March 23, 2022
Most important, note that we are meeting at Smoke Rise Country Club in Tucker this Friday with other clubs from the DeKalb Rotary Council. Then read up to learn more about Dunwoody Diners on April 2, how you can help with our May 16 Golf Tournament, the Dunwoody Arts Festival and Rotary Youth Exchange. Then read just a bit farther to learn about a Global Grant project in Brazil that we helped make happen - and check out the calendar for the next few weeks!
This week, we will join the clubs of the DeKalb Rotary Council at Smoke Rise Country Club to honor Teachers of the Year, as well as Rotarians who have gone "above and beyond" to serve their clubs and the community. Festivities begin at 7:30 am at Smokerise Country Club, 4900 Chedworth Drive, Tucker, GA 30087. There will be no meeting at LeMeridien and no Zoom option this week.
Dunwoody High School teacher Kevin Cameron (Deb Cameron's husband) will be our Teacher of the Year this year.
Each club will present a "Show Rotary Cares" award to a deserving Rotarian, in honor of our own PDG Bill Mulkey, and the Council will honor one Rotarian with the "You Are the Key" award in honor of PDG Bob Grant. Both Bill and Bob were instrumental in starting and supporting the Council for years. They are pictured here at one of the DeKalb Rotary Council's golf tournaments.
This Monday, 3/21, was World Down Syndrome Day (Down persons have a third instance of chromosome #21. Clever, eh?). Notably, it’s ALSO the day that Rotary Club of Alpharetta and Rotary Club Pelotas Oeste in Brazil celebrated approval of a $70,000 Rotary International Global Grant to fund special education and training for Down persons, their families and support groups in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. God’s timing is excellent!
The Rotary Club of Dunwoody is a partner to this project, along with Peachtree City, Roswell, Stone Mountain, Dunwoody, Atlanta Brazil AND D7780 clubs Bath and Yarmouth, and five more Rotary clubs in Brazil - for a total of 15 clubs and three districts!