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Minutarian Week 8: August 22, 2022

Minutarian Week 8: August 22, 2022

This week was my best week of the year so far as your District Governor with five club visits and the Vibrant Club seminar on Saturday. Two very remarkable things came out of this for me in the leadership track. First Past District Governor Bill Griffin asserted that...
Minutarian Week 8: August 22, 2022

Minutarian Week 7: August 14, 2022

On July 20, 2022, we lost the first lady of the Rotary Club of Jacksonville, Michele Agee. I met Michele in 2017 at the Bike Ride to End Polio when she took off like a Zoomie and left me in the dust! Our hearts go out to President Jim and the entire Agee family....
Minutarian Week 8: August 22, 2022

Minutarian Week 6: August 8, 2022

Our district continues to step up on our efforts to help Ukraine. This week we received approval of a grant with 6 other districts across the US to send $175,000 in critical medical supplies to areas that have received heavy casualties. At the Vibrant Club Seminar at...
Minutarian Week 8: August 22, 2022

Minutarian Week 5: August 1, 2022

This week marked the passing of  PDG Big Ed (Edward Peck) past member of the Rotary Clubs of Daytona and Gainesville. Ed was 104 and was District Governor in 1966-1967 when our District was 694. Rotary’s COVID-19 Task Force has designated 21-27 August 2022...
Minutarian Week 8: August 22, 2022

Minutarian Week 4: July 25, 2022

We just learned that a 20-something unvaccinated individual in northern NY contracted polio. Polio was once one of the most feared diseases in the U.S. In the early 1950s, before polio vaccines were available, polio outbreaks caused more than 15,000 cases of paralysis...