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The Plain Facts April 1, 2012

Club meets Wednesday, 11:45 a.m. at Skyland Pines, 3550 Columbus N.E., • Canton, OH

IN THIS ISSUE:

SPEAKERS • Dates to Remember President’s Pen • ThoughT

for The MoNTh • Birthdays

Trivia • D iD you Know?

RotaRy snapshot

Dates to Remember:4/10/12 – Board Meeting at Glenoak

Administrative Building

at 7:30am

4/11/12 – Japanese GSE Team Presenting

to Our Club

4/14/12 – Akron Aeros Game

4/16/12 – Club Social at Walsh University

4/21/12 – Plain Township Rotary Auction

and Reverse Raffle

District 6650

Program Chairman: Perry Lieberman

The Rotary C lub o f P la in Townsh ip, OH News le t ter

OFFICERS2011-12

Susan Olivera, PresidentRobert Schaffner, President Elect

Mike Pierce, Vice PresidentPhil Patton, Treasurer

Megan Karcher, SecretaryBarry Kindy, Sgt. at Arms

Keith Stults, Past President

BOARD OF DIRECTORS2012

Perry LiebermanBrent May

Kanthasamy Ragunanthan2013

Gerry HohlerMarty Ortman

Ron Rodak2014

Doug CrawfordJohn Fehlman

Richard TirpakClub Avenue Chair

Scott BoliVocational Avenue Chair

Tim KellCommunity Avenue Chair

Karen MillerInternational Avenue Chair

John Pieper

District Governor George W.S. Hays

2011-12Rotary International President

Kalyan Banerjee

NEW GENERATIONSBrittany Fehlman 2012

PLAIN TOWNSHIP ROTARYPAST PRESIDENTS

Keith Stults 10-11Barry Kindy 09-10

Gerry Hohler 08-09Pat Fehlman 07-08

Michael Kanam 06-07John Pieper 05-06

Gregory Beck 04-05Kathy Mckelley Strong 03-04

John Fehlman 02-03Paula Tscholl-Bennett 01-02

Charleen Davidson 00-01Tim Barta 99-00

Michael Dougan 98-99Phillip Patton 97-98

Jacqueline DeGarmo 96-97Timothy Watkins 95-96

Nick Sandru 94-95Richard Whitlatch 93-94

Stephan Wilder 92-93Lawrence Riegner 91-92

Ronald Simchak 90-91Raymond Tucker 89-90

Paul Schwitzgebel 88-89Willis Digman 87-88

Roy Barr 86-87Jack Mansfield 85-86

speakers for

APRIL

April 4, 2012CHILD ABUSE AND PREVENTION Bill Burguess And Stephanie Beleel From ODjFS

April 11, 2012GSE TEAm FROm jAPAN

April 18, 2012CLUB ASSEmBLY

April 25, 2012CHILD PROTECTION FROm THE INTERNETjudge Rosemarie Hall

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By Sue Olivera

April brings with it not only spring weather, but a very busy month for Plain Township Rotary. By the time this issue is published, we will have just finished our William Heichel Stark versus Summit Basketball Classic at Malone University. Thank you to Dave Kraft and all the other Rotarians who helped make this event a success.

Starting on April 11, we will be hosting the Group Study Exchange (GSE) members from Japan. They will be coming to us after spending a week with the Wooster club. On Wednesday, April 11, the GSE team will kick things off for our club by presenting to our group at our weekly meeting. I hope you are able to join us that day. I know they will be very interesting, and I want to give them a big Plain Township welcome!

Throughout the next week, we have fun and educational events scheduled for the team. They will spend time visiting and touring places like Trillium, Aultman Woodlawn, Cleveland Clinic and other local nursing homes and rehabilitation facilities. Many thanks to the North Canton and Perry clubs for agreeing to take the GSE team for a day.

In addition to educational events, we will also plan a few fun events. One in particular is a day at the Akron Aeros on April 14. Please plan to join the GSE team and other Rotarians and their families at the Aeros game. It promises to be a great day. We will wrap up our week with the GSE team by having a club social on April 16 at Walsh University. Please plan to bring your spouse and any other potential members. This will be a great way to send off our friends from Japan as well as welcome potential new members. It will be good food, fun and fellowship!

Also, on April 21 is our annual Plain Township Rotary Reverse Raffle and Auction. Invitations have been sent out. Please turn in your RSVP and payment to Karen Miller or Karen Vrabec as soon as possible. Back by popular demand are the traditional meal options of steak, chicken or fish. Drink bands will be sold at the door. Come and win a chance at more than $2,000. This event promises to be one of the best ever. Don’t miss out.

We are also gathering items for the auction. Please consider donating a basket or an item. If you prefer, ask a local business to become a sponsor. Donation forms will be available at our weekly meeting or anytime by emailing me, Karen Miller or Karen Vrabec.

I know we ask a lot of our members – THANK YOU! It is those of you who step up that make the difference in so many lives every day. Thank you for all you do and for making April a great month for Plain Township Rotary. I am forever grateful! “Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have, we will not be happy – because we will always want to have something more.” Brother David Steindl-Rast

President’s Pen

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Did you Know: India is no longer polio endemic? By Dan Nixon

Rotary International News -- 8 March 2012

The All India End Polio Now Road Show, organized by District 3201 (parts of Kerala and Tamil Nadu), inspired support for polio eradication in India, Nepal, and Bhutan in late 2011 and early 2012. Photo courtesy of District 3201 The World Health Organization has officially removed India from the list of polio-endemic countries. Ghulam Nabi Azad, India's minister of Health and Family Welfare, made the announcement at the Polio Summit 2012 in New Delhi on 25 February. Azad said that he had been informed of WHO’s action by its director-general, Dr. Margaret Chan.

"It is a matter of satisfaction that we

have completed one year without any single new case of polio being reported from anywhere in the country," said Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the summit, which was organized by the government of India and Rotary International. "This gives us hope that we can finally eradicate polio not only from India but from the face of the entire mother earth. The success of our efforts shows that teamwork pays."

India's last reported case was a two-year-old girl in West Bengal State on 13 January 2011. Before polio eradication can be certified in India, it must go two more years without another case of the disease. Polio remains endemic in only three countries: Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan. Read More on www. Rotary.org.

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Also, we are looking for volunteers for our YouTube “Day in the Life” series!!

Any volunteers can contactBrittany Fehlman at

Bfehlman@aultman.com

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Brad Fergason, Karen Vrabec & Perry Lieberman

Answer to Last Month Trivia:

1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. Boxing

2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward? Niagara Falls – The rim is worn down about two and a half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute

3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables? Aspara-gus and rhubarb

4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside? Strawberry

5. In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn't been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle? It grew inside the bottle. The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small, and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the entire growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.

6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters " dw" and they are all common words. Name two of them. Dwarf, dwell and dwindle.

7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them? Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.

8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh. Lettuce

9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet begin-ning with the letter "S." Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slip-pers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.

Thought For The MonthWalk on through the wind, walk on through the rain,

though your dreams be tossed and blown.

Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart and you’ll never walk alone. You’ll never walk alone.

Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstien II

Thank YouPat and Brittany Fehlman a month of great speakers;

Thanks to Denise Evans and Karen Vrabec for coordinating the

4-Way Speech Contest.

April's Trivia - Who am I? I am 5ft 8in and 27 years old. I am dating a medical student who hopes to be a pediatrician. My father is a dentist who advertises, “We cater to cowards”. I had a movie made about my life.

email your answers to: usaqp2@sbcglobal.net

BirthdaysKiko, Lori Apr 03Kindy, Barry Apr 22

AnniversariesCrawford, Douglas B. (Sharon) Apr 02Hohler, Gerry (Joey) Apr 14Kiko, Lori (Randy) Apr 11McBrearty, Patrick (Stephanie) Apr 08Stults, Keith (Ellen) Apr 27

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RotaRy snapshot

Tim Kell presenting the Student of the Month

Award in March

2012 Basketball Classic

Patty Kimerer from Alliance Community

Hospital

Speakers from Guardian Support Services

FromThe Meeting

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Plain Township rotaryP.o. Box 8382Canton, ohio 44711

offICIAL CLuB PuBLICATIoN

Day Club Time PlaceMonday Dalton 6:15 PM Methodist Church, 204 West Main Wooster 12:00 Noon YMCA, 680 Woodland Ave. New Philadelphia 5:45 PM First United Methodist Church, 201 W. High Ave. Malvern 6:00 PM United Methodist Church, Wood St. Louisville 5:45 PM Eagles

Tuesday East Canton 7:30 AM Akron 12:00 Noon Martin University Center, Akron University Orrville 11:45 AM Good Times Restaurant, 127 Main Jackson-Belden 11:45 AM La Pizzaria

Wednesday Perry 7:30 AM Executive Event Center, 5211 W. Tuscarawas St. Alliance 11:45 AM Don Pancho’s Restaurant, Main and Union Ave. Lake Township 12:00 Noon Wagler Home Cooking Portage Lakes 12:00 Noon Rosa Villa, 368 Portage Lakes Dr. Canton South 7:30 AM Gulliver’s Restaurant

Thursday Massillon 11:45 AM Amvets Post 6, 303 Weirich Blvd. Port Summit 12:00 Noon Best Western, 2677 Gilchrist Rd. Canal Fulton 6:30 PM Community Building, Route 93 North Canton 11:45 AM The Fairways at Arrowhead Minerva 6:30 PM Southern Inn, E. Lincoln Way

Friday Canton 12:00 Noon Marriott McKinley Grand, 320 Market Ave., S.