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AWRC Date Night

On Saturday evening, August 22, 2009, our AW Rotary had its inaugural “Date Night”, with 22 people participating (counting significant others). We met at Hall’s Guesthouse Grille at 5:00 for dinner and conversation. The food was great and the fellowship even better!

After dinner, we went to the Coldwater Crossing Theater Complex where most of us saw the movie, “500 Days of Summer” (yes, a chick flick!). From there, several of us polished off the evening in the lounge of Hall’s Factory Restaurant with cheese/crackers and cocktails.

All in all, this was a very successful first time event and one that we will repeat at least once or twice more this year.

Inaugural Anthony Wayne Rotary 5K RUN/WALK
to Help Eradicate Polio

Our inaugural 5K Run/Walk to Help Eradicate Polio was a huge success. Although the day dawned with bright sunshine and some tough heat and humidity, we were pleasantly greeted with 140 registered runners. For an inaugural race of this type, this was an incredibly large number. We are already planning on a second annual run on August 21, 2010, and hope to be pushing 200 runners.

The best news is that because of the success of this event Anthony Wayne Rotary was able to easily reach its goal of a $2,000 contribution to Polio Plus.

We wish to thank all of our club members who participated in and/or helped with this event; and we owe a big debt of gratitude to our Leo and Northrop Interact Clubs for their help with registration, timing, and aid station help. Last but not least, we thank our race sponsors for their financial contributions.

For race results, click HERE.

AWRC Donates to Fort Wayne Children's Foundation
and to Honduras Water Project

The Anthony Wayne Rotary Club of Fort Wayne has recently donated $2,500 to help with the installation of a water tank in Honduras, a project that is being sponsored by the Delphi, Indiana Club. Getting potable water to underdeveloped countries is a high priority of Rotary International as Rotary clubs around the world help to promote the ideal of “service above self” which is the Rotary motto.

Anthony Wayne Rotary has also made a contribution of $1,000 to the Fort Wayne Children’s Foundation, a local organization that is working to fight child abuse in all of its various facets.

The president of Anthony Wayne Rotary, Barrie Peterson, states that these two projects are his signature projects to help meet local and international Rotary goals. Other projected projects for this club in the coming Rotary year will include: a 5K run/walk event to raise money for Rotary International’s ongoing fight to eradicate polio; the distribution of dictionaries to all of the local third graders in the greater Fort Wayne area; sizeable donations to the local office of World Relief and to the Community Harvest Food Bank; cleaning, polishing, and restoring monuments at Memorial Park; helping financially and on site with Indian Village Elementary School as our official adopted school; honoring local student-athletes and other student leaders, culminating with the awarding of two $4,000 scholarships to area seniors; and lots of other service projects and fellowship activities.

The other officers for the Anthony Wayne Rotary Club for the 2009-2010 Rotary year include President-Elect H. Lee Bays, Vice President Aron Dellinger, Secretary Dick Noll, and Treasurer John Smith.

AWRC 5K Run

Northrop HS Canstruction 2009

If you want to see what a dedicated group of Rotary Interact students can accomplish, take a look at this video they produced to promote their 2009 Canstruction project. Click here. Photos of the team and other schools projects are available here.

In Memoriam

Anthony Wayne Rotarian, Ron Phillips of Fort Wayne, died Sunday, Jan. 18, 2009, at home. Born Aug. 19, 1931, in Chicago, Ill., he founded the first Health Education Center in the country, in Hinsdale, Ill., and proceeded to found the McMillen Center for Health Education in Fort Wayne.

AWRC Donates $2500 to World Relief in Fort Wayne

On December 16, the Anthony Wayne Rotary Club presented Sammy Mah (far right), World Relief's president and CEO, with a $2,500 donation. To the left of Mr. Mah is Rotarian Jeff Keplar, who is also the director of World Relief's new Fort Wayne office.

Also shown, continuing to the left, are John McFann, Asst. Secretary Larry McChessney, President-elect Barrie Peterson and President Greg Lowe.

To see the Journal Gazette article, click here: http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081217/LOCAL/812170314

For more information about World Relief, click here: http://www.wr.org

Nat on the Net

	Would you like to See Our Australian Friend, Natalie Forrest, Present the News in Canberra Australia? Yes, you have to watch a short commercial first, but it is fun to hear the local Canberra news and Nat's accent.
Click on the link below to see Nat doing the news in Canberra. She does not work weekends! Once on the iPrime site, click on the blue Prime News box. http://canberra.iprime.com.au/

Australians at Notre Dame Game?

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Jack Ripple and Pat Favuzzo took a kangaroo to the Notre Dame game. Why? Did they get the kangaroo from our Australian friends? Should we fine them at Rotary? Has the kangaroo had all of its shots? Have Jack and Pat had all of their shots? Is this fair to all concerned, and will this build goodwill and better friendships? Do kangaroos make good Rotarians?

Ruby Garrison Blog

Below is the link to Ruby Garrison's Blog. To read the blog of our outbound Rotary Exchange Student click here

http://rubyinslovakia.blogspot.com


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