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Rotary Club of Park Cities
Awarded by District 5810  Club of the Year  2020-2021
Awarded by District 5810 Club Service, Community Service, Spirit of Cooperation AND
Most Fun Club Awards 2022-23
 
Want to know more about the Rotary Club of Park Cities?
Watch This!
 
Next Meeting
March 22, 2024
11:50 am
at
Maggiano's
at NorthPark
 
No reservation needed at Maggiano's.
Just come on and join us!
 
NO Meeting on March 29 for the Easter Holiday.
 
 
 
(You can watch most meetings later on our YouTube channel here)

Join us! We'd like to meet you!

Please note that RCPC meetings and other events are public events where photos and video are customarily taken. By attending you are consenting to free use of your liken ess on RCPC and related websites, social media, streaming video, emails, newsletters and similar methods.
This Week's Program
 
Dan Rhodes
will speak on
The Dallas Real Estate Market
 
See The Hub for more on our Speaker.
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You can access all of our recent meetings on this link to RCPC's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Park+cities+rotary
 
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Important Club Announcements  
 RCPC Office Phone Number:  469-242-9448
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Volunteers Needed for the Transportation Committee!
Provide a ride to and from meetings for members unable to drive.
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NO Meeting on March 29 for the Easter Holiday.
 
The regular Friday meeting on May 3 will be at Agape Clinic, on site with a tour and box lunches.
 
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The Parade theme for 2024 is Red, White and You, submitted by Sarah Oliai.
 
It is time to plan the Fourth of July Parade!
Jill has put a list of jobs before, during and after the Parade under the Volunteer portion go the website.
ALL members are encouraged to volunteer for at least one job. Something for everyone!
Contact Jill Jordan here or Alan Winn here if you have questions.
 
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Club merchandise!

This is only for second shirts and hats! The first shirt and hat new members receive for free as part of their blue badge requisites (during their visit to the Club office).

Buy a second RCPC club cap with club logo. Click here to purchase. ($20/cap) 
Buy a second RCPC blue shirt with club logo. Click here to purchase ($40/shirt - no price difference between men’s or women's)
Contact Laurie to pick up the shirt and/or hat once you pay for it. 
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People of Action!
RCPC volunteers at Ronald McDonald House 
every third Monday of the month
These picture are from Monday, February 19, 2024
On the menu:
enchiladas, beans, rice and salad
Join them the third Monday in April!
 
 
 
  
 
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It was a GREAT afternoon at the Snider Plaza tree Lighting!
The BIGGEST crowd ever attended!
 
 
 
  
President Jeff Sheehan gives Jerry Washam an award for his support
for the Tree Lighting for 18 years!
 
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Sign up, Take Action!
Volunteers Needed for the Transportation Committee! Give a ride to and from the meeting to members who are unable to drive.
 
Volunteers Needed! It is time to plan the Fourth of July Parade! 
Jill has put a list of jobs before, during and after the Parade under the Volunteer portion of the website.
ALL members are encouraged to volunteer for at least one job. Something for everyone!
Contact Jill Jordan here or Alan Winn here if you have questions.
The Parade theme for 2024 is Red. White and You, submitted by Sarah Oliai.
 
 Thursday, March 28, 5:00-7:00 pm. PCR Connect at Rye Restaurant, 
1920 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, Texas 
Great Menus:
Whiskey and Bourbon List: Click here!
Dinner Menu: Click here!
Happy Hour MenuClick here!
Please click here to register!
 
 Friday, March 29NO RCPC meeting. Easter Holiday! 🐰
 
 Saturday, March 30. 12 Noon-3:00pm. Join us for March Madness Fun 🏀
at Over Under Sports Bar, 5625 Village Glen Drive, Dallas 75206.
Bring friends and family!
 
 Saturday, April 6. Challenge Air Fly Day
 
 New Date! Saturday, April 6, 5:00 -9:00 pm. Join us at the 2024 Crawfish Festival! in Ferris Plaza, 400 S. Houston St., Dallas 75202
Great bands and DJs; plenty of food vendors serving a variety of food in a beautiful outside park venue.
 
 Friday & SaturdayApril 12 & 13, District 5810 Conference and Golf Tournament 
Buffalo Creek Golf Club, Rotary Rockwell Club, The Center at Rockwell City Place
Friday Golf Tournament & Dinner
Saturday Service Project and Celebrate Our Youth & Celebratory Banquet. Our guest speaker is Past Rotary International President, John Germ. 
Pricing: Friday Golf & Dinner - $125. Additional Dinner ticket - $25
Saturday only - $90 new!
Friday & Saturday - $200
See the District 5810 website to register and for hotel information.
 
Monday, April 15, 6:00-8:00pm, RCPC Program Meeting at Moody YMCA
All RCPC members are members of the Program Committee. Bring ideas for future programs.
 
 Monday, April 15 - 4:30 to 6:45pm. Your help is needed, we have a few more spots for Monday, March 18th
Ronald McDonald House, 4707 Bengal St., Dallas. 75235
NEW at Ronald McDonald House this year:
  • You don't have to bring anything.  Their new Chef program will provide the menu/food from our RCPC Grant!
  • We still will prepare, serve and clean-up
  • Do need your license to enter with hair pulled back, long pants and closed-toe shoes.
 Sign Up here, Questions?  Ask Kathleen Klaviter.
 
Saturday, April 20, 9:00-11:30 am, RCPC Volunteer Food Packing Day
at the North Texas Food Bank’s main distribution center at 3672 Mapleshade Ln., Plano 75077. You will see the address and map when you sign-up.
How to register:
FIRST-
1. Click on NTFB website:  https://volunteer.ntfb.org/ THEN click LOG-IN  or SIGN-UP (on the top right corner).
2. If you have volunteeed previously, your email is already registered with an account, just reset your password and log in.
3. This year you will need to sign a new waiver form - even if you have volunteered in April or last year.
4. If you are not in the system, create a new account by completing the form with your name, address, phone number, and email.
5. After you have activated/created your accountexit out of the NTFB browser.
NEXT-
1. To Register for the RCPC TEAM  - click-on the following link-
2. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on "VOLUNTEER".
FYI:
• Must register NO LATER THAN 3:00pm on WEDNESDAY 4/17 or our slots will be filled by other volunteers !!
Make it a Family Volunteer Day! - bring your family (children 12 yrs +) children must have a waiver signed by their parents.
• All volunteers need to arrive by 8:30-8:45am prior to the shift. Anyone who arrives after 9:00am will not be able to participate in the volunteer shift.
• All volunteers – wear closed toed and your RCPC Rotary Club shirt, if you are a Rotarian.
• JOIN US, come have some FUN, and help eliminate food insecurity in North Texas!  If you have any questions please contact Susan Glen.
 
 Friday, April 26, 6:05pm, Frisco Roughriders vs. Amarillo Sodpoodles baseball
at Frisco Roughriders Riders Field, 7300 Roughriders Trail, Frisco TX 75034
Tickets: $27/person (includes a $10 voucher for food)
Parking: $5/car when purchased in advance
To Purchase Tickets: Ty Young | Inside Sales & Services
Frisco RoughRiders Baseball
Direct Phone: 972.334.1991. (Tell him you are with the Rotary Club of Park Cities, so you will get tickets in our section.)
For updates on the Frisco Roughriders - Click here
 
Friday, May 3, RCPC regular meeting will be at Agape Clinic, on site with a tour and box lunch
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ICYMI
Jeremy Strick
spoke on
The Nasher Sculpture Center
 
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PCR Connect Celebrates Leap Day!
 
Join them in March at Rye Restaurant!
March 28, 2024, 5:00-7:00
Good food and drink! Good friends! Good conversation!
 
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The Hub for this week

   CLICK HERE to read this week's Hub.   

The link to the Rotary International Foundation 2022-23 Annual Report: A Year of Impact and Inspiration. read the annual report

 You can read all archived editions of The HUB at the Park Cities Newsletter-"The Hub".

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Happy Birthday!
 
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Marketplace Advertiser of the Week
To advertise your business as an RCPC Marketplace Advertiser,
contact Mark Neace at mark@synclabmedia.com
The cost is $425 a year but will be prorated 
Purchase your ad on the RCPC website! 
Our Marketplace Advertiser of the Week
Could Be YOU!
 
Our Marketplace Advertiser of the Week
 
 
Kyle Marmillion
 
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EREY Rotarians contributing $100 or more to Rotary International Foundation $29,715
 
 
Your donation makes a difference to those who need our help most. 
EREY: Every Rotarian Every Year contribute $100 or more to THE Rotary Foundation
Checks payable to the Rotary Foundation
 
Contribution levels include EREY, Paul Harris Fellow, Paul Harris Society, Major Donor
 
Contributions may be earmarked to SHARE Annual Fund, Polio, Disaster Relief Fund
 
The mission of The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International is to enable Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty.
Rotary members believe that we have a shared responsibility to take action on our world’s most persistent issues. Over 46,000+ clubs that work together to provide 7 areas of focus:
  • Promote peace
  • Fight disease (including but not limited to the Global Eradication of Polio Initiative)
  • Provide clean water, sanitation, and hygiene
  • Save mothers and children
  • Support education
  • Grow local economies
  • Protecting the Environment
POLIO: Rotary has reduced cases by 99.9% since 1988. ONLY(2) countries remain endemic, Afghanistan and Pakistan
 
Service Above Self is the principal motto of Rotary because it best conveys the philosophy of unselfish volunteer service
 
To donate contact Greg Pape (gregpape@att.net
or donate online at https://www.rotary.org/en/donate and email Greg Pape so he can give you club credit.
RuthAlhilali DRF PHF
ElaineAllen EREY
RichardAmsberry PDG PHS
CubAmos EREY
PhillipBankhead PHF
CharlieBond PHS
FredBrown EREY
PamCarvey EREY
DeanChance EREY
CleveClinton EREY
C.C. Collie PDG PHS
CindyCummings PHF
TrishCunningham EREY
BettyDawson EREY
RosemaryDomecki PHF POLIO
NolanDuck PHS
KarenFarris PHS
ShawnFoster EREY
HappyFranklin PHS
AliceFreidline EREY
RogerFreidline EREY
RichardGilman PDG PHS
RozelleGilman PHS
JohnGlancy PHS
BobGrossman EREY
EricHeitkamp EREY
EricHarrison PHS
HollyHollenbeck EREY
BarbJeffries PHS
RichardJodry EREY
ScurryJohnson EREY
JillJordan EREY
MarkKashar EREY
ScottLaughlin EREY
PatMartin EREY
Jeff McNaughton EREY
DougMeans EREY PHS POLIO
SarahOliai PHS
VanOliver PHS
BobPatton EREY
GregPape  PHS POLIO
PaulPirok EREY
JodieRay EREY
TomRhodes EREY
Jeff Sheehan EREY Pres. RCPC 
RichardStanford PHS
LynnSurls PHS
TomSwift PHS
KarlVon Bieberstein EREY
WilliamTaylor EREY
LindaTunnell EREY
LeyWaggoner EREY
AlanWinn  PHS POLIO
 
*Total Contributions include Annual Fund, PolioPlus, approved Foundation Grants,
Other Giving, and Endowment contributions for the reporting period.
EREY Every Rotarian Every Year $100
PHF Paul Harris Fellow
PHS Paul Harris Society
DRF Disaster Relief Fund
CED Community Economic Development
PDG: Past District Governor
MD: Major Donor
 
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The RCPC Foundation
 
From Nolan Duck, President-Elect of RCPC and President of the RCPC Foundation - 2023-24
 
The Rotary Club of Park Cities' Communities Fund was originally sponsored in the 1960’s by the Rotary Club of Park Cities (“RCPC”) for the purpose of providing an enduring legal entity through which members and friends of the Rotary Club of Park Cities might make donations for the good of mankind and the Dallas community. The fund continues to this day to consider internal and external grant requests submitted on the RCPC Foundation online grant portal found on the club website.
 
The following grant requests were approved at our November 2022 meeting: 
 
      • $1,000 grant for scholarships for Hillcrest High School for scholarship to honor RCPC long term member C.C. Collie
      • $5,413.44 grant for Equest
      • $6,000 grant for the Agape Clinic
 
The Executive Team denied the following grant request:
 
      • Addison Midday grant request for Genesis Women's Shelter  
 
The fund balance as of November 30, 2022, was $1,710.729.17.  The Communities Foundation of Texas manages the RCPC Foundation Fund.  The amount available each year for grants is derived from an average over 16 quarters (4 years), then, 4.5% of that amount is the amount available for distribution the following year.  
 
Our Sgt. at Arms Kathy Wall for 2022-2023, reported that the RCPC Foundation Fund donations thru 11-30-2022 totals $9,116.00 from 37 donors!
               
                To the Foundation Fund:                   $9,116.00 from 37 donors
                To the Bonton Clinic:                        $200.00 from 1 donor
 
Your contributions make an incredible difference in the amount we are able to distribute to worthy local organizations.
Please consider making a contribution today. https://portal.cftexas.org/donate-park-cities-rotary
From Our Sergeant-at-Arms
From Van Oliver, our Sergeant-at-Arms
 
Please make your annual donation
of at least $100 to our RCPC Foundation
 
Current contributors Rotary Calendar year 2022-23 are:
 
RCPC Foundation:
Anonymous
Brown, Fred
Carvey, Pam
Clinton, Cleveland (Cleve) G.
Dallas Jewish Communities Foundation
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
Foster, Shawn
Freidline, Roger
Gomes, Tracy
Hargrave, Marilyn P.
Johnson, H. Scurry
Levy, Robert H.
Martin, Patricia
McLaughlin, Scott
Means, Douglas A.
Oliai Law Firm
Oliver, Van
Pape, Gregory 
Patten, Robert S.
Pelan, Valerie
Pershing Investment Manager
Pirok, Paul
Ray, Jodie
Rotary Club of the Park Cities
Rhodes, Tom
Schaub, Patricia
Tesmer, Kristin
Von Bieberstein, Karl
Waggoner, Easley B.
Wright, Stan
 
 
Bonton Medical Clinic:
Anonymous
 
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RCPC Market Place Advertisers

To place an ad, contact Mark Neace at mark@synclabmedia.com

To upgrade your add, please send a digital color or black and white version of your business card to bedawson@swbell.net,
such as an email or web version, a printer's proof or a high resolution scan.
Click here for the requirements for the ad on the website.
 
 
Click here for a more legible or printable copy
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The Four Way Test
The Four-Way Test
 
of the things we think, say or do
Is it the truth?
Is it fair to all concerned?
Will it build goodwill and better friendships?
Will it be beneficial to all concerned?
 
scripted by Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor in 1932
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Rotary Club of Park Cities
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Upcoming Events
March Theme: Water, Sanitation, & Hygiene Month
Mar. 01, 2024 – Mar. 31, 2024
 
March PCR Connect at Rye Restaurant
Rye Restaurant Dallas
Mar. 28, 2024
5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
 
March Madness Fun at Over Under Sports Bar!
Over Under Sports Bar
Mar. 30, 2024
12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
 
April Theme: Environmental Month
Apr. 01, 2024 – Apr. 30, 2024
 
RCPC Goes to the 2024 Dallas Crawfish Festival!
Pacific Plaza
Apr. 06, 2024
5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
 
RCPC Program Team Meeting-Monday April 15th!
Moody Family YMCA in the Park Cities
Apr. 15, 2024
6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
 
RCPC Program Team Meeting-Monday April 15th!
Moody Family YMCA in the Park Cities
Apr. 15, 2024
6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
 
RCPC Goes to the Frisco Rough Riders Game!
Riders Field
Apr. 26, 2024
6:05 p.m. – 9:05 p.m.
 
May Theme: Youth Services
May 01, 2024 – May 31, 2024
 
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