04/13/2023
Marie Nemes-Crawford, Editor
April Calendar – Heidi White, Program Chair
April 6: Katarina Sharp – Water conservation and rain barrels
April 13: Jan Shannon for the Uganda project
April 20: Joy Sharp from OSU Extension for Pickaway County
April 27: Kevin T. Donahue – Abe Lincoln, part 2
April 28 & 29: District 6690 Conference – Columbus State / Veteran’s Memorial, Columbus
May Calendar – Dave Webb, Program Chair
May 4: Melanoma Awareness Month – Berger OhioHealth
May 11: Tom Davis – Pickaway County Park District
May 18: Dr. Gregory Lam, Cardiologist
May 25: Jarrod Burks, Ohio Valley Archeology, Inc.
Upcoming Dates:
- June 1, 2023 – First Annual Euchre Tournament
- June 16, 2023 – Golf outing at Pickaway Country Club
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- Presiding: President David M. Crawford
- Prayer: Michele Blanton
- Piano Player: Esther Fouts is in the house!!!
- Song Leader: Jim Hooks: “This is Rotary”, “Row, Row, Row, Your Boat” in 2 and 3-part harmony (wait, was that harmony?)
- Attending: (Drexel has official list) 43 today – Crawford, Nemes-Crawford, Spangler, Poling, Hooks, Fouts, Canfield, McNemar, Wilson, Horning, Brown, Maroscher, Duval, Dean, Fountain, C.Chamberlain, T.Chamberlain, B.Liggett, Droste, McIlroy, Sneed, Riegel, T.Tootle, Hedges, R.Wolfe, McCrady, Ankrom, Blanton, Liddy, Robinson, Johnson, Rothe, Palm, Ellis, Whitten, Beavers, Radcliff, D.Wolfe, C.Neff, Montgomery, Duvall, White, Vitartis
- Guests: Ty Ankrom introduced Shauna Goodheart
- Students: Logan Elm seniors introduced by Nate Smith – Preston Nichols and Chloe Hall. Good luck to you both at OU.
Announcements
- Rotary Board meeting next Tuesday, here at 11:30am
- Connie Chamberlain: Scholarship committee meeting Monday (17th) at noon at Connie’s. Over 30 applications to review
- Dave Horning: Local Choirs Concert – Saturday(15th) at 2pm at Trinity Lutheran Church. Free and all invited.
SAA: Jayme Fountain in for Judy Wolford
- April Birthdays
- Masters Golf Tournament quiz (alittle too easy, therefore no money raised)
- National Pet day – if you have a pet, pay $1 (that made up for it!)
Scholarship Drawing: Dave Horning was the winner of $32. The jackpot is $1,168 and it continues!
Program: Jan Shannon – Miryante Community Centre, Uganda
- 2009 the Miryante Orphanage was founded by Laura Corcoran from Chillicothe (sister of Marie Corcoran Wilbanks from Circleville Sunrise)
- Over 100 foster care children currently
- 48% of Ugandan’s are age 15 and less
- Circleville Sunrise partners with Mubende Metro Rotary Club-District 9213, Circleville Rotary, Chillicothe First Capital club, Zanesville Rotary Clubs, Root Cause Uganda and Shark Tank winner of $5,000 from our District 6690
- Multiple Rotary Area’s of Focus – economic development, child health, disease prevention and treatment
- With the first district grant and contributions from both Circleville Rotary clubs 2 years ago, a pit latrine was constructed
- Last year’s project was a fence for safety and a playground
- Now starting to build a community center
- Since January 13th – bulldozer’s starting to build access road to the facility
- Feb. 7th, leveling ground and bricks were hand delivered and hand unloaded. Footer is going up now after being hand dug. One cement factory in Mubende and it was off line, so there was a delay
- Shark tank and donations collected totaled $20,500 for outside of building and half of the inside
- Need another $19,500 for inside work.
- What’s next? – Currently trying to raise funds – latest $500 came in from New Zealand. Using contacts from around the world.
- What’s next? – Solar Panels and a water tank – Circleville Sunrise is applying for another district grant. ($5,000 project)
- Many individual opportunities for sponsorships of children – $50 per month provides all the school supplies, uniforms, food and care that a child needs in Uganda. (miryanteorphanage.org)
- There are some Rotary Clubs that sponsor a child
- Animal purchase fund – so when children graduate, they receive an animal (a sign of prosperity)
- If you are interested in traveling to Uganda, please reach out to Jan Shannon or Marie Wilbanks from Circleville Sunrise – there are two visits being planned
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- In appreciation of this year’s speakers sharing their time & efforts, donations to Pickaway Pathways for Success will be made in their names.