Mark your calendar for the Rotary Club of Canton's upcoming Semi-Annual Health Screen & Wellness Fair scheduled for Saturday, November 2, 2019, from 7 am - 11 am! The event will once again be held at the Mercy Hall Auditorium located at 1320 Mercy Drive, Canton.
Registration is now open, so please follow this LINK!
Please follow this LINK to print the flyer for the November 2, 2019 event!
The traditional joint rally of the Rotary Clubs of Canton and Massillon prior to renewal of the ancient football rivalry between the Bulldogs and Tigers will be held Friday at the Alex D. Krassas Event Center (Canton Rotary's regular meeting site)located at 251 - 25th Sreet N.W., Canton.
Topic of conversation: What the McKinley/Massillon game meant to speakers, Kenny Peterson (McK) and Andy Alleman (Mass) in High School, College, as NFL players and beyond.
Join your fellow Rotarians, the Mayors of Canton and Massillon, the team coaches and players, and guests for our annual Joint Canton-Massillon Rotary Meeting and pre-game festivities. This year's event will be emceed by Todd Porter from the Canton Repository. Joining Todd will be Kenny Peterson, former Canton McKinley Bulldog football player, and his Massillon Tiger football counterpart, Andy Alleman. Enjoy listening to the players share their experiences as Todd Porter poses questions to them related to the big game and how they have carried those experiences with them throughout college, their NFL careers, and beyond.
Todd Porter is special projects editor at The Canton Repository
Kenny Peterson is an alumnus of Canton McKinley High School, THE Ohio State University and an NFL pro, having played with the Green Bay Packers (2003-2005) and the Denver Broncos (2006-2009).
Andy Alleman is an alumnus of Massillon Washington High School, the University of Akron, and an NFL pro, having played with the New Orleans Saints (2007), Miami Dolphins (2008), Kansas City Chiefs (2009), and the Indianapolis Colts (2010).
Join us for Rotary’s World Polio Day Online Global Update
Rotary International October 14, 2019
Mark your calendar to join us on 24 October for Rotary’s World Polio Day Online Global Update. It will be streamed on RI’s Facebook pages in multiple languages and time zones around the world.
World Polio Day is an annual opportunity for Rotary members to rally the world around the fight to eradicate the disease forever. This year’s program will highlight the heroes of polio eradication, with stories from areas that have recently been affected and areas where polio is still endemic.
This year's program, sponsored by UNICEF USA and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, features TV presenter and former Paralympian Ade Adepitan, supermodel Isabeli Fontana, science educator Bill Nye, and actress Archie Panjabi. Our partners at the World Health Organization and UNICEF will provide updates on the latest progress toward a polio-free world.
Will your club or district host an event? Tell us about it and promote it to the world. Or find an event near you to attend. Be a part of celebrating the progress we’ve made toward eradicating polio.
Polio, or poliomyelitis, is a paralyzing and potentially deadly infectious disease that most commonly affects children under the age of 5. The virus spreads from person to person, typically through contaminated water. It can then attack the nervous system.
Rotary has been working to eradicate polio for more than 30 years. Our goal of ridding the world of this disease is closer than ever.
As a founding partner of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, we've reduced polio cases by 99.9 percent since our first project to vaccinate children in the Philippines in 1979.
We've helped immunize more than 2.5 billion children in 122 countries. So far, Rotary has contributed more than $1.8 billion toward eradicating the disease worldwide.
Today, polio remains endemic only in Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan. But it’s crucial to continue working to keep other countries polio-free. If all eradication efforts stopped today, within 10 years, polio could paralyze as many as 200,000 children each year.
During the October 11, 2019 meeting, President Elect Drew Pelger kicked off his Charitable Fund Drive. The President Elect plays a very important role in the Club as he leads the annual Charitable Fund drive to raise money to fund our community service projects. Throughout each Rotary year, we provide important funding for projects such as Rotary Scouts, Junior Achievement, Student Scholarships, and the Philomatheon Society, to name just a few.
President Elect Drew will be providing more details in the future, but he did state at Friday's meeting he was willing to 'go a step beyond' to encourage Canton Rotarians to help him reach our goal. PE Drew is taking suggestions on something "crazy" they would like to see him do if he reaches his goal. Drew said he considered getting tattoo of the Rotary Gear logo, but received a resounding "NO" from his wife! Maybe you have another suggestion for Drew's 'reward' if he reaches his goal????
Please feel free to contact the Rotary office to make a contribution to this important Charitable Fund drive on your credit card. You can also mail a check payable to the Canton Rotary Charitable Fund to 116 Cleveland Ave. N.W., Suite 307, Canton, OH 44702.
Thank you for your consideration of this vital drive which helps support our Club's work in the community we live in!
The Health Screen and Wellness Committee is looking for volunteers to work the Semi-Annual event on Saturday, November 2, 2019 from 6:45 am - 11:15 am. We are looking for individuals to help in the following areas:
DAY OF EVENT
Traffic Direction
Process Payments
Event Set-up
Event Clean-up
WEEK OF EVENT
Volunteers are needed to make phone calls to past participants the week of the event to provide them with a reminder of the date and time. If we can get several volunteers to make these calls this should take an estimated half hour...longer if we don't get many members to sign up.
MANAGE PROMOTIONAL ROAD SIGNS
Volunteers are needed to place and rotate promotional road signs.
If you are interested in volunteering for this very worthwhile and live saving event, please contact either Chairman Bob Matthews (330) 806-3016 or the Rotary office at (330) 452-2882.
The Rotary Club of Canton will once again join the bell-ringing efforts of the Salvation Army during its annual Holiday Red Kettle fundraising . Rotarian James Boggs will be chairing this event and will have sign-up sheets available during Friday meetings for those members who choose to volunteer.
We will be manning the kettles on Saturday, December 7, 2019 at the Giant Eagle on the Strip, 6493 Strip Ave NW, North Canton, OH 44720 between the hours of 10:00 am - 7:00 pm. Each time slot will consist of TWO Rotarians manning the kettle for a ONE HOUR shift.
Please contact Rotarian James Boggs at (412) 558-6671 if you would like to volunteer. As a reminder, we will have the volunteer sign-up sheet available beginning this Friday during the meeting.
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Mark your calendar for the Rotary Club of Canton's upcoming Semi-Annual Health Screen & Wellness Fair scheduled for Saturday, November 2, 2019, from 7 am - 11 am! The event will once again be held at the Mercy Hall Auditorium located at 1320 Mercy Drive, Canton.
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During the October 11, 2019 meeting, President Elect Drew Pelger kicked off his Charitable Fund Drive. The President Elect plays a very important role in the Club as he leads the annual Charitable Fund drive to raise money to fund our community service projects. Throughout each Rotary year, we provide important funding for projects such as Rotary Scouts, Junior Achievement, Student Scholarships, and the Philomatheon Society, to name just a few.
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The Rotary Club of Canton will once again join the bell-ringing efforts of the Salvation Army during its annual Holiday Red Kettle fundraising . Rotarian James Boggs will be chairing this event and will have sign-up sheets available during Friday meetings for those members who choose to volunteer.
BEULE, DAVID T. Nov 02
