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ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
      DISTRICT 6650
                April 2023                          
GOVERNOR'S CORNER
April 2023
Happy Spring! (at least it will be when it finally stops snowing!)
 
What a year this has been so far. I thought that this month I would give a few updates on the progress towards our fundraising goals.
 
Our district made a $50,000 donation to The Rotary Foundation Ukraine Disaster Relief fund from the proceeds we earned at our event in November. This puts our total district donations to the foundation to date at $168,995. I am still hoping that we will get to our goal of $200,000 for the year. If you have not yet made your annual gift to The Rotary Foundation, please do so! It’s very easy to do online at rotary.org.
 
To date our district has given $19,706. This is ahead of where we were last year (yay!) but we still need a little more to get to my goal of $25,000. If you have not yet sent your annual donation to Polio Plus, you can also do that online at rotary.org. This year Rotary International has approved the new Polio Plus Society for Rotarians who give at least $100 annually to Polio. I have pins for those of you who do that. Please reach out to me if you would like one!
 
DISTRICT CONFERENCE! ***SAVE THE DATE***
The web page and registration information will be available soon! Please save the date for our conference to be held at the Embassy Suites in Canton on June 16-17, 2023. We will have a service project component that involves old blue jeans. If, like me, you have some old blue jeans lying around, please do not throw them away! Instead, save them and bring them with you to the conference.
 
As always, I love to hear from you about what your clubs are doing! Please reach out if you would like to schedule a time for me to visit.
 
Yours in Rotary,
DG Michelle
President Elec Training 2023
 
Rotary has been a leader in many life-changing projects. Consider the decades of effort invested in polio eradication and, more recently, the Operation Pollination movement to preserve habit, improve environmental health and restore food security.
Rotary inspires the public to actively participate in these worthwhile causes. Conversely, public participation inspires Rotarians to keep going.
 
Susie Beiersdorfer of Youngstown is an example. She is a self-described environmental activist and friend of Elayne Bozick of the Rotary Club of Youngstown. Susie is co-president of Treez Please, a nonprofit organization that has planted trees and established pollinator gardens in Youngstown. Last year, she helped to harvest more than 10,000 mason bee cocoons – that is, she sanitized the cocoons from mites and disease before the bees re-use them this year.
Treez Please received a loan of two bee houses from Curtiss King of Warren, who gave a third bee house for Susie’s use at home with one request: that she and Treez Please would watch the houses and help him to harvest cocoons. “Curtiss is committed to helping these pollinators survive and thrive,” Susie said. “These are non-stinging bees that are super pollinators. They are active in laying their eggs from April to June or there about.”
 
The Penn State Extension notes that two species of mason bees are being used on a limited basis for tree fruit pollination. One is the blue orchard bee, which also is being tested for commercial pollinations of almonds in California. The other is the Japanese orchard bee, which the U.S. Department of Agriculture introduced into Mid-Atlantic fruit orchards in the 1990s after it was used to pollinate most of Japan’s apple crop for 80 years. Other species contribute to commercial fruit pollination in parts of Europe, blueberry pollination in Maine, and raspberry pollination in Oregon. (An explanation of cocoon harvesting can be found on the Penn State Extension website.)
 
Susie also is on the adjunct faculty at Youngstown State University, where she teaches environmental geology. She looks forward to continuing to nurture mason bees in this year. Susie and Curtiss are reinforcing the message behind Operation Pollination: The aggregation of projects – big or small, by individuals or groups – produces meaningful results.
ROTARY MONTH THEME
April is RI Support the Environment  Month...
QUOTE OF THE MONTH
PHOTO OF THE MONTH...
Vintage Rotary
 
DISTRICT CLUBS IN ACTION
 
Please share your club’s stories by the 1st of the next month for inclusion in the next monthly bulletin 
email: rotarydistrict6650@gmail.com
 
BOARDMAN ROTARY
 
Club members stuffed nearly 3,000 Easter Eggs to help out the Southern Park Mall with their BIG hunt to benefit Boardman Schools.
 
BOLIVAR-ZOAR ROTARY
 
 
CANFIELD ROTARY
The town square gazebo is finished...beautiful at night!
 
CANTON SOUTH ROTARY
 
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!
CHAMPION ROTARY
A visit from the Big Bunny himself

DENNISON ROTARY
ISON ROTARY
EAST  PALESTINE ROTARY
 
JACKSON TOWNSHIP ROTARY
 
NORTH CANTON ROTARY
North Canton Character Counts under the leadership of the North Canton Rotary Club presented the Business of Character award to Amore Services
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ORRVILLE ROTARY
 
PLAIN TOWNSHIP ROTARY
The club raised  money to buy and donate 168 cases (4,032, 16.9 oz. bottles) of water and delivered to East Palestine! 
 
POLAND ROTARY
Another successful Chili Open!
 
SALEM ROTARY
You bet Casino Night was a winner!
 
 
STEUBENVILLE ROTARY
WOW! HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
 
STRUTHERS ROTARY
 
SUGARCREEK ROTARY
        
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
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Email: rotarydistrict6650@gmail.com
Phone: 601-654-4720
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