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Announcements Lower North Shore Walk - 29 November Gordon R King will be leading another interesting walk around the Lower North Shore on Saturday 29 November.  It is an easy and beautiful walk around the harbour!  Please click here for details!  All are welcome to participate. Summer Benefit Concert Saturday 6 December Please join us at Ravenswood Centenary Centre for an uplifting concert of popular classics performed by the Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra and a "champagne" supper.  The proceeds will benefit youth projects in our community, including Sir Eric Woodword School for the disabled, and the Ku-ring-gai Youth Development Centre.  Tickets are only $45 ($40 concession).  Please call Allan at 9144 1825 for tickets or more information.

Welcome to our award-winning web site!  Our club won the 2007/2008 Norm Roach Memorial Shield for the best website in Rotary District 9680.  The site has information about Rotary activities and projects, upcoming events, and some of the history of our club, which was chartered in 1965. 
Please let us know your suggestions for making it even better!

Members of the club can access even more information by using the "For Members" link on the left side and entering their regular email address and password.   

If you're looking for ways to participate in community or international projects, make new friends around St Ives and around the world, please contact us.  Rotary is a non-sectarian, non-political organisation for business and professional people.  Come join us!

INDIA PROJECT UPDATE - 8 November 2008

Last year, our Club members donated over $10,000 to a Rotary Matching Grant project with District 3150 in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh in India.  The project's goal is to provide Toilet facilities in public schools in the region to reduce the drop-out rate of female students when they reach puberty.  A group of Rotarians from our District attended the ground-breaking ceremonies in January 2008, and we have just received word that the toilet blocks have now been commissioned.

Our Club sponsored the Toilet Block at the CAP School in Guntur, which is a residential school for girls who have been rescued from child labour or who have been living in the streets of the city. 

The Toilet Block has basic toilet and shower facilities.

For more information about the Toilet Block Project, please click on the following document - Shattered Dreams Rebuilt.

Rotary Song

I hope you enjoyed the video clip!.                                           

Yours in Rotary,

Greg Rappo

President 2008-2009

Rotary Club of St Ives

Rotary Theme 2008-2009: Make Dreams Real Dong Kurn Lee - President, Rotary International Tony Castley - District Governor, District 9680 Greg Rappo - President, St Ives Rotary Club          David Dean - President-Elect, St Ives Rotary Club