Last Tuesday, saw the initial meeting of an Interact Club at the Indianola High School. Six students, all who have attended RYLA, were present along with Jori Coghlan, Guidance Counselor, and members of Lions and Rotary Clubs of Indianola met to discuss the start of a new service club at the Indianola High School.
The Club will combine two or three other clubs into a single unit designed to provide students with an outlet for service projects in our community. All of the students returned from their RYLA experience with a desire to improve their community and the Interact Club will provide them with a system to accomplish their goals.
More information will follow as the club plans for the opening of school in three weeks. If you would like to be a part of Interact, please contact Dave.
By the time you read this, we will have just two nights remaining of the 2016 National Balloon Classic.
Thank you very much for everyone's support at this year's event. Great camaraderie between members. Many new members learning what we do, how much fun we have and getting to know each other on a personal level.
Forty years ago, a man named George Campbell, the owner of the company I worked for, invited me to join Rotary. Back then, that was a common practice in the United States. Your boss invited you to join Rotary because he thought it would be good for business and good for the community, and you said yes. It’s not surprising that our membership surged during that period.
George warned me not to use Rotary as an excuse to slack off at work. Even so, I always had time to attend lunch meetings and serve on committees. I never had to worry that taking a long lunch once a week would hurt my advancement, or what my boss would think about the occasional Rotary phone call at work.
Today, things are different. Companies are less generous about time, and not every manager looks favorably on community service. It’s hard to enjoy a Rotary meeting when you’ve got emails piling up on your phone. It’s harder than ever to balance work with Rotary – and the model that gave us so much growth a few decades ago is part of what’s holding back our growth now.
That’s why the recent Council on Legislation adopted some innovative measures that allow clubs to vary their meeting times and expand their pool of prospective members. Clubs have more flexibility now to respond to the needs of their members and to clear away as many barriers to membership as they can. But there’s one barrier to membership that only you can remove, one thing that every prospective member needs to become a Rotarian: an invitation to join a Rotary club.
Whenever I tell a group of Rotarians that we need more willing hands, more caring hearts, and more bright minds to move our work forward, everyone applauds. But those hands, hearts, and minds won’t magically appear in our clubs. We have to ask them to join. And an invitation to Rotary is something that only you can give. An invitation is a gift. It’s saying to someone, “I think you have the skills, the talent, and the character to make our community better, and I want you to join me in doing that.”
I’m the president of Rotary International, but the only club I can invite someone to join is the Rotary Club of Chattanooga, Tenn. I can’t make your club or your community stronger. Only you can do that – by inviting the qualified people you know to join you in Rotary Serving Humanity.
Area fuel stations are installing new “blender pumps” which allow drivers to fill their vehicles up with higher ethanol blends like E 15 fuel. Many of these blender pumps are being installed by Kum & Go, but there are other stations in central Iowa offering E15 fuel (the Murphy USA in Indianola).
In light of the new installations and greater availability of E15 fuel, Growth Energy thought it would be prime opportunity to educate community leaders about the new pumps, the fuel options available and the benefits it provides to the environment, economy (especially Iowa’s) and pocket book. Growth Energy is an organization committed to the promise of agriculture and growing America’s economy through cleaner, greener energy.
Last Tuesday, saw the initial meeting of an Interact Club at the Indianola High School. Six students, all who have attended RYLA, were present along with Jori Coghlan, Guidance Counselor, and members of Lions and Rotary Clubs of Indianola met to discuss the start of a new service club at the Indianola High School.
By the time you read this, we will have just two nights remaining of the 2016 National Balloon Classic.
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