When someone asks what Rotary ―does‖, we usually begin our

reply by talking about community service projects, the campaign to

eradicate polio, international exchanges, matching grants, scholar-

ships, etc. These are, indeed, things that Rotarians do. What Ro-

tary really does, though, is something much greater, with a much

deeper meaning. Rotary changes lives. Rotary changes lives; it

saves lives; it designs new futures for people who have no hope,

encouragement, or support. At this, the end of our Rotary year,

please allow me to remind you of the power of what Rotary really

does, and its importance to us as Rotarians.

As we close our year, my hope is that you never forget the power of Rotary, and the capacity

you have as a member of Rotary International, working with other Rotarians to achieve posi-

tive, permanent changes in the lives of millions of people around the world. Because Rotary

has no agenda other than Service Above Self, because it serves people and not govern-

ments, and because it sees all the people of the world in the same light, Rotarians can reach

people and bring about changes in their circumstances in ways that no other organization

can.

Working together within our own clubs, or partnering with other clubs in our district and oth-

ers, you, we, have achieved so much. You have touched the lives of people in each of our

communities, and in many countries – the Philippines, Guatemala, Panama, Mongolia, India,

Bangladesh, Cote d’Ivoire, Brazil, Bolivia, and many more. We have had a positive, lifelong

impact on students who joined us for a school year, and students who left us for a year, to

study in another country. Our Ambassadorial Scholars, Group Study Exchange team mem-

bers, and Rotary volunteers have extended a hand of friendship on our behalf to people far

away who will, as a result, forever be connected to Rotary District 5710, Kansas, USA. We

have helped insure that millions of children will never be crippled from polio. You have given

the gift of Rotarian membership and fellowship to many new Rotarians, and we have helped

our Rotary Foundation insure that these gifts of service can continue through Rotary’s sec-

ond century and beyond.

I hope you will always remember the power of the Family of Rotary, of which you are a vital

part, so that you will be undaunted in your imagination, desire, and determination to Make

Dreams Real. The Future of Rotary is in Your Hands, and I can’t wait to see the greatness

you will bring to it.

Thank you for a most wonderful year; I hope you have enjoyed it as much as I have. My best

to you always, and I hope our Rotary paths will cross often.

DG Vickie.

What Does Rotary Really Do?

District Governor

2008-09

Vickie Randel

Newsletter Editor

Linda Ireland

Executive Assistant

exec5710@swbell.net

To submit articles and pic-

tures for the District News-

letter, send to Linda Ireland

by the 15th of each month.

Inside this issue:

District Assembly & Conference 2-5

Annual Golf Tournament 6

District Rotarian’s Photo Selected

2008-09 Presidential Citation

Thanks You to Publisher

7

Ottawa RC Helmet Project

Marsyville RC Honors Member

8

Topeka Downtown Buys Ambu-

lance

Club Polio Projects

9

District Membership Numbers 10

Welcome New Members

Membership Attendance

11

Club News 12-13

www.rotary5710.0rg

District 5710 News

June—2009

Just over 300 district Rotarians,Youth Exchange students,

Interactors, Rotaractors, and guests attended our annual

District Assembly and Conference May 1-3, held in Overland

Park. The schedule was very full, fun, and informative, and

thanks to a fantastic team of 22 organizers, a host of

volunteers, many skilled and proficient presenters, and the ex-

tremely efficient staff of the Overland Park Marriott, everything

went smoothly. Honored guests were Past Rotary International

President Jim Lacy and his wife, Claudine, representing RI

Pres. D.K. Lee and Mrs. Young Lee. Pres. Jim and Claudine

shared their warm Tennessee charm with everyone at the

Conference, and we will always remember the special

contributions they made to the success of the event.

Some highlights of the proceedings were the presentation of music and dance by the inbound Group Study

Exchange team from D3820, the Philippines; a very endearing and funny round of answers to questions put to our

inbound Youth Exchange students; the district Educator of the Year presentations, and the presentation of awards

to a number of clubs and Rotarians. And, despite a very chilly, windy, and damp Friday morning, the annual

District golf tournament went on as scheduled!

The capstone of the awards was the presentation to Rotarian

Patti Bossert of the Topeka South Rotary Club of the prestigious

Service Above Self award. This award, the highest honor Rotary

International bestows on a Rotarian, is given annually by the

Rotary International Board of Directors, with recipients chosen

from among the hundreds of nominations put forth by the Rotary

districts around the world. Each district can nominate one of its

members each year, and only 150 awards are presented. Patti

was recognized for her many years of service to the District

through leadership in numerous activities, projects, and

initiatives. In her remarks introducing Patti, District Governor

Vickie Randel said, ―Patti is a leader in Rotary, in her profession,

and in her community. She is a true Rotarian, in her inclinations,

in her decision-making, in the way she lives her life, and in her

heart.‖

Other awards presented were……

-District Membership achievements, as of March 31: Manhattan RC, most new members recruited (16), and

Overbrook RC, highest overall growth percentage, at 18%.

-Outstanding Club Awards, selected by the District Governor: Johnson County RC in the ―small club‖ category,

Gardner RC, in the ―medium club‖ category, and the Topeka South RC, in the ―large club‖ category.

-Assistant Governors, in appreciation for their service to our district’s clubs through the 2008-09 year:

Bernice Duletski, Don Duncan, Brad Finkeldei, Willa Franklin, Dick Knoll, Ardie Lauxman (Ardie relocated to

Arizona in February 2009), Maggie Mahoney, Ron Tennissen, and Charles Volland.

District Assembly and Conference 2009

Page 2 District 5710 News

L to R: DG Vickie Randel, Claudine Lacy, PRIP Jim Lacy,

PDG Sandy Rieger, Randy Rieger. Sandy and Randy served

as aides to Past President and Mrs. Lacy.

L to R: Kurt Bossert, Claudine Lacy, Service above Self

Award Recipient Patti Bossert, PRIP Jim Lacy, DG Vickie

Randel

District Assembly and Conference (Continued)

Page 3 Newsletter Title

Other awards continued . .

-RI and District Initiatives and Committee Leadership:

Membership – Rich Barbuto, Village West RC

Polio Eradication – Robert Thompson, Gardner RC, and Lenet Compton, Spring Hill RC

Group Study Exchange – Phil Coolidge, Topeka RC

Grants – Andrea Norris, Lawrence RC

Youth Exchange – Steve Wheatley, Atchison RC

-Special Recognition from the Governor:

District Foundation Chair PDG Larry Dimmitt, Topeka RC

District Trainer Gary Duggan, Gardner RC

District Conference Chair Jane Bateman, Lawrence RC

Executive Assistant to the Governor – Linda Ireland

With sincere appreciation and high regard, the District also recognized the following educators with the District

5710 Educator of the Year Awards:

Martha Biggs – Olathe East High School

Mark Hoduski – Maranatha Academy

Steve Holloman – Topeka High School and Randolph Elementary School

1. President Truman and Jim—President Harry Truman (ala Ray Starzmann) , Friday night banquet speaker, and DGE Jim Mattes.

2. Friendly Registration Volunteers! Janet Riley (Lawrence RC), Linda Ireland, Larry Johnson (DeSoto RC), Ann Evans (Lawrence RC),

Gary Bussing (Leawood RC, and Tom Mulinazzi (Lawrence RC).

3. DG Vickie, Martha Biggs (Educator or the Year), Bob Wilhelm (President-Elect Olathe RC).

4. Kathy Gross (District Literacy Chair, DG Vickie, Steve Holloman (Educator of the Year), Kirk Johnson, (President Topeka RC).

5. DG Vickie, Mark Hoduski (Educator of the Year), Doug Wesselschmidt (President Shawnee RC)

1 2 3

4 5

Pictures from the 2009 District Assembly and Conference

District Assembly and Conference (Continued)

Page 4 District 5710 News

1. Youth Exchange Officer, Steve

Wheatley, and some of our

Inbound Youth Exchange

Students.

2. Youth Exchange students giving

a presentation of their feelings

and perceptions of the Polio

eradication Campaign.

3. Youth Exchange Officer, Steve

Wheatley, and a few of our

Inbound Youth Exchange

students.

4. The Inbound GSE team with

some of their Rotarian host

family members.

5. Behm, V, Bets, Michael, D3820

Group Study Exchange Team.

6. V, Behm, Bets, Michael,

7. DG Vickie and Jane Bateman

(Lawrence RC), District

Conference Chair.

8. DGE Jim Mattes (Shawnee

Mission RC) and AG Maggie

Mahoney (Lawrence Jayhawk

RC).

9. Larrie Scott, Brilla Scott

(Lawrence Jayhawk RC). Brilla

was a member of the District

Conference organizing

committee.

10. Wanda Wilhite and PDG Jon

Wilhite (Overbrook RC).

11. DG Vickie, Rita and Larry

Williams (President Johnson

County RC)

12. Tom Bisecker and Andrea Norris

(Lawrence RC).

13. DG Vickie and Rich Barbuto

(Village West RC), District

Membership Chair

1 2

3

13

5

6

7

10

4

9 8

11 12

Page 5 District 5710 News

District Assembly and Conference (Continued)

14. Bets, Michael, Behm, DG Vickie, V, D 3820 Team Leader Danny.

15. AG Maggie Mahonely and Irv Hoffman. Irv is a member of the DeSoto RC and the longtime ―unofficial‖ photographer of

District events. Thank you, Irv!

14 15

Annual District Golf Tournament

Special Thanks

We are especially grateful to Irv Hoffman (pictured in #15 above), DeSoto RC, and Lois Kastner, Bonner Springs

RC, for all their wonderful photographs from the Conference. The ones published in this issue are but a few of

them; between Irv and Lois, very little went unrecorded! Thank you, Irv and Lois, for generously sharing your time

and talent with us, through your photographs.

Chilly,

but

Cheery,

Golfers! For the second

year in a row,

weather tried to

put a damper on

the Annual District

Golf Tournament.

But even weather

could not keep

these devoted

golfers from their

mission of winning

the coveted District

Golf Trophy!!

Annual District Golf Tournament

Page 6 Newsletter Title

Fellow Rotarians, we find ourselves at the threshold of yet another Annual Rotarian Golf Tournament. I feel com-

pelled to remind this club that previous performance by the Jayhawk Breakfast Rotary Club teams have set a

standard of excellence heretofore not witnessed in Rotary District #5710.

Going on six years, the trophy has been won and, yes, retained by this club through dedication, practice, hard

work, and maybe a suspect field of competitors. We now find ourselves on the horns of a dilemma. The roster

has dwindled, and sacrifices are being thrust upon this proud group of competitors.

In a moment of desperation, management traded Captain Mark Andersen to another team, for a player to be

named later. Long hitting Ken Beisner, in what only can be explained as early onset of Alzheimer’s, claims not to

be able to find his way to the practice tee.

Stable short game whiz, Ron one-putt Hurst has fallen silent regarding his recent practice sessions, but does

assure us that the broken and mangled putter found in the trash container next to the practice green is not his

(anymore?). So distraught is Mr. Hurst over his short game demise that he has declined to join the team in their

quest for the 2009 championship.

And last year’s rookie Dick Stuntz, claims not to be bitter over losing $5 to Beisner in last year’s event, who then

somehow characterized this ill-gotten gain as good new at the following week’s meeting, but to his credit, did

donate some of it to the good news president’s fund. Stuntz has pledged to improve upon his shaky performance

in last year’s ice-bowl.

On the bright side, returning champion participants, Jayhawk President Jamie Low and the steady and determined

Doug Paul, promise to provide the leadership necessary to bring home the trophy for a sixth straight year.

Jayhawk Breakfast Rotarians, I call for you to pray for our brave, perhaps ill-prepared golfing warriors as they head

east at down’s early light to defend our honor on the battlefield known as Painted Hills Golf Club. It is proper that

we do so, as we know that prayer-type language will be uttered by frustrated team members throughout the day.

L to R: Lawrence Jayhawk

Rotarians Dick Stuntz, Kent

Beisner, Jamie Lowe (members

of the winning team), Wes Mills,

Del Coleman. Not pictured is

Doug Paul, the fourth Jayhawk

Rotarian on the winning team.

In addition, Kent Beisner, Jamie

Low and Dick Stuntz each won

a hole prize for hitting tee shots

closest to the pin on the par-3

holes.

On June 11th, Wes Mills presented the Kansas Rotary District 5710 Golf Tournament travel-

ing trophy to Jamie Lowe, President of Lawrence Jayhawk RC. Wes Mills and Del Coleman

are members of the Bonner Springs RC and served as chairs of the District golf tournament.

Editor Note: On April 20th, Dick Stuntz presented this Rotary Minute to his Lawrence Jayhawk Rotary Club. It was

printed in their May 28th newsletter and is reprinted here to provide background into the true spirit of the Annual

District Golf Tournament!

Congratulations and thank you to the members of the following clubs, who each achieved the 2008-09

Presidential Citation. Citation requirements included a minimum net one membership growth, the implementation

or participation in a program to reduce child mortality, and completion of at least one project or accomplishment

in Membership and each of the Four Avenues of Service.

Atchison Leawood Ottawa

Burlingame Louisburg Overbrook

Emporia Manhattan Overland Park

Gardner Manhattan Konza Overland Park South

Holton Marysville Shawnee

Johnson County Olathe Topeka South

Junction City Osawatomie

Leavenworth Oskaloosa

District Rotarian’s Photo Selected!

Rotary International recently had a photo contest, and

invited Rotarians from around the world to submit entries.

Robert Thompson, president of the Gardner RC and our

District Polio Eradication Chair, submitted this photo he took

during his NID (National Immunization Day) trip to Cote

d’Ivoire this past November, and RI chose it among the ―Best

of the Rest‖! The picture captures so much of what we love

about Rotary – the smiling face of a young volunteer, a

service project underway, and little children being, well, little

children! Congratulations, Robert, and thank you for sharing

this remarkable shot with the Rotary world.

The rest of the best can be found through this link: http://www.rotary.org/en/MediaAndNews/TheRotarian/

Pages/Bestoftherest09.aspx

Page 7 Volume 1, Issue 1

2008-09 Presidential Citation Recipients

Thank You to our Publisher!

On behalf of myself and all her readers, I want to especially thank Linda Ireland for her excellent work in publishing

our monthly District newsletters. Linda, you do so much for our district, and you do it all well. Near the top of the

list is surely your terrific work putting together our newsletters – your skills at layout, writing, editing of text and

photos, and graphics have given us many moments of reading and viewing pleasure. Thank you!

Submitted by DG Vickie Randel.

The Ottawa Rotary Club has made free bicycle helmets available to those

children who need them to encourage safe bicycle riding. The Club

Foundation, with a matching grant from Rotary District #5710 Simplified

Grants, purchased over 150 helmets in an effort to reduce child mortality and

risk of mortality in Ottawa.

The grant project was written to provide helmets, partner with local

organizations, and promote the use of helmets through the activities and

training. The first activity the club participated in was the recent Communities

in Schools Bicycle Rodeo with all second

graders in USD 290. Club members

conducted helmet fitting and rodeo

activities along with other volunteers all

day on April 16th. ―This was a great activity and I enjoyed helping the second

graders get new helmets and learn the rules of the road‖, said club member

Dr. Bill

Campbell.

In addition, the club is partnering with the City of

Ottawa Police Department and the Franklin County

EMS Department to distribute helmets to children.

Chuck Bigham, current Rotary President, praised

the local police department ―This idea was actually

began as an idea of Chief Butler’s and we are

pleased that both he and Nick Robbins, EMS

Director, see this as a community service

partnership that we all benefit from.‖ Officers and

EMS employees will be handing out cards inviting the child and parents to

come to the Law Enforcement Center or EMS station to get a helmet fitted for

their toddlers or youth who they see riding without proper equipment. The goal

is to ensure their safety.

Rotarian Norman Nork was recognized for his 60 year membership in the Marysville

Rotary Club. Norman’s family, friends and fellow Rotarians reviewed highlights of

each decade since Norman joined the club in 1949. Norman was Club President in

1959 and owner of Ackerman Jewelry Store. His grandfather, Herman Ackerman, was

one of the Charter member of the club in 1923. Norman has been recognized for per-

fect attendance and continues to have one of the best attendance records. Norman

is a Navy war veteran, retired businessman and an important member of the Marys-

ville Rotary Club and their community. Congratulations Norman on 60 years!

The Marysville Rotary Club also presented two $1,000 each ―Marysville Rotary Ser-

vice Above Self‖ scholarships to two outstanding Marysville High School seniors.

Ottawa Rotary Club Bicycle Helmet Project

Marysville Rotary Club Honors Norman Nork and Presents Scholarships

Page 8 Newsletter Title

Rehan Reza, a member of the Topeka Downtown RC presented the

need for an ambulance in his home town in Narayangong,

Bangladesh to the Topeka Rotary Club board of directors in

December 2007. His friend’s father died in a private car because

there was no ambulance with life support equipment to carry him

to the hospital in Dhaka—only 12 miles from his home town.

Because of poor road and traffic conditions it can take two or three

hours to travel the 12 miles. Assembling a fully equipped

ambulance in Bangladesh would cost $25,000, more that the

Topeka Downtown Rotary Club could contribute. Through a

matching grant from District 5710 and the Rotary Foundation the

club was able to raise $15,500. Ashraf Sufi, also a member of the Topeka Downtown Rotary Club and current

President of the Islamic Medical Association of North America, decided to ask his organization if they could raise

the remaining needed funds. On May 11th, almost a year and a half later, Narayangong received its ambulance.

The new ambulance is already saving the lives of people who before would have fallen victim to the short but

deadly 12-mile trip between Narayangong and Dhaka.

Olathe Santa Fe Trail Rotary Club has raised $1,080 through contribution from

members who play ―The Game.‖ Tickets were sold each week for a chance to try to

pull the Queen of Spades from a deck of cards. If no ones wins that week, the

money stays in the pot and the draw card is removed from the deck. This goes on

each week at their meetings. They are down to 15 cards and the Queen is still

there!! The winner will be entitled to half the money, but the club hopes the winner

will make the donation to the polio fund.

Other contributions to the Polio fund have come from members paying for breakfast

and a $200 check from Olathe Santa Fe Trail Rotarian, Mary Linse.

Topeka Downtown Rotary Club Provides Ambulance to Bangladesh

Olathe Santa Fe Trail Plays “The Game” for Polio

Home Grown Sunflowers Available to help End Polio Now!

July 8 through July 19

Zimmerman’s Kill Creek Farm

The DeSoto Rotary Club has planted acres of sunflowers in several varieties

at club member Darrel Zimmerman’s Kill Creek Farm, 9210 Kill Creek

Road, DeSoto (NW corner of K-10 and Kill Creek Road). Club members will

be cutting and selling the fresh sunflowers to raise money toward the Gates

Foundation Challenge Grant match to eradicate polio. Plan to go to Darrel’s

farm between July 8th and July 19th and purchase lots of beautiful Kansas

sunflowers—and help End Polio Now!

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Page 10 Newsletter Title

Clubs with zero entered for

the current month’s member-

ship (highlighted in blue) did

not submit a Secretary’s

Report to the District website

for the month of May by the

deadline date of

June, 15, 2009.

The membership count listed

for July 1, 2008 reflects the

information Rotary Interna-

tional received on club Semi-

Annual Reports (SAR’s) sub-

mitted for that date. This is

the number that will be used

to calculate membership

growth in our District for

2008-09.

District

Membership

Numbers

Month of May

CLUB 7/1/2008 Mem-

bership Membership As Of

5/31/2009 Membership

Goals May Atten-

dance

Atchison 71 74 74 47.00%

Baldwin City 12 14 14 62.00%

Blue Rapids 20 0 21 0.00%

Blue Valley 10 10 14 92.00%

Bonner Springs 28 25 32 68.70%

Burlingame 10 12 11 50.00%

Burlington 36 33 39 56.19%

Council Grove 47 44 49 64.00%

De Soto 41 36 46 53.89%

Emporia 77 76 82 42.53%

Emporia Sunrise 18 0 20 0.00%

Frankfort 23 25 25 74.00%

Gardner 60 64 66 71.88%

Garnett 25 28 28 57.00%

Holton 27 25 29 64.00%

Howard 16 17 18 55.88%

Johnson County 46 51 51 79.41%

Junction City 82 89 102 48.00%

Junction City Flint Hills 18 0 20 0.00%

Kansas City 66 63 71 61.00%

Lawrence 205 205 215 52.76%

Lawrence Central 30 28 36 43.00%

Lawrence Jayhawk 64 66 66 71.15%

Leavenworth 86 0 87 0.00%

Leawood 52 55 53 81.00%

Lenexa 47 0 65 0.00%

Louisburg 42 42 43 50.00%

Manhattan 203 0 205 0.00%

Manhattan Konza 56 61 59 55.18%

Marysville 42 44 45 84.10%

Olathe 89 0 94 0.00%

Olathe Santa Fe Trail 47 45 48 45.00%

Osawatomie 26 26 29 78.00%

Oskaloosa 25 32 27 71.00%

Ottawa 23 26 24 52.00%

Overbrook 28 33 30 76.00%

Overland Park 162 161 170 61.31%

Overland Park South 93 94 98 68.39%

Paola 35 32 39 69.00%

Shawnee 67 62 69 78.40%

Shawnee Mission 66 0 85 0.00%

Spring Hill 15 16 17 56.00%

Topeka Downtown 205 196 210 44.25%

Topeka North 19 0 21 0.00%

Topeka South 116 117 118 68.90%

Topeka West 22 20 26 86.00%

Valley Falls 21 20 23 80.00%

Village West 34 37 41 62.00%

TOTALS/Average Attendance 2653 2104 2855 60.51%

Garnett Ramesh Patel

Holton James Karleskint

Indian Creek Sunset (Prov) David Pruente

Lawrence Clay Phillips

Leawood Christopher Armer, Neil Sommers

Manhattan Konza Monica Cameron

Overbrook Charles Hull

Overland Park Paul Baltzer, Ryan Cook, Christie Higgins

Spring Hill Johnny Ford

Topeka Downtown Marilu Balista, Scott Gales

Topeka South Faron Barr, Jeff Wagaman

WELCOME—New Members For May

Page 11 June—2009

Clubs With Over 70% Membership Attendance for November

Will you club be listed here next month?

Blue Valley 92.00%

Topeka West 86.00%

Marysville 84.10%

Leawood 81.00%

Valley Falls 80.00%

Johnson County 79.41%

Shawnee 78.40%

Osawatomie 78.00%

Overbrook 76.00%

Frankfort 74.00%

Gardner 71.88%

Oskaloosa 71.00%

Average Club

Meeting

Attendance for the

month of May:

60.51%

Solola, Guatemala

November 4-11, 2009

Heart to Heart

and

Districts 4250, 5710,

and 6960

Water, Sanitation and

Hygiene Program

For details from the

District Website,

CLICK HERE.

Page 12 District 5710 News

Club News

To submit Club News,

include in monthly

President Report or

email to

Linda Ireland,

exec5710@swbell.net

Include details and

pictures if available.

Topeka Downtown Rotary Club

The club had a significant role in the recent annual Old Shawnee Day Celebra-

tion. Club members worked at the information booth and greeted 100,000 visi-

tors over the 4-day event. Club members Dawn Kuhn and Neil Holman served

on the event steering committee. A pie and baked goods contest was held. The

entry samples were sold to the crowd, raising $400 for the Shawnee RC,

With proceeds from the 2nd Annual Speakeasy, a $6,000 check was present to

Rebuilding Together

Shawnee (RTS), an or-

ganization that provides

housing rehabilitation

and improvements to

homeowners in need.

Pictured L to R: Paul

Ridgway, David Morris

(RTS), Jeff Bahnson

(RTS), Matt Zimmerman,

Patrick Hammond,

Kevin Tubbesing and his

daughter.

Leavenworth Rotary Club

Donated $253 to Quinton Heights Elementary School Reading is Fundamental

Program.

Purchased library books for Linn Elementary School.

REACH ( Rotary Encouraging Academic Collegiate Help) gave 13 Bishop Ward

senior $1,300 in gift cards to Target for a successful year in REACH.

Supported four students from Bishop Ward High School to attend RYLA at KU.

Leawood Rotary Club

Cleaned 10th Avenue Park for the first time. This will be an ongoing project that

will require weekly cleaning. Trees are planted in this park to honor the clubs

career completed Rotarians.

Awarded four $1,000 academic scholarships and two $500 vo-tech scholar-

ships to local students.

Awarded the club’s annual JROTC award to an outstanding Leavenworth High

School ROTC member.

Club will collect over $10,000 for Relay for Life to be held June 5-6.

Hosted international officer’s at the Command and General Staff College at

three meetings.

Club received the Star Award at District Conference.

Shawnee Rotary Club

On May 2nd the club held a paper shredding day. They brought in a truck with a

self-contained paper shredder.

The club held a wine=tasting party at the New City

Café in honor of Service Above Self award recipient,

Patti Bossert (see article on page 2). The proceeds

from the ticket sales were donated to the RI Foun-

dation. Pictured at right: DG Vickie, Patti Bossert.

DG Vickie proclaimed Topeka South RC Middle

Sized Club of the Year for District 5710.

Topeka South Rotary Club

Page 13 June—2009

Club News

Lawrence Rotary Club

Club is planting a tree in the Lawrence Rotary Arboretum in memory of Krista

Wagner.

Ed Samp was presented with his Paul Harris certificate, pin and medallion.

Overbrook Rotary Club

Club presented awards to the outstanding male and female student at the 8th

grade and the high school.

Oskaloosa Rotary Club

Village West Rotary Club

The club held its 3rd Annual ―Service With Taste,‖ an event to celebrate the club

charter and rotary year, and raised $2,500 for the Sunflower House and the

Providence-St. John Foundation.

First annual ―Strike Out Polio‖ event raised $1,008.35 for PolioPlus.

Bill Eggering awarded his wife, Jackie, with a Paul Harris Fellowships during the

club’s ―Service With Taste‖ event. Also at the event, Mac Taylor (General Man-

ager of Cheeseburger in Paradise) was named the Village West Rotary Club’s

Rotarian of the Year. He will be awarded a Paul Harris Fellow.

Quinton Davis and son Luke,

Tony Barron

Allen Wise and Jan Hayes

Overland Park South Rotary Club

The club’s new members group (Pledge Class) held two service projects at

Turning Point. One project was to put together volunteer packets and the other

project was to plant a garden.

Club member John Vandewalle went to Guatemala with Heart-to-Heart Interna-

tional to distribute and install clean water filtration units purchased by the club

Foundation and a District Simplified Grant. The team members are pictured on

the right. John is the first person on the left.

Watch for a full

article about the

Guatemala Water,

Sanitation and

Hygiene Trip in next

month’s newsletter