Club Financials can be found in the member area of club runner
Youth services report- Our in-bound student for the 2017-18 season will be Madeline Gosset from Belgium. Plans are under way to complete Guarantee forms and a letter of acceptance at the high school.
- Our participant this year for the Adventures in Citizenship weekend will be Andrew Markham.
- The RYLA weekend will be April 21,22, and 23. Kyra is confirmed as our candidate. The morning club is also sponsoring two young people to attend this weekend.
- Teacher/parent interview night was March 22nd and Rotary was present talking to parents and students selling the Youth exchange program for next year. Posters and info cards had been made up and where handed out that evening. Our past out- bound Marina and in- bound Maria was on hand to answer any questions as well.
- May has been deemed Exchange month at the high school. Posters and info for the students to help plant the seed of a “year away”. Contact with the Guidance department and principal Kim Williams are planned to help with this initiative.
- Dates to remember: June 7th Canada’s Wonderland trip with Maria Jose.
July 12th Club BBQ and Maria’s farewell send off, her parents will be here as well. Maria and Suzie with the Rotary Exchange Poster 
World Community Service Committee A request was received in early March from Shelly and Michael Duben of the Rotary Club of Bracebridge looking for the support of a partner club for a District International Grant application for $50,000. The deadline for application was the end of March. The applicants proposed to build and or renovate school facilities in an impoverished rural area of Zambia. Their acronym for their project is R.E.L.A.Y. (Rotarians Enhancing Learning of African Youth). The WCS Committee and others consulted viewed R.E.L.A.Y. as a good way for us to participate in a larger scale project operated by persons experienced at working in this part of the world and it would provide a chance for some hands-on participation with minimal Financial obligation. We agreed to be a partner club on their District International Grant Application. The R.E.L.A.Y. project has been selected for the Grant by District 7010. The Rotary Club of Huntsville will be one of six partner clubs supporting The Rotary Club of Bracebridge in the R.E.L.A.Y. project. Each Partner Club will be expected to contribute $500 per year limited to 5 years. We are looking forward to our involvement in the project. Community Service Huge thank you goes out to Peter Redwood for his research and dedication. Peter developed a spread sheet which breaks down the approximate volunteer hours and approximate funds raised per event. He has also developed the schedule for the Party in a Box for this coming summer and fall. Please note that there could be further bookings added as we go. To view the Party in a Box schedule to date " click here". To view the Rotary Club of Huntsville's 2017 Matrix " click here". Evening Speaker - Ron StricklandRon's presentation was a cross between a mini classification and a history lesson. What a wonderful way to learn not only about his journey with Rotary but also about the Rotary Club of Huntsville's journey. Unfortunately Ron's presentation was so amazing that it wont actually fit on the Echo. Please have patience while we break it down into two presentations in order to get it up on the site for viewing. |
