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District 6900 News for May, 2019
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From the District Governor
By Court Dowis We promised you FUN at the District Conference in Sandestin - and I hope you had as much fun as Annette and I did. WOW! Thanks to our District Conference Committee, led by Kay Williamson and PDG Bill Woulfin, for making sure we had a great time together! If you weren't there, think about joining DGE Jim Squire and your fellow Rotarians from April … [more] |
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District Family of Rotary Event
By Court Dowis You're invited to join your District Rotarians for a night of baseball, Star Wars, fireworks and fellowship at the Atlanta Braves game on Friday, May 17. The Braves are playing the Milwaukee Brewers and the game starts at 7:20 pm.
Sign up at the District 6900 website. Cost to members, family and guests will be only $20 per
person
, including a hot dog and soft drink. All seats are in our Rotary Block; seating is first come first
serve or swap to sit with your club.
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The Rotary Foundation
By Margie Kersey This has been an amazing year for The Rotary Foundation in
our district – and it’s not over yet. The work you have done this year has
changed the world and served as an inspiration for others. For that, thank you! You are on track to have the best overall giving for the
past six (maybe longer!) While this is a cool thing to achieve; I don’t ask you to give just to set a record.
I don’t ask you to give because DG
Court or I might get a pat on the head (we won’t). I am asking you to give because it is your donations that allow
this district to fund all the amazing things you do with grants. [more] |
 Our 2018-19 Sheffield leadershp award winners |
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District Awards
By Jackie Cuthbert At District Conference, the following clubs and individuals were recognized for being the best in a district where everyone gives their best to Be the Inspiration! [more] |
 Anthony Slaughter with Co-Conference Chair Kay Williamson and DG Court |
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District Conference 2019
By Jackie Cuthbert On Friday night at District Conference, several Rotary People of Action were recognized for their contributions to Rotary and District 6900. Thanks to these individuals for their work with Rotary and for being an inspiration to us all! [more] |
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Rotary Youth Exchange
By Mike Parks At its 2019 annual conference last month, the Rotary North
American Youth Exchange Network (NAYEN) recognized the leadership team of Rotary
Youth Exchange District 6900 as one of the top three districts in North
America. The prestigious Rotary NAYEN
Silver awarded to the district’s committee recognizes a commitment to best
practices, continual improvement, and excellence in the operation of the
district’s Rotary Youth Exchange program.
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GRSP Update
By Lynn Clarke NEWS FOR STUDENTS NEXT YEAR
Those clubs that are sponsoring a GRSP
are finally able to communicate with their students for next year. New
friends are being made on Facebook and Instagram. We are finally seeing
who our students really are and we are all excited each time we receive an
email from this other country. We … [more] |
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Club News
By Bob Koncerak The Rotary Club of Alpharetta is teaming up with a local bank to offer a "cash course, crash
course" financial literacy training to high school and college
students
to
fundraise for our Tanzania school clean water project, we'd like to present
this session to your group or organization!
For a $500
sponsorship, we'll … [more] |
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GRSP
By Becky Stone The Rotary
Club of Roswell
administers the Barbara M. and Donald L. Thomas Peace Award - a $1500 annual award to a GRSP student who exhibits the spirit of GRSP and
who is in need of financial assistance.The benefactors, Don and Barbara Thomas, were always strong supporters
of GRSP. This year’s
Thomas Peace Award recipient is … [more] |
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Club News
By Jackie Cuthbert In September of 2000, a physician and a minister came
together with a vision that all Clayton County residents should have access to
medical care without consideration for their ability to pay. Since the once a
week schedule of seeing patients the Good Shepherd Clinic hasgrown to where they are offering primary
health care, acute care, lab testing … [more] |
 PDG Margie and Ron Kersey |
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RI Council on Legislation
By Margie Kersey The Council on Legislation meets every three years in
Chicago to consider and vote on changes to the governing documents of Rotary
International and runs under strict Parliamentary procedure. Every district in
the world (currently 538 of them) selects a representative to attend and cast
their votes. I am grateful to have been selected to represent our district at
the 2019 COL. It was amazing and educational. Different districts around the
world have different issues and part of the challenge of deciding on the
legislation was determining whether every district in the world should be
impacted by a change designed to solve a problem in a single, or a few
districts. It certainly required a great deal of study, contacting resources
and listening with an open mind to debate from both sides of every issue. And I
want to thank all of the Rotarians in our district that shared their opinion
and knowledge with me as I prepared for the COL – you were all a great help!
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Club News
By Anne Marie Pitts In April, the Rotary of East Cobb hosted Thirsty Thursday for the eight Rotary Clubs of Cobb
County at Hoyle’s Kitchen and Bar in Marietta. It was an opportunity to
make new friends, create partnerships and welcome our new Cobb County club,
Rotary Club of Atlanta Brasil. This is the second event we have hosted
for our county … [more] |
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Club News
By Dale Covington The Rotary Club of Marietta and the Kiwanis Club of Marietta
again jointly sponsored Community Sunrise Services for approximately 400 people
at the base of Kennesaw Mountain on Easter Sunday. Following prelude music, the
services opened opened with a “Call to Sunrise Celebration” by the Assistant
Governor of Rotary District … [more] |
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