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Now, we face a new year.  A year that will also be marked with events and fellowship, new members and new efforts.  I ask you all to think for just two minutes about what your goals in our Club will be this year.  Will you get involved in a new effort?  Are you going to make an effort to know better those members who you don’t know well in our Club?  Are you going to step up to a leadership role in one of our committees?

In any case, don’t let this special time slip away without thinking about getting more out of your Club experience for yourself this year, and about putting more of yourself in our Club’s collective experience at the same time.  Look at this coming year to be just a bit more of a Rotarian.  If we each do this, it will dramatically change our Club in a very positive way.

Remember................Things will be great in 2008!  Happy New Year!

Home makeover surprises family dealing with cancer

Westchester Rotarians redo the landscaping.  More than 100 Rotarian and community volunteers participated in the project.

Upon seeing the stucco bungalow with its new coat of paint, neat lawn, and white picket fence, you might think the people who live there spend all their spare time doing yardwork and home improvement projects.

Far from it.  Scott Odom, a father of three in Westchester, Calif., USA, had been fighting prostate cancer for a long time–a battle he finally lost in November.  As he underwent treatment, home maintenance was about the last thing on his mind.  It was all that Odom, an English professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, could do to keep up with his teaching schedule.  His wife, Christine, a school nurse, was busy too.  So what’s the secret behind this well-kept home?  Rotarians.

In 2006, the Rotary Club of Westchester (Los Angeles) started searching for a hands-on service project and decided to paint and landscape the home of someone who could use the extra help.  After meeting the Odoms, who have two daughters, ages 10 and 13, and a son, age 16, the club members realized their house needed more extensive repairs, so they requested help from other groups in the community.  Between cash and in-kind donations, the club raised nearly $80,000 to furnish and renovate the home and cover the back yard with gravel for easy maintenance.

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Recent Makeups:

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Contact Micheal Screen with your make-ups:
neercs@msn.com