Go Buckyes or Go Blue?! Challenge

The Rotary Foundation--End Polio Now Challenge

Go Buckeyes

or

Go Blue

5 November 2010

Dear Rotarian,

Go Buckeyes or Go Blue?! The text donation contest between Ohio State and Michigan fans begins next Friday 12 November and ends on the day of this season's big game in Columbus on November 27th. The Foundation will track all text donations by date and team name. To give a one time $5 donation in that two-week period, Rotarians along with their family, friends, and colleagues would text the word “polio” and either "OSU" or "UM" to 90999. There is no limit to the number of contributions an individual can make during those two weeks.

We encourage you to distribute this promotional flyer and post information concerning this event on your club and district websites and in your newsletters. Not only may your team win, but Rotary will win by being that much closer to reach our goal of US $200 Million and eradicating polio forever!

Should you have any questions concerning the challenge, please contact Amanda Epting, Coordinator for Rotary’s $200 Million Challenge at Rotary's200MillionChallenge@rotary.org.

Sincerely,

Rotary's $200 Million Challenge Team
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Byesville Rotary cleans up gazebo area on the Byesville square

Pictured: Larry Townsend, Jim Vaughan, Rich Dair, Chuck Fair, Don Valentine, Marty Patchen, Bill Hartley, Joe “Grizz” Smith; kneeling—Sharon Miller, Barb Dair; not pictured—Shana “yes, I know I owe a dollar” Fair (photographer).

Reading for November 14:

• November Rotarian, "Lasting lessons," p. 38.

Date changes:

• Board meeting--November 18.

Activities;

• Bell ringing--Bob needs volunteers for shifts. call him.
  Blood drive--November 17, at the Stop Nine Teen Activity Center, 12N.
• Call Larry Miller or Marty Patchen with nominations for officers and board members.
• November 19-20, Riesbeck's food Drive. cost to club to participate is $145.00
  

Bright and early, Saturday (Oct. 30), a team of Byesville Rotarians showed up at the gazebo located on the square in Byesville. They were carrying pruning shears, saws, rakes, and other gardening tools.

The work party was lead by Joe aka “Grizz” Smith, Master Gardener and Byesville Rotarian. Grizz is an educator as well as a Master Gardener. Everyone on the work crew got short lessons on how to prune and trim and weed properly. By noon, the work crew had improved the looks of the area. Grizz inspected everyone’s gardening efforts and congratulated his team on how much they had accomplished.

During the weekly Tuesday meeting, Grizz gave kudos to team members for all they learned during the work party. Chuck learned how to identify dead but still potent poison ivy plants. Jim learned to love a tool call the turf cutter. Don learned to hate a tool called the telescoping pruner. Shana learned a correctly pruned tree allows a bird to fly through without bumping into branches. Bill learned three bungees are needed to tie down a load of brush. Barb learned the difference between hand pruners and hedge clippers. Jim and Larry learned to watch out for Marty while they were running a chain saw. Sharon learned how to shape an overgrown shrub.

The team will be back to finish their clean-up project in a few weeks.

Joe Waske, club president, updated members about the progress of ongoing Rotary projects. Rolling Hills School district will be contacted and invited to participate in a canned goods food drive. Food collected will support the Byesville Rotary Christmas food basket program.

Plans for “Breakfast with Santa,” scheduled December 11, are in progress. Club members are asked to bring a bottle of pancake syrup or donate $2.00 toward the purchase of candy canes needed for the breakfast.

On November 19, the club will participate in Riesbeck’s food drive. Contributions from this effort will also be used toward the Christmas food basket program.

Joe reported that the Red Eye Trip to New York City was successful. Trip participants enjoyed shopping, touring, seeing plays, visiting museums and exploring Rockefeller Plaza. No one got lost or missed the bus, and 52 happy, tired Guernsey County residents returned safely to Byesville early Sunday morning.

The club’s next meeting will be 7:30 am, November 9, 2010, at the Stop Nine Senior Center at 60313 (GPS use 60299) Southgate Road, Byesville. Anyone interested in learning more about the Byesville Rotary can call Membership Chairs Marty Patchen, 740-685-3828, or Larry Miller, 740-439-2767.