Friday, December 31, 2010

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.