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.

DISTRICT SIMPLIFIED GRANT

We have submitted a District Simplified Grant application to enable us to purchase two more Rotary benches for placement in two more strategic locations in Newport. If successful, Our club will contribute $606 and the grant will match us $1212. This will mean some post hole digging, mixing of concrete, and a bit of labor on our part.

Remember??  

We will update you as soon as we hear the results of our application.

PAUL HARRIS FELLOWS

PE Jim Everett received his Paul Harris Fellowship and Pam Wall received her 8th!
Both were very fortunate to have our District Governor, Magda Baggett present their awards.

A FUTURE ROTARIAN HAS ARRIVED!

Miss Alyssa Schweitzer
10/01/10

Adorable Alyssa

Alyssa & "Daddy"
Has she stolen his heart already?

The bottle is bigger than she is!

HOOTENANNY IS HAPPENEN' !

The annual Newport Hootenanny was almost a wash this year, but thanks to our own Ruthann Sluss, it is a go!
Ruthann has taken over the reigns and is putting together a bang up event. Ruthann need some help though. She needs volunteers to help the night of the event, and she needs donations of pre-wrapped candy to give to the children when they win a game. Our Rotary club is donating $330 to sponsor a sno-cone machine. Everything is free for the kids.
The date for the Hootenanny is Saturday, October 30, 2010 and will be held at the  Little League Ball field on Howard Boulevard in Newport from 6pm to 9pm. For more information call Ruthann at 252-223-2333 or email her at ruthanns@vol.com.

Come on out and join the fun!