OWENSBORO'S ROTARY IMPETUS

July 26, 2003

This Week’s Program... Bring Back Baseball to Owensboro - Bill Lee, Frontier League Commissioner of Baseball

Last Week’s Program...
Kathy Christie, Executive Director for Community Conversations, Inc. (CCI), described the goals, objectives and activities of this three year old organization. CCI is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that works to create opportunities for more citizen involvement. CCI’s mission is to facilitate an inclusive and deliberative process for citizens to explore and address community issues. They do this by assisting others to organize and conduct issue-based forums. Forums conducted thus far include: At Death’s Door: Dying with dignity; Gambling: What should we do?; Governing America: Our choices & challenges, also illegal drugs; Our Economic Future: What must our community do?; and Racial & Ethnic Tensions. The organization has provided training to forum facilitators and has assisted community groups in conducting forums. CCI is now offering "Conversation Cafés" on an on-going basis just before most Friday-After-Five events in the Founders Room at the River Park Center. A Conversation Café’ is a roundtable discussion about a general topic led by a facilitator. Kathy invited us to participate in upcoming Forums and Café’s.

Thanks for an interesting program!

Attendance: 89

Highest Attendance This Year: 89

Invocation, Pledge & 4-Way Test: David Edds

Fellowship Report: Randy Spaw

Makeups: Martel Wrightman, (1) at Marshall County, Larry Vick, (1) at Daviess County

Introduction of Guests: Keith Sanders, guest of Larry Hager; Aaron Walker, guest of John Kurtz; Rich Litor, visiting Rotarian from the Evansville Rotary Club.

Thought for the Week: "Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times."  - Ben Jonson (1572 - 1637)

YOUR PRESIDENT SPEAKS:
RI President Jonathon B. Majiyagbe invites us to "Lend A Hand", not only to increase membership but also to retain members. He suggests one way we can do this is by creating a Family of Rotary committee, in charge of making the Rotary experience more "family friendly". He asked us to welcome and include non-Rotarian members – spouses, adult children, widows and widowers of former Rotarians – as active participants in club activities and fellowship. He believes and I agree, the more hands we have, the more effective the services we render.

Have a great week,

Jeff

ANNOUNCEMENTS
• The honor of your presence is requested at a Retirement Reception for Bob Carper for his 20 years of service to OMU. Thursday, July 31, 2003, from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. The River Park Center, 101 Daviess Street, Owensboro, KY. Special Recognition at 5:30p.m. In lieu of gifts, Bob has requested that donations be made to the H. L. Neblett Center, c/o OMU, P.O. Box 806, Owensboro, KY 42302-0806. Please RSVP to Judy 926-3200, Ext. 208, by July 23, 2003.
• Candance Brake announced the names of the following members who participated in the very successful Rotary Readifest for the Owensboro Public School System: Larry Moore, Ed Allen, Becky O’Bryan, Donna Risley, Ed Wathen, John Bryenton, Tom Smith, Jeff Ebelhar, Candi Brake, Pat McFarling, Willis Brooks and Tish Correa-Osborne. Thanks to all for your help!
• Tish Correa-Osborne announced that we are still in need of a few volunteers for the Rotary Readiest for the Daviess County Public Schools. Please contact Tish or Candance Brake if you would like to participate. This event will be on Tuesday, August 5.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO...
John Meister - July 26
Sarah Devlin - July 26
Steve Gardner - July 27
Jim Goetz - July 28
Ruth Ann Hughes - July 28
Tom Smith - July 28
Bob Burns - July 29
Richard Edwards - July 29
Tom Castlen - July 30
Jim Ed Oberst -  July 30
Tish Correa-Osborne - August 1

ROTARY REMINDERS...
• Don't forget to make up your missed meetings at Daviess County Rotary (formerly breakfast rotary) at 7 on Tuesday mornings at Moonlite Barbecue.
• The program chairs for July are Kevin Carrico & Rick Crabtree.
• The program chair for August is Jeff Ebelhar.
• Randy Spaw will be at the Fellowship Table during the month of July.
• If you have an email address and are not receiving the Impetus online, or you have changed your email address, please send an email to kim@mediaworksadvertising.com and you will be added to the Rotary email address list.
• Log on to Rotary’s website at www.owensbororotary.org. You’ll find our current member directory, photos of new members, past copies of the Impetus, some interesting history, and more!

Please mail any questions, suggestions, or comments regarding the Impetus to: 

Mike Wallace
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P.O. Box 1866
Owensboro, KY 42302
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UPCOMING PROGRAMS
August 6: Jeff Ebelhar - Report on RI Convention
August 13: TBA
August 20: TBA
August 27: Sharon Sharp - HELP Office Ministry

2003 - 2004 OWENSBORO ROTARY CLUB OFFICERS 
President: Jeff Ebelhar 
Vice President: Pat McFarling 
Past President: Larry Mercer 
Secretary: Bill Dexter 
Treasurer: Bob Nation 
Directors: Candance Brake, Darrell Higginbotham, Bob Hudson , Tish Correa-Osborne, Todd Inman , & John Kurtz .

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