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Rotary International
Owego Rotary Club
Owego, New York
Owego Route 96 Bridge
The Owego Rotary Club celebrated its 90th anniversary
on February 10, 2012.
Click here to see photos of the event
 
Support Flood Relief and Dine at the Same Time
Through a generous donation of the owners of the Kampai Japanese Steak House, our club has available $50 gift certificates to the restaurant. You can purchase one for $40 or two for $70. The Owego Rotary Club will use all proceeds to aid local flood relief efforts.
To request your gift certificates, send an email to floodrelief@owegorotary.org.
The quantity is limited. So, hurry!

Find us on Facebook The Owego Rotary Club is one of 34,000 clubs in more than 200 countries that make up Rotary International. Our club is made up of business and professional leaders from our local community who contribute their time and talents in service to the community and the world. The objectives of Rotary are to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.

Rotary Shares

The Rotary International President for 2011-2012 is Kalyan Banerjee from Vapi, India.

The Rotary International Theme this year is "Reach Within to Embrace Humanity." There will be three areas of emphasis in this year of Rotary service: family, continuity, and change. Our president says that the family and the home are the core of all our work as Rotarians, and our families extend into our communities and all of humanity. Continuity involves identifying the things we do well and take them to the next level, building on our successes. Our president tells us that true change begins with and within each of us.

Kalyan Banerjee delivered his message to Rotarians at the 2011 International Assembly, which took place in January in San Diego, California, USA. The International Assembly is an annual training event for incoming RI district governors. His speech is on YouTube and can be viewed by clicking here. To view other Rotary videos on YouTube, go to www.youtube.com/rotaryinternational.

See and read about what's been happening at our Rotary meetings by clicking here.
Owego Rotary cleans up the highway
Owego Rotarians cleaned up Southside Drive (Rt. 434) near highway exit 64 and Montrose Avenue (April 21) Highway Cleanup Highway Cleanup
Interact Clubs assisted with the Tioga Co. Food Bank Backpack Program
Owego Free Academy and Newark Valley High School Interact Clubs along with the Tioga Center HS Community Service Club and Catholic Charities YES (Youth Educational Services) Club assembled bags of food to provided nourishment for students in need on weekends. Foodbank Backpack Program Click here to see more photos. (April 17)
Taylor Road Flower Bed One of the Owego Rotary Club projects is the planting and maintenance of three flower beds at the entrances to the Village of Owego. Shown here are the flower beds on Taylor Road (left) and North Avenue (right). North Avenue Flower Bed

OBJECT OF ROTARY

The object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:
  1. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;

  2. High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society;

  3. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life;

  4. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.

THE FOUR-WAY TEST

of the things we think, say or do:
  1. Is it the TRUTH?

  2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?

  3. Will it build GOOD WILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?

  4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

Copyright 2012, Owego Rotary Club