Club News

Our committee met a few times and liked the idea of water projects around the world. And, instead of coming up with our own project this year decided to help out fellow clubs who had projects but needed money. We supported two projects with $1000 to each project.

The 1st project is a project sponsored by the Bend-Mt Bachelor club. The project is designed to complete a water system upgrade for the Mulege community in Mexico. At present, water is available to most families for 2-3 days each week. A devastating hurricane in September 2009 and the accompanying flood caused extensive damage to the water infrastructure in the area. The money will provide a new pump, motor, drive swhaft and controlsa that will provide adequate pressure to bring the new reservoir into the city water system. The city of Mulege is providing all other materials.

This should increase water storage for use throughout the town during fire fighting events and power outages as well as providing a consistent supply of water for general use.

The 2nd project which we supported is sponsored by the Corvallis Rotary club. Its intent is to provide 25 schools in NE Thailand with water filtration equipment to bring potable water supplies to children in areas that rely on either unhealthy water sources or expensive bottled water supplies. The club has worked with the local club in the past with positive experiences and will provide permanent equipment of a proven and sustainable type. And will be monitored as well as auditing of usage of the filters along with equipment security, training and local committment to upkeep and supplies.

The club should be proud of their commitments.

– Paul Goodmonson

The Rotary Club of Greater Corvallis has a goal this year of reaching an average 80% attendance. Currently we are languishing in the 60% category. The board set the goal above the district average of 72%. It will take an effort from all of our members for us to reach this goal.

5 Ways to Reach Our 80% Goal:

1. Attend our club’s meetings! – enjoy fellowship, improved menu (with less pork and more vegetarian options), and engaging speakers.
2. Second – do a make-up for meetings you have missed. Make-ups can be done on-line www.rotaryeclubone.org or by attending another club’s weekly meeting. When you attend another club’s meeting, give Secretary Tony Wilson, the makeup form you received from that club or send him an email at tonyw@cpi.coop. Make-ups can be done two weeks before or after the missed meeting. If you attend another club’s meeting, you will receive a $12 credit on your Rotary bill for the meal you paid for at the meeting.
3. Attend a fellowship, service project or committee meeting. The attendance for these meetings is automatically forwarded to Secretary Tony and he will record a make-up for you. Sorry, no $12 meal credit is given for these types of make ups.
4. If you have a situation in your personal or career life where you will not be able to attend a significant number of meetings for a period of time, ask the board for a “leave of absence.” This way your absence does not count against the attendance reporting to the District. These requests should be sent to VP of Membership Susie Cook. Requests will then be submitted to the full board for approval.
5. The rule of 85 [age and number of years of Rotary membership add up to 85], you can ask to have this rule applied to you and your attendance is not counted toward the club’s report. (If you are on rule of 85 and you regularly attend meetings, ask to go back to regular attendance rules this way your stellar attendance will help us reach our goal).

With your help we can reach our 80% goal!

– Susie Cook

On Saturday, July 23, 10 volunteers from the Rotary Club of Greater Corvallis volunteered their time to help build the newest house for Benton Habitat for Humanity.

The work crew was led by President Michele. The crew worked hard putting in a drain system for the foundation and then covering with rock and dirt. Everybody left with a feeling of satisfaction that comes with a hard days work for a good cause.

The Habitat Day was the first monthly community service event for the new Rotary year.

– Megan Schneider