This is the kickoff event for the Lake Lake Superior Dragon Boat Festival! Returning teams are encouraged to "bring a friend" and learn about dragon boating and challenge them to paddle as a new team for this year's festival!
Returning teams who bring a new "friend" team that registers for the 2015 festival at the Round-Up will BOTH enjoy $100 in FREE Beverage Tickets at this year's event!
Help us make the 2015 Dragon Boat Festival bigger and better by encouraging new teams to the water. Bring along friends & associates from competing businesses to paddle against. If they register a boat, you'll both benefit.
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Your fellow Rotarians in Duluth have been planning a District Conference that will be so much fun, with great speakers, excellent presentations, tours and lasting memories of a weekend that celebrates Rotary in District 5580. Duluth is an exceptional venue for our District Conference with much to see and do.
If you have not yet registered, you must do so by April 15th. Visit the District Website at:
www.clubrunner.ca/5580 and click on the District Conference Duluth SITE page, located on the right side of the HOME page.
REMEMBER - the Thursday, May 7th Icebreaker event is hosted by our own Harbortown Club, so participation is urged J
Harbortown Rotary Club donates $500 to help local family in need
SPECIAL THANKS to Harbortown Rotary Club for their gift of $500 to buy warm clothes for a local Boys & Girls Clubs Member and his father whose house burned down in Duluth, Minnesota.
On Wednesday, February 18, 2015, the Nelsons’ family home in Lincoln Park, West Duluth, burned down due to an electrical fire.
"They reek," said Dave Nelson speaking of his clothes after the fire. "I’ve got what I have on my back, and in my car."
The Nelson family includes Dave Nelson and his son, 15-year-old Skyler – our Boys & Girls Clubs member (pictured with Todd Johnson, CPO for our Boys & Girls Clubs).
This excerpt from the July issue of The Rotarian magazine profiles the 2015-16 RI president.
Before he gives a speech, K.R. Ravindran doesn’t like flowery, adulatory introductions. They make him uncomfortable. The 2015-16 Rotary president would rather keep a low profile and share the credit. If it were up to him, you probably wouldn’t even be reading this article.
Negotiating Days of Tranquility during the Sri Lankan civil war so that health workers could administer drops of polio vaccine? Although it was on his desk that the agreement landed, he says, a lot of people worked to make that...
If you would you like to contribute to Rotary by serving on a committee, this is your opportunity. The nine committees listed below are searching for qualified candidates for openings in 2016-17. Each of these committee works with Rotary leaders to increase efficiency and promote the goals and priorities of our strategic plan.
To be considered for a committee appointment, go to www.tinyurl.com/ri-committee-application for an application form.
The application deadline is 20 August.
Learn more about the committees and the application process.
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More than 20,000 new cases of cancer are diagnosed every year in Sri Lanka, and many of them prove fatal. The Rotary Club of Colombo, Sri Lanka, set out 10 years ago to save some of those lives by establishing the Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Centre.
In partnership with the National Cancer Control Programme and the Ministry of Health, the center in Colombo has screened more than 35,000 patients, mostly low-income, and detected more than 7,500 cases of abnormalities that required further investigation. The Rotary Club of Birmingham, Alabama, USA, donated a mammography and ultrasound...
As a member of Rotary, you’re part of a global network of community volunteers who are making a positive difference. Visit the new Member Center to access the many benefits and resources available to you, including:
Rotary Global Rewards, our brand-new member benefits program featuring discounts on travel, hotels, dining, and entertainment
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Rotary International Convention, our biggest event of the year
The Rotarian, the official magazine of Rotary
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Rotary is releasing $40.3 million in grants to support polio immunization activities in 10 countries, including Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan, three countries where the disease has never been stopped.
The funds will help build on gains Rotary and its partners have been making in the fight to eradicate polio. Nigeria hasn’t seen a polio case since 24 July 2014 and the World Health Organization could remove it from the list of polio-endemic countries as soon as September if no cases are reported. Nigeria would have to go another two years without a case to be certified polio-free.
But the...