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• December 5, Regular Noon Meeting at The Salvation Army
• December 12 evening, RCPC Holiday Party
• December 19, Regular Noon Meeting at Bonton
• December 26 and January 2, NO Meetings
Enjoy the Holidays!
• January 9, Back at Maggiano's
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Club merchandise!
Hats are Back!
As a New member, you get an RCPC hat free. Let Laurie know if you don't already have one.
If you are an existing member, you can buy a new one online.
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).
• November is Rotary Foundation Month, and we invite every Rotarian to take part in our District-wide Proud Rotarian Campaign!
This month, let’s celebrate the impact we create through the Rotary Foundation by sharing our support and raising awareness of the good we accomplish together.
Here’s how you can participate:
1. Share the official graphics — “I’m a Proud Member” or “I’m a Proud Rotary Foundation Donor.”
2. Promote Rotary's Impact by posting Rotary Foundation or Rotary Causes videos on your social media or at your Club meeting.
3. Include hashtags: #ProudRotarian, #District5810Proud and #Zones25b29 to help us track and amplify your posts.
Let’s fill November with messages of support and show how, together, we are Doing Good in the World!
• Friday, December 12, 6:00 to 9:00 pm. District Holiday Party: Jingle and Mingle
at Network of Community Ministries, 1500 International Pkwy, Richardson, TX 75081
Holiday Attire. Live Music. Buffet Dinner. Beer and wine available.
Tickets: $45.00/person. Decorate your own table: $320. Purchase a decorated table: $360
•Ongoing. RCPC's Meals on Wheels Committee needs six more volunteers to deliver hot, nutritious meals to those who cannot obtain or prepare their own food. The routes are in the Casa Linda area and take about an hour to run. Meals are delivered Monday through Thursday around midday. Ask Jim Weichel for details and the routes and dates available.
•Saturday, November 1, beginning the Soles for Souls Shoe Drive. Start collecting gently-used shoes to bring to the Friday meetings for the shoe drive. Any kind of shoe is needed. Bring shoes to the 11-21 meeting, the 12-5 meeting or to the party on 12-12. If you don't have shoes to donate but wish to support the cause, you can donate: Support Soles4Souls TX | Charity PledgeIt.
•Monday, Nov. 17, 4:00pm. Come make dinner for families at Ronald McDonald House during Thanksgiving week! It will warm your heart! Ronald McDonald House, 4707 Bengal St Dallas, TX 75235.
Bring your license to enter building. Wear long pants and closed toe shoes.
Sign up on the RCPC website to book yourself directly online and view available slots.
25 Volunteers needed. Sign up on the RCPC website.
-> If you signed up before and didn't re-sign up from Jeff's last email.
-> If you want to help and didn't sign up before, please sign up to help.
Jeff McNaughton - 214-538-7979
• Friday, November 28. NO Regular Friday meeting. Enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday!
• Tuesday, December 2, 6:30 to 8:00 pm. RCPC Programming Meeting at 3725 Turtle Creek Blvd, #B, Dallas 75225 (corner of Blackburn and Turtle Creek). Bring Program ideas for 2026! Pizza will be served. Every member is a member of the program committee! Our strength is your diversity of ideas and contacts.
Please let Richard know you are attending! Email Richard Stanford at stanfordr@hpumc.org
•Friday, December 5, Regular Noon Meeting will be at The Salvation Army
Register directly with The Salvation Army!
Contribute the price of lunch (or MORE!) at the meeting by check or cash. IFyou want your donation to go to the Dallas Adult Rehabilitation Center (where we will be meeting), please designate Dallas ARC on your check or with a note on cash - or you can donate on the new QR code should you choose to donate to the ARC specifically.
•Friday, December 12, evening, RCPC Holiday Party at home of President Sarah and catered by Kuby's
Sign up and pay on RCPC website
NO Noon Meeting!
•Monday, Dec. 15, 4:00pm. Make dinner for families at Ronald McDonald House. It will warm your heart!
Ronald McDonald House, 4707 Bengal St Dallas, TX 75235.
Bring your license to enter building. Wear long pants and closed toe shoes
Sign up on the RCPC website to book yourself directly online and view available slots.
Call Kathleen if you have questions 214-422-3010
•Friday, December 19, Regular Noon Meeting will be at Bonton
•Fridays, December 26 and January 2, NO Meetings
Enjoy the Holidays!
•Friday, January 9, Back at Maggiano's
•Saturday, January 31,Strategic Planning Session, in the morning (TBD) at the Meeting Place, 13612 Midway Rd #601, Dallas, TX 75244 (at Alpha/Midway)
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
Pres. Sarah Oliai has set a Club Goal equal to 85% participation.
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
From Mark Kashar, President-Elect of RCPC and President of the RCPC Foundation - 2025-26
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.
