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MARCH 2023

Happy March!

This year has certainly flown by. I have visited almost every club at least once and my husband JC and I are having a blast attending the various events that we have been invited to!

Please SAVE THE DATE for our upcoming District Conference! My committee is hard at work planning a very special, informative and FUN event! My plan is this event will be FREE to attend (or at least close to free!) A brief timeline:

Friday, June 16 - Happy Hour at Centennial Plaza in Downtown Canton with local music

Saturday, June 17 - Conference at the Embassy Suites in North Canton

Topics of discussion: Global and District Projects, Diversity and more

Breakout sessions: Club Projects, Club Innovation, and Diversity

We will end the day with a fabulous service project. Hint: Start saving your old denim jeans now!

Other updates:

Our thoughts and prayers continue to be with our friends and neighbors in East Palestine following the horrific train derailment and economic disaster. So far we have raised over $17,000 with many donations coming from Ohio but also Illinois, Indiana, Texas, South Carolina, New York and Pennsylvania. The donation portal remains open on the district website.

RYLA returned! It was such a pleasure to attend the final day of the RYLA conference this past weekend. A shoutout to Barb Louden who continues to champion that program and the Salem Club for supporting it!

Finally, my husband and I are traveling to Grenada in April to visit a Global Project fair in District 7030. We hope to find projects that both our district and interested clubs can participate in. I will report at the District Conference.

Yours in Rotary,

DG Michelle

THREE WAYS TO COLLECT:

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CLICK HERE: ROTARY ALL OHIO PETS WOMEN AND GIRLS EMPOWERMENT 2022

Bring collected items to All-Ohio PETS in Columbus

Collect and distribute items locally to your club district

2023 RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) weekend...2/24-2/26. See the fun video on FaceBook at ryladistrict #6650

Operation Pollination

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.

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DISTRICT 6650 HELPING UKRAINE

Our district received a $25,000 disaster relief grant from The Rotary Foundation. Here are a few pictures from Kharkiv, Ukraine on how they spent the funds for their citizens in need.

March is RI Water and Sanitation Month...

PHOTO OF THE MONTH

VINTAGE ROTARY

DISTRICT CLUBS IN ACTION

BOARDMAN ROTARY

BOLIVAR ZOAR ROTARY

CANAL FULTON ROTARY

CANTON SOUTH ROTARY

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

CHAMPION ROTARY

DENNISON ROTARY

JACKSON TOWNSHIP ROTARY

NEW PHILADELPHIA ROTARY

NILES ROTARY

Join the Niles Rotary for an evening of food, fellowship, and theatre at Trumbull New Theatre on March 23rd for the production of "Disaster" (a musical comedy) Doors open at 6:00 with our social hour of food and beverages. Curtain time is at 7:00. Please contact any club member for tickets. You can also reach us at NilesRotary@yahoo.com for additional information.

Our grant coordinator, Steve Simunich, delivered dictionaries to Niles Intermediate School. Niles Rotary has been providing dictionaries to Niles 4th graders for over 10 years.

NORTH CANTON ROTARY

Thanks to our sponsors and donors another Chili Open in is the books!

PERRY TOWNSHIP ROTARY

PLAIN TOWNSHIP ROTARY

POLAND ROTARY

Thank you to everyone who helped to make our 2023 Poland Rotary Night at the Races a HUGE SUCCESS!

SALEM ROTARY

Under the leadership of our President, Kyle Cranmer, 218 Webster Scholastic Dictionaries were donated and distributed to every third grader at Reilly Elementary, St. Paul School, and United Local Elementary.

Under the leadership of 2021-2022 Rotary Club of Salem, Ohio President, Ryan Boyce, our club achieved 3 very special awards!

• Top Three Highest in Per Capita Annual Giving: We were one of 1,530 Rotary clubs to achieve this honor.

• Every Rotarian, Every Year Club: We were one of 3,900 Rotary clubs worldwide to attain this status.

• 100% Foundation Giving: We were one of 4,500 Rotary clubs worldwide to achieve this status.

We’d like to extend our gratitude to EVERY member of our club for their generous gifts to ultimately tackle the world’s toughest challengers, both in our community and our globe!