Downton Rotarians – Service Saturday Committee

Members of the Rotary Club 29 Service Saturday Committee helped answer phones and take pledges for the annual OETA “Augustfest” on Sunday, August 16th The volunteer crew consisted of 9 people:  Ellen Fleming, Community Service Group Chair; Ron Suttles, Service Saturday Committee Chair; Ron Stakem, Service Saturday Committee, Vice-Chair; Steve Rassmussen, Jay Hoey and his […]

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Rotary Youth Exchange Student Arrives in OKC

President Tim Strange, Past-President Marion Paden, Marylee Strange, and Jerry Burger (not shown but taking photo) greeted the new Club 29 Rotary Youth Exchange Student upon his arrival from Bordeaux, France last evening.

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Mai Ly Do

Founder, Vietnamese Public Radio – Oklahoma Mai Ly Do AKA Marlene Do was one of the Vietnamese boat people who fled the communist regime on April 30, 1975, in search of freedom. She is the third child of a family of seven children.   The Do family struggled with their new environment and a new […]

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Make ups 8/28/15

David Battle, 7/28. North OKC Bill Bowden, 8/11, Coronado, CA Joyce Clark, 7/9, West OKC John Crain, 8/4, North OKC John Dobson, 8/4, North OKC Joe Fleckinger, 7/21, Shawnee, OK Dick Hefton, 7/28, Crested Butte, CO Dick Hefton, 8/4, Crested Butte, CO Joe Kernke, 8/4, North OKC Steve Kime, 8/4, Enid, OK Steve Kime, 8/11, […]

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What It Means to be World Class

– Mike Knopp It was nearly 15 years ago when I nervously described to Club 29 what a modest boathouse could do for our river – a river that, in fact, had yet to emerge from its decades-long existence as weed-infested drainage ditch. How times have changed. Weeds have been replaced with thousands of rowers […]

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Samantha Murch, August Teacher of the Month

Samantha Murch has been named Teacher of the Month for August 2015 by The Foundation for Oklahoma City Public Schools and Rotary Club of Oklahoma City. Samantha has been teaching for five years, four of which have been at Star Spencer High School. Samantha received her bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Communication/Theatre from the Western […]

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Looking For a Host Family

Incredible, life-changing, self-discovery, amazing: these are words Rotary Youth Exchange students have used to describe their experience.  Rotary Club 29 has hosted many exchange students in the past.  This year we’re excited to welcome Malo LeChevalier from France.  Malo needs a host family for the months of December, January and February.  Please contact Nathaniel Harding […]

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Jeff Riles

Manager of Government and Regulatory Affairs, Enel Green Power Jeff Riles is the Manager of Government and Regulatory Affairs at Enel Green Power North America based in the Washington D.C. office. Riles directs state level policy, government relations, and government affairs for EGP-NA. Throughout his work, Riles serves as a lead policy counsel within the […]

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Polio Update

Just a few days from now, on 11 August, we will mark a tremendous milestone: one full year without a single case of polio caused by wild poliovirus in Africa. The magnitude of this achievement can hardly be overstated. A polio-free Africa has been within sight, so near and yet so far, for over a decade. The hard […]

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An Inconvenient Fact – All Volunteer Service Isn’t Doing Its Job

– Dick Hefton   A recent Letter to the (Oklahoman) Editor from OSU Hall of Fame athlete Dick Soergel was both refreshing and “conveniently” provided a lead-in to this column in the planning stages in early May. Entitled “A New Draft” Soergel wrote; “I just returned from my granddaughter’s graduation from the (US) Air Force …basic […]

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