Issue 14 October 4, 2006 P I K E V I L L E R O T A R Y C L U B Pikeville, KY 41501 Rotary Year 2006-2007 PO Box 988 Pikeville Rotary Club Rotator R I President: William B. Boyd District Governor: Joe Caldwell Club President: James Brown www.rotary.org www.pikevillerotaryclub.org Inside this issue: Program Guests of Rotarians Guest of the Club Absence Make-up Getting an early start on literacy New addresses for clubs, Rotarians sending dues or contributions to North America October 2006 — Vocational Service Month Ray’s Ribs Rotary Program Schedules Greeters for the following months: Oct. - Tim Hites Nov. - Julie Sharp Dec. - Tuan Pham The responsibilities of a Rotary Greeter include arriving for Wednesday's meeting by 11:30 a.m., greeting everyone in attendance, signing in all guests with appropriate name tags, and introducing the guests. If for some reason you can not serve, please locate a Rotarian who would be willing to substitute. Let Gerri Kinder (205-3979) know the person’s name. Please leave the guest list with Yogi or Carrie Cinnamond. Program: Wednesday, October 4, 2006 Program Chairperson: Novella B. Froman Speaker(s): Paul Adkins, Nikki Hansen, Haley Brown, Haley Sullivan, James Maynard and Ryan Lester, 4-H Members October 1-7 is National 4-H Week. There are 3,158 youth in Pike County that are 4-H members; of this number, 1,200 demonstrated their skills by exhibiting 4-H projects. There were 174 4-H campers during 2006; of this number 64 were low income youth who needed assistance with paying camp fees. Four-H members are also involved in the archery club, the KY State Fair and Life Smarts in which they compete for championships, ribbons and cash rewards. Novella introduced Haley Sullivan, a 5th grade student from Feds Creek Elementary School. Haley won the Pike County and District One competitions. Haley played a snappy tune called “Keep on the Firing Line.” She was accompanied by her proud grandparents and mom. James Maynard of Belfry Middle School gave his award winning speech entitled, “My God, Your God, Our America.” James won the Pike County and District One Communications Contest to represent our county at the state contest held on the campus of the University of Kentucky. James placed second in the state in his age category. Paul Adkins, President, Haley Brown, Vice-President and Nikki Hansen of the 4-H Leadership Council gave testimonials as to what 4H had done for them. This group of high school students talked about their leadership roles, their communications skills and their experiences. Paul and Nikki have been appointed to the State 4-H Teen Council. This group of high school leaders plan and execute this state’s 4-H leadership conference. Ryan Lester finished up by singing “Blue Moon.” The Phelps senior won the Pike County and District One 4-H Variety Show. Ryan also performed his act at the Kentucky State Fair in 4-H Cloverville. He was accompanied by his mom. Novella called the group’s attention to the need to invest in 4-H and become a partner in this youth development organization. Do you know what the 4-H’s stand for? They stand for head, heart, hands and health. The 4-H motto is “to make the best better.” Editor: Carrie Cinnamond WEBMaster: Mickey Anders Club Guest Haley Sullivan, Joyce Justice, Ralph Justice, Carol Maynard, James Maynard, Paul Adkins, Nikki Hansen, Ryan Lester, Jennifer Lester, Haley Brown, and Jeff Branham were part of the 4-H program. Guest List Kaye Hammon - Joyce Robinson Carl Tritschler and Dennis Hillen - Rick Newsom David Baird - Jerry Kanney Steve St. John - Donna Damron Josh Justice - Frances Justice Jeri McNamee - Frank Dawahare You Were Missed! Joann Anderson, Ed Atkins, Marty Backus, Donnovan Blackburn, John Blackburn, Marcheta Blackburn, Rick Boone, Benny Brewer, James Brown, Mike Burke, Bruce Chaney, Carrie Cinnamond, Eddy Coleman, Misty Daniels, Terry Deskins, Tim Deskins, Andrew Dorton, James Glass, Mark Good, Jerry Green, Tim Hites, Melissa Hopkins, Pam Howard, Rhonda James, Gary Justice, Greg Keene, Brenda Maynard, Bill Maynard, Angela Owens, Tuan Pham, Krish Potnis, Rakesh Sachdeva, Lynette Schindler, Julie Sharp, Roger Smith, Rozalind Stanley, Dan Stratton, John Strosnider, Jeff Vanderbeck, and Kitty White. Make -Ups Rotarian Place Made Up Date Missed Date of Make-up Tuan Pham rotaryeclubone 09/13/06 10/01/06 Frances Justice rotaryeclubone 09/20/06 09/20/06 Richard Boone rotaryeclubone 09/27/06 10/03/06 Angela Kanney rotaryeclubone 09/27/06 10/03/06 Tom Hartsock rotaryeclubone 09/27/06 10/03/06 Benny Brewer rotaryeclubone 09/20/06 10/03/06 Benny Brewer rotaryeclubone 09/27/06 10/03/06 Four Avenues of Service → Vocational Service Getting an early start on literacy By Nina Mandell The Rotarian In October, Chris, a first grader who attends a program at the Catholic Enrichment Center in Louisville, Kentucky, USA, couldn’t spell simple words. That changed after he received tutoring from University of Louisville Rotaractor Brian Olberz. Olberz tutors elementary school children through one of the center’s programs, Camp Africa Inspire. Students get help with math, English, and study and test skills before participating in arts projects or African drumming lessons. Although Olberz tries not to play favorites, he says it’s hard not to love Chris. “We were just working on spelling basic words,” he says. “A few months later, we were reading books. Just to see the progress is really incredible.” The tutors, who are college students, set a positive example for the kids by encouraging an interest in education. And the children often perceive the college students as cooler than some of the older adult staff. The kids “got a chance to learn stuff from the people I called ‘big kids,’” says Sister Patsy Guyton, who runs the program. “[They] got to interact with people other than me.” Olberz, who graduated in May with a master’s degree in political science, sees programs like Camp Africa Inspire as the best way of securing a promising future for kids such as Chris. Eventually, Olberz hopes to start a program for children that will teach them how they can improve their communities through volunteer projects. “There are a million different ways that people can address social problems, but to me, there doesn’t seem to be any better way than prevention – encouraging kids along the right path before problems begin to arise,” he says. “It would be pre- Club Service sumptuous to say that we as Rotaract volunteers have accomplished this, but our work has at least been a step in the right direction.” New addresses for clubs, Rotarians sending dues or contributions to North America All Rotarians and clubs that remit their dues and send Rotary Foundation contributions to North America need to note the new address of lockboxes (special post boxes designated to collect these funds). Effective 1 October 2006, lockbox addresses are changing for Rotary International, The Rotary Foundation, and The Rotary Foundation (Canada) to the following. For Rotarians and clubs that remit payments to the U.S.: Send membership dues and payments to Rotary International: Rotary International 14255 Collections Center Drive Chicago, IL 60693 Send contributions to The Rotary Foundation: The Rotary Foundation 14280 Collections Center Drive Chicago, IL 60693 October 2006 — Vocational Service Month • 31 October: World Interact Week begins become known as "Euro-English". In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter. In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expected to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away. By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th"with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru. Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze first plas. Rotary Program Schedule 2006 - 07 Oct. 11, 2006 Donna Damron Appalachian Regional Commission Oct. 18, 2006 Kitty White Donna Casey - Spouse Abuse Center Oct. 25, 2006 Taun Pham Damien Jensen, Polio Plus Program Nov. 1, 2006 Angela Kanney Jerry Kanney - Natural Gas Exploration Nov. 8, 2006 Jennifer Brown Stephanie Marsh - Center For Rural Development Ray’s Ribs Subject: English Language The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in plan that would International Service Community Service