On Thursday, October 12th, The Rotary Club of Fayetteville presented a $1,500 check to the Fayetteville High School Lady Bulldog Softball Program. This donation was the first check presented by our club using proceeds generated from the 2006 FayRo Girls Softball tournament.

Pictured from left to right for the presentation is Laura Wilkins, Rotary President; Steve Litzinger, FayRo Softball Chairman; Jason Shirey, FHS Lady Softball Coach; Amber McGill, Lady Softball Senior; Aspen Grams, Lady Softball Senior; and Dick Johnson, FHS Athletic Director.

Erin Fredrick, FHS student in France with Rotary Youth Exchange sent this note describing her activities there.

Things are going well here. My host family and I get along famously, which has made things fairly easy for me. I have 3 host siblings-- Clément, who's 17, Emilie, 15, and Victoria, almost 14. We have a lot of fun, though it's still bizarre for me to live with 3 other teenagers. School was pretty difficult for the first 2 or so weeks, just in terms of finding friends, but it's working itself out now :) I'm in série L, for Littérature, which means I have 6 hours of French per week. It's alright, though; I'm understanding almost everything and my grades have been pretty respectable, all things considered. I'm also taking English, which I enjoy because it's an hour in which I don't have to think, and German, which I'm glad I got to continue. I'm a serious flutist at home so I was worried at first about finding a teacher here, but now I've got one lined up and I'm extremely excited. She's in her early 20s and studies in Paris with Philippe Pierlot, the principal flute of the Orchestre National de France. Within the first few weeks I was here we went to Chenonceau, the château that bridges the Cher, and Villandry, which is famous for its gardens. There was also a dinner at the château d'Amboise, to celebrate my Rotary club's being twinned with a German one. I'd like to go back to all three maybe later in the season, when we can really be sure there won't be hoardes of tourists. As for other interesting things, we went to the théâtre the other night to see Molière's "Le Misanthrope." It was written in the 1660s but the mise-en-scène was very modern and there were some great songs by indie bands of the '90s as transitions between scenes. I really, really enjoyed it.

Medical Supplies Network of District 6110 announced that Tommy Lewis of our Club will be President of MSNI for 2007.

From the MSNI Newsletter they report shipments of supplies valued at $209,530 were sent to Iraq, East Timor and South Africa during their first quarter.

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