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January Birthdays

Ralph Provenza - 1st
Ron Knapp - 12th
Gregory Burke - 21st

Dates to Remember

January is Rotary Awareness Month

Monthly Board Meeting
February 2nd 8:00 am
Wills Insurance Agency

PR Committee Meeting
February 3 11:15am
The Bennington Station

WBTN Radio Show
Susan Coons
January 18th - 8:00 am
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About Rotary.. What Is Rotary?

Bennington Rotary Club is a party of Rotary International. Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. In more than 200 countries worldwide, approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 33,000 Rotary clubs. Rotary club membership represents a cross-section of the community's business and professional men and women. The world's Rotary clubs meet weekly and are nonpolitical, nonreligious, and open to all cultures, races, and creeds.




The Main Objective of Rotary is Service

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 service 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.
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The Rotary motto is: Service Above Self.

Although Rotary clubs develop autonomous service programs, all Rotarians worldwide are united in a campaign for the global eradication of polio. In the 1980s, Rotarians raised US$630 million to immunize the children of the world; by 2007, Rotary's centenary year and the target date for the certification of a polio-free world, the PolioPlus program will have contributed hundreds of millions to this cause. In addition, Rotary has provided an army of volunteers to promote and assist at national immunization days in polio-endemic countries around the world.