Rotary Service in the Charlotte Dilworth and South End Area
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News for the Week of Friday, May 18, 2012
Board Approves Two Leaves of Absence
At its May 13 meeting, the Club's Board of Directors approved 90-day leaves of absence for Dale Harrold and Chris Landry and accepted the resignation of Tony Morton who has retired and is moving to Kentucky.
Current membership stands at 63.
Dale requested his leave due to work obligation and Chris asked for his to prepare for and take the Bar Examination.
Treasurer Joy Rucker reported that the District Data Base is making year-end tax reporting easier for Tony Thompson. A budget for 2013 will be prepared using the District Data Base budget tool. It should simplify planning and reporting.
President Kay May proposed we begin using our weekly raffle and Happy Dollars for charitable purposes. Some suggestions included making a donation to the Rotary Foundation and to Samaritan House. The Board will review and designate donations at the next Board meeting.
Joy reported that the funds to complete the World Community Service commitment have now been received. Joy will request that the remaining $480 obligation for WCS be designated from the funds received from the Ortho package sold at last year's Silent Auction fund raiser.
Kay asked Joy to put together a recommendation of some potential donations for the funds raised during the charity and the Happy Dollars. The June Board Meeting will review.
The May 18th meeting will be the picnic at Latta Park. There will be no meeting May 25th (Memorial Day). The June 1st meeting will be a Club Assembly to focus on goals for the upcoming year.
The next Blue Badge Seminar is June 29. At this meeting some of the "Red Badge" members badges will change to Blue. Blue Badge presentations will be made at the meeting.
The July 6th meeting will be the official Changing of the Guard for officers and directors.
DilWorth Noting
Meeting This Week Is at Latta Park
Left to right are Pete Heuberger, Joe Morris, Thomas Mussoni, Lamar Gunter, Neil Howell, Alesia Shore with the Mecklenburg Parks and Recreation Department and Dave Miller.
Members Clean Up Rotary Community Garden
Six members of our Club worked with Alesia Shore of the Mecklenburg Parks and Recreation Department last Saturday to spruce up the Dilworth Rotary Club Community Garden. We planted new flowers, applied new pine bark mulch, cut down and dug out an invasive cane like plant. We also dug out some Indian Hawthorne plants that had become diseased with a fungus. New plants will replace them. We pruned back plants that were impinging on benches.
The work session lasted from 9 until 11 a.m. and Alesia drove away with a truckload of debris from the cleanup.
Speaker Tells How to Use Social Media
Lani Wingate presented a program on "Customer Acquisition using Social Media" for the May 11 meeting and he showed how our Club could use the customer acquisition tactics to acquire new members.Lani Wingate created On Target Customer Acquisition(TM) to assist business owners and sales executives in growing their business. Lessons learned as a US Army combat arms officer helped him as he grew the company he founded to 20 locations in 12 states with over 300 employees and $20 million in revenues.
Lani Wingate
He offered to meet with members of our Club to give more detailed lessons on how we can use social media to increase awareness of our club and attract new members. The directors have agreed to take him up on his offer and have started trying to work out a date that is convenient for him and some key members of the Club who want to be involved.
Lani has taught over 600 classes, written 78 training manuals and has won the Blue Diamond Award and the CC Cameron Award. Lani (Lani@laniwingate.com) is a Charlotte native and lives in Charlotte with his wife and two daughters.
Our Club
Founded as Dilworth Rotary Club in 1948, Charlotte Dilworth South End Rotary Club is part of a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world.
Rotary is a volunteer organization with 33,000 clubs in over 200 countries and geographical areas. It initiates humanitarian projects that address today?s challenges affecting the world today, such as hunger, poverty, and illiteracy.
Rotary club members represent a cross-section of business and professional leaders around the world. These 1.2 million men and women donate their expertise, time, and funds to support local and international projects that help people in need and promote understanding among cultures. Rotary International is the worldwide association of Rotary clubs united under a motto of Service Above Self.
Rotary?s flagship program is its effort to protect children against polio. It aims to eradicate the disease from the world.
Charlotte Dilworth South End Rotary Club serves its community and the world through projects for the Boy Scouts of America, Crisis Assistance Ministry, dental, homebuilding and medical missions in Central and South America, Habitat for Humanity, Salvation Army, the Charlotte USO and many others.
For further information, contact Lamar Gunter at 704-525-0569 or e-mail him at
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Charlotte Dilworth South End Rotary Club
District 7680
Charter 7076
PO Box 30473
Charlotte, NC 28230 USA
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The Charlotte Dilworth South End Rotary Club, a service club of men and women chartered by Rotary International, meets for lunch regularly on Fridays at 12:15 p.m. at Byron's Catering in South End, 101 W. Worthington.
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