An update on the progress our club is making in Honduras. 
Pat Greco will be going there this Saturday for 1 week and meeting with recipients of our financial support and others. As you know we have received a matching district grant and have furnished a computer lab at a girls school there. We also had a very nice plague made dedicating the computer lab to our own Bill Gordon.
I will also be meeting with the Comandante General of the Fire Department who just received 50 set of fire gear from the Strongsville Fire Department that we provided the shipping for.
A big thank you to everyone who donated clothes and came out to help sort the clothes!
The club is focusing on the End Polio Now during October following Stew Buchanan's recent presentation. All fines and happy bucks will be donated towards the End Polio Now fund. If you wish to donate extra you can donate through our foundation at 
The Rotary Club of Strongsville was able to provide support to ship old firefighter gear, no longer of use to Strongsville, to the firefighters in Honduras. The used equipment no longer meets US safety standards, but is priceless to the firefighters in Honduras due to their lack of funding. Read the full story at 
The Rotary Club of Strongsville worked together with the Club Rotario de Tegucigalpa and Rotary District 6630 to fund a computer lab and school library to serve the Zambrano community about 40km north of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. This will be used to aid in the education of young women of integrity to break the cycle of poverty.
Our club recently donated $2,000 to send two Shelter Boxes to the disaster in the Philippines. What are Shelter Boxes? Learn more about them from Past District 6630 Gov. Jack Young and Kara Lapso, of Shelter Box USA, on Rotary Radio, on WELW AM 1330. 
Jay Dzurilla and Bill DeMarco last week delivered dictionaries to third graders at Drake Elementary School as part of the Strongsville Rotary's annual Dictionary Project. Hopefully these young scholars were not suspended for violating the school's Zero Tolerance policy against silliness..jpg)
the Strongsville Emergency Food Bank has been operating from a Board of Education annex building at Center Middle School. With plans to raze the building to make way for a new middle school, the Food Bank, which serves more than 200 families a month, is in need of a new home.
The 2013-2014 Rotary year began with President Brian Kiplinger presiding over his first meeting. This year's Rotary International theme, as chosen by RI President Ron Burton, is Engage Rotary, Change Lives. (IMAGE: Sandy Croft is ready for another Rotary year.)
