Our very own Bill Quitmeier will speak on the evolution of common law as forming the framework of our justice system.
Bill is a skilled litigation and transaction attorney with particular emphasis in real estate, contracts, and estate planning. He has also enjoyed being a community leader as mayor of Parkville for 11 years, city alderman for 6 years before that, and the immediate past president of the Parkville Chamber of Commerce.
Bill practices general law and has a particular interest in litigation, business, real estate matters, wills and trusts, and probate issues.
Please join us Friday for this program.
Parkville Rotary Supports Another Global Grant
The Parkville Rotary Board voted last week to provide $2500 for a global grant with the WASH eClub. More information is provided below.
Global Grant Donation Request: John Nonnemaker from Leavenworth, KS (has visited our club in the past) is part of a WASH eClub (https://www.rotarywasheclub.org/). Their club’s only focus is Water, Sanitation, & Hygiene.
Global Grant Information: Chris Roesel, a Rotarian WASH Cadre member of the eClub of WASH, leads a nonprofit P2P Inc, that is implementing projects in Yumbe. He will be a technical advisor to the global grant. We reviewed the Rotary policy on Conflict of Interest and will comply with it. All funds for the global grant will go into a specific bank account that is opened and operated by RC Arua. The funds will not benefit any of the collaborators.
The purpose of this project is to benefit twelve (12) communities of about 18,000 people in Yumbe, Uganda with water, sanitation, hygiene, and point-of-use filters. The goal of this grant is to provide the services to the communities and demonstrate their impacts. Previously, we have used these methods and the combination of WASH elements and measured the impact among 8,000 people in six villages of Yumbe. We have measured decreases in diarrheal incidence of 90%. The impact will be measured by decreased diarrheal and other water-borne disease incidence and expenses, increased income, and decreased school absenteeism of primary and secondary school girls. We will survey the impact of pre- and post-grant implementation.
PROJECT BUDGET: $121,922 (currently total funding is at $80,912.00)
REQUEST: $2500 or other amount donation to a Global Grant to bring fresh water to Uganda which will address: Diarrhea, water, sanitation, hygiene, and filters.
Chris Roesel has also requested that we reach out to District 6040 to see if they would be willing to match our donation. Dalyn has reached out to Karyn Eppler, the Global Grants Chair.
Above: Beatrice, a Rotarian bricklayer member of the drilling team surveying a drilling site using our new resistivity meter.
Above: Results of the scan, indicating we should drill at the 30th reading.
News from the Parkville Rotary Board!
Your Rotary Board has been very busy working hard for your club. They have several items that needs your attention see below. Please review carefully and respond as needed.
1. Please save and bring old Rotary magazines to the next meeting. We will be using these for visitors and speakers that attend our meetings.
3. Volunteers are needed for the Scholarship committee. Email interest. There are three worthy students who are deserving of your time to consider them among all the applications that will be received. Three recipients for a $2,000 scholarship each. The current committee members include: Chair Michelle Sparks, Joe Carroll, Homer Williams, Kristin Gillette and Sandy Knoernschild.
4. "Fly the Flag" is the largest fundraising event the Parkville Rotary Club has to support the Parkville Community. If you are not already assigned to a deployment team, please emailinterest fortraining and you will be assigned a team. No time, monetary donations for flags/poles and new flag subscriptions are always welcomed.
6. The Board is currently working on a social for you to invite visitors who may consider joining the club. Please give thought to friends, neighbors, business acquaintances etc. who may find a visit of interest. Details of this event will be forthcoming.
We are looking forward to all your responses.
Thank you for taking your valuable time to contribute to the club!
The Istanbul Rotary Club is continuing its effort to help the populations affected by the terrible earthquake that hit Turkey on February 6 last year.
This effort was also possible thanks to the contribution of all our Rotarian friends around the world who were close to us and who wanted to contribute, each according to their availability, to the projects completed and those in progress.
With this email, we would like to update you on how the contributions we have received have been and will be used.
We thank all of you for the closeness you have shown to the population affected by the earthquake and the support you have given through us.
We will keep you updated on the development of our projects.
Kind Rotarian regards,
Giuseppe Farina
Istanbul Rotary Club
International Relations
Committee Chairman
Member News!
Member News is a new section in the weekly newsletter. Have news you want to share with Parkville Rotary members? Email Dalyn Novak at dnovak@wskfarch.com to have your news added.
Rotary Fact of the Week!
In 1988, Rotary began the PolioPlus campaign with an initial fundraising pledge of $120 million.
The Membership Committee has been hard at work putting together new membership forms! All members can `access the forms by clicking on the blue box below which will take members to a dropbox link with the forms. Give these to potential members! The new spouse forms can be found here as well.
The following forms can be found in the link:
Standard Rotarian Membership Packet
Corporate Membership Packet
Spouse Membership Packet
Please submit the forms filled out to Dalyn Novak (dnovak@wskfarch.com) so she can get new member information added to ClubRunner after the board's approval!
When you have a speaker scheduled please make sure to provide the following information to Michelle Sparks, michelle@audraheller.com, who is managing our events calendar.
Speaker Name
Speaker Bio
Speaker Topic
Any other information you think members would like to know about your speaker, photos are welcomed too!
This information is included in this weekly newsletter and can really get people excited to come listen to our weekly speakers!
