  Governor
Russell writes....Cherre and I are looking forward to
serving as your governors. The main thing to be accomplished is
to increase membership.
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 As
District 5930 Historian, Elva Short is honored to continue Jerry Robbins
efforts in preserving our District history.
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 CASA
of Hidalgo County, Inc. brought eye-opening information to the Mission
Rotary Club.
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 Preparations
for the third trip to Trujillo, Honduras, next February are underway. Our
proposed projects include the construction of nine classrooms at four
schools, latrines at three schools, four power projects .
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 Freer Rotary Club Assistant District Governor Norman Jenkins presented a
special certificate of appreciation to Dr. Belia Blanton on behalf of the
Wheelchair Foundation.
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At its annual membership meeting and installation banquet on June 24,
the Rotary Club of Kingsville honored four local Rotarians for their
exceptional contributions to international friendship and understanding.
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 The
North Harlingen Rotary Club
has presented its first internationally recognized Rotary Award to a
department supervisor at Rio Grande State Center/South Texas Health Care
System.
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 Janie
Barrera, Founding President and CEO of ACCION Texas, was the featured
speaker at a recent meeting of Corpus Christi Southside Rotary. ACCION Texas manages a microloan portfolio in
the United States valued at over $17 million.
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 Scenes from the the arrival ceremony of “Nana” from Taiwan, July 14, at the
Harlingen Airport. Nana is the
Mission Rotary
Club’s Long Term Rotary Youth Exchange Student for the 2008-09 Rotary and
academic school year.
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 Laredo Daybreak Rotary Club held its officers and directors
installation banquet. This event Sponsored by Commerce Bank of Laredo was
held at the beautiful lobby of Commerce Bank on IH 35 and Mann Road. Details |
 Albert Perez, District 5930 Governor Russell Cain, and Steve Marwitz,
Port
Lavaca President, pose after Albert made an excellent presentation on
Paul Harris Fellows and the Paul Harris Society.
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 More
than 750 university students from some 60 countries have been selected to
study abroad during the upcoming 2008-09 academic year through the Rotary
Foundation’s Ambassadorial Scholarship program. Details |
 Lucas
Kehse from Germany will be hosted by
Gateway Rotary
for the Student Exchange Program 2008-09. He is fluent in German, English,
and Latin and is looking forward to learning Spanish.
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 The Northwest Corpus
Christi Rotary Club hosted the visit of the C-Span Campaign 2008 bus to the Calallen area of Northwest Corpus Christi with
an open meeting at Joe Cotten's Barbeque in Robstown to which students of
the Calallan ISD and business people from the area were invited.
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 Many
balmy Saturday mornings in the Coastal Bend members of the Rotary Club of
Southside Corpus Christi
can be found with hammers and saws in hand building wheelchair ramps for
those in need of special assistance.
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 The
Rotary Club of Freer
is sending care packages to our local military troops stationed overseas.
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The Rotary Club
of Harlingen’s 2008-09 Board, under President Alan Johnson has already
been Re-structured into the new Rotary model. Their club has several
worthwhile and exciting projects in progress and planning stages for this
Rotary year..
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 President
Josh Wilson recognized the milestone that Jim Presley reached for 45 years
of perfect Rotary Club attendance.
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The Laredo
Next
Generation Rotary Club is the youngest club in the city of Laredo and
District 5930. Initial members were about 8 to 10 per meeting but in
a couple of months they have grown to almost 50 members with a great
diversity of professions and fantastic personalities..
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 The
newly elected president of the
Laredo Rotary Club,
Eduardo Gonzalez, announced Grammy award winner, Vikki Carr, as the latest
Paul Harris fellow.
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 Corpus
Christi Rotary Club President Gail Hoffman presented Bea Hanson the Spirit of Rotary Award
for her sustained, unstinting, and unusual dedication to the ideal of
Service Above Self. Art Zeitler was presented with the Rotarian of
the Year Award.
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