Speakers

Sep 05, 2014
Hallie Sheade
Equine Connection Counseling

Sep 12, 2014
Julie Knight
Burleson FFA

Sep 19, 2014
Jeff Jamison
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Upcoming Events

Meals on Wheels Golf Tournament

Sep 11, 2014 7:30 AM

Rotary World

Months of physical therapy have allowed Samir to keep active with his siblings. He loves to play outside, and his favorite game is chase. Since 1995, when India held its first national polio immunization campaign, 2.3 million vaccinators have visited 209 million households to immunize 170 million children every year. Their efforts will help provide a polio-free future for generations to come throughout Southeast Asia. Read more.

Board Meeting

September 10 is the month's second Wednesday, the day when the club's board of directors meets for its monthly meeting. Members are welcome to join the board at Our Place restaurant, at 7 a.m., as club officers conduct business and enjoy breakfast. The meeting ends by 8 a.m.

New Generations Month

New Generations refers to the youngest generation in the family of Rotary. Many are participants in Rotary’s youth and young adult programs: Interact, Rotaract, Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA), and Rotary Youth Exchange. Others are service- minded young people involved in Rotary club and district activities.

Past RI President Luis Vicente Giay coined the term New Generations when he shared his belief that the future of Rotary relied on involving young people in the organization’s programs and activities. At the 1996 RI Convention in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, he said:

“Our vision for the future, now more than ever, is the difference between success and failure. The New Generations are our investment in the future. Let us begin to build that future today.”

New Generations Service became Rotary’s fifth Avenue of Service in 2010. It is defined in article 5 of the Standard Rotary Club Constitution:

New Generations Service recognizes the positive change implemented by youth and young adults through leadership development activities, involvement in community and international service projects, and exchange programs that enrich and foster world peace and cultural understanding.

Rotary clubs should be committed to involving youth and young adults in their vocational, community, and international service projects, and to providing programs and resources that support them.

Rotarians have long been committed to serving youth in their communities. The New Generations Avenue of Service acknowledges the exceptional work that Rotarians do with youth and young adults while encouraging clubs to spread their reach even further. It also encompasses a fundamental idea: that every Rotarian has a responsibility to support the personal and professional success of young people while recognizing the diversity of their needs.

Waxahachie Rotary aids polio victim

Although Rotarians are working world wide to eradicate polio, victims of the disease still live among us and still cope with the effects of the virus. A North Texas man contracted the disease sixty years ago, and he is one of only ten people in the world who live in an iron lung today.

The Rotary Club of Waxahachie has helped this victim cope with the demands of his existence by building a ramp to make his comings and goings easier, and the local newspaper recently published a story about the victim and the contributions of the Rotary club. You can read the newspaper article here. Waxahachie Rotarians build wheelchair ramps for someone about once a month as part of the Texas Ramp Project.

Thank you, Bruce Anderson for bringing this story to my attention.

Welcome Emma Dhabit

Youth Exchange student Emma Dhabit plans to attend Friday's meeting. For most of us, this is our first chance to meet this young lady whom we are sponsoring for a year in Burleson. Make her feel welcomed.

Surely you jest

After 35 years of marriage, a husband and wife came in for counseling. The wife went into a tirade listing every problem they had ever had in the years they had been married. Neglect, lack of intimacy, emptiness, loneliness, feeling unloved and unlovable, an entire laundry list of unmet needs she had endured.

Finally, the therapist walked around the desk and after asking the wife to stand, he embraced and kissed her long and passionately as her husband watched - with a raised eyebrow.

The woman shut up and quietly sat down as though in a daze.

The therapist turned to the husband and said, "This is what your wife needs at least 3 times a week. Can you do this?"

"Well, I can drop her off here on Mondays and Wednesdays, but on Fridays, I fish."

For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism.

One of my all-time favorites:

A sheriff in a small western court rose to testify against a prisoner.

"What's this feller here charged with?" the judge demanded to know.

"Bigotry, judge," answered the sheriff. "He's got three wives."

"Three!" snorted the judge. "Why, you ignoramus, that ain't bigotry. That's trigonometry."

Service Above Self