Rotary in the Charlotte Dilworth and South End Area
Charlotte, NCThere is a lot to do in the largest city in North Carolina and a lot of opportunities for service. Read more...
On the Blue LineArrive at East/West Blvd. Station, 1821 Camden Street and walk to a club meeting. Read more...
Byron's South EndDave Byron's company prepares great meals for our Friday Meetings, 12:15-1:30 PM. Read more...
In the Dilworth NeighborhoodThe neighborhood was Charlotte's first streetcar suburb and was established by Edward Dilworth Latta in the 1890s. Read more...
In the South End CommunityByron's is located in the 1929 Neble Knitting Mill, now the Design Center. Shopping and restaurants are abundant! Read more...News for the Week of Friday, June 26, 2009
Club Website Displays New Look
By Richard Pockat
Club Webmaster
Hackers breaking into the web server for the club's website accelerated the need for creation of a new site, now nearly completed. The new site will have more emphasis on members and club activities and also have easy links to the newly updated District website and the Rotary International website, including a newsfeed from RI.
The new site (www.charlottedilworthrotary.org/) has been designed to be more attractive to prospective members looking for our club and to identify our club's geographic location within Charlotte, including links to information about Charlotte, Dilworth neighborhood and South End.
Our club is active in a number of projects, both for World Community service and Local Community service. It is planned for more specific information and photographs to be available on the website about these projects.
The home page will feature the "Dashboard" with current membership information. There is also a box that displays the sum of volunteer hours recorded by the club with a link to the volunteer hours sign-in page. We have been averaging about 1000 hours recorded per year, but likely many hours go unrecorded. Please take a few minutes after your volunteer time to record it on the website.
The bulk of the up-to-date information comes from the Dilworthian, so please help Lamar out by contributing news.
DilWorth Noting
The Rotarian's July Issue Launches New Rotary Year
John Kenny, Rotary International President for 2009-2010 sets the tone for his year in his letter by writing "The Future of Rotary Is in Your Hands." Rotary is a worldwide organization, but it is nothing without the ordinary weekly meetings of Rotarians in their home clubs.
He writes, "In Rotary, everything we are, and everything we aspire to become, lies in the hands of Rotarians in their clubs. If our clubs are congenial and our meetings well run, if our service is carefully planned and competently carried out, if our members are qualified, honest, and respected in their vocations and communities, then all of Rotary will thrive."
He explains that water, health, hunger and literacy will be the emphasis in the year ahead.
Other items from the magazine's July contents:
Scot's honor
John Kenny's goals, from clean water to attracting new members, are the main courses of his tenure. Important weekly side dishes are the Falkirk Football Club scores.
Showing up for life
Bill Gates Sr, talks about raising children, supporting his community, and the Gates Foundation's relationship with Rotary. In an accompanying Q&A, the foundation's cochair tells us what it's like having his son as his boss.
Craig's list
A photo essay brings together a Rotarian from Washington, USA,.and a "Lost Boy" from South Sudan, who teamed up to improve a Sudanese village.
There are many other shorter items in the July issue.
About Our Club
Founded as Dilworth Rotary Club in 1948, Charlotte Dilworth South End Rotary Club is part of a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world.
Rotary is a volunteer organization with over 32,000 clubs in 168 countries. The organization initiates humanitarian programs that address today's challenging issues, such as hunger, poverty, and illiteracy.
Rotary club members represent a cross-section of business and professional leaders worldwide. These 1.2 million men and women donate their expertise, time, and funds to support local and international projects that help people in need and promote understanding among cultures.
Rotary's flagship program is its effort to protect children against polio, with the goal of ending the disease throughout the world.
Charlotte Dilworth South End Rotary Club serves its community and the world through projects for the Boy Scouts of America, Crisis Assistance Ministry, dental, homebuilding and medical missions in Central and South America, Habitat for Humanity, Salvation Army, the Charlotte USO and many others.
For further information, contact Lamar Gunter at 704-525-0569 or e-mail him at
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Charlotte Dilworth South End Rotary Club
District 7680
Charter 7076
Post Office Box 471211
Charlotte, NC 28247-1211 USA
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The Charlotte Dilworth South End Rotary Club, a service club of men and women chartered by Rotary International, meets for lunch regularly on Fridays at 12:15 p.m. at Byron's Catering in South End, 101 W. Worthington.
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