3rd Annual Mini-Golf Event

Please help us raise funds for NAMI(National Alliance on Mental Illness) and Garden of Health!!  Our 3rd Annual Mini-Golf Event will be on Sunday, February 4th, 2024 at Montgomery Township Recreation Center.  You can register as a 4some, 2some or Individual.  Many Sponsorship opportunities also available!  Become a sponsor and decorate your own Golf Hole!
 
Register at the following link...
 
 
 
 
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Updated MEETING Schedule...

Due to Holidays in July and September, here are the revised meeting dates...
 
July 17th and July 31st
 
August dates will NOT change.  1st and 3rd Monday!!
 
September 11th and September 25th 
 
Networking begins at 5PM and Meeting begins at 530PM
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2023 Super Bowl Block Pool 

THANK YOU to all who supported our Super Bowl Block Pool this year.  It was completely SOLD OUT!!  All winners have been notified.  The funds raised will be used to help our communities via our Rotary service projects!!  A BIG Thank You goes to Cindy Knotts who was the Chair of this event!!
 
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Mini-Golf FUNdraiser 2023

Our 2023 INDOOR Mini-Golf Event was a BIG success!!  Thank you to all golfers and sponsors who supported our event.  We were able to donate $1,000 to Garden Of Health Food Bank
 
This event could not have happened without the support of Floyd Shaffer and his staff at the Montgomery Township Recreation Center!!
 
Our Silver Sponsors were C & N Bank(Dan Hines) and Bucks County Select Homes(Sina Cristinzio)!
 
Our Hole sponsors were:
 
Echelmeier Insurance Agency - Matt Echelmeier
Judge Andrea Duffy
Merrill Lynch - Pete Bednarek
Detweiler Electric - Vern Detweiler
CME2MUV - Cindy Knotts, Realtor
Dale Rimmer Siding
Asset Property Solutions, LLC - Jadzia Kozdra
Wegmans Super Markets
SWAT Pest Control
Bucks County Psychotherapist - Ellen Faulkner
Tiger Printing Group
 
We look forward to seeing everyone in 2024!
 
Matt Echelmeier
Mini-Golf Event Chair
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Rotary’s Response to the 1918 Flu Pandemic

An estimated 500 million people worldwide became infected. Many cities closed theaters and cinemas, and placed restrictions on public gatherings. Rotary clubs adjusted their activities while also helping the sick.

This is how Rotary responded to the influenza pandemic that began in 1918 and came in three waves, lasting more than a year.

The Rotary Club of Berkeley, California, USA, meets in John Hinkel Park during the 1918 flu pandemic.

Photo by Edwin J. McCullagh, 1931-32 club president. Courtesy of the Rotary Club of Berkeley.

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Rotary at the Start of the United Nations

Rotary and the United Nations have a shared history of working toward peace and addressing humanitarian issues around the world.

During World War II, Rotary informed and educated members about the formation of the United Nations and the importance of planning for peace. Materials such as the booklet “From Here On!” and articles in The Rotarian helped members understand the UN before it was formally established and follow its work after its charter. 

Many countries were fighting the war when the term “United Nations” was first used officially in the 1942 “Declaration by United Nations.” The 26 nations that signed it pledged to uphold the ideals expressed by the United States and the United Kingdom the previous year of the common principles “on which they based their hopes for a better future for the world.” 

 

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History of Women in Rotary

Women are active participants in Rotary, serving their communities in increasing numbers and serving in leadership positions in Rotary. The 1989 Council on Legislation vote to admit women into Rotary clubs worldwide remains a watershed moment in the history of Rotary.
 
 “My fellow delegates, I would like to remind you that the world of 1989 is very different to the world of 1905. I sincerely believe that Rotary has to adapt itself to a changing world,” said Frank J. Devlyn, who would go on to become RI president in 2000-01. 
 
The vote followed the decades-long efforts of men and women from all over the Rotary world to allow the admission of women into Rotary clubs, and several close votes at previous Council meetings.
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Young Inventor Eco-Friendly Bricks Come Full Circle

Every hero has an origin story. “I was 10 years old when the entire journey started,” explains Binish Desai. It began with a cartoon called Captain Planet, an animated TV series from the 1990s about an environmentalist with superpowers. Desai can still recite the show’s refrain: Captain Planet, he’s our hero / Gonna take pollution down to zero! “That tagline stuck in my mind,” he says. “I wanted to do something to help Captain Planet.”

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First Club in Philippines Opens Door to Rotary in Asia

In early 1919, Rotarian Roger Pinneo of Seattle, Washington, USA, traveled to the Philippines to try to organize a Rotary club in Manila. Leon J. Lambert, a Manila business leader helped Pinneo establish the club. Several months later, on 1 June 1919, the Rotary Club of Manila was chartered and became the first Rotary club in Asia.

The club would be the only one in the country for more than 12 years. Eventually, Manila club members organized Rotary clubs in the Philippine cities of Cebu (1932) and Iloilo (1933). Iloilo club members then started a club in Bacolod (1937), and Rotary continued to expand across the country.

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