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Rotary After Dark at Arturo Boada Cuisine
Arturo Boada Cusine
Oct 27, 2015
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
 
Executives & Directors
President
Gwen Corolla
 
President Elect
Ed Wilson
 
Secretary
Dona Burke
 
Treasurer
James Brown
 
Past President
Sheila Franklin
 
Vocational Svc
Bill Hall
 
Rotary Foundation
Bill Haglund
 
Sgt at Arms
Mike Cook
 
Fundraising
Andy Garg
 
Membership
Sarah Agnich
 
New Generations
Chris Schneider PDG
 
Communications & PR
Dan Monson
 
Interact
Venu Rao
 
International
Nugent Myrick
 
Club Programs
Genevieve Rowland
 
Sponsors

RETIRED

Richard Ferrari - Ben Bridge Jewelers

Randy Jo Baker - House of Extra Measures

Ellen Weiss - UBS Financial Services

Chris Schneider - Chemac Inc.

Valerie Lankford - Real Estate Broker Associate

Mike Cook - Morgan Stanley

Rudy Ramos, DDS

Bill Haglund - Echo Lane Animal Clinic

Wallis State Bank

James Brown - David Young & Company

Bill Hall - Streit, Peterson, Hall & Keeney, L.L.P

Mary Ann Sterrett-Russell - Keller Williams Realty

Gwen Corolla - Come Together Promotions

Club 24

Genevieve Rowland

Evan S. Howell, Inc.

Ron Downing - First Community Credit Union

Lawrence Barris

Jack Moore - Harting Automotive

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Russell Hampton
National Awards Services Inc.
Sage
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Memorial-Spring Branch
Service Above Self
We meet Fridays at 12:00 PM
Houston Racquet Club
10709 Memorial Drive
Houston, TX  77024
United States
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President's Message for August 14
Posted by Dan Monson on Aug 14, 2015
Good day,
Our next club board meeting is August 21st, immediately after the regular meeting.  We meet on the 3rd Friday of every month, and our board meetings are always open to club members.   Anytime you have something that you would like to present to the board, please let me know in a timely fashion so that I can get it on the agenda for the upcoming board meeting.  We try to keep the meetings to an hour.
 
If you are planning to participate in the Health Fair Service Project, please let Ed Wilson know.  You can email him at edkarenwilson2003@yahoo.com or you can text or call him at 713-302-9771.   If you want to sit in the booth (which will be inside a large air-conditioned room) and hand out goodies to the kids, let him know that.  If you want to take a more active part in the service project, let him know that as well.  We need to let the event organizers know how many volunteers they can count on from us…and we need to do it right away.
 
Two new cases of Polio reported this week – 1 in Pakistan and 1 in Afghanistan. These numbers show only the number of people who get polio so bad that they are paralyzed.  Only about 2% of the polio cases are paralytic, yet 100% of the cases are communicable!  So this means that because we had 2 cases of polio reported, another 98 are running around thinking they have a bad cold and spreading the virus to people who have not been inoculated.  Think about that.  That’s why we are having a resurgence of whooping cough and measles right here in this country. Measles and whooping cough have never been eradicated.
YRS
Gwen
The object of Rotary is to encourage & foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:[3]
  1. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service
  2. High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society;
  3. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life;
  4. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
Polio Eradication Update, Aug 14
Posted by Terry Ziegler on Aug 14, 2015
Polio Eradication Update - Week Ending 08/15/15
                 PolioPlus:  “This Close” ls Not Close Enough
                                                                                                                          
 Total paralysis cases
Year-to-date 2015
Last Year at this time
Total
2014
Total
2013
Total
 2012
Globally
36
138
359
416
222
- in endemic countries:
36
121
340
160
216
- in non-endemic countries:
0
17
19
256
6
 
Two Polio cases reported this week:  Pakistan 1, Afghanistan 1, Nigeria 0
 
2015 Polio Case Breakdown by Country
Endemic Countries –29 Pakistan (2014-306), 7 Afghanistan (2014-28), 0 Nigeria(2014-6)
2015 Importation Countries – 0 Cameroon (2014-5), 0 Eq. Guinea (2014-5)
0 Somalia (2014-5), 0 Ethiopia (2014-1), 0 Syria (2014-1), 0 Iraq (2014-2)
The District Foundation Dinner is Set
Posted by Jon R. McKinnie on Aug 07, 2015

The District Foundation Dinner has been scheduled for Friday, Sep 25 2015 at Maggiano’s Little Italy, 2019 Post Oak Blvd., Houston, TX 77056  Cocktails (Cash Bar) and Fellowship 6:00pm, Dinner 7:00pm.  Cost: $75 per person.  Featured Guest - PDG Aziz Memon - Pakistan’s National PolioPlus Chair  Please RSVP with your payment (made payable to Rotary District 5890) to 4903 Pine St, Bellaire, TX 77401 or on-line at Rotary5890.org  ASAP

The Foundation Dinner is limited to Arch Klumph Society Members, Major Donors,  Bequest Society Members, Paul Harris Society Members, and their spouse/guest  Not a member of one of these exclusive groups?  Contact Terry Ziegler to learn about joining one - email bigzlumber@aol.com or 713-825-1176  

Please respond promptly – Event is limited to 100 guests.  Dress: business attire.  Questions? Please contact Terry Ziegler at 713-825-1176 or BigZlumber@aol.com
Speakers
Nov 06, 2015
Maria Barrett - Laptop donation program
finding organization to receive donated laptop computers
 
Nov 13, 2015
Representative Jim Murphy from District 133
Legislative Update and November Ballot Propositions
 
Dec 04, 2015
Clark Martinson, AICP
The Energy Corridor District, its effects on our area and its future
 
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