Newport has an Interact Club!

Our club is sponsoring an Interact Club for our young people at Newport Middle School. Kathryn Lowery, who is a gifted teacher at NMS and also at Newport Elementary School is the Club's advisor.
The club will be working at the upcoming Pig Cookin' Contest, helping the elementary school as well as helping their sponsor Rotary Club with car parking.
Everyone was invited to participate in a special meeting held at our Rotary Building on Tuesday, April 5. The Interact Club went through a brief training, were inducted as members and officers, and shared in some social time and refreshments with our Rotary members. Their charter arrived from Rotary International and is displayed in our Rotary building for all to see. 

Since Rotary International recently lowered the age limit for Interact membership, we are very proud to be one of the first Rotary Clubs with a newly formed Interact Club in a Middle School.  Watch for more great things from this energetic group.

GSE Team Visits Newport - Update!

Our District 7730 GSE (Group Study Exchange)  team is heading for Uruguay, while the team from Uruguay is here and visiting many of our clubs. March 28th marks their visit to our Newport Club. This year's exchange is all about agriculture, and the teams are made up of young people that are in these related fields. Veterinarians, biologists, and co-operative workers, are sharing their knowledge about their country's problems and successes.
Next year's GSE teams will focus on the medical profession.
Wow! What an evening! On March 28,our club members were hosts to many guests, including the team from Uruguay, who graciously introduced themselves, after a great meal provided by Tim Turner, the team members each gave a presentation about themselves, their country, their jobs and families. 

Among all our honored guests in attendance were PDG Dr. Bill Walker and his wife, Jolene;  AG John Scibal; and President of Beaufort Ole Town Rotary Club, Bill Kaeser.
The team is traveling to Washington, DC for two days, and then back to their homes in Uruguay on Sunday, April 3.
More pictures coming from Joe Garner. 

Everetts Dedicate Print to Rotary Club

Jim Everett, President Elect of the Newport Rotary Club and his wife Marilyn, current club President, dedicated a P. Buckley Moss print entitled "Peace through Rotary Service" to the club at the meeting on March 21, 2011.

This print celebrates the work Rotarians do around the world in the name of peace. 10% of the price of each print is donated to the Rotary Foundation. The print, issued in 2008, is one of 3,000 numbered prints

Jim won the numbered print in a raffle at the recent District 7730 Conference in Pinehurst, NC. 

CHRISTMAS CHEER

Our 2010 Christmas Fellowship Dinner was really nice, even if I do say so myself!

On December 13th we got together and ate a really good catered meal from Golden Corral with Turkey, Ham, and all the trimmings followed by a great slice of carrot cake. 

The Fellowship was the very best. Everyone was in good spirits anticipating the joy of Christmas and time with families. We had the pleasure of listening to the singing styles of three students from Croatan High School, led by Madison Wall.

           

      

               

   

ONE MORE STEP UP THE LADDER TO SUCCESS...

Reading a rather lengthy list of Rotary activities already under the belt of one Miss Madison Wall, makes you proud that our selected participant for this year's RYLA is definitely the best choice. 2011 RYLA is set from January 28 to 30 at the Trinity Center.

Madison has been very active in Rotary since before starting high school, now with a continuing membership in Interact. Madison was a Rotary Exchange Student and has also hosted a visiting Exchange Student. She is a member of a dance group, who recently held a dance to make some money to give toward polio eradication. She is involved in music, photography, Beta, and too many more activities to list.

We are  hoping and planning  to have Madison as one of our guest presenters to give you a first-hand report about her experience at RYLA.

As we watched Madison sing for us at our annual Christmas Fellowship Dinner, and I watched Bevin and Pam Wall, looking at their daughter with nothing but love and pride. They certainly should be proud. In this day, it is so difficult to keep children focused and motivated, but Bevin and Pam have done a wonderful job with all of their daughters. Madison will achieve her goals and Rotary will have played a just a small part by giving her the opportunities to be a part of Interact, Youth Exchanges and  RYLA.

EARLY BIRD CATCHES WORM !

We entered our DSG application into the pot of grant hopefuls, only to find out that many clubs had already put in their grant proposals at the first of this Rotary year (July). By the time we entered our project of additional Rotary benches for Newport, the funds were already depleted. 2011 is another year, and we have to say "a lesson learned". The early bird catches the worm!

AWW SHUCKS!

Well, our much awaited for Dictionary Project was cancelled by the powers that be, citing reorganization before next year is necessary. The Newport Elementary School was disappointed as well as our members, who look forward to this wonderful annual interaction with the youngsters.
We are looking forward to 2011, when we will be able once again to pass out the dictionaries to all the smiling little faces.