[Dilworthian] Dec. 5 issue

Thu Dec 4 11:46:40 PST 2008

The Dilworthian

(Issues posted at www.charlottedilworthrotary.org)

December 5, 2008

$500 Challenge to Club for Alto Cayma;

Greeting Cards Will Be Available Again 

Dilworth members have two different opportunities to help people in Alto Cayma in the next few weeks.

We have a $500 challenge from a visitor during the program about Alto Cayman  to help us reach $1,000 needed to fund the house for Isela, who works in the card shop. If we match it, the visitor will contribute $500.  If you want to donate to this project, send your checks, made out to Dilworth Charities, to the club at P. O. Box 471211, Charlotte, NC, 28247-1211.  Isela and four adult siblings share a 2-room house with their mother, so it's just about wall-to-wall beds. With $1,000 from the Home Improvement fund and about $2,300 from the family (in this case, they have the means to go well beyond the 50% portion themselves), they can build two additional rooms, each 4X4 meters (effectively doubling their living space), with a good weather-tight cement roof. 

When the Hintzs displayed the Alto Cayma greeting cards at the November meeting, they sold $2,994 worth of cards, $550 short of the single best sale they had last Christmas and that was at Dilworth Rotary.  They will be back at the Dec. 12 meeting with the cards they have left.  Our members may be able to match or beat last year's record.  This is a great project and the cards that our members buy make  the lives better for many families in Alto Cayma.  If members are not able to be at the Dec. 12 meeting and still want to buy cards, contact Ed King or David Hodgkins. 

DilWorth Noting

Donation Kettle Bell-Ringing Volunteers Needed To Staff Two More Saturdays

Chair Lee Wensil still needs additional volunteers to serve two-hour shifts Dec. 6 and Dec. 13 at the Salvation Army donation kettles in Park Road Shopping Center.  If you can serve a two-hour shift between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. at the Harris Teeter or between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. at Blackhawk Hardware, please contact Lee at at 704-321-1730 ( and leave a message if he is out ), or email him at lrwen at aol.com. You are welcome to recruit spouses, significant others, or friends to join you on your shift.  It is good to have two persons at each kettle.  If you have never rung the bell for the Salvation Army, you should try it.  You will enjoy it and feel rewarded for having participated.

Reminder Of Coming Vote on Officers 

The club will vote Dec. 12 on the following slate of officers and directors.

President: Dale Harrold

President-Elect: Fenton Erwin

Secretary: Kay May

Treasurer: Joy Rucker

Directors - One-Year Term: Brad Goforth 

                                              Lamar Gunter

Directors - Two-Year Term: Ron Melvin 

                                              E.J. Rabell

                                   Joe Smith                            

                                   Robert Thomas

Dewey Jenkins is chair of the Nominating Committee. Other members are Bob Teague and Evan Webster.

December Rotarian Packed with Good Reading

As usual the Rotarian is packed with good reading, including in the December issue a story headlined "Guardian angel."  It is about Sir Nicholas Winton of the United Kingdom, a 40-year Rotarian, who in 1939 saved 700 children from the Nazis.  More than 5,000 descendants thank him now.

Other items in the December issue:

"On the polio road"  There is so much more to polio eradication than giving a child a drop.  We travel to India and Nepal to get the vaccine to its destination.

"Conventional wisdom" Birmingham marks RI's 100th convention.  We take a nostalgic look back.

News about Members

Happy Birthday              
J. B. Meanor, Dec. 6

Programs

Dec. 5:         Dante Guazzo, WW II intelligence officer.  December was the 

                    month of two huge events in World War II which started for the 

                    United States Dec. 7, 1941.  The last Nazi offensive, which came to 

                    be known as the Battle of the Bulge, began Dec. 16, 1944.  It cost 

                    19,000 American lives and 41,000 were wounded, but the offensive 

                    failed. It was the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany.

Service Opportunities

Dec. 6 and 13: Bell ringing at Salvation Army donation kettles in Park Road Shopping 

                         Center.  Sign up at the meeting.

Weekly at Meetings:

International Projects - 

·      Participate in the weekly lottery.  Half the proceeds go to benefit 

     our International projects. 

·     CART - Donate your loose change to the Alzheimer's research project by 

     tossing it into the blue bucket at the check-in table.  

Have News for The Dilworthian

Have news for The Dilworthian? Deadline is each Tuesday at 9 p.m. Call Lamar Gunter, 704/442-7838 (office) or 704/525-0569 or fax it to 704/442-9903; or e-mail to Lamar at lgunter at catevo.com, or gunter4283 at bellsouth.net <mailto:gunter4283 at bellsouth.net>   or e-mail him on Charlotte Dilworth South End Rotary's Web site, www.charlottedilworthrotary.org <http://www.charlottedilworthrotary.org/> .  Deadline for items in the reminder Dilworthian is 9 a.m. Monday.

Dilworth Rotary's Web site is a valuable source of information on committee chairs, upcoming programs and events, projects and other club matters.  Other important Rotary links on the Web are www.rotarydistrict7680.org <http://www.rotarydistrict7680.org/>  and www.rotary.org <http://www.rotary.org/> , the Rotary International Web site. 

Please report changes of e-mail address by using the "contact us" feature on the Charlotte Dilworth South End Rotary Web site.  Please report changes of postal mailing address to Tricia King, assistant secretary-treasurer, thekings at carolina.rr.com <mailto:thekings at carolina.rr.com> , or P. O. Box 471211, Charlotte, NC, 28247-1211.

Make-Up Opportunities

All  makeups should be mailed to Tricia King, Dilworth Rotary, Post Office Box 471211,  Charlotte, NC 28247-1211. Club projects and committee meetings count as make-ups.  All meetings listed below are at 12:30 p.m. unless otherwise indicated.

MONDAY

Charlotte North - Byron's South End, 101 W. Worthington Ave.

Matthews - The Senior Center, 1050 DeVore Lane, Matthews, NC 28105 

Charlotte Top-of-the-Week  -  7:30 a.m., Dunhhill Hotel, 237 North Tryon, uptown.

Charlotte South  -  Zebra Restaurant on Sharon Road in SouthPark. 

TUESDAY

Charlotte - Crowne Plaza, 201 S. McDowell St. 

Charlotte University City  -  7:30 a.m., University Hilton, 8629 J. M. Keynes Dr.

WEDNESDAY

Charlotte West  -  Carolina Golf and Country Club, 2415 Old Steele Creek Rd.

North Mecklenburg - 12:15 p.m.  -  Peninsula Country Club, Hwy 73, W. Jetton Rd., Cornelius

Charlotte SouthPark - 7:30 a.m. Marriott SouthPark Hotel, 2200 Rexford Rd.

THURSDAY

Charlotte East  -  Red Rocks Café, 4223 Providence Rd.  

Lake Norman-Huntersville - 7:30 a.m. NorthStone Country Club, 15801 Northstone Rd.

Waxhaw-Weddington - 7:30 a.m. in Rippington's Restaurant in Waxhaw.

Mint Hill - 7:30 am at Pine Lake Country Club, Mint Hill 

FRIDAY

Mecklenburg  County-South  -  7:30 a.m., Raintree  Country Club, 8600 Raintree Lane

Ballantyne Rotary - City Tavern, Stonecrest

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