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StruthersStory Trail at Mauthe Park |
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2025 DISTRICT CHALLENGE - SOLESFORSOLES |
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DISTRICT 6650 MEMBERSHIP TEAM |
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January - Vocational Service |
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2025 4 WAY SPEECH CONTEST |
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Rotary Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention |
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Rotary Guiding Principles |
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ShelterBox |
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DISTRICT LEARNING ASSEMBLY |
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District 6650 Foundation Challenge |
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District 6650 Job Opening |
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We Are People of Action
Our global network of more than 1.2 million neighbors, friends, and leaders volunteer their skills and resources to solve issues and address community needs. |
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District 6650 Conference |
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2025 RYLA Information
2025 Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) ConferenceFebruary 7 - 9, 2025Hosted by The Rotary Club of Salem, OhioWaypoint 4180 & Marriott at Westford PlaceCanfield, Ohio |
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Rotary Youth Exchange |
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District 6650 - Club Histories |
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Rotary Peace Builder |
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Rotary International Leadership Training |
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DISASTER AID USA |
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2025 Rotary Presidential Peace Conference
Healing in a Divided World 20-22 February 2025
Istanbul, Türkiye Hilton Istanbul Bomonti Hotel & Conference Center |
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Austintown Rotary Kirk Road Clean Up
Members of Austintown Rotary and Fitch Interact Club joined forces to clean a portion of Kirk Road from Rt. 46 to Whispering Pines as part of the National Day of Service. The group has done the project twice a year since 2000.
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Youngstown Rotary Operation Warm Campaign
Rotary Club of Youngstown officially launched the 2024 Operation Warm Campaign. Our goals this year is to raise $20,000 to provide 1,000 winter coats for children at Harding, Taft, Volney and St. Joe's by September 1, 2024. Each $20 donation will provide a winter coat to one of our youth. |
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Boardman Rotary School Supply Project
Another great in-meeting service project…this school supply project will benefit Making Kids Count, and their clients. |
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Struthers Rotary Funds Cornhole Boards
Mauthe Park in Struthers is now equipped with permanent cornhole boards, thanks to a dedicated community member and the support of the Struthers Rotary Club and local businesses. |
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North Canton Rotary Funds Mascot Costume
The club partnered with the Hoover High School Sideliners Club to purchase a new Viking mascot costume. |
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Minerva Rotary Former President Passes
It is with great sadness that we let you know about the passing of Minerva Rotarian, Tim Tarbet. He was the current Mayor of the Village of Minerva and formerly served on the council and is a member of the Village of Minerva Planning Commission, the Village Community Improvement Corporation, Stark County Regional Planning Committee, Carroll County CIC, the Carroll County Planning Commission and MAPSS.
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Purple Pinkie Project 2024
Get ready for a sweet and impactful way to support our fight against polio! Rotary District 6650 is excited to announce Purple Pinkie Project 2024, aligning with World Polio Awareness Days (October 22 for World Post Polio Syndrome Day and October 24 for World Polio Awareness Day).
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North Canton RotaryNORTH CANTON ROTARY On October 28th our club presented our District 6650 grant check for $2500.00 to Compassion Delivered for an additional freezer. The organization prepares and distributes free healthy meals to Stark County residents dealing with a life threatening or terminal illness. Pictured l-R are club president Debra Mars, Compassion Delivered founder Amanda Anschutz and board president Todd Tolson.  |
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Cortland Rotary ClubOctober 13 2021 members assisted in hosting Meet The Candidates Night at Lakeview High School for all Lakeview Schoolboard Candidates. Past club president, Lance Grahn 3rd from left.
October 23 2021 members did cleanup and performed winter preparation of the pollinator garden at the OSU Trumbull County Agriculture Extension.
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Rotary Club of Plain TownshipOn October 13, 2021, the Rotary Club of Plain Township took part in the Glenwood project celebration which consisted of a new pavilion and the planting of 20 trees at the Glenwood Intermediate School. Our club has committed to donating $50,000 to the project. The original plan, which started seven years ago, was to put in a retention basin and to create a green space. However, it grew to include the pavilion and much more is planned for the future. We are grateful to all the community partners that worked together to make this happen: The Plain Local School District, the City Engineer and the City of Canton. We hope it will be enjoyed by many children for generations to come.  |
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Day of the GirlOctober 11 was the #DayOfTheGirl, introducing and celebrating Rotary People of Action: Champions of Girls' Empowerment. This distinction recognizes the honorees' commitment to improving girls' access to education, health, and sanitation and hygiene resources, as well as their work to create environments where girls can flourish. |
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RI Convention 2022 As Rotary members, we use our connections to create lasting change in our communities and around the world. And although we’ve all faced the challenges of the pandemic for the past year and a half, we’ve continued to take action, solve problems, and make a positive impact. We are optimistic that we can gather in person to explore new opportunities for friendship and service at the 2022 Rotary International Convention, 4-8 June in Houston, Texas, USA. We invite you to join us! At the convention, you will: • Develop new friendships and strengthen old ones • Share your Rotary experiences and learn more ways to get involved • Find inspiration in the family of Rotary Register now to take advantage of our reduced rate, available until 15 December. You’ll be able to cancel for a full refund, minus a $50 per person administration fee, until 30 April. Don’t miss this chance to strengthen your passion for Rotary. Visit convention.rotary.org/houston for more information.
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Interact Show us how your members are taking action across the globe, in your community, and in yourselves through service-learning. Start your service-learning journey by completing our service-learning course then share your experience in the 2021 Interact Awards. We are accepting videos, photos, and essays as part of the Interact Awards. Nominations will be accepted from 1 September 2021 at 00:00 Chicago Time (UTC-5) until 1 December 2021 at 23:59 Chicago Time.Each club may submit (1) video, up to (3) photos, and/or (1) essay. Awards will be given for best video, best photo, and best essay. One (1) club will be awarded in each category and receive a financial award from Rotary International to support the Interact club's service project, as well as an award plaque and letter from the Rotary International President. 2021 INTERACT AWARDS SUBMISSION TERMS LINK |
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District 6650 contact information… Mail: Phone 601-654-4720 Joan Cauley is available to assist coordinating and updating data on the Clubrunner data base and posting items on the District Website and bulletin.
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Interact Awards 2021-22
Show us how your members are taking action across the globe, in your community, and in yourselves through service-learning. Start your service-learning journey by completing our service-learning course then share your experience in the 2021 Interact Awards. We are accepting videos, photos, and essays as part of the Interact Awards. Nominations will be accepted from 1 September 2021 at 00:00 Chicago Time (UTC-5) until 1 December 2021 at 23:59 Chicago Time.
Each club may submit (1) video, up to (3) photos, and/or (1) essay.
Awards will be given for best video, best photo, and best essay. One (1) club will be awarded in each category and receive a financial award from Rotary International to support the Interact club's service project, as well as an award plaque and letter from the Rotary International President.
2021 INTERACT AWARDS SUBMISSION TERMS LINK
Rotary International Convention 2022
As Rotary members, we use our connections to create lasting change in our communities and around the world. And although we’ve all faced the challenges of the pandemic for the past year and a half, we’ve continued to take action, solve problems, and make a positive impact.
We are optimistic that we can gather in person to explore new opportunities for friendship and service at the 2022 Rotary International Convention, 4-8 June in Houston, Texas, USA. We invite you to join us!
At the convention, you will:
• Develop new friendships and strengthen old ones
• Share your Rotary experiences and learn more ways to get involved
• Find inspiration in the family of Rotary
• Develop new friendships and strengthen old ones
• Share your Rotary experiences and learn more ways to get involved
• Find inspiration in the family of Rotary
Register now to take advantage of our reduced rate, available until 15 December. You’ll be able to cancel for a full refund, minus a $50 per person administration fee, until 30 April.
Don’t miss this chance to strengthen your passion for Rotary.
Don’t miss this chance to strengthen your passion for Rotary.
Visit convention.rotary.org/houston for more information.
Rotary Club of North Canton
The North Canton Rotary is now committed to the position of the Character Counts Board of Trustees...
Infusing the Six Pillars of Character into the North Canton Community: Trustworthiness, Respect, Responsibility, Fairness, Caring, and Citizenship.
Students can obtain small grants for a community project... Youth have creative ideas for helping people in need or for improving their environment.
Rotary Club of Struthers
On August 3rd, the Struthers Rotary held a tribute picnic for Struthers First Responders at the city's Mauthe Park.
The Rotary also announced the awarding of a Rotary District Grant of $2800 to the city for help with the replacement of the roof of the Rotary Pavilion at the park.
The Club also awarded Catherine Cercone-Miller a second Paul Harris Fellow. Cathy was a member of Struthers first Interact Club some 20 years ago. While participating in the club's first job shadowing, a stop was made at city hall. While there, the Mayor invited her to sit in his chair. She declared, " Someday this will be my chair." Later on, when the Rotary started a Community Corp, she served as President for six years. However, about a year and a half ago, she had to give that up as she became the first woman to be elected as Mayor in a city in Mahoning County. The club wanted to recognize the Mayor for her long history of dedication to the community of Struthers from her high school years to her current position leading our community to improvement and ensuring our sustainability.
Struthers Rotary President Karen Edwards, Foundation Chair Tom Baringer and Struthers Mayor Cathy Cercone-Miller
Rotary Club of Salem
Outgoing President John Lundin received a clock as a memento of his year as Rotary President from new President Ryan Boyce.
Officers and Board Members 2021-2022
Williams Dawes congratulates Student of the Year, Paige Bailey
Dr. Kelly Darney presents the non-Rotarian Service Above Self Award to
Kevin Clark. Kevin is the advisor for the club’s Rotaract Club at CCCTC. The club is a large and active club that performs a service project monthly.
Rotary Club of Boardman
Boardman Rotary Club is holding its 45th annual Oktoberfest! This is the club’s largest fundraiser of the year and a fall staple in the community. Come enjoy over 100 arts & crafts vendors. Concessions from a variety of local favorites. Live entertainment at the outdoor amphitheater, children’s entertainment, and beautiful Boardman Park. Come say hello to a fellow rotarian at the sound booth, or bring a group of rotarians for some great fellowship!
Join us Sunday October 3rd, 2021 at Boardman Township Park, 375 Boardman-Poland Rd, Boardman, OH 44512. Event is from 9am to 5 pm. Admission $5 adults, 12 and under are free.
Need more information, or interested in becoming a vendor? https://boardmanoktoberfestival.weebly.com
Wooster Rotary "Digs in" to Celebrate 100th Anniversary
In spite of COVID-19 and more than a year of virtual meetings, the Rotary Club of Wooster, chartered on January 21, 1921, is in the middle of a year-long gala celebration of its centennial anniversary, which will culminate with a banquet on October 7.
Throughout the year, club members have enjoyed “digging in” to the past with weekly emails compiled by club historian, Ray Leisy, featuring highlights of the club’s activities and memorable programs during its first 100 years.
Monthly feature articles, published in the Wooster Daily Record and curated by Past DG/ Past Club President Phil Mariola, chair of the 100th anniversary committee, have focused on many of the club’s local and international projects - digging latrines in Kenya, and digging holes for the more than 2000 American flags which comprise the Wooster Rotary Parade of flags – to name just a few.
Of course, the celebration also includes several community projects, at least one of which involves- you guessed it – digging into the future.
Members of the anniversary committee thought it would be fitting to plant 100 trees in honor of Wooster Rotary’s 100 years, and contacted the city of Wooster for suggestions about where to plant the trees. The city had another idea: would the club be willing to rescue and transplant some trees that had been overplanted at the Secrest Arboretum on the campus of The Ohio State University’s College of Food, Agriculture and Environmental Science in the aftermath of a 2010 tornado? The arboretum had offered to give the trees to the city, but moving and replanting the trees, many of which were 20 to 30 feet tall, was going to be costly, and not covered by the city’s budget.
Recognizing that many of the trees in question had been planted by Rotarians in collaboration with several other service clubs following the devastating tornado, the club was eager to participate in the rescue effort, and quickly agreed to relocate the trees to the city’s Oak Hill Park, a 100 acre work-in-progress, and home to many species of trees, plants, birds and other wildlife, with a 1.7 mile paved trail for walking, jogging and biking, a giant sledding hill and ample space for cross-country skiing.
The park also includes a large pavilion and a bike repair station, both donated by Wooster Rotary, and now features an impressive “Founder’s Row,” with 24 of the rescued trees lining a portion of the trail, to honor each of the club’s 24 founding members. Signage, which will commemorate the 100th anniversary, and will include the names of the 24 founders, is currently under construction, and will complete Phase I of the Oak Hill Park improvement project.
Phase II of the project is currently under design by a committee of club members led by Past President Ron Holtman. During this phase, the club will develop a “Memorial Grove,” featuring additional trees and plants designed to provide year-round color, benches and signage honoring the 37 club members with 50 or more years of membership, with space to add the names of members who achieve that goal in the future.
We hope you will come visit us in Wooster and spend some time in Oak Hill Park. We think you’ll dig it!
ROTARY CLUB OF LAKE TWP.
Rotary Club of Lake Township: Recycling plastic, protecting local landscapes, and providing park benches– all in one program
Remember the popular ad campaign created years ago by America’s Dairy Council, with the catchy phrase “Got Milk?” paired with a photo of a celebrity wearing a milk mustache?
Today one thing we’ve got, no questions asked, is plastic.
The numbers below reveal the impact of plastic bags alone:
- In the US alone, more than 100 billion plastic bags are used each year – that's more than 300 bags per person.
- It's estimated that the US throws out roughly 100 billion plastic bags annually, generating about 3.3 million tons of trash (only about 1 to 2 percent are recycled). (Oct 4, 2014)
- 100,000 marine animals are killed by plastic bags annually.
The Rotary Club of Lake Township feels our club is doing its part to reduce plastic bags and film going into our local environment, laying alongside our roadways, and entering state landfills by participating in a simple plastic recycling program. It’s one that you can easily support as well.
Our Club of Lake Township began participating in the NexTREX Community Recycling program in July of 2019, after learning about it from friends and members of the Port Summit Rotary Club
TREX is a U.S. manufacturer of premium outdoor living products including benches, decking, and railing, and for the past decade has accepted plastic recycled film to create their product line. The company offers recycling challenges to schools and community groups to participate, specifically, to collect 500 pounds of plastic within a six-month period. If we do so, we receive a high performance composite bench, such as the two shown in the photo, made by TREX.
In less than a year, we have earned three beautiful park benches, which we will be donating to community partners in our area. One will soon be placed next to the Love Our Community warehouse in Hartville; the final resting places for the other two are yet to be determined.
It is easy to collect the plastic film needed by TREX because the plastic film is commonly used for food and convenience packaging today. Here is what is accepted:
NOTE: All plastic collected must be clean, dry, and free of food residue.
- plastic film labeled with a #2 or #4 recycling symbol (polyethylene films)
-retail and grocery bags
-bread bags
-bubble wrap, air pillows
-dry cleaning wrap bags
- newspaper sleeves and fresh produce bags
-ice bags
-plastic shipping envelopes
-Ziploc and other reclosable food storage bags
-cereal bags
-case overwrap, i.e., such as used for water bottles and new furniture pieces
- salt bags
- pallet wrap and stretch film
-wood pellet bags
As our members collect plastic, we weigh it and report the weight to one of several Rotary Club members who maintain a plastic collection spreadsheet. We also forward our recycling totals to Stephanie Hicks, Materials Sourcing Manager at TREX, via e-mail. We then drop our plastic off, preferably collected in clear or light colored plastic bags – no black heavy duty garbage bags, please - to our local Hartville Giant Eagle grocery store’s large plastic collection bin, located outside by its main entrance. As our local retailer participating as a collection point for TREX, Giant Eagle moves the plastic collected on its way to a TREX manufacturing facility.
We have encouraged other local community groups to begin their own NexTREX plastic collection during the past year. To date, the Hartville Lions Club, Lake Township FISH Food Pantry, and Northhampton Rotary Club are also now collecting plastic for TREX.
If you are currently donating your plastic bags and film to Giant Eagle in Hartville as a community member, know that you are contributing as well to this great TREX recycling program. Remember another great way you can help the environment is to bring and use your own shopping bags to the store every time you shop.
If your organization wants to accept the plastic film recycling challenge, visit https://recycle.trex.com or call Stephanie Hicks for more information at 540-542-6494, or e-mail her at NexTrex@trex.com.
-Submitted by Karen Koch, President, Rotary Club of Lake Township
ROTARY CLUB OF BOARDMAN
Boardman Rotary hosted our Community Drive-Thru Pancakes and Sausage Event over two weekends in March. We thank our co-chairs Maggie Garland and John Rudolph for their leadership to serve the community.
NORTH CANTON AND PLAIN TOWNSHIP ROTARY CLUBS PARTNERED ON A HABITAT BUILD
U.S. Rotary General Liability Insurance
Rotary Clubs Must File with IRS!
All Rotary Clubs in our District must file with the IRs prior to November 15 in order to maintain their exemption from US Income Tax. Access the download file to get the details.
Rotary International News Feed
Rotary Leadership Institute
A District 6650 Rotary Leadership Institute session will be held on Saturday, October 18, 2014 from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm at The Foltz Community Center in East Canton.
To Register for this training session, click on this link.
Registration costs for one participant per club will be underwritten by District 6650.
More information is available from Larry Warren larrynsig@zoominternet.net . Phone 330-757-3631.