Thursday Morning Newsletter (May 21, 2020) (May 19, 2020)

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May 21, 2020 Morning Meeting Newsletter

Does anyone else miss volunteering at Household Hazardous Waste? This writer does and looks forward to a new normal that includes rescheduling HHW on the 2nd Saturday of the month...it does not appear the City of Lewisville will be restarting anytime soon in order to protect both volunteers and staff.

But, if anything, our club is flexible in serving the community. In spite of Covid 19, our club continues supporting the community through area wide non-profit donations and service projects such as the Central Elementary School Perfect Attendance/Engagement Bike awards and the Socially distanced and Masked Drive by Congrats recognition for our CES Alumni High School Grads and the Socially Distanced Drive-by Congrats recognition for CES 5th Graders this past Monday. Check out the events and the stories below...particularly the video created honoring the CES teachers. We are announcing the 12 bike winners at the May 21st meeting.

May 21, 2020 8:00 AM

Mary Jones, Safeguard Services

This is my Vocation and why I am a Rotary member

May 28, 2020 8:00 AM

Mary Worthington, DCTA Communicationa Manager

Denton County Transit Authority

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Lewisville Morning Rotary helps community organizations during Covid 19

The funds that the club has raised this past year has gone to causes

in support of Covid 19 disaster relief including the Salvation Army,

CCA Pantry, Knight-Light Charities, Love Pacs, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

and the District 5790 Rotary Rises Reverse Global Grant

The photo above shows a photo of President Elect Mark Smith presenting a check to Salvation Army Director Stephan Thomas to make the lives of the Lewisville Area homeless a little bit better. We also provided funds for other community organizations including:

Celebrating Central Elementary School Graduates

Members cheered the CES Alumni of the 2020 LHS Graduating Class

and the 5th Graders at Central ES that graduated

at Drive By Parades on the Campus May 18

For several years members of the Lewisville Morning Rotary have been supporting our adopted school in many different ways. It is always fun to watch the students succeed and graduate from elementary, from high school and even college. Bob, Deanna, Charlene, Marilyn, John and Mickey had a great time cheering both set of grads.

A guest from Russia will be joining us at Thursday's meeting

Members are always encouraged to invite guest to our meetings.

Even our virtual meetings. This week, I have invited

Valentina Bogdanova of the Rotary Club Sochi Center

She is visiting us virtually from Russia as the President of the brand new Rotary Club of Sochi. Our club has agreed to be one of the sponsors for this club. After Mary Jones tells us about her vocation and love of Rotary, we are hopeful of hearing about Valentina and the new club she will be leading. It will be a busy meeting, as Tom also will be announcing the 12 Central ES Bike Winners.

Lewisville Morning Rotary launches Spring Flag Subscription Drive

Our 2020-2021 Lewisville Area Flags

Spring Subscription Drive

is being launched this week.

The flag subscription committee has launched a new web page to promote the flag program, is updating brochures and door hangers and implementing various avenues of communication to the community to encourage our neighbors to subscribe. To promote patriotism during the Covid 19 pandemic, the club is launching a a special early flag launch to our current subscribers.

Club videos you may want to watch

You missed last weeks meeting? Catch up by watching video of meeting click here.

We love the teachers at Central ES and the work they are doing virtually with students. Click here.

We are Family!

Please continue to pray for continued health improvement for Pat and Frank Hebb, Marilyn Pokorny, Howard O'Neal, Maithen Elizabeth Fluhrer and Jeff Siebert. If you have the chance, let them know you are thinking of them.

Keep Maithen in your prayers as she is stepping back LMR commitments to recover from Rolling her ankle and tearing a ligament.

If you our a member of our family have other prayer requests or celebrations to share, please send to Rotary Cares chair Marilyn Pokorny.