STARTING NOVEMBER 1-MARCH 31, 2025. Is your club planning your next project? Only 4 more weeks left—get your applications in!
Did you know?-
Only 31% of the Rotarians in our District contribute to the Foundation? Please consider contribution to the Foundation—the Foundation helps make our projects happen!
Our international projects—recently teams of Rotarians got back from travels in Sierra Leone and Kenya. We currently have a team of Rotarians in Cambodia. Our medical project from Zambia is being featured at the February Mid-Atlantic PETS—Our projects are amazing and really have impact around the world!
Our local projects—Helping Community Development: The Springfield Township Flourtown club is working on renovations at a community Park Pavilion. Our Nazareth Club is working on renovations at a historical society. See our Foundation dollars at work.
IT IS PEACE SCHOLAR APPLICATION TIME: The Rotary Peace Fellowship application for fully funded 2025 fellowships is now available for both our master’s degree programs and our professional development certificate programs. The application deadline is 15 May. Candidates can learn more and start an application: https://my.rotary.org/en/peace-fellowship-application
Let us have our District sponsor an applicant. You can contact Bill Hunter at wdh3@lehigh.edu
POLIO RACE TO ZERO :
Mark your calendars now—October 13, 2024—Race to Zero by Horsham Rotary Club
Come Celebrate our Foundation at the 2024 District Conference Saturday dinner.
Membership Monday is on May 6. Mark Your Calendar Today!
It’s March and we are heading into our final quarter of our Rotary year. Is it time for a change?
Will change in your club help you finish this Rotary year strong? If so, what are the changes you are looking for? Does the idea of a companion club interest your members? How can we accomplish the membership goals you made? What makes your club experience top notch? What’s missing? How can your friendly district membership team or AG help your club?
The District Membership Team is growing and we are looking for a few more members. If you love Rotary as much as I do, you should consider joining this fun team. Contact membership7430@gmail.com and BE THE CHANGE!
Our clubs enhance our communities in so many ways, but one of the best advantages of being a Rotarian is connecting with other Rotarians. Beyond our club, we also connect with members of clubs around us, in our areas and within the district. Don’t miss the District Conference where we will be sharing about membership topics and making new friends!
At our next Membership Monday on May 6, we will focus on Engagement and Retention. Please save the date!
It can be if we plan…I remember this song from the Rolling Stones (more than a few years ago). The Rolling Stones say we can be free if we plan. As painful as planning can be, the results of not planning are much worse.
In our crazy, busy lives we have little time to dawdle. We have tasks to be completed (family, work, and volunteer) and often feel overwhelmed. Try looking ahead to determine what’s due and when. Perhaps the items closest to being due are the most unappetizing and are the ones we push out. Those are the ones we need to complete first to help us move on to the ones we certainly enjoy as dessert!
In the March 4th Public Image Forum learn more about planning using a simple calendar and a more sophisticated workflow. Hopefully, these tools will provide you with more time for what you want to do in your downtime!
Create Habitat for Your Pollinator Insects - Bee Boxes
If your club is planning to create a pollinator garden this spring and summer, you can add to the garden’s effectiveness by creating a home for pollinator insects. You can install some “bee boxes” that will serve as habitat for the native bees in our area.
At our District’s pilot pollinator garden at Camp Edmar this spring, we’ll be working with local Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops to help them build some simple boxes. You can work with your local youth groups to help out with your construction. It’s easy and fun. You can use the experience of working with kids to teach them about the importance of pollinators.
Below is a list of websites that will show you how to get started.
Let us know what your club is planning to do on our District’s Rotary Day of Service (April 20). Please drop me a line. If your project will be on another day this spring, that’s fine. We’re trying to gather together information on what will be going on around the District. Thank you.
On Saturday, March 23, District 7430 is hosting the Rotary Leadership Institute (RLI). The cost is $100, and many clubs help their members attend by either reimbursing the full price of Level 1 or even reimbursing all attending members 50 percent of the fee. Be sure to ask your board what your club does. The event will be held at DeSales University, Gambet Center (not to be confused with the Gambet Dorm rooms).
The Rotary Leadership Institute is a multi-district, grassroots leadership development program of member districts organized into regional divisions throughout the world. RLI conducts a series of quality leadership development courses for potential club officers and all other club members, including those who have recently joined a Rotary Club. The courses emphasize both leadership skills and knowledge of Rotary around the world. All course sessions are completely interactive. RLI believes that leadership education has a positive impact on membership retention by creating enthusiasm and furthering engagement for Rotary.
To register for RLI, please visit our website www.rlinea.org and scroll down for our district event on Saturday, March 23, at DeSales. If you have any questions, you may reach out to Mary Cook, District 7430 Site Chair at marycook7430@gmail.com
The D7430 Rotaplast would like to welcomes our two new members, Steve Kendra and Len Walter. Steve and Len will be embarking on our next Rotaplast Mission to Medellin, Columbia in May. Steve will be the Quartermaster and Len will be handling patient transport. We hope that this will be the first of many missions for them.
Don’t forget to stop by the House of Inspiration at the District Conference in April to learn more about Rotaplast and the upcoming mission!
Steve Kendra has been a Rotarian since 2012. He chairs the Project Selection Committee and the Jim Church Classic Basketball Tournament for the Souderton Telford Club. He co-owned a family industrial weighing business in Quakertown for twenty-five years, then worked as the director of the NF Endurance Team for The Children’s Tumor Foundation for eight years in New York City. More recently he has been tour-bus operator and a school bus driver for a local school district. Steve has worked and served as president of several nonprofit organizations including Angel Flight East, The International Society of Weighing and Measurement, and The Hilltown Civic Association.
Leonard Walter is a retired Realtor and auctioneer. He and his wife, Ruth, have five children, eight grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. Len has a couple of part-time jobs and enjoys hunting, bowling and watching sports. Leonard is a member of the Harleysville Rotary club, and a charter member since 1994.
If your club is planning to create a pollinator garden this spring and summer, you can add to the garden’s effectiveness by creating a home for pollinator insects. You can install some “bee boxes” that will serve as habitat for the native bees in our area.
On Saturday, March 23, District 7430 is hosting the Rotary Leadership Institute (RLI). The cost is $100, and many clubs help their members attend by either reimbursing the full price of Level 1 or even reimbursing all attending members 50 percent of the fee. Be sure to ask your board what your club does. The event will be held at DeSales University, Gambet Center (not to be confused with the Gambet Dorm rooms). 
Steve Kendra has been a Rotarian since 2012. He chairs the Project Selection Committee and the Jim Church Classic Basketball Tournament for the Souderton Telford Club. He co-owned a family industrial weighing business in Quakertown for twenty-five years, then worked as the director of the NF Endurance Team for The Children’s Tumor Foundation for eight years in New York City. More recently he has been tour-bus operator and a school bus driver for a local school district. Steve has worked and served as president of several nonprofit organizations including Angel Flight East, The International Society of Weighing and Measurement, and The Hilltown Civic Association.
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