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JULY CALENDAR:
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CLUB NEWS - JULY:
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0.- (June 17)
Installation of Officers
2009 - 2010 | President Edgar Corona and his
Directors were installed during a dinner dance held at the facilities of the "Cancun Center", the local convention center complex.  Tito Lopez - Edgar Corona - Carlos Tolosa |
1.- July 6-31
RITE Program to teach English in Cancun's Public Schools;
(RITE = Research in Integrated Training &
Education)
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1.- | During recent years we have hosted RITE teachers who came to Cancun from Texas (U.S.A.). They give low cost
instruction in spoken English to students who vary in age from elementary to high school level. (If we charge anything, the fee is never more than $10 USD for the month's instruction.)
This year (2009)
instruction is being held at the Conalep technical high school. Approximately 80 students had been enrolled. Most of these are recent
graduates who prepared for careers in the hotel-hospitality industry.
Photo: Dr. Anita Thurmond (L) & Ms. Jill DeWitt (R)
To see More Photos, click here. (Use the "back" button to return to this News page.) |
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2.- July 29
Governor's Annual Visit
| An assembly was held at 5 pm followed by dinner with spouses at 9:15 pm.
Click here to see Event Photos .
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AUGUST CALENDAR:
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CLUB NEWS - AUGUST:
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1.- Aug. 12
Donation of Orthopedic Prothesis
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1.- Eight children received orthopedic prothesis at the
C.R.I.T. Cancun (CRIT= Centro de Rehabilitación Infantil - Teletón)
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2.- Aug. 22
Club Bar-b-que
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|  | 2.- Lino Garcia C. hosted a bar-b-que at his rancho. It brought together ex-members of this Club,
present members, High School exchange students and their local host families. |
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3.- Aug. 23
Beach Clean-up Event
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event. Club members and members of the Rotaract Club were in charge of the clean-up efforts of several hundred volunteers cleaning-up Playa del Niño (Children's Beach).
Other groups collected trash at three other beaches. Trash from Playa del Niño included over 8,000 cigarette butts and 90 pounds of bottle
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4.- Aug.
| 4.- School Supplies to be donated to several small rural schools.
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SEPTEMBER CALENDAR:
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CLUB NEWS - SEPTEMBER:
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1.- Sept. 5
Rotary Foundation Workshop
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1.- Rotarians from four clubs participated in a Rotary Foundation workshop held in Cancun.
Speakers included Governor Santiago Acona, Past Governor Jorge Lopez Mena, and Augusto Pastachini
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2.- Sept. 12-13 - Exchange Students visit Cancun
| | Students from all over the state gathered in Cancun. They were received with a Bar-B-Que at the "Palapa de Tito" .
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OCTOBER CALENDAR:
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CLUB NEWS - OCTOBER:
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1.- 1 Oct.
Deliver School supplies to rural schools
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1.- School supplies were delivered to 240 primary school students in rural schools.
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School supplies were delivered to 240 primary school students in rural schools.
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NOVEMBER CALENDAR:
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CLUB NEWS - NOVEMBER:
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1.- 11 Nov. Club Elections
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1.- Special Assembly - Election of President for 2010 - 2011.
Our friend Roberto "Centurion" Arce was elected to lead this
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2.- 30
End_Polio_Now Fundraising Campaign
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2.- End_Polio_Now Fundraising Campaign
The Cancun R.C. is working with the CONALEP Technical High School to raise funds for the Polio Plus - End_Polio_Now campaign designed to eradicate
the poliomelitis virus. The students (shown holding information pamphlets) will be selling wristbands embossed with "ROTARY CONTRA LA POLIO"
(Rotary against Polio). Monies collected will buy vacines for the world-wide eradication campaign which is now in its 25th year.
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DECEMBER CALENDAR:
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CLUB NEWS - DECEMBER:
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1.- Dec. 5 - Evento de los 100 - Fund Raising Event
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1.- Our principal fund raising event was a great success! Food - Drinks - Raffles - Games all contributed to the making of a
successful afternoon at an "hacienda" outside of Cancun.
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1.- Dec. 19 - Speaker: Int'l Study Group member
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| 2.- Ms. Helen Perez will be participating in the International Study Group that will be traveling to Venezuela in the spring. She visited the club to introduce
herself and to give us a presentation on her background. |
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JANUARY CALENDAR:
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CLUB NEWS - JANUARY:
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| 1.- Haiti Earthquake Relief
| 1.- The three Rotary Clubs in Cancun, the Cancun Rotaract Club and the Interact Club (in formation) will work together manning collection centers where food, medicine and other aid can be received for the earthquake survivors of the Haiti earthquake (Jan 13, 2010).
On Saturday Jan.16 and Sunday Jan. 17 there were collection centers located at the Soriana supermarket located at Coba & Kabah and at the Mega Comercial
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| | 2.- The Red Cross of Mexico received a certain amount of foodstuffs which were too close to the expiration date to be sent to Haiti.
These were delivered to the Cancun Rotary Club which then separated them into family sized "dispensas" on January 22 & 23 and subsequently delivered these to families in
eight rural villages near Cancun on January 29. | |
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FEBRUARY CALENDAR:
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CLUB NEWS - FEBRUARY:
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| 1.- Speaker Feb. 10 | |  |
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1.- Dr. Andrew William Campbell, the medical director of the Camelot Cancer Center of Tulsa, Oklahoma (USA) gave a talk on non-toxic chemotherapy for treating cancer patients. His protocol aims to
strengthen the body's immune system so that it can identify and eliminate the cancer cells.
The Club also received a brief overview of the project to extend and amplify the installations at the "Centro Comunitario 'Rotary International' de Cancún" which is located
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2.- PGA Tour 2010 - Mayacoba Golf Classic
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2.- The Cancun Rotary Club will provide volunteer workers (principally crowd control marshals and hole captains) for the fourth consecutive year when the Mayacoba Golf Classic
is held on February 18 - 21.
On Sunday the 7th a full contingent of members and students from the Conalep technical high school attended a pre-tournament
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MARCH CALENDAR:
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CLUB NEWS - MARCH:
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CALENDAR FOR APRIL 2010:
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CLUB NEWS - ABRIL:
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1.- April 30
Día del Niño. (Children's Day)
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Gifts are taken to several local schools. This year the actual day, April 30 coincided with the District Conference, so the
delivery of gifts was postponed to May 11. They will be given to children in the (very) rural community of Nacozari. |
Clowns and kids go together
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CALENDAR FOR MAY 2010:
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CLUB NEWS - MAY:
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1.- May 10
Mothers' Day.
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| 1.- | Every year Mothers' Day is commemorated by placing a wreath at the Statue to Motherhood which the Club built in 1985.
We also typically present small appliances and other gifts to needy mothers. This year we were accompanied by Rotarians from British Columbia, Canada.
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Monument to Motherhood
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JUNE CALENDAR
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CLUB NEWS - JUNE
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