The Charity Cup Golf Tournament was a great success!

Thank you to all our Sponsors, Donors, Golfers and of course, our Volunteers!

Betsy Cottington purchased 4 Hole Sponsorships in memory of her husband, Bob, a 50 year member of Glen Ellyn, Illinois Rotary.

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Barb wearing very important and much needed head protection!


The Sanibel School Interact Club helping out!

Lunch provided by The Blue Giraffe

“Ukrainian Kids Med Care”

Within the past few weeks, our Trust Board issued a check for $10,000 for the Rotary Ukraine Relief Fund from funds raised at our recent Arts and Crafts Festival. Several Club members have donated additional happy dollars for Ukraine Relief. We are very proud to be able to make such a sizable donation to such a needy cause.

However, we have now learned of an additional fund for Ukraine Relief. We became aware of this fund from the President of the Fort Myers Sunset Club who has contacts with Rotarians in Poland. Last Tuesday, the Fort Myers Club Presidents met through Zoom, Rotarians of the Rotary Club of Wroclaw, Poland to discuss the fund. Donations to this new fund are earmarked for a very specific need for children with chronic medical disorders. At a recent Trust Board meeting, Board members endorsed this fund. The other Fort Myers Club are also now considering this project. I am hoping to introduce this to the other district clubs.

The name of the project is “Ukrainian Kids Med Care”

The Rotary Club of Wroclaw established the fund. Wroclaw is located in southwest Poland about a 5 ½ hour drive west of ukraine. Wroclaw is a city of approximately 700,000 residents with hospitals and medical facilities.

Poland has already received about 1.8 million refugees from Ukraine, primarily consisting of children and their mothers. The Wroclaw Club is concentrating on providing medical help to children and their mothers with chronic disorders such as depression, heart defects and hearing loss. They have already selected 2 large medical outpatient care clinics and a group of children’s specialists such as Oncologists and Psychiatrists. This special medical care will only affect 1 % of new arrivals. The remaining 99% of people suffering from non-chronic disorders will be able to easily find medical care in Poland.

The Wroclaw Club has already established cooperations with the Ukrainian communities such as churches, hotels, radio, tv and internet. The Club has reached out to other Rotary Clubs and currently have assurances from clubs from Germany, France and Japan.

The general idea is that every ill person is assigned to a Rotary Club such as our Club in Sanibel. The Wroclaw Club will provide the name of the sick person, age, type of illness, phone numbers and mother’s email address if we would like. They estimate the monthly cost will not exceed $250.00 (medical advice, laboratory tests, medicine and other medical costs not covered by Poland Healthcare including up to 20% of non medical costs.) For example, a $3,000 donation will cover 2 people for 6 months. Clubs donating will receive copies of bills for complete transparency. Some of the Trust Board members have already donated additional dollars for this fund. We believe that over $2,500 has been donated for the new fund including the funds donated by members at last week’s meeting.

The Wroclaw Rotary Club has established a tax exempt account for donations in dollars and Mr.Maciej Sygit, who has a Ph.D., is the coordinator for the project for the Rotary Club of Wroclaw. He is the Past President twice of the Wroclaw Club.

The Rotary Club of Sanibel Captiva’s Support of the
23rd Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition

This week's speakers will be Dana Souza - City Manager of Sanibel

Mr. Souza was selected for the job out of 96 candidates through an extensive search conducted by Colin Baenziger and Associates, a nationally recognized consulting and municipal recruiting firm. Dana has over 35 years of local government experience. Most recently, he was the Interim City Manager in Naples, FL. He previously held positions in Naples as Deputy City Manager and Community Services Director. Mr. Souza served the City of Greenville,
SC, as the Parks, Recreation, and Sustainability Director; Marco Island, FL, as Interim Manager and Parks & Recreation Director; City of Portland, ME, as Director of Parks & Recreation; Union, NY, as the Director of Parks &Recreation; and City of New Bedford, MA, as Director of Parks, Cemeteries and Forestry.


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