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Welcome to the Rotary Club of Hemet,
California
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Rotary is:
"For over 100 years Rotary has been a non-religious, non-political
organization of people dedicated to making the world a better place through
acts of charity, fellowship, and service. Today the men and women of Rotary
are united by a commitment to truth, fairness, building goodwill, and a
desire for mutual success. For tomorrow we see hope in a drop of vaccine, a
jug of clean water, and a handshake that reaches around the
world."
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Upcoming Project June 5 to Support the local Youth Museum.
Kid Zone, now changing to
Fingerprints Museum, newly under control by United Way of Hemet. Spaghetti and Pizza
Night sponsored by the RC of Hemet, and the American Legion. $8.00 -
June 5, 4:30-7:30 p.m. , at the Hemet American Legion hall at 124 N.
Ramona, Hemet. Dr. Bob DeGroot from
the Earthquake Center will tell what is shaking in California. All funds go to support the youth museum.
for Tickets Call (951) 929-4941
Help us Help Kids
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Rotary Wheel
Around the hub of fellowship is built the wheel of Rotary,
with spokes reaching out like hands to people of all lands.
Shoulder to shoulder we stand, hands clasped in mutual helpfulness;
bound by an encircling golden band.
"Service Above Self"
is the power that makes the Rotary wheel go around,
blending personalities and binding nationalities."
If It
Is To Be - It Is Up To Me
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Invitation
We Invite all qualified members
of our community to come visit us and consider joining in with an
Organization that for 53 years has worked hard for the Youth, Seniors, and
those not so well off, both in our community and internationally. We have
contributed more than $650,000 to both community and international
projects. We meet at the El Jalapeno Restaurant every Tuesday at
noon. 199 No. State St., Hemet, CA (at Florida Ave. behind the Car
Wash)
Qualifications for membership are: Entrepreneur,
Professional, Management, or Retirees from these categories.
For more
information email: Jennifer Daniel or call (951) 318-5432
Visitors are welcome, but please let us
know.
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Upcoming Speakers: A
Good speaker holds your attention, and we have a good speaker every week
telling us of many things of interest about our local businesses, city,
state, country, and Rotary projects around the world. Visitors
are welcome. Call our President Jennifer
Daniel at
(951) 318-5432 and let her know so we can plan for the food.
NOTE: Rotary is a non-religious and
non-political charitable organization, and will NOT give ANY opinion which way
to vote on any of these subjects. We simply give both sides of any
issue an opportunity to present their position to us.
Meeting Speakers
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 05/13/08
This week our speaker was Charlene
Stover speaking about Scholarships for San Jacinto High School, the
difficulty of getting them for the students, and of course the value to the
students. Many times a scholarship,
even small, may influence a graduating student to go on to further ther
education at San Jacinto Community College or other Schools.
In addition she talked about
the San Jacinto Education Foundation which was founded in 2001 to enhance the
educational experience of young people in our educational community. It is a voluntary organization dedicated to
improving the educational opportunities of the studenr of SJUSD through
teacher incentives, scholarships and grants in areas where the need is
greatest. They have founded the Edward
Hyatt Athletic Hall of Fame, and the Distinguished Alumni Recognition Award. If you wish to contribute, contact them
at 2045 So. San Jacinto Ave., San Jacinto, CA 92583. also (951)929-7700 x4530
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 05/06/08 This
Week our speaker was Dr. Helene Kalfuss, Past District Governor of our
District 5330. Helene, along with her
husband Leonard Kalfuss, MD, presented their program, Helene and Leonard
on the Road. They went on a trip to the Orient as an Oversight Committee
for Rotary International, to evaluate the success of the vision and interocular implant programs
that the RI Foundation had funded.
These are done as matching grant programs with Rotary Districts and
Rotary Clubs. In Bangalore & So.
India they visited several hospital sites that Rotary Clubs had built and
sponsored. India has 100,000,000 or 25% of all the worlds blind people with
many of them cataracts, and these programs were to do interocular lens
implants to replace the normal lens. They also traveled to Cochin Harbor and
Sharada. Then went on to Singapore and
Dandar Surway in Malasia before returning home. The volunteerism of Rotarian Doctors, Nurses and members, along
with the Clubs and Districts on both sides of the world magnify and multiply
the money and efforts toward aiding many needs in the world.
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04/29/08 Today
we had Bob Duistermars fill in again and he talked about the San Jacinto
Valley Academy, a Charter School that the United Way had a part in getting
started. It has progressed to the point since it's opening in 1997, to
where it is now serving 300 students, and Sr. High Grades 9-11.
Next year they will have their first graduating class. The Charter
schools work under the hat of the San Jacinto
Unified School District. The
education of the children is based on the Inquiry learning method, and the
sole focus of the school since its start has been on Achievement. The main focus of their educational program is to
deepen students' awareness regarding their natural and social
environment. The school has no problem meeting the federal No
Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) requires that all schools and districts meet
Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) requirements. There is also a required high
level of Parent participation. They are located at 480 N. San Jacinto,
San Jacinto, CA 92583. Tel: (951) 654-6113 Check their website
for further information: http://www.sjacademy.org
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  04/22/08 Today we had Chuck
Peeples from West Valley High School as our speaker. He is the head
coach of their basketball program and presented a great story of progress
with their program. Chuck cam 5 years ago and faced a team that had
hardly won a game for several seasons. When he put out a call at the
beginning ot that year for potential players, only 2 came. This is a winning
story of young 9th grade students who had never played basketball, and many
from underpriviledged homes. In the intervening 5 years the
program grew steadily and at the last season 45 students showed up to play.
They began to make the CIF playoffs, and at the end of the last year they
beat all toughest schoodl in the league, and Then Perris to take the
Championship. They are the only team in the valley to have ever won the
CIF Title.
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 04/15/08 Today was a
special day where we met in KidZone and had lunch, after which we were given
a tour by Bob Duistermars, President of United Way. They have taken
over the operation and Bob talked about the future and what the Goals and
Objectives were. Some of the displays will leave and there will be some new
ones as well. The primary goal will be to upgrade the displays to the
standards of the Calif. Dept. of Education and their Codes. This will allow
Teachers and the School Districts to be able to utilize KidZone and still
receive their ADA money from the State. Once finished each exhibit will have
available on the KidZone website, complete lesson plans for the teacher, study
papers for the students complete with tests. Once the Students have completed
their study they will then be taken to the KidZone to observe and
complete the plan. Some of the remaining projects are Water and the
water cycle, a bank for math, the kids TV station, have The
United Way is in the process of getting a new name and have initiated a contest which anyone can enter
at:
http://namethemuseum.com/. This contest ends May 01, 2008. An announcement will be publicly made. First
place winners will receive a $500. Savings Bond from Arrowhead Credit Union.
Second place will receive a $100. gift card from BJ Sporting Goods. The third
place winner will receive a DVD player from the San Jacinto Walmart. Kidzone webesite: http://www.kidzone.org/
Below you can see many of the current learning
stations.
     
 
 
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 04/08/08 Today we had
Tatianna Huckstep as our speaker. She is a student at West Valley High
School. We selected her to attend RYLA this past weekend (Rotary Youth
Leadership Awards), which is a weekend at a mountain resort and the
chance to get together with other Junior - 11th grade - students from
many HS in Riverside and San Bernardino counties. They are given much
training in leadership skills that will help them throughout their
lifetime. Being mixed together in small groups allows them to
discuss and learn skills in areas
of diversity, relating to personal issues positively, turning negative
situation into positive, Stereotyping, and morals and values. And they
finally get to listen to several top speakers who relate their life
experiences and what a person achieve if they just have faith and stay
focused. One example was a felon, who when he was released from prison
turned his life around and trained to become an RN. These students are
nervous when they begin to come together on Friday after school, and by
Sunday are very tearful when the have to go home and away from their new found
friends. Contratulations to Tatianna, and we just might see her
returning next year as a returning counselor.
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 03/29/08 Today we had Russ Bogh, Past Assemblyman from our 37th
District, and again a Candidate for the same seat. Amazingly enough he
didn't even give us the usual political entreaties. His talk was basically
about the State budget. The deficit when he was previously in office was
about $24B which was reduced to about $4B. Unfortunately it has risen
again to $18B. He also talked about the effects of Prop. 58 and Prop.
76. Also about waste by the state government and how it impacts
transportation, education and other departments.
In line with
our non-political position, we will also invite his opponent to talk to us.
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 03/25/08 Our speaker today was unable to come at the
last minute. We had Emerson Bixby, from the Hemet Historic Downtown Theater,
in attendance to be honored as our business of the month. We enticed
him to be our speaker and tell us all about the theater and his thoughts
about the Theater and Hemet. It turns out that Emerson is a very
community oriented person and in addition to just running a theater, he uses
it to enhance the lives of the citizens in our valley. A very few of his
ideas are using movies as a benefit for people with serious problems. Another
event centered around amnesty for small furry creatures.
There is a beautiful website at
http://hemettheatre.com/ with a Film Schedule and much more information. It
is located at 216 E. Florida Ave. Phone number is 951-658-7123
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  03/18/08 Today's speaker was member Bob Duistermars, President/CEO
of Central County United Way. He brought us up-to-date on the status of Kid
Zone, the youth museum, since they took control of it. Kid Zone had been in
serious financial trouble and late last year, in essence they simple dropped
the keys into the lap of CCUW. Changing the name to Kid Smart indicates
the direction that they will pursue in the future, i.e. Education and
Cultural Learning. There is an ongoing shift to a learning atmosphere that
will follow the California State Education standards. This will allow
teachers to go into there website, download the educational material and then
teach that information to the students for a week or two. Then
they will be able to have a field trip to the museum so the students can
interact with that subject. After returning to school the teacher can then
give the students a test, that they have also downloaded from the
website. By adhering to the State standards, the School district will
no lose their ADA payment. One of the major subjects in the museum concerns
earthquakes, and they are and will be
more. CCUW can contact Lorraine Ousley, KidSmart Director at (909)
980-2857 ext. 203, lusley@iew.org,
or http://www.kidzone.org/
where
they have an
e-newsletter one can sign up for.
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  03/11/08 This weeks speaker
was Linda Denver, a Rotarian from our Perris Club. An amazing lady who
is very active in her club, and is in charge of this year's District Conference,
to be held April 17-20 at the DoubleTree Hotel in Ontario. But most of her
talk was about her fun activity, auto racing. Her husband was racing a
small stock car mostly at the Perris Auro Speedway, and in going with him to
help and to watch, she one day got talked into trying it herself, and like
most people do race, it is very quickly becomes a part of your soul for the
rest of you life. She is a racing Grandmother, and she told us about
some of her exploits on the track at Perris Auto Racing track. Part of her
story includes one night when approaching the end of the straightaway, her
steering box failed at about55-60 MPH, and she went straight into the
wall at the corner. That part did cause her to miss the rest of the
year but she was right back at it the next year. Even though she had
some injuries the safety built into a race car saved her from any worse
injury. The cars have a built-in rollcage and a special seat to help
confine the driver. They also have to wear a firesuit and fire resistant
gloves and shoes,
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03/04/08 This week was
a Club Assembly where we discuss club business.
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 02/26/08 Today we had Karin Marriott, Director of Public
Information and Marketing at Mt. San Jacinto Community College District as a
2 year college. Also Camille Kraft the Director of
Services. The College covers 1,700 square miles, has an enrollment of
20,000, and can confer 11 A.A. degrees; 22 A.S. Degrees; 31 Certificates; and
14 Employment Concentration Certificates. Credits transfer to 4-year
universities. There are two main campuses in San Jacinto and Menifee Valley,
along with the Temecula Education Complex, and the San Gorgonio Pass Service
Center in Banning. A 48 acre campus in southeast Banning is planned in
the future.
San Jacinto 951-487-3215; Menifee 951-639-5215; Temecula 951-308-1059;
San Gorgonio Pass 951-922-1327
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 02/19/08 This time we have selected Document Solutions Legal Services
Inc. as Our Business of the month. It is run by Debra Williams L.D.A.
"For all your legal needs". "If you don't need an
Attorney's advise, Don't pay an attorneys price!" She can supply
help for any need from Adoptions to Wills. She can be contacted at
(951) 929-8899, or at 222 E Florida Ave. She is Licensed and Bonded.
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 Nhamo Mawema, a
visiting Rotarian from Zimbabwe, is a member of the Rotary Club of Borrowdale
Brooke, in Harare. His Club is 6 years old and functions much as ours, with
projects both International and local. They sponsor a book literacy
reading project for children in three schools; distribute clothing and food for
children; support a malaria project to eradicate mosquitoes; support
one school with all their supplies; support an orphanage with bedding and a
washing machine; supply free physicals for an aides project; and a clean
water project. A truly remarkable Rotary Club.
 Our speaker today was
Wayne Discher, the Director of the Hemet City Library, who told us of
the many things that they do for the community. Beside what we think of as
the usual books, tapes, CDs and DVDs, they sponsor many Special events every
month from reading to special concerts. The have a regular monthly
schedule that is available. They have computers for all to use,
and also free wireless access, both in the building and outside. They sponsor
Scrabble every Wednesday at 4:00PM, and Genealogy classes in the Heritage
Room. A community focus point for kids, teens and
adults.
(951) 765-2440, 300 E Latham, Hemet, On the Internet at
www.hemetpubliclibrary.org
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 2/5/08: Our speaker
today was Mary Snow, from the Inland United Way. She is the Program
Director for their Foster Grandparent Program, and Senior Companion Program,
both of which are national Programs. The Foster Grandparent Program
with more than 30,000 volunteers, provides one on one loving and experienced
tutors and mentors to more than 250,000 children and youth with special
needs.
Photo: Ken Shaw
receiving Service Award from Mary)
The Senior Companion Program with 15,000 volunteers serve more than
56,000
homebound seniors and other frail adults, to maintain independence in their
own homes. Their is always a need for more volunteers, and those who
would like to help should contact Mary Snow at the United Way: 418 E. Florida
Ave, Hemet, 92543, 951-929-0426, or fax at 951-652-0064. marysnow@ccuw.org www.ccuw.org
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 1/29/08, Our annual "4 Way
Test" speech contest for High School Students at West Valley HS
went off very well with 5 students participating. They give a 5 minute
speech, during which they have to incorporate each of the 4 Way
Test Items. The winner gets to advance on to our District
Conference contest where scholarships are earned up to $1,000.
The
contestants: Kelly Weddel - 1st Place; Karen DeLeon - 2nd Place;
Monique Garcia - 3rd Place; and Melinda Hernandez and Tatianna Huckstep -
Honorable Mention.
L to R: Weddel,
Garcia, DeLeon, Hernandez, Huckstep
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  1/22/08 Our program this week was centered around our
Monthly Business of the Month program. Our members are always looking for
businesses that stand for many of the qualities that Rotarians try to live by
(4 Way Test). Rent-To-U was our
featured business this month. Lela Liskey was here to represent the
business and to tell us about it and herself. They Jennifer,
Lela,
Margaret
primarily
rent for Parties and Weddings, and they advertise "No event too large or
too small", but with their inventory they can handle many other
events. Because of her Service Above Self attitude, she donated the
tables and chairs for the Firestorm 2007 Relief Benefit Dinner to support the
survivors and Firefighters affected by the recent firestorm that struck So.
Calif. You can find them at 1515 E. Florida Ave. next to Gus Jr No.
15. or call 951-658-7368 or 909-732-5736.
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 1/15/08 This week we had
John Butts and Terry Hurd, managers of The Camelot, where Gracious Retirement
Living is a way of life. When we age enough many find that it becomes
more and more difficult to take care of ones home and property, and we begin
to falter in cooking nutritious meals like we should. John described
the benefits of living in a place like Camelot where everyone gets three
meals a day that are designed by certified nutritionists, and this encourages
people to make Hurd,
Butts and Pres. Daniel friends
and look forward to social intercourse, whereas living alone at hom one tends
to give up on going out and loses contact with friends. They can be
contacted at 951-929-0145, fax 951-929-1858 or 800 W. Oakland, Hemet 92543
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 1/8/08 After a couple weeks off because of
Christmas and New Year's Day, we started the New Year with Paul King and
Candy Bushway from Home Instead Senior Care as our speakers. They
offer non-medical assistance for those who are advanced in years, and find
that they are having a difficult time doing things and taking care of
themselves. They offer care and support that allows one to continue having an
independent lifestyle that doesn't require one to change their
lifestyle. The serve can be a few hours-a-day, up to 24 - seven
days-a-week, including weekends and holidays. Home Instead is international
serving nearly 1 million clients with only the most trusted and passionate
trained CAREGivers.
Contact at (951)929-1050, hemet@homeinstead.com
or www.hemeinstead.com.
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  12/18/07 Today we had Donna
(D.J.) Willis, an Instructor with Canine Support Teams, an organization
from Temecula that helps raise, train, and donate "Support Dogs" to
people who have serious disabilities, and cannot deal with simple tasks in
their daily lives that we tend to take for granted: Picking up a dropped
item, getting the mail out of the mailbox, turning on or off the lights,
pressing an elevator button. For a person with a disability these tasks can
be a serious problem. With a specially trained dog from CST to Assist with
these tasks, they no longer need to be a challenge. CST is a non-profit
organization and to continue their work, they depend on financial donations,
and people to raise the puppies.
(951) 301-3625, CSTMAIN@AOL.COM
OR www.caninesupportteams.org
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 12/11/07 We are now deep in
the midst of the Thanksgiving/Christmas holiday season, where we all find it
difficult to stay away from all those wonderful treats that are full of sugar
and honey and fat and taste so good. So Today we had Lynette Tucker, a
Family Wellness Coordinator, speak to us about proper nutrition. We all know
we need vitamins and minerals in our diet, and Lynette represents "Juice
Plus", a balanced nutritional blend of fresh raw fruits and vegetables,
to supplement and give a balanced diet for a healthier body.
Contact her at 866-374-0190 or lynette.tucker@earthlink.net
and she will give you a copy of "Nutrition Tips for Healthy Holiday Living".
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 12/4/07 (Pictured is Marc
Searl and our President Elect Jerry Julian) Marc Searl, and his
BJ's business, was awarded our Business of the Month Certificate today for
the quality he maintains. And while he was there, we pressed him into being
our speaker for the day, since he is a City Council Member, and the Mayor for
this term. The City has done an efficiency evaluation on the City
Departments and changes have been made. The services County services as not
up to the quality of the City, and there are areas on both the East and West
sides where some property owners are interested in being taken into the City.
Discussions are ongoing with EMW - Eastern Municipal Water District - to live
up to agreements made with regard to recreational areas and other issues. The
proposed change in the Hwy 79 on the West side are down to two of the
proposed highway directions, and the Vernal pools with the fairy shrimp are
still part of the issue, and costing millions of dollars to find an
agreement. And there is traffic study underway by a professional firm.
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 11/27/07 Richard Masyczek, Club Member, and the Planning
Director for the City of Hemet, gave us much information about growth in the
City and the types of businesses that were or wanted to build within the
City. Shopping centers are on the board, beside the ones already
approved, and include large anchor stores and many restaurants. Also
Office and Medical complexes. The City has now grown to about 77,000 citizens
and the average age of it's citizenry has dropped from 68 in the recent past
to 48 now.
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 11/20.07Michael S Turner is
recognized for his distinguished community and professional leadership. He
specializes in how to prepare for negative media coverage for people and
businesses who have that risk, and to combat it if is occurs. It could be
a pretty dry subject, but he has a very lively interactive presentation and
is easy to listen to. He has developed Sterling R. Bearsworth as an
aide to lighten up the presentation, but this enhances his ability to
captivate his audience. It was a light enjoyable and educational
time.
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sm%20copy.jpg) 11/13/07 Our speakers were Bobbi Christy and Wren Gateneau from
Kid Zone Museum. It is an interactive learning center for kids in the San Jacinto
Valley. The first words a child hears when they come in to the center
is "Please Touch". There is a vast array of subject areas for
them to investigate: Rock wall to climb; Ambulance; Police motorcycle,
station & jail; rock wall to climb; wheel chair basketball, momentum
machine; paleontology pit; grocery store, doctor's office, KKid TV station;
bank; shake zone etc etc.
Like all non-profit organizations KidZone struggles to stay ahead of costs,
and they have had a major jump this year. An Anonymous donor has most
generously offered to match all new donations through Dec. 31, 2007 up to a
total of $10,000, so if you have any desire to help them, this is the time to do
it and double your own donation. KidZone Youth Museum,
123 S. Carmalita St, Hemet, CA
92543, (951) 765-1223, kidzoneym@yahoo.com
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 11/6/07 Firestorm
2007 From the Ashes
Relief Benefit Dinner to honor and raise funds for the survivors and honor the
firefighters affected by the recent wildfires in Southern California. Click Firestorm 2007 for more information.
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 10/30/07 Lori
Van Arsdale Vice-Mayor City of Hemet - Lori gave us an update as to the state
of the City of Hemet was her subject today. The high winds of a
week ago wreaked havoc on our area, especially the City of San Jacinto.
It was so severe that our City Maintenance crews have given some assistance
to them in cleanup. San Jacinto Community College suffered more than
$2,000,000 in damage.
The General Plan for Hemet has been under discussion for 1½ years now, and
probably has another year to go before it is finished. With the rapid growth
we have had and that will continue, it is important to have a plan in place
before it is to late, if there is to be some rhyme or reason to what we will
look like. Lori's made the point that it is important for the citizens
to attend, see what is being proposed, and be involved in the process.
And as in
her previous talks told us she still is working
closely in consulting with her friends there in the Government, to help them
build their new government and society.
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In his message to the
International Convention in Toronto 1942
What Paul Harris Said (The Founder of Rotary)
March 9 2008
“The grandest opportunity to serve humanity is directly
before us.
Let us remember that it is always darkest just before dawn.
These are the before daylight hours. Let us fervently hope that when the sun
does rise it will usher in a day of unprecedented glory - the day of the
brotherhood of man."
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Why I am a
Rotarian: Dr Vimal Hemani
MARCH 2, 2008
It is aptly said that destiny
beckons.
Before I became a Rotarian, my idea of a club was a place one visited to have
a good time. When I returned to Rajkot from Mumbai, I thought it would be
nice to have fun and meet people every week. And what could be better than to
join Rotary - an ideal platform to meet the cream de la cream of society.
I joined when Dr Vibhakarbhai Vachhrajani was the president. He casually
asked me to come for a medical camp. Witnessing the cheerful, selfless
services opened the door of service for me. On that day, I stopped being just
a member and became a Rotarian.
Little
did I realise that this one decision of mine will have far reaching impact on
my life. Within days of joining Rotary club of Rajkot Midtown, I realised
what a motivated lot we were...! Never had I seen such dynamism, optimism and
enthusiasm in people doing social work for purely selfless motives. I started
looking forward to meeting such wonderful people week after week. Slowly I
started realising the very wide spectrum of activity that our club is doing.
More I came to know, greater became the joy of participation. I had opened
the hidden treasure of service and satisfaction that is MIDTOWN. Never had I
dreamt that Rotary would take precedence over my profession as it does
sometimes today.
I am also grateful to Rotary for giving me many local and international
friends whose friendship I shall cherish for life and who are a constant
source of inspiration. I shudder to imagine how empty my life would have been
without my wonderful friends from Rotary. It is indeed humbling to see very
busy people doing so much service quietly and incessantly. And I am happy to
be an integral part of this group.
I am today a truly proud Midtowner.
Dr. Vimal Hemani
Rotary
Club of Rajkot Midtown
RI
Dist.3060
India
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