OPENING - President Chris opened the meeting at 12:07 and askedBarb Rupp to lead us in pledge and prayer.
ATTENDANCE - 32 members attended the virtual meeting visually and/or auditorily
1 guest attended including - Kevin Clark
ANNOUNCEMENTS -
- Chris - Kevin Clark has submitted an application to join the Club. We welcome him attending virtually again today.
- Jess - just received word that the Doctor, Dr Jonas DlRosario, who volunteers to do the Operation Braveheart surgeries on children has been infected with the Covid 19 virus. Please keep him in your prayers.
- Jess - the Street Children Village Project in the Philippines has started. This has been about 5 years in the planning and preparation and is now becoming a reality.
- Craig - had surgery on his achilles tendon and will be out of commission for 8 weeks initially and is looking at a 6 month recovery with rehab.
PROGRAM - Greg Staub Update from District 7390
Our Rotary District cover an area in south central PA comprised of 8 counties; contains 43 separate Clubs; and is comprised of 2164 members.
Over the last 5 yrs membership in the District has been dropping by about 2% per year and that number has increased since the Covid-19 epidemic started.
District Purpose - Provide support and direction to the various Clubs and help them network and share & collaborate on ideas and projects.
Greg shared our brainstorming fundraising ideas with the District committee
Dist provided $200,000 in Grants
$36,000 for Polio Plus
Youth Exchange - RI suspended all activities for 2020-2021 year due to pandemic. All students are now back home from their exchange visits.
Monthly Education and Training Sessions - available free to all Rotarians via virtual means. Held 2nd Monday of each month at 7:00pm. Re-lays are available via District website.
In May the District applied for and received a grant in amount of $50,000 through Disaster Grant from Rotary Foundation. It will be distributed to area Food Banks in areas affected by the epidemic.
NEXT WEEK'S PROGRAM - PAUL BERG - FACING THE CHALLENGE OF CHINA