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WHAT IS DAYBREAK ROTARY OF MARBLE FALLS ALL ABOUT?
Children and education are two of the main areas where Daybreak shines. We have a special relationship with the Falls Career High School at MFISD, including them in most of our projects and making those students recipients of our scholarships. Abused and neglected children are another focus of Daybreak through our promotion of foster homes, an annual recognition of Child Abuse Awareness and Prevention month, and the annual Adoption Day. Daybreakers are "hands on" with projects such as not only sponsoring but working at the Mustang Relays each year, putting on the entire Adoption Day event, and helping keep Rotary Field (ball fields) maintained and improved.
The 2015-16 Rotary theme is "Be a Gift To The Word." At the Daybreak Club, we will promote all persons, activities and organizations that "give" to their communities and the world.
We recognize that every action we take affects other people, and we will continue in our actions to put "service above self." Come join us on Tuesday mornings for breakfast, fellowship and fantastic programs. Be a gift to the world.
From the earliest days of the organization, Rotarians were concerned with promoting high ethical standards in their professional lives. One of the world's most widely printed and quoted statements of business ethics is The 4-Way Test, which was created in 1932 by Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor (who later served as RI president) when he was asked to take charge of a company that was facing bankruptcy.
Necessity is the mother of all invention, and so it was in taming the Lower Colorado River. John Hofmann, Executive Vice-President - Water - for the LCRA gave Daybreakers a brief history of the dams and explanation of LCRA's water management.
Rotarians are no longer just a collection of old white guys talking business. #DaybreakRotaryMF is all about service and "doing stuff" and proper public relations will let the world know what we do.
We take water for granted in America where we just turn the tap. Without the water well that is about to be drilled, the Maasai people subsist on tainted water carried by the women in used petroleum drums, on their heads, five gallons at a time.
A recent online article on the Bill Gates blog caught my attention about RI's participation in eradicating the world of the polio virus. His blog mentioned only the Global Polio Eradication Initiative and not Rotary's PolioPlus and that led me to look up the GPEI. While at first I thought Gates and the GPEI were hijacking the role of Rotary, I was pleasantly surprised.
Each Christmas season Daybreak Rotary along with the other two area Rotary Clubs helps in the bell-ringing for the Salvation Army. We hear grateful stories which we now share with you.
Galyn Woerner, Camp Agape's Camp Director explained how Camp Agape helps children in the bereavement process.
Chess Long and several students from MFISD's Falls Career High School gave Daybreakers a great rundown of the unique features of Falls.
