The Duck Race will be June 1st. Beneficiaries are Charleston Area Charities and Rotary Club Service Projects. Follow the link below, then click Participating Clubs at the top, then scroll to find East Cooper Breakfast Rotary Club, there will be a link at the bottom to Adopt a Duck! Duck adoptions are $10 and make sure they choose East Cooper as the club and that they fill in your name as the Rotarian to get credit for the adoption.
If you have any questions please contact Caitlin Waddington Ccwaddington@gmail.com or Warren Pruit warrenp@adcengineering.com
What do you do with your Rotary Magazine’s after you read them..or don’t read them? If you said recycle them, that’s great! We have an even better idea than tossing them in the recycling bin! Bring your old magazines to a weekly meeting and we will black out your address and attach labels with info on the club meeting time and location as well as club contact info. We then ask that you take the newly marked magazine with you and distribute it anywhere that there is a waiting room! Yep, just plop it down on that stack of magazines that you go through when you’re waiting for the dentist, chiropractor, eye doctor… anywhere! If you don’t see any type of doctor or go to any office where there is a waiting room that’s okay, you can leave your magazine at the sign in table and another member will take it for you! This is a great way to get more use out of the Rotary Magazine as well as snag potential new members! Thanks in advance for your cooperation!
Thanks to everyone who came out Saturday to support Water Missions International in providing safe drinking water!
(left to right) East Cooper Breakfast Rotary Members: Sean O’Connor, Charles Muldrow, Michelle Whitbeck, Joe Shuster, Stephanie Bates Game, and Ellis Gourdin; East Cooper Rotaract Member Rachel Whitbeck; Youth Exchange Student Marie Chiavarino-Bret; East Cooper Rotaract Member Corrie Simmons East Cooper Rotaract Members Rachel Whitbeck (left) and Corrie Simmons (right)
In support of the District 7770 Rotary Service Day concept the East Cooper Rotary Breakfast Club will have our yearly Service Day on Monday, March 2nd at St. James Santee elementary school (located between Awendaw and McClellanville). The school principal, LaCarma McMillan, is excited to have us for a day and is looking forward to see how many projects we can get done for the day.
We
will have a number of projects going on (painting accent walls in the library,
constructing garden boxes for the kids, painting games like hop scotch on
sidewalks, landscaping around outdoor class rooms, building / replacing bird
boxes on school grounds, resurfacing picnic tables, other projects pending)
which will require the full participation of the club. Please bring your
spouse or family member(s) so they all can share in the spirit of Rotary
Service Day. This is our main service project of the year so the
expectation is that we have full club participation. A light lunch will
be provided.
Afterwards,
we will have an appreciation cookout hosted by the family of Tripp Hoover at 1464
Lieben Road in Mount Pleasant. This should be on the way home for most
people.
Signup sheets will be at the Rotary meeting February 19th and after that you will need to email Mike Bloser.
Tripp Hoover, Sean O’Connor, Ted Chestnut, Michelle Whitbeck, and Ellis Gourdin attended the 2018 Fall District 7770 Training Seminar Friday October 21st at SeaCoast Church in Mount Pleasant. Below are photos of some of the speakers. Committee chairs in attendance participated in training of Grants Management, Global Grants, Membership, Youth Programs, Public image through Social media, and “how to” sessions on the District Database and Rotary Club Central. The Keynote Speaker was Past RI VP Anne Matthews.
Wayne Woody received his red badge at this mornings meeting, becoming the newest member of the East Cooper Breakfast Rotary Club! Welcome to our club Wayne!
Alejandra Robinson, our current outbound exchange student exchanging club banners with Roger Guichard, the president of her host club, Gardanne en Pays D’aix. Her host club is located in the south east of France near Marseille.
Our club’s 2018-2019 Rotary Youth Exchange Student, Marie, arrived last week from France! Marie will be turning 17 on August 20th and she will be attending Wando High School. At our club meeting last week, Marie gave us a flag from her Rotary club in France and received our flag. If you see her at a meeting please introduce yourself! Marie loves meeting new people and traveling to new places. She is very active, enjoys shopping, and loves to cook. In France, Marie studies economics and wants to work in international relations. Marie enjoys swimming, gymnastics, and volleyball and she is about to have the best year of her life!
The East Cooper Breakfast Rotary Club will meet Tuesday, August 24th, 2018 at 7:30 a.m. in The Cooper River Room at the Mount Pleasant Waterfront Park. We are pleased to have David Tirard, District Governor, as our speaker. Breakfast catered by Dish and Design Catering and Events.
David Tirard joined the Rotary Club of Hilton Head Island in 2003. He is a Ten Star Rotarian and holds the Four Avenues of Service Citation. He was elected President in 2011, and he led the club to Large Club of the Year recognition at the District Conference in March 2012. At District level he has served on the Grants Committee since 2010, served as Paul Harris Society Chair since 2013 and as an Assistant Governor from the same year. He holds two Foundation District Service awards, a Distinguished District Service award, and was recognized as District Rotarian of the Year in 2014. He is a Major Donor, Paul Harris Society member and Bequest Society member. David is British by birth, and enjoyed a thirty-three year career with Barclays Bank Plc. Most of his career was spent in the UK, but a tour of duty in Zambia as a bank auditor really opened his eyes to the poverty suffered in a third-world country. (This experience helps fuel his passion for the Rotary Foundation). Upon retirement he came to the United States in 2001, where he met his wife Susan. They moved to Bluffton SC in 2002. She is also a Rotarian, and they enjoy two children and eight grand-children in the USA, and two children and three grand-children in the UK. In the little time they have outside Rotary, they enjoy cooking, gardening and looking after the three Golden Retrievers they have rescued.
The East Cooper Breakfast Rotary Club will meet Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at 7:30 a.m. in The Cooper River Room at the Mount Pleasant Waterfront Park. We will be hearing from our club President Tripp Hoover on the 2018 Rotary International Convention that was held in Toronto in June. Breakfast catered by Dish and Design Catering and Events.
Greg Meuli (right) completed his red badge requirements and received his Rotary Blue Badge in just three weeks! Congratulations, we’re excited to have you as a member!
The East Cooper Breakfast Rotary Club will meet Tuesday, April 17, 2018 at 7:30 a.m. in The Cooper River Room at the Mount Pleasant Waterfront Park. We are pleased to hear from fellow Rotarian Sean Glassberg about Racers for Pacers, a non- profit founded by Sean in 2011. Breakfast catered by Dish and Design Catering and Events.
Inspired by Rick and Dick Hoyt, Sean started Racers for Pacers to help Lowcountry kids with disabilities become a part of the vibrant running community in our area. Racers for Pacers currently has over 20 Racers who participate in local road races and run each week with either their parents as Pacers or volunteers from our community.
Sean Glassberg is a Rotarian involved with the Georgetown Rotary Club because he loves driving 40+ miles one way to get from his home in Mount Pleasant to his campus at Horry Georgetown Technical College, where he serves as Director of Faculty Development and teaches English from time to time. He is a proud father of four and husband of one who also coaches his kids in Mt Pleasant Rec Sports programs and runs a side business to provide faculty development for other colleges and universities. Somehow, he finds time to run and train on his own when he is not herding his kids or taking out the garbage.
Join us Tuesday, August 29th for Rotary Happy Hour right after work at FINZ Bar and Grill located at 400 Coleman Blvd. We have the big community table on the deck reserved. Rotary will provide a few snacks and the rest is cash bar. Live music starts at 7:30 for those interested.
As you all know, East Cooper Breakfast Rotary is hosting a Rotary Youth Exchange (RYE) student from Italy this year, Giorgio Cracchiolo from the island of Sicily. He is attending Academic Magnet as a junior and is staying this first semester with the family of an outbound RYE student that attends Academic Magnet. However, Giorgio needs to find another host family for the Spring semester. If you or someone you know feels called to host this kind, good-spirited young Italian boy, please contact Wayne Cassaday or Jill Aiken. Giorgio promises to give his host family a great cultural experience from his home country as well through stories and laughter. If you’re a Clemson fan, he loves going to the games. If you’re Gamecock, then he needs you to bring him over to the other side!
More details to follow!
