Denver Mile High Rotary - Newsletter - Archive (Jan 19, 2010)

Sent: 1/12/2010 10:56:59 A.M. Mountain Standard Time
Subj: Rotary: Preserve Planet Earth Contest

Dear Club Secretaries, Because we all know who really gets things done in your club, Preserve Planet Earth Co-chairs asked that this information be sent to you. The club presidents and presidents elect will hear about it at the mid-year presidents meeting this Saturday. Thanks for your continued help. Liz

Dear Rotary Secretary,

Preserve Planet Earth is hosting a contest to see which club can secure the most pledges from people willing to dispense with purchase of bottled water. Its purpose is to elicit excitement about PPE while addressing a serious environmental problem.

Would you be willing to send this information, with attachments, to the club member most likely to enjoy getting your club involved in the contest? If there’s currently no existing champion or Preserve Planet Earth chair, please forward this to your Community Service chair. That person might well know of someone eager to become involved.

To prepare themselves for this mission, and to enlist enthusiasm for the project, Champions are free to use any of the attached materials:
1. See Synthetic Sea (7 minute video) at www.algalita.org/pelagic_plastic_mov.html.
2. Pictures in power point attachment
3. Information from “Presidents-Elect for clubs” attachment

Please make proper number of copies of the attached pledge form for your club members’ needs. Collect one page for each pledge for your final count.
Pledges from club members as well as non-club members may be counted.
The number of pledges submitted for the contest’s deadline should be given as a percentage of your club’s membership.
Deadline for submitting this number is March 17 (St. Patrick’s Day).
Email to emerentia@comcast.net or B_Hagerman@msn.com

For questions, please call Mereth Meade 303-674-7001 or Bob Hagerman 303-697-5708.

Your District Co-chairs of Preserve Planet Earth,
Mereth Meade and Bob Hagerman

Attached is a great film of the 2010 Rotary Rose Bowl Parade Float made by Colleen Yorke, a recent film graduate who is starting a career in film production. Her father is very active in the California Rotary, and Colleen founded an Interact Club while she was in college. Her parents are close friends with Liz Lewis, a member of eClub One. Liz helped teach BrainWise to parents and children at Eagleton for two years, making weekly trips from Boulder. Liz also found a Spanish translator who helped translate for the Eagleton parents.

On Saturday, January 30th, from 9am – 12pm, the Five Points Cultural
District Rotary will be canvassing our local service area to promote the
2010 Census. The Census count is what determines the allocation of money that gets put into social services, transportation, etc. and determines congressional seats. We know that one of the greatest services we can provide to our community is to make sure everyone gets counted. This will have a long-term positive affect on the people who live in northeast Denver. We are asking for the help of all those who are committed to the well being of northeast Denver to help us accomplish this task. This will be the second canvassing event for our Club, and our goal is to reach a wider area with your help! Materials and training will be provided, and the actual canvassing time will be two
hours.

We will be sending out an Evite shortly to help us count the number of
volunteers, with a reply due date of Friday, January 22nd. Please send
additional email addresses to suzie.ahlers@fivepointsrotarydenver.org to
have them added to the Evite. For any additional questions, please contact
our Vice President of Service, Emily Steed Shamsid-Deen, at
eesteed@hotmail.com.

Greetings Denver Mile High Rotarians,

All of us have been shocked and deeply saddened by the devastation in Haiti and the virtual destruction of its capital city Port-au-Prince. The Prime Minister of Haiti predicts that the death toll will reach 100,000 and most of the city's population is without shelter. ShelterBox, the unique Rotarian organization that provides emergency relief in response to disasters, is already mobilizing a Response Team from the United States. The team will deliver a large number of ShelterBoxes to residents of Port-au-Prince. Each box contains a tent that can house ten people, tools, bedding, purification tablets for clean water, and assorted other supplies that are essential in an emergency. The tents can last for six months and longer, and provide the temporary shelter that is critical for survival. Each ShelterBox costs $1,000.

I challenge each member of this club to consider making a donation to ShelterBox. I would like to see the club raise $3,000 to buy three boxes and I will ask the Local Community Service Committee to consider a contribution as well to help us make that goal. No contribution will be too small.

We will be meeting at the Tattered Cover Bookstore in LoDo next week, instead of at the University Club. If you want to help support this emergency relief effort, please bring your donations at that time. Checks can be made to either the Foundation of Denver Mile High Rotary or to ShelterBox USA. Either way, the contribution will be tax deductible and all funds will go toward the purchase of the boxes.

I want to thank Don Shattuck and Linda Sue Shirkey who suggested a Club coordinated response. I realize that this is short notice, but disasters such as this don't offer us lots of lead time.

Please contact me if you have any questions. For more information on ShelterBox USA, visit their website: http://www.shelterboxusa.org/InsideAShelterbox.aspx

Thanks for considering this.

Carolyn Schrader

President

Rotary Club of Denver Mile High

303-329-3257

303-589-7599

schrader407@me.com