District Assistant Governor Sam Worrell Shares How He Can Help Our Club
At our 3rd Wednesday Rotary Club of Horizon West noon meeting on August 17, 2022, our District Assistant Governor Sam Worrell (center in above photo) shared more about his role and how he can help us grow and follow the Rotary mission!
Happy dollars always kick us off on a positive note as members and guests share something they are currently happy about! Today $60 was collected and will go towards our general fund to support our adopted projects.
Sam then shared details on what he can he do for us as our District Assistant Governor:
- Sam hosts quarterly Zoom meetings where Presidents from clubs in the district, which covers 5 counties, can attend to share information with the other clubs about what they are doing
- Bill Peepers, District Public Image/PR Chair can help us with our public image if we let them know what we are doing so he can share the info via his PR efforts.
- We should track public hours and report to our Club President, Andy Ortiz so we can meet our goal of 10k hours a year
- Sam can be our "Answer Guy" when we don't know something or can't find something
MAXEY ELEMENTARY UPDATE
Michelle Urquhart, Behavioral Specialist with Maxey Elementary shared what is coming up in the new school year. Maxey is an OCPS magnet school and the only elementary in our district with a Visual & Performing Arts Magnet program.
Their biggest need is the human factor, not financial contributions. Their Dream Catcher's program allows us as club volunteers to be matched with a student to support them in a mentoring capacity. So they welcome our continuing involvement in that program.
As of today, we have 6 club members ready to volunteer, but there's room for more and Michelle encouraged us to even bring non-members to get involved.
NEW MEMBER WELCOME
Classification speeches are where our new members share more information about themselves with the members.
Today we heard from Courtney Crossland. She was officially welcomed into the club by our President Andy Ortiz and President Elect, Francisco Nieves Taranto. Here's a quick recap from Courtney! (all shown above)
GOLF TOURNAMENT UPDATE
Stacey Sellaro, our club’s fundraising chair provided an update on our inaugural Golf Tournament. Our goal is to raise $43k to cover costs and be able to support the causes our club has adopted such as Apple-a-Day • Maxey Elementary School • Horizon West Cares • Interact Club at HHS & WHS • One Heart for Women & Children.
At least one volunteer is needed to help reach out to local community businesses and organizations to put together goody bags and items for the Silent Auction baskets. For the goody bags we are looking for 150 of each item to add to all of the bags. Silent auction items can be anything that someone would be willing to buy is worth gathering. Bidders have an opportunity to bid and receive the item for a reduced value - anything from a $25 Publix gift card to a vacation getaway and anything in between.
To express interest in helping please email Stacey at: Stacey.Sellaro@Roche.com
There's also room for more sponsors to get involved before the sponsor registration deadline of September 15th and details can be found at: HorizonWestRotary.com/GolfTournament
REMINDER OF THE ONGOING CHALLENGE TO OUR CURRENT MEMBERS
Our District Governor Andres Goyanes' challenged us to the 4 Way Challenge so we are ramping up our efforts to invite others to come check out our club:
1) a Family Member
2) a Friend
3) a Co-worker
4) a Customer
And if you can't find one of them to come, ask a Veteran or a First Responder.
