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District 6900 News for February, 2019
 Our current leadership team: DGN Kirk Driskell, DG Court Dowis, DGE Jim Squire, and DGN Deignate Mary Ligon |
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From the District Governor
By Court Dowis, Jr. It is the halfway point in the race for Rotary year
2018-2019. Now is the time all Race Teams and Rotary Clubs check their gauges,
check their mirrors and make adjustments to finish Strong this Rotary year! And to start revving up for 2019-20 too. Your leadership team recently traveled to International Assembly in San Diego, and then met here at Pine Mountain with our D6900 Council of Governors - all to be sure we're ready for next year. [more] |
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A Unique Opportunity
By Jackie Cuthbert As we announced last month, District 6900 is excited to be hosting Rotary International President Barry Rassin in Roswell on February 16. There are several opportunities to meet President Barry - including the Interact Conference, a special Saturday lunch meeting of the Rotary Club of Roswell, and two different cocktail receptions hosted by PDG Bob Hagan!
All events require registration. [more] |
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Support Alzheimer's Research
By Margie Kersey You can join the Cars for CART Contest and help support the Coins for Alzheimer's Research Trust. Sponsored by Rotary District 7730, you can buy tickets and have the opportunity to win your choice of: - a $62,500 certificate toward the cost of one of the new cars pictured to the left (a new Corvette, Cadillac CT6 or Jaguar I-PACE), or
- $50,000 in cash.
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District Conference 2019
By Bill Woulfin When you register for District Conference, you sign on for lots of fun, fellowship and more! And when you stay with us at the Sandestin Golf & Beach Resort, you also sign on for many free amenities! [more] |
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The Rotary Foundation
By Margie Kersey This has been a wonderful Foundation year so far, and there
is still plenty to go! As of today, we have 34 active Global Grants, 4 awaiting
approval and 11 more in Draft stage being developed. That is amazing! To put it
into perspective, most districts around the world have fewer than 6 Global
Grants at any given time. Thank you for your commitment to Being the
Inspiration! [more] |
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Global Scholar Update
By Lynn Clarke In 2019, it will be 20 years from the beginning of my GRSP
year. It is not easy for me to summarize a year into short enough and easy to
read text. Especially to make some order in a mountain of events, stories and
connections. So I drew a picture. In short, there is no doubt that GRSP year has changed my
life and it laid the base for my journey over the last 20 years. I believe that
each GRSP student’s year is special and so was mine, but our years are not
unique. There are so many similarities. My GRSP year gave me four things:
experiences, skills, relationships and new mindset.
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GRSP Update
By Lynn Clarke STUDENT WEEKEND
Sometimes trustees or host families for
GRSP get really lucky and have the opportunity to spend time with students at a
student weekend. There are five student weekends this year that Rotary
Clubs around Georgia arrange for the students. Our district hosts the
students for three of these weekends and … [more] |
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Rotary Means Business Fellowship
By Famous Lou Alvarado, Jr.
As Rotary's newest Fellowship group, Rotary Means Business gives you a business to business networking opportunity to empower your business by the Power of the Pin - sharing your business with fellow Rotarians. We have three groups going in the Atlanta Metro area - the venues … [more] |
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RYLA
By Jaclyn Donovan RYLA 2019 is getting closer!!The dates for this year are June 15 – 19, 2019. If you go to our new RYLA website at www.RYLA6900.com
you will find everything you need to get started. [more] |
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Club News
By Bob Koncerak The Rotary Club of Alpharetta will spend three to four days in late September partnering with Rotary Tanzania with their public school and orphanage
projects. The Rotary Club of Arusha-Mount Meru (District 9211) is in process of applying for a Rotary Foundation grant for a school clean water project, and Alpharetta Rotary is exploring ways it could become a partner in that effort as well. Project details will be communicated in the near future. If you'd like to join in, the time to make reservations is NOW! [more] |
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Club News
By Karen Schwank The Roswell Rotary Club is well known
for its Honor Air Flights. For ten years the club chartered a plane and took World War II, Korean, and Vietnam
veterans to Washington DC for a day to visit the monuments honoring them. For eight years, Roswell Rotarians packed an
average of 900 pounds of supplies and shipped them to a deployed troop. This year, Roswell Rotary launched a new project
to support vets. Roswell
Rotarian Dave Wash eagerly took on the role of chairing the club’s new veterans project…serving
the VEO (Veterans Empowerment Organization). [more] |
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Club News
By Dale Covington The Rotary Club of Marietta, led by President Jesse Evans, and Friends of Disabled
Adults and Children (FODAC), led by Executive Director and Stone Mountain
Rotarian Chris Brand, recently teamed to provide mobility equipment for
physically disabled Ugandans via Dave Talbot’s Crutches 4 Africa—a humanitarian
relief organization that has helped residents of 16 countries in Africa and
10 other countries worldwide. Dave is a member of
the Mountain Foothills RC in Golden CO, and has been shipping mobility devices
since 2006. [more] |
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Club News
By Mary Trapp
The Rotary Clubs of Johns Creek North Fulton, Roswell and Milton joined forces to hold a food drive for furloughed federal workers. The clubs provided $500 of food for the empty shelves at Community Assistance Center. Thank you, Representative Angelika Kausche
Georgia House District 50, Johns Creek for organizing this … [more] |
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Club News
By Dave Schwickerath The Rotary Club of North Cobb (RCNC) is sponsoring its 10th Annual Smoke on the Lake BBQ
Festival on Lake Acworth at Cauble Park on Friday evening, May 10 and Saturday, May 11, 2019.
RCNC believes it fields the best BBQ teams based on past results and would like to issue a “Rotary Challenge” to any Rotary Club BBQ Team in
Georgia that thinks they can compete with the best.
Whether you're ready to grill or not, come out and support this great weekend event that supports our charitable work in the community. [more] |
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Club News
By Clark Savage What is red, white and blue and able to raise money? A frozen Alpharetta Rotarian at the Polar
Bear Plunge of course! The inaugural
event at Wills Park Pool happened this Saturday, February 1, and was a huge
success by any standard. [more] |
Upcoming Key Dates
| Tuesday, February 5th, 2019 | Bainbridge Board Meeting | | Tuesday, February 5th, 2019 | Bainbridge Governor Visit | | Friday, February 8th, 2019 | District Leadership Training | | Saturday, February 9th, 2019 | Carrollton Dawnbreakers Casino Night | | Tuesday, February 12th, 2019 | Smyrna Governor Visit | | Saturday, February 16th, 2019 | Roswell RI President Barry Rassin | | Saturday, February 16th, 2019 | Reception for Rotary President Barry Rassin | | Saturday, February 23rd, 2019 | District Finance Committee Meeting | | Friday, March 1st, 2019 | President-Elect Training Seminar (PETS) |
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