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Announcements Evening Meetings ow and then for Rotary Club  in the hope of interesting new members from the community the club is going to meet at 6pm on the last Wednesday of several months at one of the area restaurants that has supported Taste of Woodside.  Hors d'oeuvres, no host bar and dinner if you so choose.    Please check the website calendar for further information. Taste of Woodside, 2008, a Resounding Success!  Thanks to all those who participated, contributed, donated and spent money to support the projects of the club.  Club to Support Second Library in Guatemala  Recently the club board voted to fund the purchase of books for a rural community library to be built in Xolsacmalja, Guatemala by the Riecken Foundation.  This indigenous community in northwestern Guatemala was chosen from a number of applicants to be the next beneficiary of the Riecken Foundation.  Have a look at their website to see what wonderful work they do with community libraries in both Honduras and Guatemala.  www.riecken.org . Baja Sur Water Project Wins World Bank Marketplace Development Award  Florence's project which started with a request for $2K from our club to test the water in this region became one of thirty finalists for a World Bank grant.  Florence and her team were awarded over $170K to deliver their UV buckets to 6,000 households, roughtly 75% of the population in Baja Sur.  Next step, Florence says, is all of rural Mexico.

On March 26th, 2009 thanks to our Rotary Club and others as well a community library was opened in a remote, indigenous community in Northwestern Guatemala.  The community had been trying to get a library for five years and the entire community turned out for the opening.  Our club paid for all of the books and educational materials in both Spanish and the local Mayan language.  Have a look at our photo gallery for photos of the event.

Thank you for visiting our club web site, greetings from the members of the Rotary Club of Woodside/Portola Valley.  In mid-June, I attended the Rotary International Convention in Los Angeles. It was an inspirational experience and I feel very proud to be a Rotarian and incoming president of my club.

Rotary is a worldwide organization of more than 1.2 million men and women in over 168 countries around the world. Through these connections what we can do as both individual Rotarians and members of a Rotary Club are multiplied beyond belief.

The Rotary motto of ’Service Above Self' is what inspired me to become a Rotarian.  I realized what an impact one individual (or one small club) could have both here in our own community and in Guatemala, Ecuador, Sri Lanka, Bali, India and other far away places where our club has helped to change, enhance  and save lives.

Rotary International received a $100,000,000 Challenge Grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help with the final push to eradicate crippling polio around the world. With the help of many organizational partners, we are 99% there and Rotary members over the last 20 years have contributed over $700,000,000. Our club is committed to helping make this happen.

But Rotary does more! HIV/AIDS, hunger, shelter, clean water, sanitation, literacy, peace, and helping to alleviate pain and suffering for the less fortunate people in the world are all within the grasp of Rotary’s helping hands.

I invite you to breakfast with us, to hear marvelous speakers, to enjoy fellowship and to become a part of this movement of peace, understanding and brotherhood.  We need your hands and hearts.  We need your commitment to 'Service Above Self.'  The Rotary world needs you.

For more information about Rotary International please visit www.Rotary.org.  I hope to see you at breakfast at 7:30 AM any Wednesday, in the social hall of Woodside Village Church, 3154 Woodside Road, Town of Woodside."

Sandra Pugh
President, 2008-2009

Rotary Club of Woodside/Portola Valley, California

Rotary Theme 2009-2010: Rotary Shares John Kenny - President, Rotary International Ms. Riki Itner - District Governor, District 5150 Dave Hyman - President, Rotary Club of Woodside/Portola Valley