We are in our third month of our Rotary year. “Chili” James McQuilar, District Membership Chair, Mike Trewitt, DGN, and Mack Patel, DGE, and I have visited each club more than once. We have failed to secure a time to meet with several club boards to discuss their goals and how we might be helpful.
I am requesting that you call me and schedule that meeting: Jack Werner, DG 405-406-1790.
This week there are several opportunities to grow and be involved in Rotary.
Thursday, September 26 4:00 PM
District & Club Leadership monthly meeting. In person at Almonte Library (2727 SW 59th St, Oklahoma City, OK 73119) or zoom (click here for link).
Thursday, September 26 6:00 PM
Magical Moments Continue - What Do Young People want in a Club Experience? Join Zone 31 as they explore this month's topic: "The Club Experience...With a Twist!" Join us to find out what young people want in a Rotary Club.
Join Zoom Meeting CLICK HERE FOR LINK
Meeting ID: 862 9956 7717
Passcode: 992574
Saturday, September 28 10-3:30 PM
District Training at the Autry Technology Center, 1201 W. Willow Rd, Enid, OK 73703
Join our District Trainer, Alfonso Nieves, along with others to learn about what is going on in our district, complete your Grant Training and other Magical Rotary topics. Click here for the event link to see the agenda and click here to register.
In honor of International Literacy Day (09/08/2024) club member Julie Hovis delivered 30 books to Sunset Elementary School to their Media director Shannon Fields.
On Monday September 16TH GJCC BCL and CA Student Ramia Lain whom was accepted to work for Disney attended Rotary. Brandy Parks the Director of the Sooner Success for Logan & Lincoln County was the Speaker and visited with Dr Michelle Chapple the Club’s President and other Rotarians.
Photo on left is of Club President Dr. Michelle Chapple and the Oklahoma Territorial Museum Director Michael Williams with student of the week from Guthrie HS
As Rotarians we want to support one another. Your district is hosting a trade show where you can connect with other Rotarians to learn about what we do. This event is October 19th from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM at Grill on the Hill in Oklahoma City. Click the link to reserve your booth or find out more.
The deadline is quickly approaching to file your annual information return.
Whether your club is a subordinate under Rotary International’s 501(c)(4) group exemption or is independently tax-exempt, the IRS requires that all Rotary clubs in the U.S. and its territories file an annual information return. For clubs whose tax year follows the Rotary year, the deadline to file is 15 November. The form a club must file is dependent upon its gross receipts for the year. For more information, please see Frequently asked questions about annual reporting requirements for exempt organizations at www.irs.gov.
It is important that your club comply with IRS requirements. Please note Section 6033(j) of the Internal Revenue Code automatically revokes the exemption of any organization that fails to satisfy its filing requirement for three consecutive years.
Our document, US Rotary and Rotaract Clubs and the IRS: Frequently Asked Questions, provides general information about Rotary clubs and the IRS. For specific questions regarding your club’s tax-exempt status, reporting requirements, or your club’s ability to file, contact local counsel, your tax adviser, or the IRS directly at www.irs.gov or877-829-5500.
District 5750 will pay for any Rotary Leadership Training or Rotary responsibilities that you are asked to attend THAT TAKES PLACE WITHIN OUR ZONE (ZONE 31). If the Rotary activity is OUTSIDE of ZONE 31, DISTRICT 5750 expects to match what the club expends, if the approximate amount is submitted and approved in advance.
International Day of Peace was September 21st. This day offers us a unique opportunity to reflect on the power of peace and the vital role we play as Rotarians in advancing this mission.
Led by Rotary International President Stephanie Urchick, the 2025 Rotary Presidential Peace Conference in Istanbul, Türkiye, 20-22 February 2025, will be an opportunity for the Rotary community and our partners to build on Rotary’s contributions to promoting peace by exploring:
Peace in a polarized world
Technology, media, and peacebuilding
Environmental issues in peacebuilding
Making peace last
The conference will also recognize the launch of the new Otto and Fran Walter Rotary Peace Center in partnership with Bahçeşehir University in Istanbul.
The Peace Conference page, rotary.org/istanbul25, was recently updated and registration is now open.
Founded in 1991, Cal India Tours and Travels has been operating tour programs for more than two decades. They remain a Rotarian owned and operated company, now headed by Founder Past President Rotarian Rahul Wadhwa RID 3110. Hundred’s of Rotarians have traveled through them to participate in polio eradication trips since 2003, wheelchair deliveries, Girls Toilet Blocks, Women hygiene, humanitarian missions, global grants, Sunspring Water Project “H2OpenDoors “ , Friendship Exchanges. This is the 43rd polio eradication program, they have organized 10th such trip in Agra, India.
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