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Rotary Club of Wooster, Ohio

District 6650




Next Program

May 27 12:00PM
Memorial Day - NO NOON MEETING




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 $30.00 fee. For $30.00 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)

(Payment by credit card or check makes it easy!)

Need a gift certificate? Contact 330-264-6535

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A Special Rotary Event

Rotary Joins with America’s Premier Lyric Theatre Festival to present
A Special Evening at the Ohio Light Opera
Celebrating the 35th Season of the Company
A Special Program for The Rotary Club of Wooster
Saturday, June 15th
6:00 PM Special Back Stage Tour at the OLO
6:30 PM - A Special Introduction to the Show by 
Michael D. Miller, Ph.D., of the Operetta Foundation

7:30 PM Rodgers & Hammerstein’s  

THE KING AND I

The performance followed by a special reception to meet the members of the Cast.

Special Price of only $38.00 (Regular price – show only – is $48.00)
A special block of tickets for Rotarians will be held only until May 1, 2013

Checks can be made out to “Ohio Light Opera” and can be given to either Lynn Moomaw, Laura Neill or Tom Cole along with the order form that can be downloaded here. Credit cards can be used at the OLO Box Office – ask for Alex and tell her it’s for the Special Rotary Evening.

 Make it a Family Event: Special prices for Students ($20 for up to 22 years old) and Children ($10 for up to 15 years old).

Wooster Arts Jazz Fest 2013
Date: Saturday September 14
11:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.
Historic Downtown Wooster

In its tenth 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 2013 Wooster Arts Jazz Fest will be the seventh 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 2013 can be found at: www.woosterartsjazzfest.org
Honor Flight Information

Veterans serving during World War II or the Korean War time period are encouraged to learn more about Honor Flight Columbus.

38th ANNUAL WOOSTER ROTARY
ANTIQUE AND COLLECTIBLE AUCTION
Friday, April 5 and Saturday, April 6, 2013

This year, the Wooster Rotary Auction is scheduled for Friday, April 5 and Saturday, April 6, 2013 and will be held at Wooster High School. Last year, we had more than 1,000 registered buyers including people from nine states. Our licensed and experienced volunteer auctioneers sold more than 2,500 items in Five (5) venues during Fifty (50) hours of selling. The auction is the largest project that the club does each year, and most of the 200 plus members contribute their time to the auction in some way.

The auction features 18 categories of items and includes everything from artwork, books and furniture to glassware, jewelry, oriental carpets, antique automobiles and coins. Each year the auction features some unique and very rare items. This year we are featuring a 1922 Dodge Brothers Touring Car, more than 100 Collectible Barbie Dolls, rare Native American artifacts, a tintype of Annie Oakley, baseballs autographed by Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle and a large assortment of antique furniture.. 

Each year since 1975, the Rotary Club of Wooster has held an auction of Antiques and Collectibles as a major fund raiser for the club. Over the 38 years of the auction, Wooster Rotary has raised over one million, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($1.350,000) which has gone back into the community in the form of numerous scholarships, local literacy programs, dictionary distribution to third graders, support for non-profits such as People To People and other community projects.  

There is no charge to attend or register and food is available for purchase. The auction begins at 2:00 PM on Friday and 10:00 AM on Saturday and the areas are open two (2) hours before the auction for preview. The auction will be taking donations and consignments until March14, 2013.

for the Auction Price List

For additional information call: Dave Gallapoo 330-345-6240; Mike Warden 330-264-9350; Robbie Ross 330-465-6327 or Chuck Dougherty 330-264-1420.

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The 2012 Al Van Wie Basketball Tournament and Clinic Activities
November 2012

Youth Basketball Skills Clinic:  Sunday, November 11, 2012; 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 5 at all local schools with Rotary volunteers collecting donations and delivering to People to People.


Tournament Games-  Friday, November 16, and Saturday, November 17, at 6:00 pm and 8:00 pm.  

Participating teams will be Adrian, Carnegie Mellon, Otterbein, and The College of Wooster.


Summary of 2012 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 11, 2012 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. 100 youth and their coaches attended, donating 278 food items and $68.


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 2012 with 24,202 food items collected. The top schools recognized at the tournament game in 2012 were Shreve Elementary, Franklin Elementary, and Kean Elementary. The top schools 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.


The Al Van Wie Rotary Classic tournament was held on Friday November 16 and Saturday November 17.  Adrian topped Wooster for the tournament championship.   However, Wooster Rotary and People to People were winners with 860 food items and $2,030 collected at the games.


Totals for the 2012 project for Rotary to present to People to People amounted to 33,232 food items and $9500.
Joint Service Project for 2012

This annual project, undertaken by the Wooster Rotary, Kiwanis, Noon Lions and Exchange Clubs provides seed money in excess of $2,500 and the volunteer services of dozens of club members. The intent is to accomplish a project each year that significantly improves the Wooster area community.

Past projects have included club members making a difference for the Wayne-Holmes Mental Health Coalition, Wayne County Children’s Services and the Secrest Arboretum at OARDC.

The Friends of Christmas Run Pool were the winners of the project for 2012. The representatives for the four clubs will be meeting with the Christmas Run Pool folks to develop time-lines and schedules for the project. 
Outbound GSE Team in Japan

Following upon the visit to Ohio of the Rotary International Group Study Exchange (GSE) Team from District 2630 in central Japan March 24-April 24, the GSE Team from D 6650 left for Japan May 6. They arrived safely and are pictured below with the Mayor of Gifu City and some local Rotarians and 3 members of the recently returned Japanese Team. 
They will spend one month in Gifu and Mie Prefectures observing Japanese methods of elderly care. This will include days spent in nursing homes, rehab facilities, adult day care centers, hospitals for the disabled, and dementia care units. 


The five women from left to right with the name of the sponsoring Rotary club in parentheses are: Michele Stinchcomb (Minerva), Cydney Bare (Wooster), Team Leader Corita Childs (a member of Canton Rotary), Christi Kugler (Salem), and Sarah Smiley (Salem). They will return to Ohio on June 3.
Wooster Rotary Honors Member Service

The Wooster Rotary Club started a new tradition.  At the Monday, January 30th meeting 137 members were honored for over 2700 years of service.

Pins were presented to members who had reached the milestones of 5, 10, 20, 30, and 40 years or more of service.  Each year going forward members will be recognized who reach a specific anniversary year so some members who have 9, 19, 29, and 39 years of service this year will be recognized again next year for reaching another membership milestone.

The distribution of pins was: 30 5-year, 31 10-year, 38 20-year, 21 30-year, and 17 40-year. 

In addition there was one honorary and one current member who have over 50 years of service and one honorary and one current member who have over 60 years of service and their names will be displayed on a plaque in the meeting room.
This long term commitment to Wooster Rotary is a tribute to members who clearly demonstrate Object One of Rotary “development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service.”





Ohio Rotary License Plates

www.ohrotaryplates.org
Rotary International Foundation Campaign 2012
“Account for Everyone”

This is Wooster Rotary’s effort to raise funds for Rotary International’s final push to eradicate polio from the World.  2012 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 2012 "Account for Everyone" pledge card.

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.