Meetings are at Kenwood Golf and Country Club (map) every Tuesday at 12:15 pm Upcoming Events- Nov. 20th - Happy Hour at RiRa Irish Pub
- Nov. 25th - Joint meeting with Kiwanis Club
- Dec. 6th - Children's Shopping Spree
- Dec. 8th - B-CC Rotary Holiday Party at Normandie Farm, 6:30 pm
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| | Meeting Schedule- Nov. 11th - Cynthia Word - Dance
- Nov. 18th - Blair Lee - Slots in MD
- Nov. 25th - Judy Olsen - Peach Corps.
- Dec. 2nd - Sean Roberts - Central Asian Affairs
- Dec. 9th - Rebecca Wagner - Interfaith Works
- Dec. 16th - Elections - No Speaker
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Founded in 1933, the Rotary Club of Bethesda Chevy Chase is a local chapter of Rotary International, a worldwide organization of business people who have been dedicated to service projects for over a century, fostering goodwill and world peace through helping communities in need. The Rotary motto is "Service Above Self." Locally, the BCC Rotary provides grants to numerous local organizations that assist community residents, from children to the elderly, as well as offering hands-on participation in community charity events such as Community Service Day, Strut Your Mutt and Turkey Chase 10K. Worldwide, Rotary International and its member clubs assist in many projects from health to education, but they are best known for starting and being one of the biggest sponsors and participants in the "Polio Plus Project" dedicated to eliminating Polio from the entire planet through complete vaccination of all children. In addition to its charitable work, another goal of the organization is to foster fellowship among its members, through regular meetings of each club. The BCC Rotary meets every Tuesday at the Kenwood Country Club. These luncheon meetings offer opportunities to meet and greet with fellow Rotarians, as well as hear from weekly visiting speakers discussing current world developments.
Every Thanksgiving for the past 25 years, thousands of runners have gathered in Bethesda to run in the Turkey Chase in support of the YMCA's Youth and Family Services, YMCA Bethesda-Chevy Chase and the B-CC Rotary Club Foundation. Here's a YouTube video on last year's event.
This year the Travel Channel, our Title Sponsor, invites you and your family and friends to participate in one of our three great races. Our USATF-certified 10k race and 2mile fun run/walk are open to the entire family.
Last year we introduced the 50m Tot-Trot where kids 8 and under chase our Turkey mascot on our infield track. Every child in the Tot Trot will win a prize.
The 3rd annual Strut Your Mutt Dog Parade and Festival took place on Saturday, May 17, 2008 in downtown Bethesda, MD. Organized and sponsored by the Bethesda Chevy Chase Rotary Club, past years have brought together over 3,000 participants and more than 400 dogs for a day of fun. Click here to watch a short video of last year's event. With more than 60 exhibitors and sponsors each year, Strut Your Mutt has raised close to $40,000 each year for the benefit of the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Rescue Squad, a public service that relies on private donations.
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Cynthia Word gave us a lovely presentation about modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan, whose dances she performs. Cynthia’s dance company, Word Dance Theater, performs for many groups of all ages in our community. Her colleague, Valerie Durham, performed a 3 minute Isadora Duncan dance. Cynthia explained that as dance affects us each differently, there is no right and wrong. So it is a very freeing art, transcending gender and culture. Isadora Duncan, born in 1878, looked to classic Greek society to create a dance form that showed "the highest intelligence in the freest body." Modern Dance started with her in the US, and is very democratic, with no prima donnas, where as Ballet is about intense leg work and straight body lines. Ms. Duncan created modern dance based on natural movements, allowing the audience to feel capable of doing it themselves, and thus feel more participatory in the experience. Unlike Ballet, there are not tortuous point shoes. |
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IJ Hudson spoke about the digital TV conversion, debuting February 17, 2009. If you have cable, satellite or FIOS, the change will be somewhat automatic, though your provider may try to sell you a new box. If, however, you only get your TV stations over the air with an antenna - or if the spare TV in your work room, or your vacation home TV's use antennas, and these sets are not digital-signal-ready, you will need a converter box for each TV set. You may still also have to upgrade your antenna to a stronger one, if you find that weaker TV stations that might have come in with some "fuzz" when analog, now don't register at all because of the "perfect or nothing" digital signal. You can go to Antennaweb.org for research on the type of antenna to upgrade. IJ also suggested that if you have a tech challenged friend, or parent, get identical units & you can set it up together at the same time by phone. |
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