The Gainesville-Haymarket Rotary meets every Wednesday at 7:30 am at the Piedmont Country Club. Here's the address:

14675 Piedmont Vista Drive, Haymarket, Va 20169

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The Gainesville-Haymarket Rotary Club really displayed it's stuff this past Saturday at the Earth Day Celebration in Haymarket. Thanks to everyone for your support both physical and financial, for giving us a huge presence and for making this a event a great success. Thank you for helping with the parade, recycling, chalk, selling food, pulling pork, putting up tents, taking down tents, putting out signs picking up signs, manning the information booth and giving out the toys to the treasure hunt participants and all the other things you did. David thank you for bringing us the Shriner cars and the clowns. Wherever you looked there were Rotarians. It was awesome.

There can be no doubt that the Gainesville-Haymarket Rotary Club is a leader in this community and we've raised several thousand dollars for the Gainesville-Haymarket Foundation.

When the Manassas Chorale (Charlie Miles and Mark Cooke included) sang the National anthem in front of the Rotary Booth it brought tears to my eyes. So once again. Thank you, thank you!!!!

Doug, Ameila, Prem, Gene, Brian, Marilyn Jennifer Robinson, Jennifer Preli, Kathleen Katz, Esteffanny Lambert

I know what tells me. The sky’s clear and blue, the sun’s bright and hot. The local police are present, quiet, and both respectful and respected. The Mayor in her blue jeans smiles a greeting. Our Congressman stops by, and talks to me like he was a neighbor.

We erect a tent for an afternoon outing, but this one’s downtown. Under it, our coffee is donated by a Rotarian from Pakistan. In the tent, our fellow Rotarians include Club members from Ireland and South Africa. Next to the Girl Scouts across the street, our Battlefield High School Interact Club, predominantly natives of Korea, sell home-made birdhouses to benefit the children of Romania. We breakfast at the Masonic Lodge, and watch the World’s Shortest Parade – two blocks of clowns, balloons, and beautiful children. Families pass by, laughing.

In and out of our tent move the heroes, the quiet planners of the day: the all-night pork-pullers; sign-makers; street-markers; treasure-hunt designers; event coordinators; food servers; booth-sitters; and banner-hangers. Around us move our head facilitator and our all-day photographer. Working side-by-side with us are the Shriners, the local Women’s Club, and our own Rotary Community Corps. Together, this group performs a thousand kindnesses, all unbidden. The Manassas Community Chorale sings the most beautiful version of The Star Spangled Banner that I’ve ever heard. It’s Earth Day in Haymarket, Virginia. This is America, land that I love.

Timothy Burtch, Aircraft Accident Investigator - National Transportation Safety Board

Timothy Burtch has been employed as an investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board since 2005. He has performed numerous airplane performance analyses in support of accidents including Continental Express Flight 3407 in Clarence, NY, Continental Airlines Flight 1404 accident in Denver, CO, and Comair Flight 5191 in Lexington, KY.

Timothy has more than 20 years of flight dynamics and control experience with McDonnell Douglas, Lockheed Martin, and Rockwell Collins. He holds a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science in AE from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Private Pilot Instrument with additional flight training in upset recovery.

Michael Kieffer, Bull Run Mountain Conservancy

Bull Run Mountains Conservancy, Inc., (BRMC) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1995 to protect the Bull Run Mountains through education, research, and stewardship. As the most easterly chain in the Piedmont, the Bull Run Mountains protect unique ecosystems and headwaters of the Occoquan and Goose Creek watersheds. The Bull Run Mountains are also rich in Virginia and Civil War history. BRMC is headquartered on the southern 800 acres of the 2,500-acre Bull Run Mountains Natural Area Preserve just 15 minutes from Manassas, Middleburg, and Warrenton, Virginia.

BRMC offers educational programs to adults and children, a strong link to local history, and the simple pleasure of preserving and walking trails in the Piedmont. At BRMC preservation does not mean a hands-off policy, but rather a focus on drawing people to appreciate the resources at hand and the completion of research to better understand and protect those resources.

Our Youth Outdoors Program shows children that the outdoors is fun and exciting, and teaches them that we all have a responsibility to protect and to enhance our public lands and nature preserves. Through a series of seasonal events, nature camps, birthday adventures, and school and scout programs, we work with children rain or shine. This year, BRMC partnered with Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI) to create a Youth Outdoors Scholarship Program to make these exceptional outdoor experiences available to more youth.

Several of our chapter members attended the Planting and Dedication of a memorial garden for PACE West Student Alexis Glover, who was murdered earlier in the year. Our Rotary Club purchased a tree for the garden with funds collected at Happy Talk a few weeks ago. It was a very touching ceremony for a life that was tragically cut short.

We have had record numbers of guests attending our recent Rotary Meetings. Pictured here are our guests attending the April 22 meeting. Many of them are in the process of becoming members of our chapter!

Please invite someone you know who might be interested in learning more about Rotary to join us at one of our breakfast meetings.

Date	Speaker	Description	Guest Of
May 6	Curt & Margaret Dierdorf	Volunteer Chaplains	Marti Dahl
May 13	Jan Nelson	National Wildlife Federation	Marilyn Karp
May 20	Bonaventure Gonsalves	Bonefish Grill	Jim Miller
May 27	Eric Latham	Walk Across America	Don Rusch
June 24	Congressman Gerald Connolly		Amelia Stansell

Date	Event	Time
Saturday, September 26	Childrens Wellness Festival

2008-2009 Board of Directors

Officers	Name	Directors	Name
President	Dennis Fargo	The Rotary Foundation	Russ Tuck
President Elect	Charlie Mills	Club Administration	Lori Power
Vice President	Alan Myers	Membership	Linda Marlow
Secretary	Don Rusch	Service Projects	Marilyn Karp
Treasurer	John Grzejka	Club Public Relations	Amelia Stansell
Sergeant-at-Arms	Ali Sayed	Rotary Community Corp	George Layne
Interact Club	George Layne	Past President	John Grzejka

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• caring more than others think wise
• risking more than others think is safe
• dreaming more than others think is practical
• and expecting more than others think is possible

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