Rotary Club of Sedona Service Above Self
September 12, 2008	Volume 1, Number 10
Upcoming Meeting  Noon at Los Abrigados September 16, 2008 Board Meets 11am Crime in Sedona ………Joe Vernier, Sedona Police Chief Vocational Talk ………….Bill Welter Rotary Club of Sedona District 5490 P. O. Box 2170 Sedona, AZ 86339 www.sedonarotary.org	34 Years of Rotary Youth Exchange… Rotary Youth Exchange is hosting 23 inbound students this year. They are from: France, Bolivia, Brazil, Czech Republic., Taiwan, Denmark, Austria, Mexico, Germany, Switzerland, Ecuador, Turkey, Belgium, Poland, Chile and Slovakia.    Our club is hosting Andre Brandao from Brazil. The Red Rocks Club is hosting Lina from Switzerland.  Lina is involved in swimming now and went to her first high school football game at SRRHS   Rotary Youth Exchange became an official club activity in 1974.  Its purpose is to advance international understanding, goodwill and peace.  Youth exchange provides young people the opportunity to meet people from other lands and to experience their culture, thus planting the seeds for a lifetime of international understanding. The students are in the USA for the entire school year and attend many group activities.    This year’s events include: camping in October, Grand Canyon in December, RYLA in January, Rotary District Conference in May and at the end of the year, the month long USA Summer tour.    Rotary in Sedona has a support group for the youth exchange students that includes the other youth exchange students, the Youth Exchange Committee and the Rotary Clubs hosts and counselors: Catherine Moore, Renata Barnwell, Miki Dzugan, Kathy Gorchesky, John Bradshaw and Tony Hauserman. Did You Know?..   Club members will volunteer to prepare and serve a BBQ Dinner at St. Andrews Church on Monday, Sept. 29, Sign up this Tuesday. Andrew Bailor has been nominated by the Board to attend a Rotary Leadership Institute session this year.  Congratulations, new Dad Drew.   The Board has authorized Merv Shapan to submit a District Simplified Grant for the Veteran’s History Project.   Rotarian Ray Klinginsmith from Kirksville, Missouri has been nominated as President of RI for 2010-11.