Club President Tom Rowe, fellow Rotarians, Mark Smith, Bob Troyer, Maithen Fluhrer, John Pokorny and some scouting partners spent their Friday evening at the Main & Mill First Friday event in Old Town Lewisville promoting our Flag Subscription Program and Rotary membership. Subscriptions sold and lots of connections made.
Our Next Meeting
7 am Thursday, August 8th in the Christian Community Action Community Room
Purchase Dictionaries for 3rd Graders at 11 LISD Title I Schools
The district announced approval of our grant request at the Aug 17th Vibrant Club Workshop in Aledo. The $2900 project will be funded by $2150 in club funds (from fund raisers such as our flag project) and $850 in Rotary Foundation Funds referred to as District Designated Funds (DDF). Our members generously support The Rotary Foundation. The funds that were donated 3 years ago accrued and a portion of those are made available for local projects such as this Dictionary Project. The real fun of this project will start mid September.
District Designated Funds to be used for a $55,000
Global Grant to purchase Dental Equipment for a
Free Clinic in Tirasses, Costa Rica
In Costa Rica, immigrants do not receive government funded healthcare support. Our club is participating with the Rotary Club of San Pedro Curridabat (in Costa Rica) to fund a Global grant for the development of a free dental clinic to serve the needs of this population. Other local partnering organizations are building the clinic being built on an abandoned city dump by providing dental equipment for that clinic.
Nine Rotary Volunteerswork with City Staff members
to assist Lewisville residents to
safely dispose of Household Hazardous Waste
One a triple digit temperature day members of our Rotary club had a great time serving at the monthly Household Hazardous Waste Saturday. The term "making work fun" comes to life with this crew of members Todd Taylor (Chair), Samantha Taylor, Mark Smith, Tom Rowe, George Gober, Terry Kasen, Maithen Fluhrer, Mary Jones and John Pokorny.
Come see us next month. For a list of household hazardous waste items we can accept, please visit the City of Lewisville website Hazardous Household Waste page.
This will be a fun community service project for our members. Golf Cart Drivers are needed to assist in carrying patrons from the shuttle drop off point at the Main Gate to one of the two public entry gates into the festival zone. For this event, there will not be any onsite parking for General Admission (only VIP Guests) and frequent shuttles will run from remote lots in the area. Volunteers must be at least 21 years old, have a valid TX drivers license & can present a copy of valid auto liability insurance.
Put together a team or join as an individual. They have a 5K individual race, a 5k team race, a one mile walk and a virtual 5k "run" for those that can't make it to Denton Sept 7th but want to support the cause. To register for any of these events, click here.
Consider attending the second annual Denim, Diamonds and Dice Gala at the MCL Grand Theater on Sept 21st from 7 pm to 11 pm. Funds raised support Special Abilities of North Texas a wonderful Lewisville Area non-profit supporting adults with special needs, giving them opportunities to succeed in life, family and the community. Tickets for this fun event are available by clicking here. To be an event sponsor for this Gala, click here.
Recent events in our society have highlighted the need for effective mental health services. We in Denton County are blessed to have Denton County MHMR. Phyllis Finely provided an excellent summary to our members at yesterdays meeting. We all need to communicate to your family, friends and neighbors that mental care help is available in our county regardless of ability to pay. To see a full summary of services offered, click here.
Our club is well known in Lewisville for the community service our members do throughout the year. We also love to party, enjoying good fellowship, food and beverages with our Rotary Families. We have two upcoming dates that members should mark on their calendars; the August 22nd 4th Thursday Mixer at the Larue Winery and the September 7th End of Summer Party (see graphic). Please register by clicking these links.
In a memo to us from Carter BloodCares Susan Holt she says; I wanted to thank you for an excellent blood drive on Saturday. We collected 26 pints of blood.
26 pints X 3 = 78 lives saved by Premier Gun Show Donors and Rotary volunteers! BRAVO!!!
Thank you to Dr. Kelly Reed who took over for Jeff Siebert in the hospital. Kelly managed the set-up, take down and transport of all the blood drive signs and coordinated the location for the CarterBlood Care bus. Other members helping arrange donors were Mark Smith, Terry Kasen, Maithen Fluhrer and John Pokorny. Most importantly, thank you to our 26 donors.
Join us September 9th for a fun book discussion on "Defending Jacob" a mystery novel by William Landay. Good fellowship, wine and perceptive conversation about one of today's intriguing books.
Jeff continues to recover albeit slowly from pneumonia and Frances continues to recover from ankle surgery and other medical issues. Both are thankful for our caring concern and want us to know they hope to back among us soon,
Several of our members helped member Tom Atchison move this past week end for which he is extremely grateful.
Please contact our Member Care Chair any time you are aware of a member that needs our thoughts and care.