We welcome our newest member Stephanie Storey, financial advisor with Transamerica, who was installed by District Governor Greg O’brien at our last meeting. At our next meeting we will induct Rabia Dahal, CPA to our club! We look forward to your service to the community. I’m glad to see that we are adding one new, active member each month! Keep up the good work!
Congratulations to Penny Leon for her Second Paul Harris Fellow, Elizabeth Tilkian for her third and Tom Kurschner for his sixth. If you would like to donate to achieve your first or multiple Paul Harris fellows, you can achieve this between now and November 15th with a $500 donation instead of $1,000. This is for a limited time ONLY! The reason: October is “Foundation Month” which refers to the Rotary International Foundation. Contact Jill Mellman for more information: Jill@borntotravel.com
Our District Governor’s meeting with our board was quite a success. He will be spotlighting our “Coats for Kids” project in the monthly District e-Newsletter in November! Thanks Elegance Hippolyte and Dylette Davis who co-chaired this event this year. We collected 565 coats, jackets, etc. that will be dry cleaned for free, then distributed to needy kids. We especially love this project since there’s no cost to the club! He was impressed by all projects that our committee co-chairs have in the works.
Thank you to Sheri Polak who accepted the TeePee Challenge at her house last month for a fee of $50! My partner in crime (she’s a little shy!) and I took a couple rolls of toilet paper and “decorated” Sheri’s front yard. The fun was when the roll got caught in the tree! With a little coercing, it came right back down and we just kept going, until the job was done, which meant using up both rolls of TP. So send an email if you’d like your house “tee peed” which is a $50 donation to the club. If you don’t want to be "tee peed," that’s a $50 donation! Either way, the club wins! Plus I have to admit, it’s a lot of fun tee peeing a house in the dark! It reminds me of my youth! If you’d like to be on the committee, let me know! A house for October has already been selected! (Is it yours?!!!) Stay tuned!
We were sad to learn that Gloria Mogul, wife of long-time Rotarian Moe Mogul, passed away on October 6. She was lovingly called the “Queen of Clean” in our community as she started a program reaching out the the students at Chaminade to gain community service hours with a monthly clean-up day in Woodland Hills. She was very active in the Chamber. Gloria never wanted credit for all she did in our community. She was the silent force behind the various groups for many projects in Woodland Hills over 35 years. Rest in peace, Gloria. You will be missed.
Upcoming meetings: This Wednesday noon: Baby shower for Anna S. AND we are assembling 15 baby bags for the SFV Rescue Mission. Just a reminder to please eat lunch so we can reach our minimum at the Country Club! Credit cards are now being accepted for lunch payments. Additional fees will apply to cover our fees. Thanks, Kim Wall for getting this set up for us!
October 26 will be our evening meeting (Wednesday Night Live) from 6 – 7:30 at The Rack in the Promenade Mall. Since it’s so close to Halloween, and you KNOW what event we are PUSHING, let’s have a costume contest, for all of those who would like to participate. Feel free to invite spouses and prospective members since it’s mainly social, with a few announcements. Thanks Jill Mellman for setting this up!
Last but not least is our HALLOWEEN FAMILY FAIRE on October 29 from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, if you have not been asked to volunteer, we still need help! Please contact either Lynn Miller at Lynnmiller3646@gmail.com or Alice Muntean at Alice.muntean@sbcglobal.net. There are several opportunities to help set up the event on Friday, October 28, work at a booth, and help take down after. Thanks to all of those members who have worked very hard to make this event successful! We still need sponsors too. For a $500 donation, your name or business gets signage at a game booth or activity of your choice!
Yours in Rotary Service,
President Diane
Rotary Club to launch first Halloween festival in Woodland Hills
WOODLAND HILLS >> Warner Center is bracing for its first Rotary Club Halloween family festival.
The Rotary Club of Woodland Hills on Oct. 29 will host its first annual Halloween Family Faire at Warner Center Park.
“We are thrilled to offer this new gathering space for local families during one of the most entertaining and spookiest events of the year,” said Diane Nelson, president of the Woodland Hills Rotary, in a statement.
The First Annual Halloween Family Faire will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, at Warner Center Park at Topanga Canyon Boulevard and Califa Street.
The free festival, hosted in conjunction with the Valley Cultural Center and the West Valley-Warner Center Chamber of Commerce, will feature a Halloween costume parade and contest, pumpkin painting, face painting, bounce houses, arts, crafts, games, food, music and more.
Proceeds from the fair will go to support the Rotary Club’s new RotaCare medical clinic, staffed by volunteers from San Fernando Valley, which offers free and low-cost healthcare services to needy residents. The RotaCare Clinic depends solely on private funds.
The Rotary Club of Woodland Hills has since 1956 provided support for schools and nonprofit groups that support children, families, the disabled and animals.
Its Halloween festival will help replace Halloween events once staged by the defunct Pierce College Farm Center, organizers say.
“By participating in this event, local residents will not only enjoy a fun Halloween experience,” Nelson said, “but will also contribute to the many causes supported by Rotary, and in particular the Valley’s first RotarCare Clinic.” (Editor's Note: This story was repeated from October 12, 2016 edition of the Daily News.)
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District 5280 Celebrates RI Foundation Centennial
The Rotary International Foundation is the $1 billion charitable arm of Rotary. To mark the centennial, Rotary aims to raise $300 million by July 2017 for its campaign to eradicate polio and for service in communities around the world. The District has completed many project through the assistance of the Foundation including a mobile mammogram truck in India, clean water in Niger, dental services in Colombia, and 1,000 stoves with proper vents in Guatemala.
The Foundation was established in 1917 with a donation of $26.50 and is dedicated to advancing world understanding, goodwill, and peace. Arch Klumph (photo: below left) is called the father of the Foundation because he had the vision of a Rotary endowment fund and the dedication to bring this dream to life.
As president of the Rotary Club of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1913, he advocated for the club to build a reserve that would ensure its means to do future good work. As president of Rotary International in 1916-17, he proposed this idea to a larger audience.
In his speech to the 1917 convention in Atlanta, he said: “It seems eminently proper that we should accept endowments for the purpose of doing good in the world, in charitable, educational or other avenues of community progress …”
Arch’s vision of an endowment would eventually become The Rotary Foundation, and his call for “doing good in the world” was to become the Foundation’s motto. But it would take some time for all of that to happen.
Rotary’s top priority is the global eradication of polio. Rotary launched its polio immunization initiative, PolioPlus, in 1985 and in 1988 became a leading partner in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative along with the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and more recently, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Rotary has contributed more than $1.5 billion and countless volunteer hours to eradicate polio. Through 2018, every dollar Rotary commits to polio eradication will be matched 2-to-1 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, up to $35 million a year. Since the initiative began, the incidence of polio has plummeted by more than 99.9 percent, from about 350,000 cases a year to less than 71 confirmed in 2015.
Through the Foundation, Rotary members find satisfaction in serving others. The Foundation offers countless opportunities for all members, alumni, and their friends to do good in their communities and in the world — and to make a real, life-changing difference for people in need.
And because of the Foundation, people around the world recognize Rotary as an agent of positive change in the world.
There are many ways that you can improve lives today and build a better future though Rotary:
Work with an international partner club to develop a project in one of Rotary’s six areas of focus and apply for a global grant
Participate in or support your club or district’s grant projects
Contribute to the Foundation to ensure it can continue to do good in the world for many years to come
Around the Club
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Pumpkin painting at the Calabasas Pumpkin Festival. There is still volunteer opportunities on Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Who is the mystery or drama queen?
Gloria Mogul (r) "the queen of clean" passed away recently. She is pictured with Diana Williams, CEO of the West Valley-Warner Center Chamber of Commerce.
We also lost Marv Hornstein, father of Steve Hornstein.
Michael Turner, editor ► michael@bearsworth.com
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