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Our fearless leader, Jay Hanson, taking the polar plunge to raise over $1000 for American Cancer Society! Way to lead by example, Jay! Thank you for all you do!! Rotary International Rotary District 5010Seward Boat Harbor!   |
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ASR Helping out at the Clithrow Center. Michael Archer cleaning dishes.
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Thank you for helping us make #polio history. We celebrated #WorldPolioDay on #24October at 315 E Street (The Bear Square Theater). It was great fun and the video was AMAZING! Check it out anytime at: If you want to know how you can help #endpolio give us a call or show up on Thursdays for lunch. |
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Hey Southies, sign up now to read at Chinook! |
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We will be raising money for a Shelterbox for Harvey and Irma victims. There will tons of great food, drink, and company as always. See you at Mike's place! |
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Wine tasting! Enough said... All proceeds to benifit Downtown Soup Kitchen! .jpg) |
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 We are going to have a blast!! More to come, but for now feel free to sign up: https://docs.google.com/ To bring something... https://docs.google.com/ To do something... https://docs.google.com/ Cook out, lake fun, and camping if you want to stay! One hour and a half up to the spot and more info to come! |
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If you are reading this you are either a current member of Rotary of a potential member curious about the organization. Let us help you...
The first thing you should know about Rotary is that we are made of people just like you. We are you neighbors, your friends, your colleagues. We serve each other, the local community, our nation, and the world as a whole. We put others first. Read more about us here.
Ready to join or have someone you would like to propose as a new member? Click Here.
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11/15 ASR Social at Tequila 61, bring your spouses and families, 5:30pm half price tacos! We will also be standing by all night to assist you with setting up your My Rotary accounts, Foundation giving, and training on ClubRunner (our ASR website tool). If you need help with anything from changing your profile photo to recurring rotary gifts, we'll be there to help.
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Get ready for a SPOOKtacular event instead of our normal meeting next week...
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Welcoming our ASR exchange student... David Als from Denmark!
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To celebrate the100th Anniversary of the Rotary Foundation 33 Anchorage South Rotarians pledged to become sustaining members! Winners of the Foundation Wine Auction: L to R - Lyn Whitley (ASR FOUNDATION CHAIR), Kevin VanNortwick, Laurel Renkert, Paul Schilling
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Don't forget to go see it... and while you are there volunteer some time to read with the little ones!
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Anchorage South Rotary Memorial Fund Scholarship Click the text above to download a PDF of the application. |
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Welcome to Rotary, Dr. Charlie Gray! We are lucky to have you and look forward to seeing how you can "adjust" our club for the better... Your goals and values, like community service, health and wellness, and integrity, "align" with that of Rotary International and the Anchorage South club.
 We had some great speakers today as well:
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Welcome Kate Blair! Kate is currently the Committee and Projects Coordinator for the Alaska Oil and Gas Association where Kate tracks Cook Inlet and Arctic policy issues, leads AOGA’s Regional Subcommittees, and manages AOGA’s advocacy and outreach projects. In her spare time, she is an avid marathoner and rec hockey player. She is also very involved with her parish and children’s school, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, and serves on the YWCA Alaska Board of Directors. The entire family loves to camp, fish, skate, ski, and enjoy the Alaska outdoors.
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Did you buy or sell Daffodil's, if you did Thank you. Anchorage South Rotary raised over $35,000 from this fundraiser. Send us pictures when your daffodil's bloom. Here are some pictures from the Daffodil wrapping party.
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The title says it all! Anchorage South Rotary is now selling Daffodil's for our annual fundraiser. These funds go to a variety of Anchorage South Rotary functions like our Dictionary Project and Scholarships just to name a few. There are two ways you can donate.
One you can click this link to take you to our online order form
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Anchorage South Rotary is proud to introduce our newest member Dawn Adams. Dawn has the classification of Non-Profit as the Secretary of the Board for the Abolish Slavery Coalition and is a Realtor with Keller Williams.
Make sure you introduce yourself and welcome Dawn to our club.  |
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We are getting with the times and starting to digitize all of our ASR photos. Bear with us as we get more images uploaded. Here is a teaser of Magic Mike reading in the schools.
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Welcome to the 2015-16 Rotary Year President Magic Mike Ferris here. I am super excited for this year as President of Anchorage South Rotary. I love our club and want to see it grow. The three areas of focus I have this year are Membership, Involvement, and Projects. Membership - We need to continuously invite new members. The new members we have do a fantastic job of bringing energy to the club and excitement to get involved. We need to retain our current members by getting them engaged. To achieve this I am dedicating one Thursday a month to be a Social meeting. These are great tools for allow us to get to know one another. Another way is small group gatherings/firesides. We had a few of these last year and they were a lot of fun. Involvement - In order to grow this club we need to keep members involved and engaged. Committee Chairs need to no longer be a committee of 1. Yes it may be easier but it is not benefiting the members of the club. Part of Rotary is the Life learning experience along the way. Being a committee of 1 doesn't allow others to learn from you or feel like they are contributing to the club. So reach out and ask for help. The goal is to have each committee have a minimum of 3 people. The past chair, the present chair, and the future chair. This will allow for people to mentor each other into the role. Projects - We did a lot of projects this last year. They were fun and didn't require a lot of time. Relay for Life was a 2 hour commitment, the Chinook Long Jump we started with coffee and were done by Brunch, and then Mothers Day flowers was 2 hours of passing out flowers. We need more of these small projects, Michael Archer has Slamming Salmon where ASR will take a 2-4 hour block. Bring your project ideas to someone on the board, think about them and be specific (What, When, and How). Again I look forward to this year. President Magic Mike Ferris |
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The 9th annual "Land of the Midnight Putts" golf tournament will be taking place Friday, June 18
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Dues for the upcoming year are due by June 30
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Changing of the Guard is set for Thursday, June 24 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Anchorage. Details to follow
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Welcome to Anchorage South Rotary Web Site. Our club has 100 professional and business men and women who are very involved in local, national and international projects. If you are a member. I hope you will find this site useful. If you are a visiting Rotarian, I hope you will join us for your "make up." If you are not a Rotarian and would like to learn more about our Rotary World, please contact me or any of our board members. Mary Fairbanks, President
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Anchorage South Rotary, working with Russian Jack, East and Hillside Rotary clubs are building raised garden boxes at the elementary schools this year in a matching District Grant project. We had around 40 people with their kiddos, show up, to build and fill them with dirt. We can't wait for next spring, so we can help the children at Abbot Loop Elementary school fill them with vegetable starts, nurture them over the summer and then harvest in the fall of 2019. They will be donating their crops to Childrens Lunchbox. Fun was had by all! 
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