Photo: Tracey Lohman with her father DG Larry Lohman
Welcome Rotarians to October! It is hard to believe that the First quarter of this Rotary years is already past. Time really does fly, your tomorrows all to quickly become your yesterdays. Take a minute and step back. Look at what is going on around you and take time to enjoy it.
As District Governor I am sure you can imagine what my schedule may look like. Not only am I DG, I work fulltime, and most importantly I am a father and husband. Sometimes when juggling these we forget what our priorities are, and we allow one thing to dominate our time. Dominating our time, no running our lives is closer to what happens. Once this happens the next thing we know is that time has passed, and we are not sure what we have missed.
Over the years I have fallen into this trap. I had family and friends try to tell me that I needed to take time to rest, relax and spend time with my loved ones. My response all to often was, Once I finished what ever I was doing I would take that time. Most of the time I would still just move from one thing to the next without ever taking a break. I found that I was stressed, not focused and honestly not very happy.
As I have moved through life, I have come to understand why it is important to take time for myself and my loved ones. Not taking this time is detrimental to your health, relationships, your family, work, and whatever you are trying to focus on. By taking this time you are allowing yourself to recuperate. When you have allowed your body the rest it needs, you will be able to perform at a much higher level, you will be happy and confident.
I have started setting aside time for myself, my family, and friends. Friday evenings through the fall are spent watching my daughter march the halftime show at the football game. Sundays are a day for me and my family. I have found that I enjoy my time at work and serving as a Rotarian more when I have taken the needed time to relax and enjoy those around me.
Please set aside time for you to recuperate from your busy schedule. Let me pass this piece of advice on that a very special person once told me. “Rotary will always be here tomorrow”.
If your Club subscribes to ClubRunner create an event within ClubRunner and mark the event to be shown on the District website. Your events will then appear within the Club Calendar on both, the District Bulletin and District home page.
As World Polio Day on 24 October approaches, we need everyone’s help to raise awareness about Rotary’s efforts to eradicate polio for good. Download the World Polio Day Toolkit for resources and tips that will help you plan activities and promote a polio-free world on social media. Follow us @EndPolioNow to learn more about protecting children around the world from this paralyzing disease.
Register your club’s participationin World Polio Day to show how Rotary, Rotaract, and Interact clubs around the world are taking action to eradicate polio. If you register your events, fundraisers, and promotions by 14 October, you’ll get early access to a download of Rotary’s World Polio Day Global Update one week before the program will be shown on 24 October on Rotary’s Facebook page and endpolio.org.
As announced on September 10, 2021, we are currently seeking applications for our 2024-2025 District 6630 Governor. One of the most important decisions we make as a District is selecting our future leaders, and we are seeking the most qualified person for the position of District Governor.
If you are willing to share your leadership skills, passion, talent, and love to work collaboratively as a team with other leaders, we hope you will seriously consider this opportunity.
Qualifications of a Governor-Nominee. - R.I. Bylaws Section 16.010
Unless excused by the board, the person selected as a governor-nominee shall at the time of selection:
(a) be a member in good standing of a functioning club in the district.
(b) have served as club president for a full term or as charter president for at least six months.
(c) demonstrate willingness, commitment, and ability to fulfill the duties and
responsibilities of a governor in section 16.030.
(d) demonstrate knowledge of the qualifications, duties, and responsibilities of governor as prescribed in the bylaws; and
(e) submit to RI a statement that the Rotarian understands those qualifications, duties, and responsibilities, is qualified for the office of governor, and is willing and able to assume and faithfully perform those duties and responsibilities.
Qualifications of a Governor- R. I. Bylaws Section 16.020 Unless excused by the board, a governor, when taking office, must have attended the International Assembly for its full duration, have been a Rotarian for at least seven years.
The members of the 2021-2022 Nominating Committee are as follows:
Chair/Immediate Past District Governor Patricia Myers (Hudson Clocktower)
Dr.Stephen Atkins (Willoughby)
Julie Brouhard (Cleveland)
Denise DiDonato (Conneaut)
Dr. Shail Jain (Medina Sunrise)
Todd Kiick (Lakewood-Rocky River Sunrise)
PDG John Reyes (Akron)
Randy Rininger (Port Summit)
Adam Sonnhalter (North Ridgeville)
Chelsea Talty (Geauga-West)
PDG Stephen Zabor Ph.D. (Mantua)
Our District 6630 Nominating Committee will comply with RI’s election guidelines as described in the R.I. By-Laws-Articles 12 and 13 and the Rotary Code of Policies – sections:17.030.3, 17,040, 19.030.
A fundamental principle of Rotary is that the best qualified candidate should be selected for service in elective offices. The RI Bylaws prohibit any effort by a candidate, a candidate’s supporter, or any Rotarian to influence the selection process in a positive or negative manner, including, but not limited to, campaigning or canvassing. The RI Board developed these guidelines to assist Rotarians in better understanding election procedures.
Everyone who owns a Jeep is invited to come and join the fun and games with a goody bag for each entrant, many prizes to be given away and a great tour through beautiful Geauga County with fall colors on full display.
Event includes a tour of scenic Geauga led by the Geauga County Sheriff including non-automotive trails in parts of the county park system. On line registration encouraged at Burton Middlefield Rotary website.
Rotary Club of Fairlawn’s 10th Speakeasy Fundraiser
Is October 23rd, 2021
The Rotary Club of Fairlawn will host its 10th annual Speakeasy Fundraiser on October 23, 2021, from 6:00 -11:00, at the Hilton Akron/Fairlawn. The Rotary Club of Fairlawn joins forces with Akron Children’s Hospital, Stephen A. Comunale, Jr. Family Cancer Foundation, Blick Center, and The Fairlawn Rotary Foundation to make this a very special event. This year’s Service Above Self Award will be presented to Rennick & DeeDee Andreoli for their service and dedication to our community.
The Rotary Club of Fairlawn has raised over $1 million for children in this community and around the world since 1964. The Speakeasy event is the club’s major fundraiser. Its purpose is to help fund special projects for local charities. Through the Fairlawn Rotary Foundation, this year’s proceeds will help local organizations that support children’s education, health and welfare. As this year’s recipients, Akron Children’s Hospital, Stephen A. Comunale, Jr. Family Cancer foundation, Blick Center, and the Fairlawn Rotary Foundation will receive proceeds from this event. At our last event, the Rotary Club of Fairlawn raised nearly $40,000 for local organizations.
The Speakeasy fundraiser will be a fun-filled evening of dancing to a live band in a nostalgic speakeasy atmosphere. The ticket price of $125 per person includes a sit-down dinner, an oral and silent auction, raffle entries for fabulous prizes, a cash bar and a “best-dressed” costume contest. Of course, the real winners will be the children of our community.
The Rotary Club’s efforts to support local charities and build goodwill throughout the community stem from Rotary’s motto, “Service Above Self.” Rotary’s compassion stretches well beyond Akron as it works to combat polio, poverty and illiteracy on national and international levels. Rotary focuses on service projects encompassing peace and conflict prevention and resolution, disease prevention and treatment, maternal and child health, and economic and community development. To purchase event/raffle tickets or make a donation to the Speakeasy fundraiser, visit www.speakeasy.fairlawnrotary.com. For additional information, please contact Mark Whitlam at 330-321-8141 or at mark@jcwhitlam.com.
Corporate sponsorships start at $395, and program advertising starts at $50. If you are unable to attend, but would like to help, please send your check to the Fairlawn Rotary Foundation, Inc, at P.O. Box 13063, Fairlawn, Ohio 44334. The Fairlawn Rotary Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3).
CDC guidelines, state, local and venue requirements are to be in effect on the date of the event.
Due to Covid 19, Harvest Auction took a hiatus in 2020.
Chardon Rotary’s largest annual fundraiser will return this year, Friday, October 29, at the Hilton Garden Inn in Mayfield Heights.
Many and varied donated items will be auctioned off via:
Silent Auction
Chinese Auction
Live Auction conducted by professional auctioneer Scott Mihalic
In addition, guests can bet on their luck on game boards to win hard to find wines or to stock their bar or to secure a bundle of Lottery Tickets. Guests can also win cash via an all-night 50/50 Raffle.
This year’s highlighted beneficiary via our Call to the Heart finale is the Salvation Army.
Many other causes are supported throughout the year from the proceeds of the event which start at 6:00 pm and lasts until approx.. 11:00.
A sample of who we support financially and through volunteer activities are as follows:
Maple Highlands Pavilion
211-United Way
Community Fund Partnership
Adopt-A-Highway Rte. 44
Adopt-A-Family
Old Glory Days
Home Delivered Meals
Salvation Army Clothing Drive
Chardon Fireworks
WomenSafe
Geauga County Home
Polio Eradication
Rock Foundation School - Masindi, Uganda
Hospital Albert Schweitzer in Haiti
Thailand Sister Club
Rotary Student Exchange
Shelter Box - World Wide Relief
Chardon High School Interact Club
Five Scholarships for High School Seniors
NatureScope Binocular Program
Science Olympiad Support
Summer Reading Program
Third Grade Project
Tickets are now on sale. Guests can enjoy a full course sit down dinner and an open bar and all Auction activities throughout the proceedings.
Several sponsorship opportunities are still available.
If you have a service or item that you wish to donate, wish to sponsor, or to learn more about this event, please contact Steve Turpin at stevturpin@aol.com
The Dragon Dream Team was on Good Morning America Oct. 5th
GMA chose our organization and achievements to introduce Breast Cancer Awareness Month!
GMA spent a day with us in Pittsburgh September 26 filming at the Pittsburgh Dragonboat Festival (where we were competing) and interviewing various members. GMA will be broadcasting a live segment from our boathouse on Rex Lake this Tuesday morning!
It's exciting to be able to showcase the camaraderie and support this group provides to our members and newly-diagnosed patients in our area, and to encourage survivors to live an active life after breast cancer!
Many Rotary members have participated in the Dragon on the Lake Festival and know how beneficial and fun paddling together can be!
Our annual Trick-or-Treat will be held Sunday, October 31, 5-7pm
Our annual Trick-or-Treat will be held on Sunday, October 31, 5-7pm.
In order to make this fun for our campers and their families we are asking for donations of bags of wrapped candy, or by making a monetary donation. Campers will have the opportunity to Trick-or-Treat from cabin to cabin and enjoy a s’more around the campfire afterwards.
Donations can be dropped off at the camp office, or with Mella or Amanda at Rotary Lunch, by Friday, October 29, 2021.
Thank you for your support!
Presented by fellow Rotarian, Geraldine Wojno Kiefer
August 28 – October 29, 2021 at Akron Women’s City Club, 732 W. Exchange
Residencies, Reflections, Rememberings
A Retrospective Exhibition of Landscapes and Maps, Dedicated to Bruce W. Kiefer
> > October 16th 5pm-7pm:Reception, given by Virginia Wojno
The drawings comprise imaginative places inspired both by historical reproductions (exploratory sketches, Chinese brush paintings, historical maps) and by Dr. Kiefer’s processes of making, which include soaking watercolor papers in coffee-based solutions, then drawing and/or collaging over them. The colored-pencil-overlaid photographs were taken both by Dr. Kiefer and her late husband, Bruce Kiefer, architect and master art photographer.
Mike Kovack, Medina County Auditor and "Quiz Master," welcomed Table Team Sponsor Medina Sunrise Rotary and and the other team contestants to the 2021 Match Wits Trivia Competition Dinner and Silent Auction Fundraiser to support Project LEARN of Medina County.
An evening of fun, folly and good fellowship was complemented by an excellent buffer dinner at the Blue Heron Event Center with desserts provided by the Honey Bee Bakery and autumn table decorations from Prudence Aylsworth.
Guru assistance was provided for the 8 trivia categories: Law, Tea, Disney, Nursing, Astronomy, Theatre, Olive Oil, and Music Terminology. Did you know that within our solar system there are 4 planets which have rings and that the Cleveland Playhouse is America's oldest continuously existing theatre venue? Hearty laughter and warm applause greeted this year's Match Wits' Champions - "Quizitina Aguilera".
100% of every dollar raised supports Project LEARN of Medina County's literacy programs, which include: adult literacy, Reading & Math, English as a Foreign Language, US Citizenship Testing, Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery Testing, State Nursing Assistant Exam, and the BookShelf.
SPECIAL THANKS TO THE MEDINA SUNRISE ROTARY MATCH WITS TEAM:
Kent & Wendy Morgan, Will & Kathy Koran, Mark & Becky Rahija, Ed Jakubick and David Lariviere
Medina Leaders Represented at NSME Accent of Excellence Awards Gala
Tangier - 532 West Market Street, Akron, Ohio 44303
Community leaders representing Medina participated in the NSME 49th Annual Accent on Excellence Awards Gala, hosted at Tangier in Akron on Thursday evening.
Tim Dimoff, President/CEO of SACS Consulting and Master of Ceremonies, along with 350 attendees, recognized personal and professional accomplishments of the 2021 Achievement of Excellence Awards Recipients which included the Outstanding Community Leader of the Year - Stuart Muszynski, President/CEO of Values-in Action Foundation and the Outstanding Executive of the Year - Don Taylor, CEO of Welty Building Company.
National Sales & Marketing Executives (NSME), an awesome professional association, provides high-caliber educational and valuable networking opportunities for sales and marketing leaders in the greater Akron/Canton region. NSME Akron/Canton members are known for identifying and mastering emerging trends and exemplify thought-leadership in their industries. Learn more at: https://nsmeakroncanton.org/
PHOTO (L to R):
Tim & Dianne Hagerty, David Lariviere, Anna Guy-Leach, Ashley & Fred Krause (missing from photo: Katy & Mark Fuerst, Janie Parish)
The 17th annual Lou Groza Charity Golf Event was Sept. 2 at Bunker Hill Golf Course in Medina, our second year at this location. The weather was in the 70s and sunny.
The winning team was headed by Herbie Munoz, who owns a Berea business. Munoz said he’d be back next year and would be a sponsor. His team shot a 63. Thanks, Herbie! Coming in second was the Guy Turner team of Richie Ballantine, Greg Tomacek and Dave Pedersen. They shot a 64. Other winners were Judge Mark Comstock, longest putt; Curtis Grey, closest to the pin; Dave Millen, longest drive for a man; and Cathy “Cookie” Fortesque, longest drive for a woman. Winner of the $113 in the 50/50 raffle was Don Wcislo.
The day was capped with buffet of barbecued ribs, chicken, kielbasa, beans and potato salad.
The Lou Groza Charity Golf Event attracted seven four-somes to Bunker Hill Golf Course in Medina on Thursday, Sept. 2. We had a shotgun start at 9 a.m.
Winning team included Herbie Munoz, Dillon Munoz, Ace Salgado and Eric Hirsch.
Thanks to Berea Rotary's Golf Committee: Bob Huge, Linda Kramer, Bob Hammer and Alexa, Bob Huge's granddaughter and super 50/50 raffle ticket seller.
We are writing to share upcoming changes to Zoom software releases designed to optimize security and platform performance that may require action.
Beginning November 1, 2021, customers will be required to update their Zoom software to ensure it is no more than nine months behind the current version, at any given time. From that point on, users will be prompted to update their software when using the platform should their version fall behind this nine-month window. For example, if on November 1st the latest version of the Zoom Client was released in September 2021, customers who try to access Zoom services with a version prior to January 2021 will be prompted to update to a more recent version in order to access the platform.
This change is in line with industry practices and designed to help ensure that Zoom users receive the latest Zoom features, as well as any privacy and security enhancements we make to the platform. To prepare for the new schedule, we recommend customers update to the latest release supported by their organization or at minimum software version 5.5.0, prior to November 1st. Starting in September, we will introduce a prompted update to help customers update to the latest version of the Zoom client. If you have prompted updates turned off for your organization, you will not see the prompt.
As always, we recommend you regularly download and update to the latest version of the Zoom software by checking for updates within the Zoom client or by navigating to zoom.us/download to take advantage of all our latest security and functionality features.
This policy will affect:
Zoom Client: Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android (5.5.0)
Zoom Rooms (5.5.0)
Zoom Rooms Controller (5.5.0)
Zoom Phone Appliances (5.6.0)
Outlook Plug-in (5.5.1)
Browser Scheduler Extensions for Chrome (1.6.3) & Firefox (2.1.13)
VDI Client (5.5.0)
Virtual Room Connector (4.4.6)
Meetings Connector (4.6.3)
Recording Connector (3.8.41)
Client SDK (5.5.0)
Please note that while the minimum Zoom Client software version required for this schedule is 5.5.0, we may require additional updates outside of this release window to address larger security or compliance features. We always encourage customers to look at our release notes for any included security enhancements.
We will continue to share reminders and additional information as we approach the implementation of this policy. Thank you for your partnership as we continually work to make our platform more secure and deliver a better experience for our customers. Please feel free to reach out to the Zoom Support Teamif you have any additional questions or need assistance to update your organization.
RI sends out various newsletters throughout the month.
You can sign up/manage your subscriptions for publications at rotary.org- simply sign in, then go to news & media then select newsletters. If you need assistance, please EMAIL ME.
Since many of you already receive these email newsletters, in lieu of reproducing them in the body of the District newsletter, moving forward you can now use the links below to download them all or individually.
I have included the story headings to help you see what is in each issue.
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GMA chose our organization and achievements to introduce Breast Cancer Awareness Month!
