IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Our Club has changed our Meeting Place. As of February 5, 2010 we will now meet at the Bennington Station Restaurant in Bennington - on Friday's at 12:15.

February Birthdays

Susan Coons 16
Oakley Frost, MD 23

Dates to Remember

Public Relations Meeting
March 5th - 11:15 am
Bennington Station

February Board Meeting
Tuesday 9th - 8:00 am
CAT-TV, Bennington

WBTN Radio Show
February 17th - 8:00 am

GSE Group in Town
May 3-4th
Contact: Chuck Putney

RI District Conference
May 14-16th
Burlington, Vermont


Rotarians Respond..

What changes would you like to see in health care?


I would like to see a public option and I would like to see a whole network of community clinics established nationwide.
Bob Matteson



Make sure there is coverage for all children and I would like to see more coverage for preventative treatment.
Joann Erenhouse



I second health care coverage for children But, also for older students as well.
Jessica Hill



Get rid of Obama.
Rye Mausert



All seniors covered at no expense.
Bob Plunkett



They should be attacking the cost of medical care and it starts off with tort reform. Standardizing of data processing and availability of information. Then after that there has to be a change in the greed of hospital administrators. Next is reform and standardization of medical programs and competiveness of the insurance industry.
Tom Paquin



Everybody gets Medicare.
Chuck Putney


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Meet Robert Ebert - Former Firefighter
February, 2010
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Robert and his wife Melissa moved to Bennington from Texas where he was a firefighter for twentyfour years. Retired, he has been busy volunteering for many organizations, including the Rotary Car Show.

Robert graduated from the University of Texas with a degree in Humanities. He was looking for work when he saw a commercial on television with a grey headed fire chief, asking. "Do you think you could go into a burning building? Do you think you could climb this ladder?" And there was a picture of this ladder."Do you think you could provide emergency, medical service to people in need?"

Robert thought he could do those things and he didn’t have any other prospects at all so he went down and put in for it. It was a competitive process to get in. There was a civil service exam and physical agility tests. When he didn’t hear from them, he thought he had not gotten in, but then he was contacted.

Although he had never thought of being a public servant, many times during his career he thought of how fortunate he was to be working in emergency care when he saw people at some of the worst times in their lives who looked to him to make things better. There were many different jobs Robert did within the fire department.

Robert is amused that since he moved to Vermont not many people are impressed with how rich a career fire fighting is.

Since Robert has moved to Bennington, he has enjoyed the diversity of physical activities available and the number of opportunities there are to volunteer in the community.

After his years in the fire department, service has been a part of Robert’s life and Rotary will enable him to contribute to the community.


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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.


Honoring Our Past
The Words and Wisdom of Paul Harris

It is well that there is nothing in Rotary so sacred that it cannot be set aside in favor of things better. This is an experimental age in a changing world, and all things which are worthwile and progressive are the cumulative effects of preceding successes and failures.
Peregrinations, Vol. III


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The Main Objective of Rotary is Service

Download Our Brochure 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.
     

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.


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