Memorial Day was our 1st "Flag Program"Holiday of the year. Flag Day (14 June) was the second. As of today we have almost 100 new flag subscriptions. Many kudos' to Brent Myers and Bob Shell who have been busting their backsides to get the sleeves installed for these new flag locations.
Renewals of flag subscriptions are lagging behind with over 70 residents that have yet to renew their subscriptions. It is not to late for them. If they miss their Flag Day flag, they can always renew at a prorated rate.
Please talk to your neighbors and friends in Lewisville (including Castle Hills), Flower Mound and Highland Village. If they have not renewed, encourage them to do so. At this time we are not accepting new subscriptions for this year.On-line registration is always available on our website.
More than 20,000 new cases of cancer are diagnosed every year in Sri Lanka, and many of them prove fatal. The Rotary Club of Colombo, Sri Lanka, set out 10 years ago to save some of those lives by establishing the Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Centre.
In partnership with the National Cancer Control Programme and the Ministry of Health, the center in Colombo has screened more than 35,000 patients, mostly low-income, and detected more than 7,500 cases of abnormalities that required further investigation. The Rotary Club of Birmingham, Alabama, USA, donated a mammography and ultrasound...
March is Water & Sanitation Month
March 26, 2015 Program
Hebron High School Principal Scot Finch presents the Hebron High School March Student of the Month
Cynthia Jaird, phD - Principal Central ES
On the Vocation of Teaching and School Administration
This weeks Service Above Self Projects and Events
CCA Pantry Support - March 28, 2015 - 8:45 am to 12:30 pm
Carter BloodCare Blood Drive at Vista Ridge Mall on March 28, 2014- Noon to 6 pm
May 19, 20 & 21 Rotarians from Lewisville Morning, Lewisville Noon and Flower Mound Rotary are participating in the Spring STEM Initiative at Central ES. We are supporting this initiative in partnership with Christian Community Action and the Frisco Science Discovery Museum. Rotarians will be called upon to assist students with the hands-on science experiments such as the bike-generator our club, Flower Mound and Lewisville Noon Rotary Clubs donated. Thanks to the 9 LMR members have participated thus far. If you have time, join us Thursday at Central ES from 9 AM to 2 PM and again in the evening from 6 PM to 7:30 PM.
The Weather Outside was Frightful. But the Auction inside was Delightful
Because of the bad weather we only had 30 bidders at our auction. However, the fund raiser was a success. We had over 110 donated items to auction. With the proceeds from the Auction we sponsored the Chalk This Way Scholarship Competition.
Congratulations to the Scholarship winners - 1 Daisy Rosas, 2 Allison Rosenbaum, 3 Sydney Simeone
We will have photo's of these artists and their creations in future additions.
A great big Thank You to the Hebron High School Interact Club for all their assistance in setting up the event. Members Doris Scales, Diana McMillan, Dean Davis, Todd Taylor, Cynthia Jarid, Bob Troyer, Jim Wear, Mary Handley Jones, Frank Hebb, Carolyn Wright, John & Marilyn Pokorny were instrumental in preparing the Wednesday before and the day of the event. Thank You to All
Thanks also to the Lewisville Noon Club for their assistance Saturday and financial participation in Sponsoring the Scholarship. Our sponsorship included a giant chalk Rotary Gear with the Club Names on the City Hall corner of Charles and Church. Unfortunately, the wheel was just finished and immediately washed away by the torrential downpour that morning.
All in all it was a wonderful day. Thank You to Chair Person Marilyn Pokorny and all the ladies of our club for organizing this wonderful event.
Congratulations also to Christi Martin, Chairman of Chalk This Way for a wonderful event. It truly was a Community event that we in Rotary were proud to participate along with the Lewisville Area Arts Alliance and the City of Lewisville.
Melissa Troyer Rowe will be running in the GE Irving Marathon on April 4, 2015. She will be doing the Marathon while pushing her mother (a polio victim) in a buggy. She is doing this to raisemoney and awareness for the eradication of polio! She has watched her mom's body be wracked by Post Polio Syndrome and would love to see this disease ended. Coincidentally when she pushes her mom's buggy in the marathon Melissa will be the same age her mom was when she first had to use a wheelchair. Please donate if you can!"
Please support Melissa in this race to End Polio Now by clickinghere.
Sense & Nonsense
I'm Overworked
For a couple years I've been blaming it on lack of sleep and too much pressure from my job, but now I found out the real reason: I'm tired because I'm overworked.
The population of this country is 237 million. 104 million are retired. That leaves 133 million to do the work.
There are 85 million in school, which leaves 48 million to do the work.
Of this there are 29 million employed by the federal government, leaving 19 million to do the work.
2.8 million are in the Armed Forces, which leaves 16.2 million to do the work.
Take from the total the 14,800,000 people who work for State and City Governments and that leaves 1.4 million to do the work.
At any given time there are 188,000 people in hospitals, leaving 1,212,000 to do the work.
Now, there are 1,211,998 people in prisons. That leaves just two people to do the work.
You and me.
And you're sitting at your computer, i-pad or i-phone reading jokes.
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Member Birthdays
Doris Scales
June 27
Carolyn Wright
July 6
Howard O'Neal
July 10
Tom Atchison
July 23
James Wear
July 29
Mission: provide service to others, promote integrity, advance environmental awareness, encourage patriotism, and enhance fellowship through a partnership with business, education and community leaders.