Date: October 27, 2010 Club News Last week we had Cathy Haverty talking about the Alpha House. This week we have a Club Assembly. Next week we have a possible meeting at the Alpha House. More details to come.

Club Coming Events Oct. 27: Club Assembly. Nov. 3: Possible meeting at the Alpha House. More details to come. Nov. 6: Picnic @ Ft. DeSoto Beach Park starting @ 10:00. Nov . 10: We do not have a program scheduled yet. Please contact President Bill or David for suggestions. Nov. 13: District Bike Ride in Downtown Bartow. Click here for more information. All proceeds to support literacy efforts within our District. Nov. 17: Margaret Woman. Prolonging the functional age to work. Nov. 24: We have a Club Assembly. Dec. 19: NFL “Big Game” Raffle Drawing Party @ 2:30PM. Crabby’s Loading Dock, 401 Gulf Blvd, Indian Rocks Beach, FL.

If you have any suggestions for programs, please communicate with David or José to schedule them.

RI President: Ray Klinginsmith – Kirksville, Missouri, USA District 6890 Governor Ed Odom, Riverview, FL

www.tampawestrotary.org

What if we could prevent just ONE

child from suffering from POLIO?

How much would that be worth?

Click below and contact Dennis or José to learn more.

http://www.rotary.org/en/ServiceAndFellow

ship/Polio/HelpEradicatePolio/Pages/ridefau

lt.aspx

Food for Ronald MacDonald’s Home: For at least 20 persons. It can be bought or home cooked and delivered NLT 6pm. David is your contact. *If you can’t make it, please call him.

Nov. 27 – Raúl Dec. 19 - Frank

Food for thought

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. --Horace

Just for Laughs

A very self-important college freshman attending a recent football game, took it upon himself to explain to a senior citizen sitting next to him why it was impossible for the older generation to understand his generation. "You grew up in a different world, actually an almost primitive one," the student said, loud enough for many of those nearby to hear. "The young people of today grew up with television, jet

planes, space travel, man walking on the moon, our space ships have visited Mars. We have nuclear energy, electric and hydrogen cars, computers with light-speed processing and...," pausing to take another drink of beer. The older man took advantage of the break in the student's litany and said, "You're right, son. We didn't have those things when we were young... so we invented them. Now, what are YOU and your bunch doing for the next generation?" The applause was resounding.

Join Rotary for the ride of your life: http://www.rotaryrides.org/

Birthday/Anniversary

Birthdays Anniversaries Luis Vargas: Oct. 28 No anniversaries this month.

"This Close" resources available By Wayne Hearn

Rotary International News -- 22 October 2010

Rotary is "this close" to achieving its goal of a polio-free world, and

a wide array of public figures and celebrities have signed on to help

Rotary spread the word.

From Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu and action movie star

Jackie Chan to golf legend Jack Nicklaus and conservationist Jane

Goodall, more than 20 international and regional luminaries with a

social conscience are raising their thumbs and forefingers in the “this

close” gesture, to appear on billboards and in print ads soon to be

seen worldwide.

Television and radio public service announcements also will be

available in the coming months.

Rotary clubs can use the ads within their communities to increase

awareness of and support for Rotary’s US$200 Million Challenge ,

the ongoing effort to raise $200 million for polio eradication to

match $355 million in challenge grants from the Bill & Melinda

Gates Foundation.

Clubs and districts are encouraged to customize the “This Close” ads to help promote their own polio

fundraising efforts, and to seek donated or discounted placements from their local newspapers, outdoor

advertising companies, and television and radio stations. The ads complement the polio eradication

component of Rotary’s broader Humanity in Motion public image campaign.

The “This Close” ads were introduced at the 2010 International Assembly. Print ads have since run in several

publications, including The Rotarian magazine, USA Today , the Chicago Tribune , and the Wall Street

Journal Asia . Rotarians at the 2010 RI Convention also saw them at Montréal-Trudeau International Airport.

The RI Public Relations Division sought participants who represent a wide range of professions,

accomplishments, interests, and levels of celebrity. There are figures of international and cross-cultural fame,

such as Tutu, Queen Noor of Jordan, and classical violinist Itzhak Perlman, as well as figures who are well

known within specific countries, regions, and cultures, such as Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan,

Nigerian soccer star Nwankwo Kanu, Beninese singer Angélique Kidjo, and Korean ballerina Sue Jin Kang.

Perlman, a polio survivor, has been particularly supportive of Rotary’s polio eradication effort. He will

perform in his second benefit Concert to End Polio on 7 March with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at

Symphony Center. The first Concert to End Polio was a sold-out event featuring Perlman and members of the

New York Philharmonic, who performed at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in December 2009.

View a slideshow of the “This Close” print ads.

Download the “This Close” print ads .

Watch a video on Rotary's progress

The Indian Rocks Beach Rotary Club in partnership with the Tampa West Latin Rotary Club

How do I get my Chances?

Order online at:

www.tampawestrotary.org (click on NFL DRAWING)

Call: Frank Irizarry (813) 886-5113 or José Feliciano (813) 690-0852

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