Downtown Rotarian
The newsletter of the Downtown Las Vegas Rotary Club
For the week of: Monday, January 18th, 2020
Speaking this week!
Howard Stutz
Howard Stutz has spent nearly four decades in Las Vegas as an award-winning journalist. He currently serves as the executive editor of CDC Gaming Reports. During his time with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Howard covered the gaming industry from a local, statewide, national and international perspective. Howard’s vast experience following gaming gives him a knowledge of the industry’s history and a unique insight and perspective into Nevada and national gaming issues. Howard was part of the Review-Journal team that uncovered the Adelson family as the secret buyers of the newspaper that earned the journalists several ethics awards in 2015, including the James Foley Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism from Northwestern University and the Ancil Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism from the University of Oregon. Howard has earned several awards from the Nevada State Press Association for Best Local Column for his coverage of gaming.
General Meeting
Virtual Lunch Meeting
How to join ZOOM meeting:
1) Set up free ZOOM account through the ZOOM Cloud Meeting app or zoom.us
2) Click the link below, or join using Meeting ID number
https://academica.zoom.us/j/9230649619
Meeting ID: 923 064 9619
Tuesday, Jan 19, 2021, 12:15 PM
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Did you miss last week?
Craft Talk
We heard from one of our Rotarians, who let us in on their professional life. What a great way to learn a little about different fields, as well as getting to know our members better.
Adriana Pereyra
Adriana Pereyra has lived in Las Vegas for almost 20 years. She studied International Business Administration at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, before receiving her Juris Doctor from the Thomas M. Cooley Law School, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She also attended a European Law Master’s Program at the University of Paris XII Val De Marne, and studied French at La Sorbonne, both in Paris, France. A native of Mexico, Adriana is fluent in English, Spanish and French. Adriana has been a business owner, has extensive experience in litigation and most recently is specializing in immigration and small business consulting law. Adriana’s personal motto is to treat every case with integrity and with the client’s best interest in mind by evaluating the impact of each legal decision on the client’s life as a whole.
Save the Date!
ZOOM Social Tuesday, January 26th 5:30 PM
Please join us for a ZOOM social on the last Tuesday in January.
Come ready with your favorite beverage and be ready to play games and perhaps be willing to share one of your "Rotary Moments".
This is a great opportunity to invite family and friends who support, or may be interested in becoming a Downtown Rotarian!
To help keep our foundation budget alive, we do ask that all participants make a small donation of $5.00 to the Downtown Rotary Charitable Fund. Be on the lookout for an official flyer coming to your inbox later this week!
Payments can be made here: https://drcf.vegas/donate/
Club Updates
Wine!
We are selling off old stock of wine. This 2017 Prisoner Blend (Nebbiolo / Barbera) is aged to perfection. Make sure to get yours today! We only have about 5 bottles left!
$25.00 / bottle
Also, we have found one last case of our 2016's Cabernet - Merlot blend. This is a great vintage and has been able to sit long enough to develop a wonderful taste. Grab one at the next meeting!
$30.00 / bottle
All proceeds go to the Downtown Rotary Charitable Fund.
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Celebrations
Birthday
Al Guida - 01/19
Rotary Fun Fact
Functional Literacy Program
It has been estimated that a billion people -- one-fourth of the world's population -- are unable to read. Illiteracy of adults and children is global is a concern in both highly industrialized nations and in developing countries. The number of adult illiterates in the world is increasing by 25 million each year! In the United States, one quarter of the entire population is considered functionally illiterate.
The tragedy of illiteracy is that those who cannot read lose personal independence and become victims of unscrupulous manipulation, poverty and the loss of human feelings which give meaning to life. Illiteracy is demeaning. It is a major obstacle for economic, political, social and person development. Illiteracy is a barrier to international understanding, cooperation and peace in the world.
Literacy education was considered a program priority by Rotary's original Health, Hunger and Humanity Committee in 1978. An early 3-H grant led to the preparation of an excellent source book on the issues of literacy in the world. The Rotary-sponsored publication, The Right to Read, was edited by Rotarian Eve Malmquist, a past district governor from Linkoping, Sweden, and a recognized authority on reading and educational research. The book was the forerunner of a major Rotary program emphasis on literacy promotion.
In 1985 the RI Planning and Research Committee proposed, and the RI board approved, that the Rotary clubs of the world conduct a ten-year emphasis on literacy education. Many Rotary clubs are thoughtfully surveying the needs of their community for literacy training. Some clubs provide basic books for teaching reading. Others establish and support reading and language clinics, provide volunteer tutorial assistance and purchase reading materials.
Rotarians can play a vitally important part in their community and in developing countries by promoting projects to open opportunities which come from the ability to read.
RSVP February Meeting
Tuesday, Feb 2, 2021, 12:15 PM
Hugo's Cellar, Fremont Street Experience, Las Vegas, NV, USA
RSVPs are enabled for this event.
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