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NEWSLETTER Governor’s Message for May

All through this Rotary year, I’ve been asking Rotarians and Rotary Clubs to spend some real time and effort to “Reach Within” and think about what Rotary means to them. As I have visited clubs and heard about their projects, I am struck by the fact that our most successful Rotary Clubs are the ones that have a clear vision of what Rotary means to them, and how Rotary can help our world. They have taken the question “Why Rotary?” and answered it.It is a little hard for me to believe that this Rotary year is rapidly drawing to a close―after this message, I only have one more for the 2011-12 year, so I wanted to use this month to try to offer a few thoughts on the question “Why Rotary?” Why do I spend so much time, energy, and money on Rotary? In some ways, it’s simple. As Past RI President Rick King tells each class of incoming Presidents Elect at PETS every year, Rotary is the finest non-governmental, non-political, no-religious organization on the face of the earth. That’s a big claim―but it is true. I have found no other group, club, or organization that is made up of business, professional and community leaders where everyone is welcome regardless of race, religion, gender, or politics, and who come together to use their collective common-sense and good will to build peace in our world. Peace comes in

We provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through our fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.

Rotary is a worldwide network of inspired individuals who translate their passions into relevant social causes to change lives in communities.

GSE is coming!

The GSE Team from Veracruz, Mexico will be in our District before you know it! They touch down at LAX on Friday, May 11th at 1: 25 pm and will be raring to go!

A Welcome dinner is scheduled for Saturday evening, May 12th at 6:00pm at the Beverly Garland Hotel in North Hollywood and all are welcome to attend. The cost is $30 per person. Please register for the event at the District website under District Events.Several D5260 Rotarians have graciously accepted to role of Area Coordinator to help with the planning of the Exchange. Jim Miceli will be coodinating the San Fernando Valley, Marta Brown will handling things in the Antelope Valley, and Dan Watson will taking care of the Eastern Sierras. We are still in need of a coordinator for Santa Clarita.Ask anyone who’s hosted a GSE team member before and they will tell you what a wonderful experience it is! The Coordinators will be looking for Host families to house our guests during their stay, as well as arranging vocational and cultural tours. We need your help! Please contact the coordinator in your area or Craig Timm, GSE Chair, to offer your assistance.

Let’s make the final GSE visitors to District 5260 feel welcome and give them the experience of a lifetime!

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many forms―as RI President Elect Sakuji Tanaka says, it is not just an absence of war, it is personal well-being; it is having clean water to drink, food to eat, medical care when you need it, economic prosperity and an absence of physical conflict. Every day, in every community where Rotary is, we can make peace―and that alone would be enough to answer the question “Why Rotary” for me.But there is more. Rotarians don’t just strive to do good things for other and work for peace―we strive to be good people. Unlike most civic or community organizations, ethics and integrity are a fundamental core value of our organization. We aren’t people who get together once a week to go something nice for someone else; we are people who, every day of our lives in everything we do, commit to being truthful; to being fair to all; to building goodwill and friendships; and to trying to benefit our entire world. We often hear the buzz-words about building “win-win” relationships―Rotarians have been committed to that since we began. We are human beings; we may not always succeed every day in being the kind of people we want to be, but we are committed to doing our very best.Why Rotary? Because it gives me the opportunity to partner with people who are committed to being good, and doing good. The details might be a little different; one Rotarian may be passionate about his or her own community, and another about clean water and sanitation in Africa, but our core values bring us together. Why Rotary? Service. Fellowship. Integrity. Leadership. Diversity. That’s why.

Rocking on . . .

April 21 brought amazing weather and great crowds to the first ever Bishop Sunrise Earth Day celebration at the Bishop City Park (well, it was the second Bishop Earth Day celebration, but the first sponsored by Bishop Sunrise).

Rotary Club of Bishop Sunrise Earth Day

Photos: Bishop Sunrise Rotary’s Free the Girls campaign. Over 50 booths kept visitors busy. The human-powered ferris wheel was a hit. Dee Younger, Earth Day organizer.

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ROTARY INTERNATIONAL TRIVIASome Rotary “Firsts”: Rotary’s first Convention in the Southern Hemisphere was in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1948. The first year the Rotary Foundation received total contributions of $1 million in a single year was 1964-65. Rotary’s first appeal for aid to disaster victims was in 1913 when $25,000 was given for flood relief in Indiana and Ohio.

After lots of hard work, Glendale Sunrise has completed a beautiful literacy garden for the students at the John Muir School in Glendale.

Rotary Club of Granada Hills Serves Up Pancakes at Relay for Life

On April 14, 2012, the Rotary Club of Granada Hills served breakfast to 200 participants in the annual Relay for Life. Here they are in action!

Rotary Club of Glendale Sunrise Complete John Muir School Literacy Garden!

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Get Ready to IGNITE Your Club

PDG Chuck Reinhart Honored at Arch Klumph Society Induction

If membership is FUN...and it is...membership development just became even more fun with IGNITE! Led by RI Director Ken Boyd, we believe that if we IGNITE every Rotarian to assist in membership growth and retention, we will grow Rotary and increase our humanitarian efforts so desperately needed in our world. Get your Club Membership Development Chair to your District Assembly--it has been confirmed that for District 5280 the membership presentation will be about IGNITE and will be...you guessed it...FUN!

Our very own Chuck Reinhart and his late wife Yolanda were formally inducted into the Arch Klumph Society in March, 2012 at a very special ceremony in Evanston.

(For those of you who don’t know Chuck, he’s right smack in the middle of this picture).This is from the official RI website: “Charles Reinhart, an engineer, joined the Rotary Club of Glendale, California, in 1961, after serving as a charter member of the Rotary Club of Panorama City. He has been a district governor and a representative to the Council on Legislation. Before retiring in 1982, Charles switched careers and worked as a department store

manager. He now keeps busy as a private investigator and enjoys taking classes at a local university. Yolanda Reinhart, who died in 2006, was a math teacher and volunteer in the Glendale school district. The couple were married 50 years and have three children and two grandchildren”.

ROTARY INTERNATIONAL TRIVIAOne of the more recent Rotary traditions began in 1984-85 when the district governors decided to wear a distinctive yellow sport coat to official Rotary events. In succeeding years, the president of RI has selected a colorful jacket for the district governors and other international officers of Rotary. Blue has been picked the most often, but jackets have run the spectrum from maroon to bright red to green. This year has been a nice, quiet gray.

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Please make your plans now to join your fellow District 5260 Rotarians for our “Farewell” District Conference on June 8 and 9, 2012 at Beverly Garland’s Holiday Inn in North Hollywood, California.Join us for the fellowship and the opportunity to see and hear more about the great things that Rotary does in the world. Friday night’s dinner will be our first event, and will be a “black tie optional” tribute to the history of our District. Then, Saturday morning we’ll look to the future with a morning plenary session featuring Past RI Director Paul Netzel as we “Reach Within” and look at great community and vocational service projects. Lunch will be when we recognize all our Clubs and the 2011-12 class of Presidents. That afternoon we’ll feature international service and the Rotary Foundation when we “Embrace Humanity.” Finally, we’ll close with a fabulous Saturday night dinner, including a keynote address RI President’s Representative Peter Bundgaard from the Rotary Club of Ry, Denmark, and the final award of the Silver Bells.SPACE IS LIMITED THIS YEAR― the Beverly Garland is a beautiful property, but the ballroom only holds 300 people, so once we’ve sold those, we’re full. Register right now so you won’t miss anything.More information is available at www.rotary5260.org.

District 5260 “Farewell” District Conference June 8 and 9, 2012

Rotary Wheels at Willow SpringsThe Rotary Club of Lancaster West hosted a great day of fun and fundraising on April 7 at the Willow Springs Raceway in Rosamond. They had a great turnout of people “lapping” their personal cars on the main track at the raceway, go-carting, “drifting” exhibitions and a steak dinner. All the proceeds are going to PolioPlus. The event was also a great awareness-raising project, as the event announcer made frequent announcements about Rotary’s polio eradication efforts. A great day in the sun!

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AN INTERACT MINUTEby Camille Levee

Well, it is that time of year when really need to have our succession plan in place:

Who will be the officers for next year? What can we do over the summer, not only for fun, but for service? (at least 2 or 3 times!) Are there friends we could invite to these events?

Check with your sponsoring Rotary Club to see what they have planned, and "tag along".  Believe me, some of these clubs need young energy!

And start planning for back to school recruiting! All the planning ensures that there will be an active Interact Club, just like you joined, into the future!

And speaking of planning, this will be my last Interact Minute in District 5260---as of June 1, I will be in District 5510, Payson, AZ, where I have accepted a position as Executive Director of Time Out, Inc. a domestic violence and transitional shelter.

But rest assured, I am taking my lists with me, and will be looking for opportunities for cross club activities! (it's only 400 miles away!)

I wish you all the best for continued growth and success----you have made my role a breeze to fulfill---first with PDG Drew, and now with Gov. Tom.

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The Race for the “Permanent Trustees” of the Silver Bells!

As everybody should know by now, we’ve got two separate contests going this year for the Silver Bells. On Saturday, June 9 at the end of the District Conference, we’ll announce the annual winners in the small, medium, and large club divisions. Those winning clubs will hold the Bells until July 1, 2013.We’ll also be announcing the “Permanent Trustees” for the Bells―the clubs that will take possession of the Bells on July 1, 2013. These clubs will shoulder the heavy responsibility of holding the Bells in trust for all of the clubs of the former District 5260. The Permanent Trustees will be the Clubs who donate the most to the Annual Programs Fund and the Polio Plus Funds of The Rotary Foundation through May 31, 2012. As of April 19, 2012, the following clubs are leading in their respective divisions:Large Clubs: Lancaster West―total contributions: $18,320.00Medium Clubs: Studio City-Sherman Oaks―total contributions: $10,011.00Small Clubs: Burbank Sunrise―total contributions: $15,073.00But it’s not over―the final determination will be made at the close of business on May 31, 2012. That gives your club a month to get those contributions in! And thank you to all of you who have been so generous in supporting our Rotary Foundation this year.

ROTARY INTERNATIONAL TRIVIA Two very special awards of recognition are occasionally presented by the Trustees of The Rotary Foundation to Rotarians who render outstanding service to the Foundation. The Rotary Foundation Citation for Meritorious Service recognizes significant and dedicated service by a Rotarian to promote Foundation programs and thus advance the Foundation’s goal of better understanding and friendly relations among people of the world. The Rotary Foundation Distinguished Service Award is presented to a Rotarian who has received the Citation for Meritorious Service and whose outstanding record of service to The Rotary Foundation reaches beyond the district over an extended period of time.

The Rotary Club of Bishop continues its yearly tradition of giving Easter Gifts.

On March 31st 22 Rotarians and friends gathered at the home of Terry and Kay O’Brien’s home to assemble 350 Easter gift packages and baskets. During a three day period, April 2nd through April 4th, Rotarians delivered the gift packages and baskets to residents of the Sterling Heights Assisted Living home, the Methodist Church Soup Kitchen, and residents at the Bishop Care Center, those gathered at the Bishop Senior Center in the city park and to IMAH clients. The smiles and thanks for the Easter Good Wishes bring great joy to all members who contribute their time and money to bring a little happiness to folks who might not receive a personal Easter Greeting.

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ROTARY INTERNATIONAL TRIVIA

RI is headquartered at One Rotary Center in Evanston, Illinois, just north of Chicago. The building was constructed in 1977, and purchased by Rotary in 1987. About one-half of the space is rented out to commercial tenants, until it is neededby Rotary. One Rotary Center boasts a 190 seat auditorium, a 200 seat cafeteria, and office space for more than 500 employees.

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The ONE Event You Won’t Want To Miss!

Bless the Beasts & the Children Dinner Extravaganza

Saturday, May 19th!

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while we honor the work of Malibu Coast Animal Hospital and

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in giving animals and children hope for a brighter future!

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ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 5260

2012 DISTRICT CONFERENCE TOM HARDY – DISTRICT GOVERNOR

Beverly Garland Hotel, North Hollywood, June 8 & 9

REGISTRATION FORM

Please Print

HOTEL RESERVATIONS The Beverly Garland Holiday Inn

4222 Vineland Avenue North Hollywood, CA 91602

Tel: 818-255-7492 Fax: 818-766-0112

1-800-BEVERLY Group Code: RTR

$139 per night Hotel reservations must be made by

Wed. May 9, 2012 as we have a very limited number of rooms

available.

Jay & Ferne Saltzman Conference Co-Chairs (818) 349-9683 JNsure@AOL.com

Name:__________________________________________Call Name:________________________________ Guest:__________________________________________Call Name:________________________________ Mailing Address:_____________________________________City:_________________________________ State:_______ Zip:___________ Rotary Club of:__________________________ District:_______________ Phone: H (____)_____________W(____)_____________C(____)_____________E-Mail:_________________

Date Activity Choice No. Cost Total Dinner 7:00 p.m. Celebrate our Past A._______ Fellowship - Steak (A), Fish (B), or Vegetarian (C) B._______ $50.00 6:00 p.m. C._______ Fri. June 8 Lunch Club Recognition Sat. June 9 Buffet $35.00 11:55a.m. Dinner 7:00 p.m. Governor’s  Dinner A._______ Fellowship - Embracing  Rotary’s  Future B._______ $50.00 6:00 p.m. Prime Rib (A), Salmon (B), or Vegetarian (C) C._______ Sat. June 9 SUBTOTAL Registration Fee: $20 per person – 18 or older

TOTAL

Mail Registration Form To: Rotary District 5260 P.O. Box 289 Hot Springs, SD 57747 secox@pacbell.net To Pay by Credit Card: Name on Card_________________________________________MC_____ or VISA_____

Credit Card #__________________________________________Expiration Date_____________ Code:___________

If paying by check – Mail check to Rotary District 5260 RETURN CHECK WITH REGISTRATION

The first 100 Rotarians to register will receive a 5260 memento. Register early as there is a maximum capacity of 300 people at the conference this year.

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Calendar

May 6-10, 2012

RI International Convention, Bangkok,

May 12, 2012Welcome Party for GSE TeamBeverly Garland Holiday InnNorth Hollywood, CA

May 13-14, 2012Rotary Club Spring ShowMoorpark Park12061 Moorpark StStudio City, CA 91607

June 2, 2012

District 5280 AssemblyCarson Community Center3 Civic Plaza DriveCarson, CA 90745

June 8-9, 2012

Final District 5260 District Conference Beverly Garland’s Holiday InnNorth Hollywood, CA

Please submit items of interest to District Newsletter Editor Vickie Taton at vtaton@gmail.com. Submission deadline is the 20th of the month prior to publication. Please visit www.rotary5260.org for contact information for all of your District Officers and the latest and greatest of what is happening in our District. Rotary Trivia items are blatantly stolen from the ABC’s of Rotary by Past RI President Cliff Dochterman, and A Century of Service, by David C. Forward.  Both are available for purchase at www.rotary.org.

And visit our District 5260 Facebook Page!

Officers of Rotary International for District 5260

Kalyan Banerjee, Rotary Club of Vapi, IndiaRotary International President 2011-12

Ken Boyd, Rotary Club of Kerman, California, USARotary International Director, Zones 25 & 26, 2011-13

Tom Hardy, Rotary Club of Bishop Sunrise, California, USADistrict Governor, District 5260, 2011-12.