Western Flyer for June 30, 2020 (Jun 30, 2020)

2019-20 YEAR END SUMMARY

CLUB SERVICE

COMMITTEE MEMBERS: John Oswald – Chair, Sean Babjak, Mark Chamberlin, Kandace Day, Marv Fisher, Jack Flesher, Dan Kreis, Bob Nelson, Colby Reynolds, Rita Rowlen

27 Speakers for our weekly club meetings were arranged by the committee; overseen by John Oswald.

Newscasts have been delivered by Mark Chamberlin at our weekly meetings for over 32 years.

West Wichita Rotary Challenge coins were purchased to give to our speakers and to members as a birthday recognition.

Holiday Raffle: $1,038 net collection; organized by John Oswald.

Happy Basket: over $478 in collections; Rita Rowlen was in charge of the basket at our weekly meetings.

Pledge, 4-Way Test & Invocation at our weekly meetings; chaired by Marv Fisher

Annual Christmas luncheon: Held at RHCC, 61 members & guests attended.

Crown Uptown Theater social: We were able to get it in at the beginning of the quarantine; organized by Sharon West.

Baseball outing: Scheduled in April but had to be canceled due to COVID-19. Organized by John Oswald.

Service Above Self Award: A recipient was selected but the presentation is delayed due to the quarantine. Chaired this year by Mark Chamberlin (last year's recipient)

Annual Soup Luncheon: held in November, we were able to donate $2,000 to ShelterBox from the luncheon proceeds and additional donations received. Organized by Zella Newberry.

Rotary Polo Shirts with our club’s logo were made available for our members to purchase to wear to our club meetings, during club projects, or anytime.

Weekly club bulletins began being published through our club’s website (Club Runner) on November 26, 2019.

Dillons Community Rewards Program: Earned $133.76 with 7 households participating. Funds to be used for our club's charitable projects. Organized by Dave Abbott.

COMMUNITY SERVICE

COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Allan Sands – Chair, Roger Bowles, Bob Broeckelman, Rod Brown, Bob Bundy, Terry Gardner, Grady Goff, Vern Klassen, Mike Ludlow, Colin McKenney, Tony Morrow, Zella Newberry, Bruce Pearson, Dustin Riley, Jon Roper, Lori Taylor, Ann Welborn

Monthly Groceries were purchased and delivered to 21 needy families selected from Lawrence & Benton Elementary schools during the school year. We had 15 members volunteer. Organized by Tony Morrow.

Holiday Grocery Program: 11 members participated by purchasing and delivering groceries to four families in need each at Easter, Thanksgiving & Christmas. This project is organized by Mark Hansen.

Angel Tree project: 72 Christmas gifts were purchased by our members and distributed between four families in need from Lawrence Elementary. This project is organized by Mark Hansen.

David Weber Extra Effort Awards were presented monthly throughout the school year to a total of 26 students representing different grade levels from both Lawrence & Benton Elementary schools. This project is organized by Terry Gardner.

USD 259 Good Apple Award was presented to our club for “excellent service to the district and the children of Wichita” nominated by the Lawrence Elementary staff.

Bookshelf Building project: In November, we built 180 bookshelves to be distributed between several area schools. This project is organized by Roger Bowles with supplies and workshop provided by Bob Goebel.

Bookshelf Deliveries: Club members traveled between Benton & Lawrence Elementary schools to hand out bookshelves with 2 books to the 1st graders. Decals were provided by Roger Bowles to decorate their bookshelves. Organized by Allan Sands. Lawrence Elementary hosted a lunch for our members after the delivery.

Salvation Army Bell Ringing: Organized by Randy Bowles with 11 members participating.

Rivefest Food Court: No volunteer opportunity this year due to COVID-19.

Dictionary Delivery project: Randy & Roger Bowles delivered dictionaries to the third graders at Lawrence & Dodge Elementary schools. This project is generated & funded by the Downtown Rotary Club with delivery help from the area Rotary clubs.

Necessities for the Needy: Roger Bowles continues to “unofficially” collect toiletry items to deliver to the United Methodist Open Door. Roger initiated this as a club project in 1991.

Wichita Smile Kits: 450 bags containing a toothbrush, toothpaste & floss, were provided by Delta Dental and assembled at Starkey, Inc. then distributed by Allan Sands and Roger Bowles to all Lawrence Elementary students. This project was initiated and organized by Allan Sands.

FOUNDATION

COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Stan Krehbiel – Chair, Bob Benson, Bob Goebel, Brent Groves, Cindy Hand, Phil Michel, John Mosley, Pat Walden

Paul Harris Fellow presentations were made to 4 members at our meetings this year (Jack Flesher, Allan Sands, Gregg Greenwood & Diana Fredelake) with 8 more pending. Scheduled to be presented today: Cindy Hand, Dan Kreis, Roger Bowles, Ed Frey, Bob Goebel, John Mosley.

Rotary Foundation Contributions: We exceeded our goal with well over $14,000 in contributions!

Paul Harris Fellows: 36 in our club; 24 of these are multiple donors.

Paul Harris Fellow Group: We have 10 members participating. The drawing for this year’s recipient will be held in July.

INTERNATIONAL SERVICE

COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Diana Fredelake, Chair, June Costin, Ed Frey, Brian Goudie, Mark Hansen, Ken Hays, Maurice Linnens, Michael Phipps, DeAnn Sullivan, Sharon West

Rotary Reads: Project developed by DeAnn Sullivan, Mark Chambelrin and Shelli Kadel where members video themselves reading a children’s book to their children/grandchildren then upload the video to our club’s Facebook page. This project was initiated by one of our last year’s Russian Open World Team members who requested these reading videos to use on their social media in celebration of their Library in Russia.

Russian Open World Team: Hosted this year by the Rotary Club of East Wichita. Assistance provided by our club members during their visit.

Inbound RITE teachers: Project co-sponsored with the Sunrise Rotary club. We had 3 teachers from Panama and 2 from Argentina. Seven of our members served as home hosts. This project is organized by Shelli Kadel and Dalia Hale (Sunrise Rotary). The Summer outbound RITE program was cancelled due to COVID-19.

Rotary District in Australia: We took up a collection of $1,075 from club members to send to help with their fire & drought relief efforts.

International Water Project by Dave Abbott. The $83,084 water project in Santa Maria de Fatima Peru is to provide 80 families drinkable water as opposed to drinking out of the Amazon River or rain water. Our club is providing $100 and our District 5680 $10,000. This project will use Community managed, solar powered proprietary water filtration and chlorination system.

MEMBERSHIP & PUBLIC RELATIONS

COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Randy Bowles, Chair, Monty Allen, Jodi Besthorn, Nancy Chadick, Gregg Greenwood, Shelli Kadel, Joey Timmer, Mindy Wagner, Jamie Wise

Members added this year: Dave Abbott, Angela Malley, Jacob Beckman

Current membership: 61 (43 Males + 18 Females)

Blue Badge presentations were made to the following members upon completion of the Red Badge Program: Grady Goff, Scott Hinderliter, Jon Roper, Angela Malley

STAR classes were held each month organized by Mark Hansen. Pam Chambers & Rod Brown attended the full series of classes and received their star pin. We have a few more pending their pin presentation.

Introductory letters were sent out to new members by Randy Bowles.

VOCATIONAL SERVICE

COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Pam Chambers, Chair, Dave Abbott, Terry Finger, Scott Hinderliter, Angela Malley, Brian Turney

High School Scholarship program: The focus was changed to target Vo-Tech bound students only but no applicants were identified so scholarships were not awarded this year.

Interact Club: co-sponsored with the Sunrise Rotary Club; Randy Bowles stepped up as our club’s representative.

Interact Dodgeball Tournament: Mark Hansen provided a team to represent our club. This was a fundraiser for their Panama trip.

Interact trip to Panama and RYLA (Rotary Leadership Youth Awards) were both canceled this year due to COVID-19.

OTHER

Districts 5670 & 5690 merged on July 1, 2019 to become District 5680 with 61 clubs. Our new District spans the entire western 2/3 of Kansas from the Colorado, Nebraska and Oklahoma borders and include four clubs from the Oklahoma Panhandle.

Wine Dinner Event: We had 112 in attendance and raised $13,569.46 in proceeds to fund our charitable activities throughout the year. Approximately 73% of our members participated in some way with this event through planning, contributing, sponsoring, attending. Project sponsor: Vern Klassen; Project Manager: DeAnn Sullivan.

West Wichita Charitable Foundation grants were selected and distributed in 2019 using the extra proceeds available from our 2018 Wine Event. Members were given the opportunity to submit requests for grant money to be used for educational purposes.

$2,500 – Lawrence & Benton Elementary schools - gift cards purchased for teachers to buy classroom supplies

$1,000 – Ortiz Elementary - to help buy materials needed, meals, helping hands, tutoring to help parents learn to help their students improve learning skills.

$1,500 – Multicultural English Learning Center – to be used to help provide meals, curriculum, classroom supplies, gas for vans, and staff salaries.