforts have netted nearly $184,000, providing more than 50,000 people in 10 countries with access to clean water.
An estimated two million people die every year from waterborne diseases, and more than one billion lack access to clean water, according to the World Health Organization. “I told myself that, as a Rotarian, it was my responsibility to do something about [that],” Prost says.
After the money is raised, clubs seek an international partnership with another club and apply for a Rotary Foundation Matching Grant. A big focus of Five for Water has been funding the installation of wells to serve schools, orphanages, and medical clinics -- but, according to Prost, the project’s scope goes beyond that.
“We’re not narrow-minded on what we’ll fund,” he says. “It’s always about water and where we can have a good partnership.”
Wells in Bolivia
Recently, Five for Water installed eight wells in Bolivia and pump stations near a reservoir in Sumatra. Prost has also partnered with a club in Missouri and Engineers Without Borders to create a pipeline in Honduras that supplies water from an existing well and a water tower. The project’s goal is to provide more than 300 families with clean drinking water.
Because Five for Water only sells coffee in the United States, and several clubs elsewhere have expressed an interest in getting involved, Prost says the next step is to expand the project internationally.
“This is a simple and fun project designed for any club,” he says. “It works because Rotary has so many international components, and we’re all wanting to work together for a similar cause.”
This story appeared on the RI Website. Our Centerville Rotary club is selling the coffee to (a) help with raising moneys for clean water projects around the world ; (b) raise funds for our own club. Coffee is now on sale through Hans Berkel. Contact Hans if you need/want any coffee. Remember... you can also buy coffee for your friends, family, neighbors etc.etc.
Please join us for the 4th Annual Miami Valley Freedom Alliance Golf Classic Friday, July 30 & Saturday, July 31 at The Golf Club at Yankee Trace. For more information and online registration go to www.freedomgolfclassic.com
Another new member was inducted into the Centerville Rotary Club last week. Please join me in welcoming George Korenyi-Both as our newest member. George is an engineer and neighbor of Jeff Senney.
The newest Centerville Rotarian, Nikima Barnhill, was inducted into the club on May 13. Niki works in the Business Services Division with the Ohio Secretary of State. She lives in Centerville and is a Philadelphia Eagles fan!
Please give a warm welcome to Niki!
Several cub scouts and their parents joined Centerville Rotarians at Grant Park on April 17 to complete our annual mulching of the trees in the Rotary Memorial Pine Forest. Thanks to Rotarians John Beals, Matt Kuhn, Dan Hodapp, Fred Weir and Carol Kennard for your help! Good work was done by all!
John Grubb was inducted as the newest member of the Centerville Rotary Club. Please seek him out at the next meeting to get to know him better. Welcome John!
By now all of you should have received in the mail the official
invitation for the first ever District 6670 Gala Event on March 11 at the Dayton Art Institute. It
promises to be a great evening and our DG Hans is really hoping that we will sell out the place. He encourages all
clubs to buy a table and fill it up with Rotarians from your club. Plan to come and be part
of Rotary history in our district when we formally launch the Paul Harris Society in District 6670. The Paul Harris Society is for Rotarians who pledge to contribute $1,000 per year for at least 5 years to the RI Foundation. Do you want to become a part of this prestigious group? See President Senney for a registration form.
Several Rotarians accompanied DG Hans Berkel to Nigeria for a National Immunization Day in February. When this photo was taken in Kano, Nigeria, they had already immunized 900 children with the polio vaccine! Thanks to all Rotarians who make the polio vaccine available and to those who travel across the world administering the vaccine. Your efforts make a difference to the children of the world!
The Centerville Rotary Club celebrated the holidays with their traditional lunch with family members at Yankee Trace and entertainment by the talented show choir, Center Stage. President Senney joined in the fun, portraying the jolly old elf himself!
Would you like to help some needy children in the Centerville/Washington Township area have a good Christmas? Check the Downloads section of the website for information about the Adopt A Family program the Centerville Rotary Club supports each year.
DG Hans came home with one of the coveted "gold medals", partnering with Kelly Eggers in the Egg on Spoon Relay at the Picnic on the Farm O'lympics! The Centerville Club showed good support of our District Governor during a lovely afternoon at Carriage Hill Metropark. Rotarians Judy Stang, Don Stewart, John Callander, Chuck Ackley, Erich Eggers, Don Gerhardt, Carol Kennard and their families had an enjoyable meal and good comaraderie with fellow Rotarians! Sorry the rest of you missed a great time! Check out pictures in the photo journal on the home page.
Centerville Rotary was proudly represented in the Americana Festival Parade thanks to Lee Hieronymus and his firetruck & Cathy, President Jeff Senney, Judy Stang, and Bob Fry & grandson.
Congratulations to Hans Berkel for being inducted as District 6670's Governor for the 2009-2010 year. We wish Hans and Mae a successful and enjoyable year leading our district!
Centerville Rotarians had another successful work day at the House of Bread this
week. Thanks to Greg Horn for leading the project and for helpers Matt
Kuhn, Hans & Mae Berkel (and their friend), Don Gerhardt, Jack Workman, Don Cotrone and photographer Fred Weir.
Our club has for many years now gone to help at the "House of Bread". Recently a team of Centerville Rotarians volunteered again to help prepare and cook a meal for about 250 people. In the current economic climate the need for feeding those less fortunate than we is enormous. Hence, Mae Berkel wrote a grant request to our district to receive money from our District Simplified Grants to support the "House of Bread".
It has become a tradition for the Presidents-Elect and their partners participate in a community service project during the PETS-traning. This year's service project was selected by the partners of the DGE's of all 5 districts in Ohio. All Rotary clubs in Ohio (n = 280) were asked to fill a 30 gallon container with supplies for the Fisher house and bring it to PETS.
Mae made a tomato soup for the Assistant Governors when a training meeting was held in our house. Apparently people sort of liked it because all of them wanted the recipe....Here it is.
In 1985 Rotary International took on the challenge of eradicating polio worldwide. In collaboration with WHO and the CDC, Rotarians have contributed US$ 850 million towards this cause. In addition countless volunteers hours have been spend by Rotarians to give the polio vaccine to over two billion children in 122 countries. Currently polio is only endemic in four countries : India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria. Rotarians are determined to "finish the job" and make this world polio free.
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On May 2nd, Centerville Rotary Club participated in Operation 1000 Cherry Trees Project by planting five Yoshino cherry trees on the front lawn of Centerville Library, 111 W. Spring Valley Rd. The trees are complemented by a Peace Pole to commemorate this year’s Rotary International theme of “Peace through Service”.
