Our guest on Thursday, March 19th was Pamela Cournoyer, CEO of Communicate with CLASS, who talked about managing difficult people. The lively and very awake group started by listing their top difficult people concerns, the winners were: People who cannot get to the point People who cannot explain things so we get it People who are not up front People who are rude and Impatient with us while serving us The group approved the following strategies to deal with their top two selections: 1. People who are not up front Ask them Questions to clarify what they mean Ask open ended questions to walk them...

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Women and children wait outside the unicef supported emergency SAGA feeding center where local Rotary clubs are donating rice coordinated by Laurence Kouassi, a Cote d’Ivoire Rotarian. Credit: © Rotary International

Chris Orsinger, executive director of Friends of Buford Park and Mount Pisgah will be speaking at tomorrow’s Eugene Airport Rotary meeting. About section from www.bufordpark.org : Friends of Buford Park & Mt. Pisgah is the only organization with the mission and expertise to conserve the Mt. Pisgah area’s incredible botanical, wildlife and recreational values. Friends of Buford Park & Mt. Pisgah mobilizes funding, expertise and volunteer resources to conserve and enhance the botanical, fish, wildlife and recreational values on Buford Park and other nearby public lands. Since...

Assistant Professor Gabriela Martinez and Professor Lynn Stephen Lane County has quite a rich history that many residents are unaware of. More specifically, Lane County’s racial and ethnic past. Lane County has not always been the home to European settlers, other ethnic groups made Lane County their homes far before that. To help celebrate Oregon’s 150th birthday, Assistant Professor Gabriela Martinez and Professor Lynn Stephen of the UO’s anthropology department partnered with the Lane County Historical Museum to create an exhibit and documentary featuring the underrepresented Latino...

Together with SHARE, Rotarians, and village volunteers work together to build a retaining wall that keep the wells from going dry. so they yeild all year. The Rotary club of Bombay Metro and Rotary Club of Palo Alto, California, USA, used an RI Matching Grant to help facilitate the project. Rotary Images/Alyce Henson

After receiving close to a half  million dollars from family friends and Oregon-based Angel Investors for her start-up Web site, Caroline Cummings has learned the importance of extra help and being an entrepreneur. Cummings has plenty of experience in the realm of entrepreneurship. She is the co-founder of Smart-ups, an entrepreneurial support group in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, which is a local chapter of the Oregon Entrepreneurs Network (OEN) based in Portland, OR. Now Cummings is giving back even more by assisting with the Willamette Angel Conference, an investors conference connecting...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a $255 million challenge grant to Rotary International in the global effort to eradicate polio, bringing the total committed by Rotary and the Gates Foundation to $555 million. The donation will go toward the four countries where the polio-virus is endemic: India, Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan. “Rotarians, government leaders, and health professionals have made a phenomenal commitment to get us to a point at which polio afflicts only a small number of the world’s children,” Gates said. “However, complete elimination of the poliovirus...