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The Passport Club of Pierce County is a new type of Rotary club designed to be flexible, affordable and accessible. We seek to serve the community with like-minded leaders, create friendships, and make business connections. Unlike traditional Rotary Clubs that meet weekly, the Passport club provides opportunities each month to have a club meeting, to volunteer, to socialize with one another and other area Rotarians, and to learn about our local and global community. Join us!

Holiday Giving Opportunities

We have four opportunities for supporting families and community members during the holiday season. Opportunities are:

1 Community family - Mom, Dad, and three kids. This is a family that was referred to us via a club member.
1 Veteran family - Dad, disabled older daughter and her two children. We are partnering with Redefining Your Future to support.
Multiple seniors from the Lakewood Senior Center
Toy Rescue Mission - focusing on older children/teenagers

There is a signup wish list for items that the families and organizations have requested. For clothing items the signup includes gender and size. Please wrap/gift bag the family's items with a label on the outside with the person's name.

The senior center support will be in the form of gift cards to Safeway and Fred Meyer, they are looking for 16 total. The Toy Rescue Mission can use any support that we are able to provide. The signup list includes a generic line if you have your own idea for a toy for teenagers and also includes a few options that are common/most requested items. The items for the senior center and Toy Rescue Mission do not need to be wrapped.

Please deliver all items to Leigh Ann's house as you have them available, she can deliver to the senior center and Toy Rescue Mission a few times during collection. Please have all family items and final items for all organizations to Leigh Ann by Sunday December 20th.

Club Updates (9/24/2020)

A few updates and information for our club that I would like to pass along.

We still have three meetings which will need a program. If you have an idea of a program or a speaker that you would like to invite, please let me know. (2nd Wednesday of the month)
Rotary focus meetings - Is there a Rotary topic that you would like to learn more about? Please let me know. I am working on finding speakers/programs for the Rotary focus meetings (4th Wednesday of the month)
Make sure to check out the calendar for our meetings coming up
For those that have pledged a donation during a meeting for our 50/50 drawing, please make sure to pay your invoices. You should have received an invoice via email. You can also find your current balance in your club runner account by logging in to the 'member area' and then click on 'MyClubRunner' in the top navigation which will open a second row navigation. From there you can click on 'my account balance' which will provide your open balance. You can pay via credit card through the site.

Tacoma North Rotary Auction 2020

The Rotary Club of Tacoma North is having an online auction to raise funds for Emergency Food Network. The auction is live now and will be closing Friday September 25th. Click here to visit their auction.

September is Literacy Month - Book Challenge

In honor of September being Literacy Month District Governor Greg Horn has challenged clubs to collect 2 books per member. (See DG Horn's message below.)

For those that would like to participate you may donate your books directly to a school or organization or coordinate with Prez Karyn, she can pick up the books from you and they will go into one of our club's Little Free Libraries. If you are able to take a picture with you and your books please send it to Prez Karyn, she will create a collage of the photos to celebrate our service in action.

DG Horn's Message:

Our clubs in District 5020 support literacy initiatives in many ways. Whether donating books, acting as tutors, donating dictionaries, building neighborhood library boxes or reading via Zoom to students (try that with your grandkids, they love it). District 5020 Rotarians are extremely active in efforts to bolster literacy. Please join Mary and me in making two books per club member a goal to help our literacy efforts. Collect new or gently used kid’s books and donate them to your local schools or nonprofits. Today’s kids will become tomorrow’s leaders. They should have all the help we can give them to start them off on the right foot.

Count Down to History - End Polio Event - Oct 17th

SEE HISTORIC PROGRESS IN ACTION
Rotary District 5020 will mark historic progress toward a polio-free world while urging the community to help end the paralyzing disease. Rotary members in District 5020 are taking action, virtually, on October 17 2020 to raise awareness, funds, and support to end polio, a vaccine-preventable disease that still threatens children in parts of the world today. Visit https://www.justtwodrops.com/ for more information.

While October 24th is known as World Polio Day, a date selected by Rotary International to commemorate the birth of Jonas Salk, who led the first team to develop a vaccine against poliomyelitis, we have an amazing opportunity to celebrate World Polio Day, early, with a collection of speakers who will truly inspire you. Join us! Register now: https://www.justtwodrops.com/.

Tickets are only $30 and All proceeds, minus the credit card processing fee, from this event, will go directly towards PolioPlus and is eligible to receive Paul Harris points/credit. Please make sure to have your Rotary Member number available when you signup!

Meet our Speakers!
HOLGER KNAACK
President 2020-2021, Rotary International
ANN LEE HUSSEY
Executive Director, Polio Survivors Rotarian Action Group
JOHRITA SOLARI
Director 2019-2021 & Vice President 2020-2021, Rotary International
ANIL PURI
Assistant Governor & Polio Team Leader, Rotary International District 5020
JOHN GERM
Past President 2016-2017, Rotary International
JAMIE GREGORY
Assistant Governor & Event MC, Rotary International District 5020

Rotarian of the Month 2020-2021

Each month a club member is named as Rotarian of the Month. The newly awarded member will then be the one to select next month's ROTM for the reason of their choosing.

Congratulations to:

July - Joe LeRoy

August - Stephanie Shramm

September - Terri Scott

Unite District 5020

Have you seen this month's district magazine yet? Interested in prior editions?

Check out the current and past editions on the district website at:

https://rotary5020.org/page/district-5020-monthly-magazine

Rotary Global Rewards

Explore Rotary Global Rewards to find discounts and special offers, along with opportunities to give back to Rotary while doing your online shopping.

In addition to the site, there is also an app for the Rotary Global Rewards, available for both Apple and Android, just search for Rotary Global Rewards.

The site also allows for members to post their own offerings. Does your business have a product that you would like to offer to other Rotarians? Consider making it available to the Rotary family.

To view the discounts and ways you can help support Rotary, log into your RI account and select the Rotary Global Rewards.

Happy shopping, saving, and supporting Rotary!

PCPC Member Announcements

If you or your business have something that you would like to share with the club, let us know and we can post it here. Send any announcements to passportrotary@gmail.com. If you have a photo to include, please send as a jpg.

Passport to Opportunities

We meet In Person

Wednesdays at 5:30 PM

Zoom

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Tacoma, WA 98405
United States of America

Club Meetings are the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of each month currently via Zoom. If you would like to join us for a meeting please email Jennifer Durham at hosteventplanning@gmail.com for login information.

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