As we start the new Rotary year, we would like to thank all those Rotarians that demonstrated “service above self” during the last year under PDG Bill Grile. Your leadership and devotion to help grow Rotary has created a strong foundation for this year’s leadership team to build upon.

This year we will focus on “finding our heart”in Rotary as a way to help engage a stronger passion in our programs, fellowship and enrichment of our lives through service.

Formal DG visits are already underway and there has been overwhelming support for helping to move the needle of Rotary by creating club level discussion for where members want to see their club be five years down the road.

For Rotary to change, it must start with members and clubs.

As a District, we will be focusing on three main areas to help support and strengthen your club. They are membership, telling our story and the power of our foundation. Our leadership team is working on new and creative ways to provide greater resources based upon the feedback we have received during our interactions.

Rotary does not have a problem with recruiting, we have a problem engaging. Often our goals do not meet our expectations. Today we are challenged by a greater global perspective and need. Our younger generations are connected, ambitious and concerned for world peace, the environment and cultural diversity. As Rotary we strive to evolve in order to be attractive to multiple generations while responding to the needs of the clubs, made up of you the members.

It will be an exciting year and we look forward to serving your needs. I will leave you with the words of our Founder, Paul Harris –Whatever Rotary may mean to us … to the world it will only be known by the results it achieves.

Let’s all work to truly find our hearts in Rotary and to help connect Rotary to the World for a better tomorrow. The children of the world need our help. The world needs Rotary and you are Rotary.

Yours In Rotary Service,
Rick and Barbara Olson
District Governor 2019-20

With over 100 guests attending our Fall Kick Off Event at Eagle Crest, we are excited to share our Family of Rotary Story and to help grow Rotary through our “Rotary People of Action” resources. The weekend is designed to help new members and non-Rotarians hear of our community and global passions and to better understand the power of our Rotary Foundation that is rated number 1 in the world as a foundation in serving the dreams of our members.
It will be a weekend full of fun, fellowship and an opportunity to learn more about the power of Rotary.

Rotary originated with the idea of connecting in fellowship and sharing our professions. Our District is pleased to announce that the Rotary E-Club of Jefferson is working in collaboration with our District and your clubs to combine the power of the internet and the power of Rotary. Our Rotarians Doing Business With Rotarians is ready to promote your business in a new special program, just for Rotarians.

As a club, by promoting the program, through a link on your website, you can earn 30% of the revenues back to your club, from Rotarians that signup via your unique website link. To learn more please visit www.511B2B.org

PEACE CONFERENCE IN OUR DISTRICT

ASHLAND SEPTEMBER 21^ST

GLOBAL PEACE CONFERENCE

 

Rotary works in many different ways towards a more peaceful world. These include all of our various exchange programs, our Peace Fellow program and, most definitely, past district governor Bill’s district conference.

We also provide World Peace Conferences each year. The next one will be January 17-18 in Ontario California. But why wait and go that far – join us in southern Oregon. The conference is sponsored by the Ashland Culture of Peace Commission and the Rotary E-Club of World Peace.

Speakers include:

• Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury, Former UnderSecretary General of the United Nations and Founder of the Global Movement for the Culture of Peace,
• Kia Scherr, CoFounder, One Life Alliance. After her husband and 13-year-old daughter were killed in the Mumbai terrorist attack of 2008. Kia co-founded One Life Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating peace education programs for schools, business and government, and
• Dr. Saul Arbess, Director of the Canadian Peace Initiative, Cofounder and Chairman of the Global Alliance for Ministries and Departments of Peace working in concert

with other countries to form departments of peace in all nations.

For more information go to www.ashlandcpc.org/ashland-global-peace-conferenceor contact Chuck Root chuckroot1112@gmail.com

 

Rotary’s Core Values

Rotary’s core values represent the guiding principles of the organization’s culture, including what guides members’ priorities and actions within the organization. Values are an increasingly important component in strategic planning because they drive the intent and direction of the organization’s leadership.

They Define A Rotarian!!