Blair Rotary Newsletter
"Rotary Shares"
July 16, 2007

Every Rotarian - Every Year  Total to Date
$200	$400	$600	$800	$1,000	$1,200	$1,400	$1,600	$1,800	$2,000	$2,200	$2,400	$2,600	$2,800	$3,000	$3,200	$3,400	$3,600	$3,800	$4,000

Reminder: attendance should be at least 60%, if you can't make a meeting you can do a make-up on the web at the following address:  http://www.rotaryeclub7890.org/makeup.htm

The Club has voted to contribute $100 to YCAT - Youth Committee Action Team.

Notes from July 10th meeting - Program Chair - Sonny Wachter

Russ Cook, an officer with the Blair Police Department, provided information on self-defense.  Officer Cook has been with the BPD for five years and served in the Army prior to coming to Blair.  He serves as the self-defense training officer for the BPD and provides training to selected community groups and businesses.  Officer Cook provided the following observations and suggestions:

• Be mentally prepared to use self-defense tactics
• Be aware of your surroundings - have an escape route and be aware of any objects you might be able to use to defend/protect yourself
• Avoid an inside position - use an interview stance and maintain a reactionary gap of 6 feet
• Trust your intuition and be suspicious
• Walk with confidence - walk like you have a purpose
• Don't allow strangers to invade your personal/private space
• Keep your doors locked and look into your car before you get in
• Consider carrying defensive items such as pepper spray, whistles, etc.
• Don't be afraid to use "dirty" tactics including kicking, gouging, biting, pulling hair
• Go at your self-defense 110% - don't hold back, there are no points for second place

If you would like additional information on self-defense please go to the following website: www.selfdefense.org

Rotary Question of the Week

Name at least two expectations within the Declaration of Rotarians in Business and Professions.

Rotary Fact of the Week (from  the RI or District Website)

The Declaration of Rotarians in Businesses and Professions was adopted by the Rotary International Council on Legislation in 1989 to provide more specific guidelines for the high ethical standards called for in the Object of Rotary:

As a Rotarian engaged in a business or profession, I am expected to:

• Consider my vocation to be another opportunity to serve;
• Be faithful to the letter and to the spirit of the ethical codes of my vocation, to the laws of my country, and to the moral standards of my community;
• Do all in my power to dignify my vocation and to promote the highest ethical standards in my chosen vocation;
• Be fair to my employer, employees, associates, competitors, customers, the public, and all those with whom I have a business or professional relationship;
• Recognize the honor and respect due to all occupations which are useful to society;
• Offer my vocational talents: to provide opportunities for young people, to work for the relief of the special needs of others, and to improve the quality of life in my community;
• Adhere to honesty in my advertising and in all representations to the public concerning my business or profession;
• Neither seek from nor grant to a fellow Rotarian a privilege or advantage not normally accorded others in a business or professional relationship.

Thought of the Week

"What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you." Oprah Winfrey

SERVICE Above Self!