Along with being your typical high-schooler (enjoying soccer, reading and Snapchat), Lily is the creator of Lily’s League: Cleats for a Cause, which donates gently used cleats and other soccer equipment to kids in Haiti. Lily's League was founded in 2016.
Join us Friday to meet this extraordinary young woman!
There is no Third Thursday Happy Hour this month as we will be having an evening meeting for our annual Changing of the Guard event.
Please join us at our regular weekly meeting time and place on Friday, June 17th to hear Lily Sowle speak about the foundation she has created.
The Changing of the Guard event on June 24th will be an evening event at Scott Walterbach's neighborhood pavilion at 8900 NE 79th St, Kansas City, MO 64158. Please note this location is NOT in Parkville and is over near Liberty. The event will begin at 5pm.
Parkville Rotary Helping Ukrainians through Partnership with Rotary Club Chisinau
PROJECT UPDATE: We raised $10,703.96!
Thank you to all of those who have donated. The fundraiser has now ended.
Every Rotarian Every Year (EREY)
Donations need to be to Joe Carroll no later than June 15th!!!
It's that time of year again when Joe Carroll, Treasurer, and Dalyn Novak, Foundation Chair, reach out to all members and ask if you've donated your $100 for Every Rotarian Every Year. This program, also known as EREY, asks every Rotarian to support The Rotary Foundation every year.
Even if you can't donate $100 that's okay! We just ask each member to donate what they are able to, be it $10 or $1,000 (or more)! We can dream, can't we? :)
These donations are used to directly help Rotary's 7 Areas of Focus:
Promoting Peace
Fighting Disease
Providing clean water, sanitation, and hygiene
Saving Mothers & Children
Supporting Education
Growing Local Economies
Protecting the Environment
These are all areas that we can get behind as Rotarians! All donations for this calendar year need to be in by June 1st to Joe Carroll. Bring a check to the next meeting you attend or have Joe include it on your next invoice. Please email him at: JCarroll@wells-bank.com.
We have had 100% participation by our members in past years. Need even more information behind why? Click on the blue box below...
Parkville Rotary will be participating in the Parkville 4th of July Parade again this year. If you want to participate please contact Bob Stone, rd_stone@me.com. Parade Line Up begins at 9am and the parade starts at 10am at 63rd Street and Hwy 9. The Parade ends in downtown Parkville and our group is usually towards the front of the parade. This year's theme is “Land of the Free, Home of the Brave.”
Parkville Rotary Partnering on a NEW Global Grant!
The Parkville Rotary Board has approved the use of $2,200 to be put towards Smithville Rotary Club's Global Grant with the Rotary Club of Rudramati Kathmandu in Nepal to provide much needed medical equipment and supplies in the rural area outside of Kathmandu. We have drafted a Global Grant application, number GG 2235567, called Nepal Healthy Communities.
The area of RI focus is maternal and child health. Two health centers will receive medical equipment, supplies, and training. Both health centers provide obstetric and gynecological services to socially and economically marginalized women.
The total value of the grant project is $31,001. The project currently has financial support from the Rotary Clubs of Smithville, North Kansas City, Gladstone, Parkville, and Rudramati Kathmandu; and from District 6040. We anticipate the contributions from the World Fund (RI) will be $12,000.
The grant application will be submitted mid-May. If the Grant request is approved, the funds will be needed mid-June. We are excited to be helping fund this wonderful grant.
Our own Steve Youngblood will be in Kathmandu this summer and is intending to travel for the project as well. He will be working directly with the Smithville Club to determine where he will go and hopefully he will be able to take a gift for the Rotary Club of Rudramati Kathmandu with him on the trip!
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!
