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The Rotary Club of St. Cloud currently consists of approximately
100 members who meet each Tuesday from 12:15-1:15
p.m. at the Radisson Hotel in St. Cloud.
For a complete list of District 5950 local Rotary make-up
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| AVENUES OF SERVICE |
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central focus and purpose of Rotary is the four avenues of
service: |
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Club
service —
providing service to the Rotary Club to enable it to run
efficiently in the spirit of fellowship; |
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Vocational
service —
putting high standards of conduct into practice in the
business and professional lives of Rotarians; |
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Community
service —
identifying needs in the Rotary Club's community and
addressing these needs with service projects; |
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International
service —
working for international understanding and peace by
promoting goodwill between all people. |
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| THE
4-WAY TEST |
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4-Way Test is a simple but profound statement: |
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things we think, say, or do: |
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it the TRUTH? |
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Is
it FAIR to all concerned? |
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Will
it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS? |
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Will
it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned? |
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| ROTARY
CLUB OF ST. CLOUD FOUNDATION |
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St. Cloud Rotary Foundation was founded in 1986, and is an
integral part of our club. As a member of this club, you
are automatically a member of the Foundation throughout your
tenure as a club member. The purpose of the Foundation is
to identify, fund, and support projects in the greater St. Cloud
community that will make our community a better place in which
to live. In one sense the Foundation is one of the ways we
live out the third Avenue of Service —
Community Service. |
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The
Foundation was started with nothing in 1986, and now we have
assets approaching $300,000. Our goal originally was to
reach $200,000 by the year 2000, and we achieved it three years
earlier! The Foundation currently funds projects such as
Habitat for Humanity, CAP (Community Against Pushers), two city
parks, United Way, community immunization clinics, and other
worthy causes.
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Most of the foundation's assets have
been generated through fundraising and individual
donations. We depend on members to keep the success of the
Foundation alive and growing!
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2005 - 2006 Foundation Trustees are: |
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Steve Laraway (Chairperson) |
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Marty Mahowald |
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Jim Schlenner (Treasurer) |
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Sandy Neutzling |
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Wayne Schluchter (Secretary) |
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Tim Wensman (Ex-Officio) |
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Roland Specht-Jarvis |
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ROTARY
IN ACTION
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The Rotary Club of St. Cloud has been instrumental in contributing to
many local and international projects over the years including:
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LOCALLY:
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Rotary
Parks
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The
Club sponsors two Rotary Parks in the St. Cloud area. A
smaller park located on the East Side of town adjacent to Selke
Field, and Rotary Park West located in the Goetten's
Addition. Both parks bear the Club's name and continue to be
maintained in part by the Rotary Club of St. Cloud.
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Habitat
for Humanity
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The
Rotary Club of St. Cloud has funded a $10,000 Challenge Grant for
each of three years (1998 - 2000) to Habitat for Humanity.
Rotarians' contributions and labor have made home ownership a
possibility for Mary Jo Piene and Walt Few, the owners of the 11th
house the Habitat for Humanity has made possible at 2112 3rd
Street North, St. Cloud.
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Education
Scholarships
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Scholarships
of $1,000 are awarded annually by the Rotary Club of St. Cloud to
one student from each of the local high schools: Tech,
Apollo, St. John's Prep School, and Cathedral.
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STRIVE
Program
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The
Rotary Club of St. Cloud developed the STRIVE Program in 1999 with
Tech High School as a motivational program targeted to the lower
one-third of high school seniors who want to improve their present
grades. The STRIVE Program helps provide motivation,
attendance, work habits, self esteem, and success in the
classroom. The program works as follows:
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Students
commit to the STRIVE Program and focus on the three
A's: Academic, Attendance, and Attitude; |
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Mentors
meet with students; |
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GPA
and attendance is measured; |
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Scholarships
and incentives are awarded; |
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Proven
results of GPAs and classroom attendance |
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In
the first year, 75 - 80% of students participating in the STRIVE
Program improved their GPA along with improving their self esteem,
confidence and motivation.
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CAP
Program
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In
1989, the Rotary Club of St. Cloud established the CAP
(Communities Against Pushers) Program, a phone tip line for
anonymous callers. Today CAP has expanded its scope to
include guns and other illegal weapons. The Stearns County
Sheriff, St. Cloud Police Chief, and the Tri-County Drug Task
Force all have frequently commended the CAP Program as being
instrumental in dozens of drug-related arrests. They have
also suggested that the CAP Program has been a significant
deterrent to the drug business and gang activity in the tri-county
area.
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Adopt-A-Highway
Program
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The
Rotary Club of St. Cloud participates in the Adopt-A-Highway
Program through the Minnesota Department of Transportation.
We maintain a one mile section where Highway 23 crosses I-94.
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Girl
GROWTH Program
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A
$7,000 grant to the Central Minnesota Girl Scout Council was made
in 2001 to assist the organization with their Girl GROWTH (Girls
Reaching Out With Trust and Hope) Program. The program helps
sponsor low-income girls in identified at-risk neighborhoods in
the St. Cloud and Cold Spring areas. This project creates
success for girls, ages 5-13, by providing a safe, positive place
for them to learn and have fun and by involving teens as
mentors. The girls are recognized for new skills they learn
through Girl GROWTH.
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Sponsorship
of Exchange Students
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The
club sponsors a Rotary foreign exchange student to come to the St.
Cloud area and attend a local high school while living with a
local Rotary family.
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INTERNATIONALLY:
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Books
for Africa
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By
facilitating a matching grant for $12,000 from Rotary
International, a shipment of 17,385 new books were sent to the
Rotary Club of Calabar in Nigeria. These books were received in
February of 2001 when distribution began to schools and libraries
in the Calabar area.
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This
project had several additional partners. Books For Africa
partnered with the International Book Bank in Baltimore, Maryland
for the shipment of the books. The Buffalo, Monticello, Great
River, and Granite City Rotary Clubs contributed to the funding
for this project.
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Each
club contributed $500 for a total of $2,500. An additional
donation of $500 was made from sources through the International
Book Bank. This $3,000 was matched by district funds. This $6,000
was matched by Rotary International for a total of $12,000.
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Books
for Jamaica
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A
matching grant totaling $12,000 has been approved to send a
container of books (approximately 20,000 books) to the Rotary Club
of Mandeville in Jamaica. Distribution will be to schools and
libraries in the Mandeville area in Jamaica.
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Children
of Chernobyl Program
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The
Rotary Club of St. Cloud's contribution helps this International
Program distribute healthy food supplements, Green Supreme, to the
children in the area of Chernobyl, Belarus (former Soviet
Union). These barley-grass nutritional supplement pills,
taken twice a day, are designed to improve radiation-affected
blood levels among the children.
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