• Thank you Community Service Committee Rotarians!

    Thank you Community Service Committee Rotarians!

     The Community Service Committee did it again! It was another successful project /clean up for a Tangram sponsored home. Tangram is a nonprofit that provides services for adults with disabilities. Thanks to Jim Bernhardt for bringing this amazing organization to our attention. His wife Kathy works in the corporate office and another Rotarian Connie Dillman is part of our club!

    Over the years we have painted barns red, trimmed shrubbery, raked up stone in favor of mulch, planted flowers, picked up trash, cleaned up fence row and taken down old broken chain link fence. We even spent a couple rainy weekends painting the inside of one home!

    Working on the east side of Indianapolis we did a lot of the above including rotor tilling down a mound of dirt on the front lawn from a broken water pipe so a lawn could be planted….we even did that! We even mulched around the big tree in the front yard. It was a morning well spent….we felt good and a lot dirty!!

    Many thanks go out to all who participated: Jim Bernhardt, Zack Conner, Holly Dunn, Joe Gaafar, Jennifer Hobbs, Vern Hobbs (husband), Marie Koenig, Norm Melzer, Jim Narmore!

  • August 6th, Rotary 5:31 at Fireside Brewhouse

    August 6th, Rotary 5:31 at Fireside Brewhouse

    You are Invited! Rotary 5:31 Club on Wednesday Aug, 6 Fireside Brewhouse 997 E. County Line Rd., Greenwood Stop by anytime between 5:31p-7p Reservations and punctuality are never required!

    5:31 meet-and-greets are our most popular event get-togethers. They are a fun way to get to know folks outside of our regular Tuesday programs. We always meet at a new location somewhere in the city and it is never dull! Meet us from 5:31pm to around 7pm. Want to be added to the mailing list? Sign-up here! (just below the “Contact Us” form).

  • Sep 18, 2014 – Annual Fall Fun Day at Broadmoor Country Club

    Sep 18, 2014 – Annual Fall Fun Day at Broadmoor Country Club

    Rotary Golf returns to the famed Broadmoor Country Club on Thursday, September 18, 2014, for our Annual Fall Fun Day with the Bankers Handicap individual format. Thanks go to Leon Mordoh, Evan Goodman, and Steve Ivy for hosting us. Currently, individual tee times will be starting at 12:30 pm. The putting contest will be 20 minutes before your tee time. Contests include: “Closest to the Creek in Two”, “Shortest Drive”, “Closest to the Pin in Two”, “Longest Drive”, “Longest Putt”, and “Shortest Drive”. You can’t get more than three over par on any hole. Read More…

  • Rotarian Sheila Carlson Makes 2014 Pink Honor Roll!

    Rotarian Sheila Carlson Makes 2014 Pink Honor Roll!

    The Pink Honor Roll consists of the top 100 individual fundraisers for the Central Indiana Race for the Cure®. Combined, this year’s top fundraisers raised $225,000! And, our very own Sheila Carlson made it raising $1415.00! Because of this group, their supporters and others in our community, this will mean more funds will be available for life-saving local breast health services and global research for the causes, improved treatments and cures for breast cancer. In total, Rotary Racers raised $2,268.00 – way to go Rotary!

  • July 1, 2014 Indianapolis Rotarian of the Year Video Posted!

    July 1, 2014 Indianapolis Rotarian of the Year Video Posted!

    The Rotary Club of Indianapolis Celebrated on Tuesday, July 1, 2014, in honor of members of the Rotary Club of Indianapolis for the Annual Celebration Luncheon! Check out the Rotarian of the Year Video!

     

    Our festivities included:

    • Thank You to Committees, Sponsors and Contributors
    • Invocation and Pledge, Kendall Millard
    • President Scott Armstrong
    • Presentation of awards to Club and Foundation Directors
    • Milestone Award Presentations
    • Arthur E. Krick Award Presentation
    • Perfect Attendance Recognition
    • President’s Awards
    • Distinguished Rotarian Awards
    • Rotarian of the Year, Paul Raikes
    • Year End Address, President Scott Armstrong
    • Installation of Officers
    • Presentation by President Matt Burnett
    • 4 Way Test and Adjourn

    Sponsors
    This celebration would not be possible without the generous support of sponsors. We list them here and gratefully acknowledge their contributions.

    Event Sponsor: 
    UIndy MBA Program

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    Table Sponsors
    Barnes and Thornburg
    Bedel Financial Consulting
    Danny Danielson
    Flanner and Buchanan
    Kroger Company
    RJE Business Interiors

    Sponsors
    JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
    Sutton-Garten

    Additional Contributors
    Bill Bubenzer Photography
    Dave Leonards
    Donaldson’s Finer Chocolates
    Engledow Group
    Focal Point
    Steve Harris

    Rotarian of the Year Committee
    Elaine Bedel, Peggy Blackard, Tim Dudley, Bill Ervin

    Organizing Committee
    Melissa Farmer, Matt Burnett, Susie Harmless

  • Rotary Education Weekend Equity Awards

    Rotary Education Weekend Equity Awards

    Rick and Beverly Markoff with Charlotte WesterhausRenfrow
    Rick and Beverly Markoff with Charlotte Westerhaus Renfrow

    The Rotary Education Weekend Equity Awards, were held the evening of Friday, May 16, at the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis (the Ruby Bridges Exhibit in The Power of Children Gallery).  The purpose of these awards was to honor an “unsung hero” in education, an outstanding school administrator, a top teacher and a group of standout student-athletes during Central Indiana’s first ‘Education Weekend.’   The awards were presented by the Indianapolis Rotary Foundation, the Rotary Club of Indianapolis, the Indiana Civil Rights Commission and the Indianapolis Recorder.   Honorees were:

    The Cardinal E. Joseph Award, “unsung community hero”
    Diana Daniels (pictured top right), National Council on Educating Black Children

    The Father Boniface Hardin Award, administrator
    Dr. Khaula Murtadha, IUPUI

    The Jacqueline S. Greenwood Award, teacher
    Mary Rowley, VC Rowley and Associates

    The Bart Peterson Award, student
    Boys Basketball Team, Arsenal Technical High School

    The awards were the result of a Rotary Entrepreneurial Grant awarded to Rick Markoff.

    Dennis Sponsel, Lincoln Wallis, RalphTaylor
    Dennis Sponsel, Lincoln Wallis, RalphTaylor

    ROTARY EDUCATION WEEK EQUITY AWARDS SELECTION COMMITTEE, 2014
    Five Rotarians and two Rotaract members were part of the 18 member Rotary Education Weekend Equity Awards Selection Committee chaired by Denny Sponsel and Ralph Taylor.  Rotary Education Weekend Equity Awards Selection Committee members included: Dennis Sponsel, Chair, RJE Business Interiors, Rotary; Ralph Taylor, Chair, Consultant/Broadcaster, Rotary; Miriam Acevedo Davis, La Plaza; Troy Arthur, NCAA; Jeff Butts, M.S.D. of Wayne Township; J.T. Coopman, Indiana Association of Public School Superintendents; Karen Dace, IUPUI; Judge David Dreyer, Superior Court Judge, Rotary; Pastor David Hampton, Light of the World Church; Jo Hoy, Cardinal Ritter High School; John Lyter, American Red Cross, Rotary; Juan Paz, Simon Property Group; Yvonne Perkins, Citizens Energy Group; Rotaract Student Member, Rotary Lincoln Wallis; Rotaract Student Member, Rotary, Morgan Whitcomb; Cassie Stockamp, Athenaeum Foundation, Rotary; Mary Ann Sullivan, CELL; and Ahmed Young, Bose McKinney & Evans.

  • Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame dedicates Danielson Theater

    Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame dedicates Danielson Theater

    In ceremonies on Thursday, June 19, the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame dedicated the “Patty and Danny Danielson Theater”, recognizing the numerous contributions of the New Castle couple to the organization. The event was attended by members of the Hall’s Board of Directors, inductees, local community and business leaders, family and friends totaling nearly 100. Read the full press release.

  • Timmy Global Health / Rotary Help Improve Water System in Ecuador

    Timmy Global Health / Rotary Help Improve Water System in Ecuador

    Water Team with Chlorinator

    In May, the Timmy Global Health first official water team traveled to the community of Los Rios to do more WASH Training and install the first community chlorinator! 350 people in that community now have access to safe drinking water!

    (Image Left: Water Team with Chlorinator) In April Timmy Global Health hosted a Water & Sanitation Hygiene (WASH) Training for the health promoters and members of five Community Water Councils.

    In mid-February, Timmy Global Health conducted their first Water Chlorinator Installation at a partner hospital Stadler Richter, in Archidona, Ecuador (see the Timmy Global Health video about the project at the hospital). With the help of funding from the Rotary Club of Indianapolis’s World Community Service Committee, here’s a link to the blog post that Timmy Global Health put together about the pilot installation.

    In January 2014, Timmy Global Health hired a Safe Water and Medical Programs Coordinator to manage and implement a water project in the Amazon Basin. This, position was created to ensure sustainability and growth of the project. Read this blog post that outlines the Safe Water project in more detail, and emphasizes the Timmy Global Health partnerships with both MedWater and the Community Water Councils of the chlorinator installation sites.

    The Rotary Club of Indianapolis World Community Service Committee (WCSC) is responsible for identifying and supporting international service projects for the Club. Projects generally have a club member & champion who ideally works in partnership with an overseas Rotary Club and personally travels to the location of the project to help create relationships and oversee the project. The committee currently supports clean water initiatives in Zimbabwe, Kenya, Haiti and Ecuador; multiple projects in Kenya including support for a legal aid clinic, mother-child hospital, and school classrooms; an aquaculture project in Moshi, Tanzania; a microfinance project in Calnali, Mexico; and peace learning projects in Jamaica.

     

  • July 25, 2014 Symphony on the Prairie

    Symphony on the Prairie: Classical Mystery Tour Music of the Beatles! Deadline to purchase tickets: July 8th, 2014

    Contact Jenny Conder with questions: jconder@arthritis.org; 317.879-0321, extension 5

  • July 2, 2014 5:31 Club Meeting at La Revolucion, 1132 Prospect St.

    5:31 meet-and-greets are our most popular event get-togethers. They are a fun way to get to know folks outside of our regular Tuesday programs. We always meet at a new location somewhere in the city and it is never dull! Want to be added to the mailing list? Sign-up here! (just below the “Contact Us” form).