March 22, 2011 Volume 2, Issue 8

Rotary District 5470

March Newsletter Special points of

interest:

LCD Projector needed

Japan Relief Funds

RYLA is near

Literacy Corner

Membership Market-

place

Inside this issue:

District Gover-

nors Letter

1

Literacy Corner 2

LCD Projector 2

Membership

Marketplace

3

New Members 4

Exec Committee 5

Desks to India 5

District Assem-

bly’s

6

Polio Still ON 6

RYLA 7 & 8

Japan Relief 9 & 10

Letter from

Japan

11

ess.com. Remember to sign up for District Assembly either April 30 in Grand Junction or May 7 in Colorado

Springs. Yours in Rotary, Steve Berg

It is now less than two months until the Rotary International Convention in New Orleans. We are looking forward to another great gath-ering of thousands of the nicest, friendli-est people you will ever meet in a city that is hard to beat for music, art and food. Check it out

on the RI website. We attended the 90th anniversary celebra-tion of the Lamar Rotary Club and the

75th anniversary of the Salida Rotary Club. Salida also chartered an Inter-act Club that eve-

ning.

Congratulations to Roger Ptolemy and his team for a won-derful PETS. It was great to see all the

PEs and PENs.

The GSE team leaves for France on March 26th. Follow them on their blog at www.coloradorotarygoestofrance.wordpr

March Message from the District Governor

Why Do We Sing?

Found this in the Grand Junction newsletter from President Chris Un-

fug.

Harry Ruggles joined Rotary at its second meeting. He was treasurer of the

Chicago club during its firs year, president from 1908-1910, and a Rotary direc-

tor from 1912– to 1913, He is known for having introduced singing to Rotary

club meetings. His printing company, H.L. Ruggles & Co., printed the first is-

sue of The National Rotarian and the first Rotary songbook. He died on Oc-

tober 26, 1959, an honorary member of seven clubs in addition to his home

club, the Rotary Club of Chicago. (Reprinted from the Rotary Website)

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District 5470 Literacy Corner

March---Rotary Literacy Month!

Rotarians everywhere --celebrate this month and use it as an opportunity to raise awareness about

literacy and to recognize literacy accomplishments around the world. March is also a springboard

month for clubs to develop projects for the coming year. In District 5470, we also use March as an

opportunity to take a club by club census on current club literacy activities and projects. With this

information, we can provide other clubs with a comprehensive view of District literacy activities so

that great ideas and best practices can be shared.

Several clubs have asked our District Literacy Committee—what constitutes a literacy project? The

following are some examples;

1. Dictionary distribution to school children to international or district schools and reading programs.

2. Book collections and distribution to international or district schools and reading programs.

3. Inviting literacy leaders (librarian, book author, participant of Crested Butte Writers Conference,

teacher or school principal, director of an early literacy program for children, etc) to speak at your

club meetings throughout the year.

4. Celebrate RI Literacy Month and RI Literacy Days.

5. Use your literacy activities as PSAs in your local media.

6. Provide scholarships to seniors for college or to non-traditional female or immigrant learners.

7. Provide 4-Way Test training at local schools.

8. Fundraising activities for literacy projects.

9. Sponsor or participate in English classes for immigrants.

10. Participate or develop a reading program for new or slow readers.

11. Vision screening participation.

12. Develop and volunteer in ―Every School A Star‖.

13. Stage a Fun Run for Literacy or conduct a read-a-thon.

14. Establish a literacy contest in your school (have students select countries and then do research on

similarities and differences on literacy issues).

There are many other ideas for literacy activities in your clubs that can be found on the RI website

within the Literacy Resource Group or just Google, Rotary Literacy Resource Group.

Wanted: An LCD projector.

The District is looking for a relatively new portable projector for district use, specifically for the

Foundation presentations. If you have one or know someone who may be willing to help contact:

Ann Harris <rotaryann@gmail.com>

Social Media: Is it Valuable or Just Blither? More from a LinkedIn conversation. Using social media to increase business might be overrated. For the most part, the folks in my various networks seem to use the media for blither rather than for serious business or commentary. It is certainly appealing to post a message on a network and expect that all of your 1000 friends as well as their thousands of friends and networks will embrace your gems of wisdom. But get real. For the most part I find that folks are using the social media as the picket fence on wash day. Even a well-crafted website doesn’t generate the traffic it should. In a number of organiza-tions for which I have developed websites and social media “pages,” the results are disap-pointing. I think it’s probably because the Internet sites aren’t appropriately marketed. To-day’s audience probably doesn’t have high expectations for information found on social me-dia networks as well. So how do you make it work? First you have to have content worth reading. Is it fun and entertaining? Is it worth my valu-able time to read? Will I get any benefit from your words of wisdom? Is it worth sharing with my network? “If you build it, they will come…,” only works in the movies. In real life, “they” need to know it’s there and “they” need to know” what’s in it for them.” WIFM (what’s in it for me) is a real force despite protestations of altruism. So, there needs to be a “hook” to get your network interested and involved in your gems of wisdom. If your long message isn’t compelling, try reducing it to one or two sentences to see if it is stronger. Twitter may have an edge on that by limiting how many letters you can text. What’s so interesting about your Rotary club? Do you have a great program coming up that I don’t want to miss? Are you giving away something for free? Is there a fun activity I can become involved with? Sort of like marketing, isn’t it? In order to make social media work for you, your business, your club, you will need to apply the tried and true Mad-Ave techniques. You might even have to use your 20th Century technology to get it started. What has your club’s experience been with Facebook or other social media? ____________________________________________________________________ Do you have any membership news you would like to share? Please contact Sarah Bishop, District 5470 Membership Committee chair, 970-527-6675 sbishop@tds.net.

MEMBERSHIP MARKETPLACE

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District 5470 New Member Page

Last Name First Name Rotary Club Date Joined

Congratulations to the following clubs with new members.

Palisade Sunrise 28 Cederedge 3 Colorado Springs 1

Telluride 10 Rifle 3 Durango 1

North Colorado Springs 10 Buena Vista 3 Edwards 1

Salida 9 Pagosa Mtn. Morning 2 Minnequa 1

Durango High Noon 8 Pueblo West 2 Crested Butte 1

Pueblo 43 8 Grand Junction Horizon 2 Dolores 1

Montrose 8 Limon 2 Club Rotario 1

Broadmoor District 8 Durango Rotaract 2 Grand Junction 1

Florence 5 Carbondale/Mt. Sopris 2 Burlington 1

Colorado College Rotaract 5 La Junta 2 Snowmass Village 1

Delta 5 Wet Mountain Valley 1 Durango Daybreak 1

Aspen 4 East Colorado Springs 1 Canon City 1

Glenwood Springs 4 Edwards 1 Conejos County LaJara 1

Paonia 4 Cortez 1

Potter Mark Broadmoor District 3/3/2011

Dexter Page Canon City 3/23/2011

Eden Karen Carbondale/Mt. Sopris 3/3/2011

Connolly Iona Colorado Sprgs InterQuest 3/1/2011

Schiavone Joel Durango Daybreak 3/2/2011

Underell Marla Durango High Noon 3/10/2011

Dunn Sara Glenwood Springs 3/3/2011

Geiger Chris Glenwood Springs 3/3/2011

Malehorn Dave Glenwood Springs 3/3/2011

Anderson Gay Grand Jct Horizon Sunrise 3/3/2011

Foster Jane Grand Jct Horizon Sunrise 3/3/2011

Longstrom-Henderson Lauri Grand Jct Horizon Sunrise 3/3/2011

Skaer Richard Palisade Sunrise 3/7/2011

DON’T FORGET

DISTRICT ASSEMBLY’S AND RYLA

Was someone hungry?

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DGE Roger Ptolemy shows executive

committee members how to assemble

a serving of Vietnamese soup that

is just right administrative as-

sistant Jana Gerow follows his

example at a meeting held in Den-

ver evening before the PETS event

District executive committee

members (clockwise from left,

Joe Williams, Wally Miller and

DG Steve Berg dig in to the re-

past before settling down to

district business.

I am happy to inform you that with the support of Dist 1400 Finland District Governor Rtn Leila Risteli we were able to implement 2950 School Desks for 83 under privileged Schools at Hyderabad. The Chief Minister of the State Sri Kiran Kumar Reddy was the Chief Guest. We had more than 6000 children participating in the school desks pro-ject. This Rotary year we have already provided School Desks with the support of Dist 5470 USA, 9640 Australia, and 1400 Finland. We are in the process of distributing School Desks with the support of Dist Governor Rtn Law-

renxe Zillox Dist 5950 USA and Dist Governor Rtn Michelangelo of Dist 2100 Italy and Vijay Surupuriya DGSC of Dist 6800 USA. I am also sending you an Article published in the Rotary News when Rotary International President Elect Rtn Kalyan Banerjee was present at another distribution function of 2550 school desks. I wish you all the best in the remaining year of Rotary activity as we

BUILD COMMUNITIES & BRIDGE CONTINENTS and REACH WITHIN OURSELVES TO EMRACE HUMANITY. Regards Dr. RAVI VADLAMANI DISTRICT 3150

Greetings and best wishes to Rotary Leaders.

Our own PDG Jan Williams

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Jan and Joe Williams gave an informative presentation on the history of the Rotary International polio campaign to the Durango Daybreak Rotary Club! The program was based on the informative film from the World Health As-sembly called “The Final Inch”.

Thank you Jan and Joe for all the work you do to educate Rotarians about Rotary International’s campaign to end polio disease around the world.

Here are just a few of the amazing facts gleaned from their presentation.

20 million volunteers have worked and are still working to eradicate the disease

The effort these volunteers put in to educate families in poverty stricken areas is incredible. It may take 6 or 7 visits to one household to convince the adults to vaccinate the kids.

One shot is not enough to protect these kids. They may receive up to 10 shots over a period of years.

The War Against Polio is Still On

President Elects are required to attend one of the District Assemblies and they are strongly encouraged to bring their incoming Board, Officers, and Committee Members (there are specialized breakout sessions designed for each club officer). This is also a terrific opportunity for new Rotarians to learn more about all programs of Ro-tary. Saturday, April 30, 2011 or Saturday, May 7, 2011 Two Rivers Convention Center Clarion Hotel & Conference Center 159 Main Street, 314 W. Bijou, (Bijou & I-25, at exit 142) Grand Junction, CO Colorado Springs, CO Suggested Hotel: Hampton Inn Suggested Hotel: Clarion 970-243-3222 ref to: “Rotary 5470” $109 719-471-8680 ref to: “Rotary 5470” $69 (Rate ends March 30) Registration/Continental Breakfast: 8:30 a.m. Sessions: 9:00 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. $35.00 Per Person Includes Continental Breakfast, Lunch, and Cookie Snack Topics to be Covered Include: R.I and District Goals Emphases for 2011-12 Breakout Sessions -

Membership: Recruiting and Retention

Club Public Relations: Building Rotary’s Public Image

Club Secretaries: Essentials and Short Cuts

Club Treasurers: Essentials for Accurate Records

Service Projects: Youth Programs, The 4-Way Test in Schools, Community and International

The Rotary Foundation: TRF 101, District Simplified Grants, Matching Grants Certification, Parts I and II

Creative Fundraising and Finding Good Club Speakers

Navigating the Vast RI Website

Using the Improved District Website

Rotary’s Generous Scholarship and GSE Opportunities Need more info? Contact - Paulette Church: pauletterotary@gmail.com

District 5470 Assembly’s

RYLA

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What is RYLA?

Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) is a district-organized program that facilitates club service to youth in the community by providing a leadership training retreat for young people selected and sponsored by your club. The process starts by your club soliciting nominations and interviewing local students - this brings Rotari-ans together with youth in your community. The core of the program is an intense, professionally led, four-day leadership training retreat. After the weekend students return to apply the lessons they learned in their schools and community groups and to make a presentation to your club about their experience. What Happens at the Leadership Retreat Weekend? The RYLA Retreat Weekend provides a series of pro-fessionally developed presentations and activities which lead participants through a process of assessing their personal leadership characteristics, understanding the ethics of leadership, and setting personal goals. It then teaches leadership though interpersonal skills, working effectively with diverse peers in conflict resolution and consensus building, as well as recognizing and working with support networks. Where and When is the RYLA Retreat? The Retreat Weekend is held at the Colorado Mountain College Spring Valley Campus located near Glenwood Springs, Colorado. This is one of the most central locations in the district. The retreat will begin the evening of Friday July 15

th, and end at noon on Monday July 18

th, 2011.

How much does RYLA Cost? RYLA does not cost students anything. The “Awards” in the RYLA name refers to the scholarships that are awarded by Rotary and/or co-sponsors. Each student scholarship is $350.

How are students selected to participate? Students are selected by a local Rotary Club in the district. The Club RYLA committee or chair interviews students and selects the recipients of the awards based on their own criteria. Most communities sponsor three awards each year. Who should attend RYLA? RYLA is designed to work with students that are starting to show signs of leader-ship, or the potential for leadership, in their communities. Successful applicants are in good standing at school and are actively involved with clubs, sports teams, or community groups – but the idea is to find students that have not previously had leadership training experiences. Ideally, the students should be going into 10

th or 11

th

grade, although some strong 9th grade students attend successfully. The program is not intended for anyone that has already graduated high school. What else is RYLA? The RYLA program is an opportunity to meet and build friendships with fellow student leaders from around the state, as well as, getting to know the Rotar-ian leaders in your community. Rotary is based on the premise that Fellowship opens opportunities for service which will make our communities better places to live, and promote peace and better understand-ing throughout the world. An important part of RYLA is building these relationships both between student leaders and the Rotarians that Sponsor them.

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RYLA, continued

What do I do to participate?

Decide if RYLA Supports Your Club’s Mission: I’ve been to PETS several times, both as a P.E. and as a trainer, so I know you have been told 5470 “great ideas’ about what you should do in the next year – but you’re the president – you need to decide what your priorities will be for the year. Do you want to continue or expand your clubs involvement with youth? If the answer is yes then RLYA is an easy way. Budget for RYLA: The “Awards” in the RYLA name refers to the scholarships that are “awarded” to the student. Many club work with locally support-ing businesses as co-sponsors. Scholarships are $350 each. Clubs are encouraged to sponsor three students to maximize the benefit of the time and effort. Therefore, a budget of $525- is recom-mended. Find a Club RYLA Chair: RYLA takes a commit-ment - but is not a lot of work for a Rotary program. Most clubs have a committee of 1-3 members that handle RYLA. Time averages 2-4 hours a month at the most. The RYLA program has a detailed “Club Chair Manual” available upon request. Once you designative a chair, have them contact us at RYLA@RYLA5470.org.

Bookmark RYLA Dates: The following are key dates for the RYLA program: March 31 - Club Commit to Spots at the RYLA Retreat April 30 - Club Sends Payment to RYLA May - Clubs Interview Students May 30 - Club’s Submit Student Names to RYLA June 30 - All Student Paperwork is due July 15-18 - RYLA RETREAT WEEKEND September - Club Holds Follow-up Meeting with Students October - Student Presentations to clubs

Use RYLA to Build Leaders Beyond The Club Level? As you have learned this weekend, one of the goals of a healthy club is building leaders beyond the club level. RYLA is a great program to challenge a new member, or a established leader in the club, to step to involvement at the district level. The committee is seeking support in the following areas: Administrative Assistance, Club Participation Recruitment, Student Registration, Accounting, Pro-gram Development, Website & Social Media Coordinating, and Counselors for the Retreat Weekend. The RYLA Committee has a monthly telephone conference and conducts its business online, requiring very little travel be-yond attending the retreat weekend. The time commitments vary by role, but for most members at the district level it would be about 5-10 hours a month for the six months surrounding the Retreat Weekend. The RYLA com-mittee reimburses expenses for committee members and provides a private room for counselors during the re-treat weekend. If you can inspire a leader in your club to step up beyond the club level, the district RYLA Committee welcomes them.

Peter Waanders RYLA 5470 Chair RYLA@RYLA5470.org 970-948-3117

Rotary Japan and Pacific Islands Disaster Recovery Fund March 2011

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In response to the massive earthquake off of the coast of Japan and the resulting tsunami on 11 March 2011, the Trustees of The Rotary Foundation (TRF) are temporarily accepting contributions to help fund Rotary projects for longer-term disaster recovery efforts in Japan and the Pacific island nations impacted by the earthquake and tsunami. The Rotary Japan and Pacific Islands Disaster Recovery Fund opened on 11 March 2011 and contributions received will be available to match cash and DDF contributions during the 2010-11 and 2011-12 Rotary years.

The Rotary Japan and Pacific Islands Disaster Recovery Fund will be administered

through Matching Grants and Global Grants to be used for projects providing humani-

tarian assistance and disaster recovery in the areas affected by the earthquake and tsu-

nami. The Rotary Japan and Pacific Islands Disaster Recovery Fund will act as TRF’s

match for disaster recovery projects taking place within the affected countries of this re-gion. All Matching Grant and Global Grant projects using Rotary Japan and Pacific Is-

lands Disaster Recovery Funds will require a Rotary club or district in at least two coun-

tries (a partner outside of the project country and a partner within the project country)

to work together to plan, implement, and complete the project. The projects must in-

volve active personal Rotarian participation. As with all funds contributed to The Rotary

Foundation, the Trustees will manage funds contributed to the fund.

HOW TO MAKE A CONTRIBUTION Send your contribution to: The Rotary Foundation 14280 Collections Center Drive Chicago, IL 60693

Checks should be made payable to The Rotary Foundation (note on your check that the contribution should be used for the Rotary Japan and Pacific Islands Disaster Recovery Fund, #G10005 ).

If you normally donate through another international Rotary office or an RI fiscal agent, you may do that as well. Please visit: http://www.rotary.org/en/AboutUs/ContactUs/InternationalOffices/Pages/ridefault.aspx for information about Rotary offices worldwide.

Online contributions may also be made on the Rotary International website: www.rotary.org.

DDF may be allocated to the Rotary Japan and Pacific Islands Disaster Recovery Fund. Please refer to the Rotary Japan and Pacific Islands Disaster Recovery Fund District Designated Form.

There is no minimum cash or DDF contribution amount.

RECOGNITION

Contributions designated to the Fund are not eligible for Paul Harris Fellow recognition.

Contributions designated to the Rotary Japan and Pacific Islands Disaster Recovery Fund will count to-ward club and district total contribution goals. However, contributions will not count toward club and dis-trict Annual Programs Fund goals.

Your personal contribution will appear on your giving history and will apply toward major donor recogni-tion

HOW TO ACCESS THESE FUNDS Complete the standard Matching Grant application or Global Grant proposal, with the partners pledging

District Designated Funds and cash contributions. Request that the club/district contributions be matched by the Rotary Japan and Pacific Islands Disaster

Recovery Fund. Verify that all partners are from traditional, non-pilot districts for Matching Grants and Future Vision Pilot districts for Global Grants.

Ensure that the project follows all Matching Grant and Global Grant guidelines and eligibility criteria, in-cluding the restrictions regarding construction and renovation with the following exceptions:

The 31 March 2011 Matching Grants application deadline has been extended to 30 April 2011 for grants related to these disaster recovery projects.

The 50% minimum funding requirement of the international sponsors for Matching Grants related to these disaster recovery projects has been waived allowing affected areas to contribute more than 50% of the total DDF and/or cash designated for the grant project.

Notes: Applications received by TRF for disaster recovery projects in Japan and the Pacific Islands will be re-

viewed on a first come, first served basis. The applications will receive top priority for processing. The Rotary Foundation will accept and approve these Matching Grants and Global Grants regardless of

World Fund availability, until all of the funds in the Rotary Japan and Pacific Islands Disaster Recovery Fund have been committed.

If the Rotary Japan and Pacific Islands Disaster Recovery Fund should be fully expended but the World Fund budget is still available, applications can be funded through any remaining World Fund at that time.

Tips: Projects needing international partners may be registered on RI’s projects database, ProjectLINK or sent

to the matchinggrants.org website managed by District 5340. Other potential sources of international partners are Rotary clubs/districts that previously helped with a

Matching Grant for Japan, previous GSE exchange partners or contacts made through TRF Ambassa-dorial Scholars, Rotary Peace Fellows, or RI Youth Exchange students.

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Rotary Japan and Pacific Islands Disaster Recovery Fund, continued

More pictures from India’s Desk Project

How small is our Rotary World

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We’re on the web

Rotary International

Www.Rotary.org

We’re on the web

District 5470 Www.Rotary5470.org

We are looking for stories, happenings, successful adventures or not successful adventures! Let other Rotarians know. Failures can sometimes be changed into successes. Give us your ideas and comments. Pictures are great, add names to the pictures. Email to: Charles Bawden charles_bawden@yahoo.com Fax: 970 945-2530 Phone: 970 319-7188 Newsletter Editor

Rotary Clubs of Glenwood Springs

Many of the clubs may recall that Glenwood Springs Rotary Club 15 years ago hosted a young lady from Fukushima, Japan. Her name was Chikako Seto and Cameron Calder was her first host dad. Gregg Rippy and Marilee were her 2nd host family. Sherry and Dave Scruby were her 3

rd and I was her counselor. Chikako was one of our Rotary Youth Ex-

change success stories - she nearly went home before Christmas, depressed and scared, barely speaking English. But, with some love and support, she found her courage and strength, and flourished. Brandi Rippy was a big part of that success. Chikako has since vis-ited Glenwood Springs about 5 or 6 times - she is married with a beautiful son Diatsuke, who is about 6. She and Diatsuke were at Brandi's wedding.

Her husband still has work but must ride his bike 45 minutes each way to reach his job - when everyone is told to stay indoors. She and Diatsuke have moved in with her parents into a sin-gle family home that now holds 14 people - cousins and aunt/uncles have moved in as well. The home is about 33 miles from the nuclear plant. There are day long or more lines to get gas for cars so all of her family's vehicles are empty. Food is limited. They take turns walking to the store, to limit their exposure. Water/plumbing and electricity come and go. Af-tershocks continue, mostly at night - so sleep is hard, uncertainty prevails. Each day brings some answers but then more questions. I was able to visit with Chikako last night by phone but will now try to Skype her as that is no cost. They are about 9 hours behind us.

So, international service in Rotary shrinks our planet, and brings these disasters right into our hearts and homes, out of the safety of watching the TV with sympathy but without per-sonal attachment. It is the best thing Rotary does - shrinking our planet and expanding our hearts - this is a good thing. Please keep Chikako, her family and her people in your hearts and prayers each day.

Trish Kramer Rotary Club of Glenwood Springs