Our club’s first attempt at using Rotary connections to build friendships and understanding between different nations and cultures is just about concluded. Here’s a look at that first Cultural Connection between our member Kris Wilson’s son Eli and Miggie Liebenberg. https://youtu.be/qJqp5bsFSFs [...]
Rotary has been the international leader in the fight to End Polio for years. To many, that's the only thing they know about Rotary. Gary Aufdenkampe shares with us these two videos about Paul Alexander, one of the few polio survivors [...]
We are about to end Women's History Month in the U.S. so to mark that here is a post submitted by our Immediate Past President Emily Podhradsky. "I heard Dr. Trent speak a few years ago at a conference and found [...]
The Rotary Club of Biddeford-Sacco, Maine in the U.S. invited PDG Sergii Zavadskyi to speak last Wednesday on what he and other Rotarians in Ukraine are facing and what they are doing as the war passes the one month mark. They [...]
The United Nations has designated March 22 as World Water Day. One of Rotary's prime causes is providing clean water around the world. We have two videos for you this week. The first short one on World Water Day was submitted [...]
Rotary's theme for the coming year is "Imagine Rotary". It means a lot of different things in different contexts. In this speech from 2008, J.K. Rowling speaks of the power of both failure and imagination. To quote from her speech "we [...]
Our program this week about speaking out when necessary uses the equivalent of Rotary's 4 way test to help us be brave enough to speak our truths. Luvvie Ajayi Jones gives us some tools to use to judge when and how [...]
Humor can help us deal with life in many ways. Our program this week from Eloisa Robledo, features Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas on how to use humor in leadership. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJKDipbCzdc
The goal of energy from fusion has seemed to be always "just 20 years away" for about 50 years now. That timeline is becoming more realistic daily. Chuck Hoffhine found this video from 2021 about Delivering Fusion Energy. New demonstrations of [...]
Berenice Claassens was a Rotary Youth Exchange student who stayed with Jim & Sue Hunt. Now she is a prosecutor in South Africa and she helped us find our first Cultural Connections student outside of our club. In this video she [...]
