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Rotary Club of Wooster, Ohio

District 6650




Next Program

Jan 30 12:00PM
The St. Paul Hotel:  A Piece of the Downtown Wooster Renaissance - Ken Bogucki and Bill Erdos
Wooster YMCA




Wooster/Smithville Area Parade of Flags

FLAG SUBSCRIPTIONS make great gifts for the hard to buy for…
call 264-6535 for more details.
Gift certificates provided.

Help create a community of red, white and blue! Join others on your street to honor our country with a parade of flags in all our neighborhoods..

The Wooster Rotary Club, assisted by local youth groups, will place a 3’x 5’ flag in your front yard for 5 holidays per year, and pick it up again after the holiday. A plastic pipe will be buried in your front lawn permanently, flush with the ground, to hold the flagstaff. A cap will cover the pipe when not in use. The City of Wooster has approved the flag to be placed on “tree lawns” where available. The flag and staff will remain the property of the Wooster Rotary Club.

All profits will support community, national, and international Rotary projects and the local youth groups will receive $1.50 per flag or $7.50 per year from each $25.00 fee. For $25.00 per calendar year, (not pro-rated by holiday) Rotary will provide and install the pipe and cap, provide the flag, store it properly when not in use, and deliver and pick up the flag for the following holidays:

  • Memorial Day
  • Flag Day (June 14)
  • Independence day (July 4)
  • Patriots Day (September 11)
  • Veteran's Day (November 11)
Flag subscriptions make great gifts for all occasions!

Download the new application / renewal form.
Need a gift certificate? Contact 330-264-6535

Questions...contact 330-264-6535


The 2011 Al Van Wie Basketball Tournament and Clinic Activities
November 13 & 18, 2011

Youth Basketball Skills Clinic:  Sunday, November 13, 2011; College of Wooster Timken Gym, 2-4 pm, All girls and boys grades 3-6 and youth coaches invited to attend. Admission- food donation or $2 for People to People

School Food Drive/collection- week of November 7 at all local schools with Rotary volunteers collecting donations and delivering to People to People.

Tournament Games-  Saturday, November 18. 

6:00 pm  Ohio Wesleyan University vs Defiance
8:00 pm  Anderson vs College of Wooster

Summary of Last Year's Activities:
Wooster Rotary sponsors and coordinates a basketball fundamental skills clinic for all boys and girls grade 3-6 and all youth coaches. The event was held at the C.O.W. Timken Gym on Sunday November 14, 2010 from 2:00-4:00 pm. College of Wooster Scots players and coaches worked with youth to practice and improve their basketball skills. Rotary also distributed door prizes including College of Wooster T-shirts, basketballs, and season tickets. Head coach, Steve Moore, conducted the coaching seminar. Admission to these events was $2 cash or a canned/box food donation for People to People. 135 youth and 23 coaches attended donating 320 food items and $114.

Prior to the tournament, Rotary volunteers went to area schools to collect food donations. Rotary encouraged the schools to participate in the food donation campaign by establishing contests and incentives for the schools collecting/donating the most food items.

The School Food Drive was a tremendous success again in 2010 with 19568 food items collected. The top schools recognized at the tournament game this year were Franklin Elementary and Shreve Elementary. These two top schools will receive a free skating party compliments of Acres of Fun, an ice cream party hosted by our Rotary committee members, and Fighting Scot basketballs for recess.

This year, Buehlers also participated with collection centers and added 2205 food items to the total

Total food and cash donation from Rotary to People to People from the Al van Wie Classic events for 2010:   23011 food items and $7761. People to People Executive Director, Lydia Stahl thanked the club at the December 13 meeting stating that the donations made should cover community needs through he Holiday season and into march of 2011.
Joint Service Project Update

On October 3, 2011, Wooster Mayor Bob Breneman announced the winning project for the 2011 Joint Club Project at a gathering of more than 200 at The Shisler Center. This year’s winner is the Secrest Arboretum & Gardens.

Additional information is available on our Projects Web Page

GSE Recruiting Needs Your Help

From: Phil Mariola, District GSE Chair

Dear Rotarians, I need your help. One of The Rotary Foundation’s signature programs is Group Study Exchange, wherein 2 Rotary Districts in different countries pair up to send and receive professional study groups of 4 non-Rotarian team members and one Rotarian team leader to travel for approximately four weeks, staying in the homes of Rotarians. continue reading...


Ohio Rotary License Plates

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Introducing Mora Zabala -2011/12 Rotary Youth Exchange Student 

Mora Zabala of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sponsor District 4920
Interests include Music, Piano, Swimming, & Volleyball
President of her Interact Chapter
Introducing Coni Alvarez Derby - 2011/12 Rotary Youth Exchange Student

Coni Alvarez Derby of Valparaiso, Chile
Sponsor District 4320
Interests include Sports, especially Volleyball

37th ANNUAL WOOSTER ROTARY
ANTIQUE AND COLLECTIBLE AUCTION
Friday April 6, 2 PM and Saturday April 7, 2012, 10 AM

The Wooster Rotary Auction is among the premier auctions in this region and is an absolute auction, no minimum, no buybacks, no reserves. In 35 years the proceeds have contributed nearly $1,250,000 to the community, the major share going to college scholarships.

The 2011 Rotary Auction was a great success. With sales exceeding $171,000, the auction will support the Wooster Rotary Club's projects in the community.

2011 Price List now available on-line.

For additional information call: Dave Gallapoo 330-345-6240; Mike Warden 330-264-9350; Hugh Hothem 330-264-3854; or Chuck Dougherty 330-264-1420.

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Rotary International Foundation Campaign 2011
“Account for Everyone”

This is Wooster Rotary’s effort to raise funds for Rotary International’s final push to eradicate polio from the World.  2011 is the year that this 20 year project is nearing its ultimate goal.  $200,000,000 needs to be raised to earn matching grants of $355,000,000…….lots of zeroes.

Wooster goals:

  1. Help Rotary account for every child yet to be inoculated
  2. Get a personal contribution from every member of the Club…100% participation
  3. Open a new account for every Wooster Rotarian who has yet to contribute to the International Foundation.
  4. Double the number of Wooster Rotarians who have committed to the “Every Rotarian/Every Year” campaign.

Matching dollars:
  1. Any first time contributor will receive matching dollars to double their account value with a pledge of $100 or more
  2. Any Wooster Rotarian who wishes to complete their Paul Harris goal of $1,000 will receive matching dollars equal to their pledge.  

Let’s continue to lead the district in RI giving.    Let’s be a part of pushing Polio Plus over the tip.  Let’s achieve “Every Wooster Rotarian/This Year!”

Download your 2011 "Account for Everyone" pledge card.

Webcast - Polio and the Power of Vaccines

On Monday January 31, the Gates Foundation presented its annual report. Part of that presentation included a one hour webcast on the polio eradication project and the power of vaccines. The webcast opens with a summary, presented by Bill Gates, on the status of the polio eradication project and concludes with a panel discussion, moderated by Diane Sawyer, with experts from around the world. Click on the image below to view the webcast.



Wooster Arts Jazz Fest 2011
Date: Saturday September 17
11:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.
Historic Downtown Wooster

In its eighth year, this daylong festival features fine art and craft, jazz, quality food, a traditional New Orleans-style parade, and free children’s arts activities. The purpose of this festival is to celebrate and support arts and education in our community, and to promote economic development in downtown Wooster.

Presented through a partnership between Main Street Wooster Foundation, Inc., the Rotary Club of Wooster, and the Wooster City Schools, the Wooster Arts Jazz Fest is organized by volunteers and funded through donations.

The 2011 Wooster Arts Jazz Fest will be the fifth year the Wooster Rotary Club is a partner in the event. Rotary has representation on the committee organizing the event and will be providing volunteers to help make the event a success.

More information about the WAJF 2011 can be found at: www.woosterartsjazzfest.org

Wooster Rotary Dictionary Project

Each year since 2005, Wooster Rotary has presented a student dictionary to every third grader in the Wooster School System. Our goal is to empower the students with words, to help them better understand the English language and to encourage them to read. The club included a sticker with the Rotary Four-Way test on the inside cover of each volume.

The dictionaries are well received and we hope that the students will use them to their advantage throughout their elementary years.