Meetings: Mondays at Noon

DJ’S Dugout

10308 South 23rd St.

Bellevue, NE 68123

OFFICERS FOR 2017-2018

President………........Colm Breathnach

President-Elect….....Chris McMeekin

Secretary………………..Charles Adams

Treasurer…………...…..Denise Dolezal

Sergeant-at-Arms…………..Paul Reed

Program Chair………………..Jeff Smith

Board Members….......Charles Adams

Herb Barelman

Paul Reed

Fred Simon

Jeff Smith

Chris McMeekin

Colm Breathnach

Denise Dolezal

JUNE SPEAKERS

June 4: Miss Sarpy County

June 11: Bellevue Author-Bellevue Professor Kayleen Powell

June 18: Nebraska Christian College

June 25: Bellevue Travel

JUNE GREETER

Greeter..........................Heather Chaney

FROM THE PRESIDENT

I have had the pleasure and honor of serving as your president over the last 2 ½ years. During that time you helped create some great memories for me, going to a Stormchasers baseball game. Having Ayaka live with us, helping with Arrows to Aerospace parade, meeting such amazing teachers and of course meeting fellow Rotarians from all over the country. I ask you to help Chris as he steps in to the office in July. I look forward to our continued success in the years to come and that our impact in our community is long lasting and far reaching.

FROM ROTARY INTERNATIONAL

Rotary wins Best Nonprofit Act for its polio eradication work

By Ryan Hyland

Rotary’s commitment to eradicating polio worldwide won Best Nonprofit Act in the Hero Awards of the One Billion Acts of Peace campaign, an international global citizens’ movement to tackle the world’s most important issues.

A Rotary vaccination team immunizes children against polio at a railway station in Karachi, Pakistan.

Khaula Jamil

The campaign is an initiative of PeaceJam Foundation and is led by 14 Nobel Peace Prize laureates, including the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Rigoberta Menchú Tum, with the ambitious goal of inspiring a billion acts of peace by 2020.

Each year, the campaign picks two finalists in each of six categories for their work to make a measurable impact in one of the 10 areas considered most important by the Nobel laureates. Winners are chosen by people from around the world.

Rotary and Mercy Corps were the two finalists in the Best Nonprofit Act category. Rotary and the five other winners will be recognized at a ceremony on June in Monaco. Betty Williams, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977 for her advocacy for peace in Northern Ireland, will present the award.

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THE FOUR WAY TEST—of the things we think, say, or do:

Is it the TRUTH?

Is it FAIR to all concerned?

Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?

Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

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QUOTE OF THE MONTH

ROTARY TRIVIA

(Answer in next month’s newsletter)

The first non-English speaking Rotary Club was established in:

_ Buenos Aires
_ Paris
_ Havana
_ Rome

ROTARY TRIVIA ANSWERS FROM LAST MONTH

What year did women join Rotary?

1987

AREA MEETINGS

Monday:

Omaha Millard, Noon @ German American Society

Omaha North, Noon @ Eppley Airfield Conference Center

Tuesday:

Omaha Morning, 7:00 am @ Happy Hollow Country Club

Northwest, Noon @ Champions Run

Southwest Omaha Rotary Night Club, 5:15pm @Millard Plaza Ballroom

Wednesday:

Council Bluffs Centennial, 7:00am at HyVee

Downtown, Noon @ Field Club

Plattsmouth, Noon @ Plattsmouth State Bank

Thursday:

Suburban, Noon @ Anthonys

Friday:

Omaha West, Noon @ Champions Run