Rotary International Theme 2024-2025	THE ROWEL Rotary Club of Durham		Rotary International President: Gordon McInally Rotary District 5160 Governor: Clair Roberts Durham Rotary President: Glenn Pulliam _____________ Editor: Phil Price Publisher:  Jen Liu
	September 10, 2024	Harvest Festival 2024 Will be held on Sep. 15, 2024

The Meeting Opening The meeting was called to order by Acting President Glenn Pulliam at the Durham Park.. Glenn led the pledge.  Glenn then asked Larry Bradley to lead the invocation, which he did. Jen and Pam cooked the chicken dinner, Diana brought salad and cookies for dessert.  Eric took care of beer and water for the meeting.

Meeting Highlights

It should be noted that President Peggi has returned, but let Glenn preside at the meeting since shehas not been involved in the planning.

The purpose of the meeting was to complete the planning of the Harvest Festival, which is next Saturday.

Glenn had prepared a work assignment and schedule, which will ask him to email to all member, since I cannot get it added to or attached to this Rowel. 

Basically all members are to be at the storage shed at 8:30 am on Saturday and at the Park by6:00 am on Sunday.  All members need to remain after the event to clean up.

Our Next Meeting

It will be on September 24^th at the BCCC.  It will be a debrief of the Harvest Festival

Membership

Bring guests who you think you can interest in becoming a member.  Your dinner and your guest’s dinner will be paid for by the Club.  Also, bring a guest to one of our occasional social gatherings.

Go to the following Rotary International web site for information on membership development:  https://my.rotary.org/en/learning-reference/learn-topic/membership .  From this website there is access to membership development and other related information.

The Rotary Foundation Donations

You can make a difference in this world by helping people in need. Your gift can do some great things, from supplying filters that clean people’s drinking water to empowering local entrepreneurs to grow through business development training.

The Rotary Foundation will use your gift to fund the life-changing work of Rotary members who provide sustainable solutions to their communities’ most pressing needs. But we need help from people like you who will take action and give the gift of Rotary to make these projects possible.

When every Rotarian gives every year, no challenge is too great for us to make a difference. The minimum gift to The Rotary Foundation is $25.00.   An annual $100.00 gift is a sustaining member.  Once your donations accumulate to $1,000 you become a Paul Harris Fellow.

If you have any questions ask Steve Heithecker.

It is possible to learn more about The Rotary Foundation on the Rotary web site. 

Your gift can be made online or by sending Jessica Thorpe a check made out to The Rotary Foundation to Durham Rotary, P.O. Box 383, Durham, California 95958.