Members from the Rotary Club of Round Rock Sunrise, once again demonstrate their commitment to the children of our community through our ongoing work with the Table of Grace. This impressive organization provides care and support for kids entering the foster care system. Given the circumstances that led them to the Table of Grace, it is understandable that their emotions are all over the place, so one of the ways to help ease the transition is to provide each new guest with a welcome basket. This basket contains essentials such as a toothbrush and toothpaste, as well as [age range specific] items to make them feel welcome. Recently our members had the opportunity to help assemble a number of baskets for future residents and the one thing I would say is that it is impressive how many things you can fit into a small basket. To wrap things up, we also wrote inspirational notes that we placed in the basket for the kids to read as they settle in. As they say, every little helps.
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More than a welcome
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2024-09-11 05:00:00Z |
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Our Satellite club has changed its monthly meeting time at the Table of Grace. We now meet the 2nd Wednesday of every month at the Table of Grace (Doris Lane location), 3845 Doris Lane in Round Rock at 6:30 pm.
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New Satellite Club Meeting Time
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2024-09-06 05:00:00Z |
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Members of the Rotary Club of Round Rock Sunrise joined forces with the Round Rock Police Department to help make their Step-N2-Success program even more rewarding for these deserving kids. This program provides new shoes to children from low-income families ahead of their returning to school. For each of the 883 families the event was serving, our Club provided Plush Toys to make this event more fun. In fact, one group with three boys who each opted for the green dinosaur plush, which you may be able to see in the picture, decided that the dinosaurs should fight, and it was so cute watching them trying to be protective of their new toy while immersing themselves in their role-playing adventure.
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Dinosaurs Battle It Out at Kalahari
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2024-08-11 05:00:00Z |
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Posted by Lee Buckland
As part of the Service Coalition of Round Rock (SCORR) members of the Rotary Club of Round Rock Sunrise participated in the parade in downtown Round Rock on July 4th, 2024. The purpose of our participation was to promote how working collaboratively with other service organizations in the local area, we can achieve great things. During the parade, we gave out plush toys to kids along the route, which were a huge success. Here's looking forward to 2025.
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Fourth of July Parade 2024
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2024-07-04 05:00:00Z |
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As part of the transition of the Austin North Metro Passport Rotary (ANMP) club into the Rotary Satellite Club of Round Rock Sunrise, we are migrating our club's webpage to that of the Round Rock Sunrise Rotary club, which is https://www.rotaryroundrock-sunrise.com . Please stay tuned as that website goes through a redesign, and keep an eye out for the specific page on that site that will be constructed for our satellite club! We expect that page to go live sometime in June 2024. This website (rotaryanmp.org) will be kept active for awhile, but will eventually be taken down, and the link will be set to redirect to the Round Rock Sunrise website. Thank you for your interest and support of the ANMP Rotary club, and we look forward to serving under our new name.
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Club website migration
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2024-05-23 05:00:00Z |
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On February 17th, we partnered with the Rotary Club of Austin to participate in meal packaging for Rise Against Hunger! Thanks to those who showed up and volunteered! In addition to all the thousands of food bags assembled, the event also raised over $9,000 which will be used to help combat hunger worldwide.
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Rise Against Hunger
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2024-04-23 05:00:00Z |
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We are excited to announce that we are transitioning to the Rotary Satellite Club of Round Rock Sunrise! Our charter was accepted on April 3, and the transition will be complete at the start of the new year, July 1. At that point we will cease to be called the Austin North Metro Passport Rotary club. As part of this transition all ANMP club members are automatically admitted into the Rotary Club of Round Rock Sunrise. Our meeting schedule and format will remain unchanged through this transition. We thank the current members of the RRS club for welcoming us as a satellite club, and we look forward to partnering with them on future RRS projects and events.
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New club name and status
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2024-04-23 05:00:00Z |
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Thanks to all who helped with the parking fundraiser over all 6 UT home games in 2023! This was a great source of income for our club. Thanks also to the Rotary Club of Austin University Area for letting us partner with them on this project!
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UT football parking fundraiser complete
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2023-12-13 06:00:00Z |
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Our club has installed a little library at the Table of Grace meeting location for our club! Thanks to the Drumgooles for assembling, painting, and storing the library and to Don Duncan for installing it! Tasks remaining include painting the post and platform, installing the dedication plaque, and stocking it with books. We look forward to its use by Table of Grace members!
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Little Library at Table of Grace
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2023-12-13 06:00:00Z |
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We are partnering with the Rotary Club of Austin University Area to raise funds by parking cars at UT home football games for the 2023 season! Thanks to all who showed up for the first home game on September 2nd and endured the heat!
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UT football game day parking
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2023-09-14 05:00:00Z |
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We are proud to begin serving and collaborating with the Central Texas Table of Grace! The Table of Grace is a nonprofit organization providing support and emergency services to children in the foster care system and to young adults aging out of the foster care program. We are working with the Table of Grace to prepare to open a store in Round Rock. The store will be partially maintained and supported by the our club and will offer non-essential goods, books, toys, clothing, and electronics to children and young adults in the Table of Grace program, to be purchased using good behavior credits. On 7/24 and 8/14 we volunteered to help organize donations for the store. We will continue store preparations at our regular club meetings going forward.
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Table of Grace service collaboration
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2023-08-19 05:00:00Z |
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This month's knighting ceremony was given by Lady Amber to recognize the virtue of confidence. A group of Rotarians from the University, Cosmopolitan, Austin North Metro Passport and Cedar Park Rotary clubs showed up to cheer on the student honorees.
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Early Act First Knight: February 2023
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2023-03-04 06:00:00Z |
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In recognition of World Polio Day, the Rotary clubs of Austin North Metro Passport, Cedar Park, Northwest Austin, Round Rock, and Round Rock Sunrise coordinated two fundraising events in Pies and Pints for Polio. At the Pies event, our club provided an information table about the Rotary Polio Plus campaign and coordinated fundraising through raffles for home-baked pies and other items supporting the Polio Plus fund.
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Pies and Pints for Polio
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2022-10-22 05:00:00Z |
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| | | The ANMP Club sponsored the July 17 dinner at the District 5870 Rise Up RYLA Camp. Sarah Carriker, John Cooney, Dian Edwards, Aaron Gunderson, and Sarah Gunderson drove to the Peaceable Kingdom Camp in Killeen to assist with the meal service. It was so great to see our District 5870 RYLArians enjoying the activities and building their leadership skills. All camp counselors are graduates of RYLA and relate so well with the camp participants. Our club plans to sponsor a student to attend the 2023 Rise Up RYLA Camp. |
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Rise UP RYLA Camp Service Project
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2022-07-17 05:00:00Z |
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| | We welcomed our District Governor Shannon Coleman to meet with us at our July 11 meeting. Other guests were Assistant Governor Joe Dahlstrom and Jeff Coleman, who brought all materials needed for our club to assemble 90 sets of materials for the Backpack Friends District Project. Shannon encouraged us to embrace the “Imagine Rotary” theme throughout the year as we discover and support activities that will improve our world. |
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Backpack Friends
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2022-07-11 05:00:00Z |
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| Harris Elementary celebrated its last EAFK (Early Act First Knight) knighting ceremony for the trait of perseverance with Sir James. We also knighted the Teacher of the Year! This program is also sponsored by the University Area Rotary Club. This concludes a successful first year for our club participating in EAFK. |
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Early Act First Knight 2021-2022
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2022-05-12 05:00:00Z |
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| Our club participated in two fundraiser/service events in April: Rise Against Hunger and the Empowering Girls project. Along with other Rotary clubs in District 5870, we helped raise $2100 for the Empowering Girls project. The district prepared nineteen kits to be distributed in Honduras. Each kit lasts a girl for three years, giving them back about 60 days for school, work, and living! At the Rise Against Hunger event, we helped pack 25,000 food bags to be distributed to alleviate hunger around the world! |
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Rise Against Hunger and Empowering Girls
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2022-04-24 05:00:00Z |
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 An estimated 500 million people worldwide became infected. Many cities closed theaters and cinemas, and placed restrictions on public gatherings. Rotary clubs adjusted their activities while also helping the sick.
This is how Rotary responded to the influenza pandemic that began in 1918 and came in three waves, lasting more than a year. The Rotary Club of Berkeley, California, USA, meets in John Hinkel Park during the 1918 flu pandemic.
Photo by Edwin J. McCullagh, 1931-32 club president. Courtesy of the Rotary Club of Berkeley.
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Rotary’s Response to the 1918 Flu Pandemic
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2020-11-05 06:00:00Z |
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 Rotary and the United Nations have a shared history of working toward peace and addressing humanitarian issues around the world.
During World War II, Rotary informed and educated members about the formation of the United Nations and the importance of planning for peace. Materials such as the booklet “From Here On!” and articles in The Rotarian helped members understand the UN before it was formally established and follow its work after its charter. Many countries were fighting the war when the term “United Nations” was first used officially in the 1942 “Declaration by United Nations.” The 26 nations that signed it pledged to uphold the ideals expressed by the United States and the United Kingdom the previous year of the common principles “on which they based their hopes for a better future for the world.”
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Rotary at the Start of the United Nations
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2020-11-05 06:00:00Z |
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Women are active participants in Rotary, serving their communities in increasing numbers and serving in leadership positions in Rotary. The 1989 Council on Legislation vote to admit women into Rotary clubs worldwide remains a watershed moment in the history of Rotary.
“My fellow delegates, I would like to remind you that the world of 1989 is very different to the world of 1905. I sincerely believe that Rotary has to adapt itself to a changing world,” said Frank J. Devlyn, who would go on to become RI president in 2000-01. The vote followed the decades-long efforts of men and women from all over the Rotary world to allow the admission of women into Rotary clubs, and several close votes at previous Council meetings.
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History of Women in Rotary
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2020-11-05 06:00:00Z |
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 Every hero has an origin story. “I was 10 years old when the entire journey started,” explains Binish Desai. It began with a cartoon called Captain Planet, an animated TV series from the 1990s about an environmentalist with superpowers. Desai can still recite the show’s refrain: Captain Planet, he’s our hero / Gonna take pollution down to zero! “That tagline stuck in my mind,” he says. “I wanted to do something to help Captain Planet.”
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Young Inventor Eco-Friendly Bricks Come Full Circle
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2020-11-05 06:00:00Z |
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 In early 1919, Rotarian Roger Pinneo of Seattle, Washington, USA, traveled to the Philippines to try to organize a Rotary club in Manila. Leon J. Lambert, a Manila business leader helped Pinneo establish the club. Several months later, on 1 June 1919, the Rotary Club of Manila was chartered and became the first Rotary club in Asia.
The club would be the only one in the country for more than 12 years. Eventually, Manila club members organized Rotary clubs in the Philippine cities of Cebu (1932) and Iloilo (1933). Iloilo club members then started a club in Bacolod (1937), and Rotary continued to expand across the country.
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First Club in Philippines Opens Door to Rotary in Asia
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2020-11-05 06:00:00Z |
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