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MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!! 

September 30:  break-out sessions at club meeting. These sessions are intended to brainstorm ideas to improve our FUNDRAISING and MEMBERSHIP efforts in order to meet our goals.

October 5:  FAMILY OF ROTARY event at Paige’s Crossing.  We need MORE people to sign up for this event.  Please sign the sheet at Rotary tomorrow or let Rose Wall know if you plan to attend.

October 10:  ROTARY DISTRICT 6540 FOUNDATION DINNER at Century Center in South Bend . Keynote speaker will be past R.I. president Carol-Wilhelm Stenhammer.

October 11: Group Study Exchange – outbound team to Turkey – interviews for team leader (Rotarian)

October 14:  ROTARY BOARD MEETING, 5:00pm, Coffee D’Vine
October 25: Group Study Exchange – outbound team to Turkey – interviews for participants (non-Rotarian)  

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WHO'S IN THE NEWS??? 

ROTARY YOUTH EXCHANGE 

JUAN PABLO Aug 2007-June 2008

Juan Pablo Camacho Orlic is our Rotary Club’s Youth Exchange Student this year. He is from Antofagasta, Chile. His host family is Jay and Jan Ballard. His father is Jorge Enrique Camacho Vidakovic and he is a geologist. His mother is Milka Marie Orlic Jacob. She is studying to be a psychologist. Juan Pablo also has a 12-year old brother. Juan Pablo loves sports, especially basketball and football. He is currently on the soccer team at HNHS. 

Juan Pablo would like to experience new things while in the USA. He wants to visit Notre Dame University and attend football and basketball games. One of the sports he played in Chile is basketball so he says it would be very exciting to go to a “real” game. 

Juan Pablo describes his home in Chile as a “welcoming home”. He has his own bedroom where he does his studying after school. His home is four kilometers from the school and it takes 5 minutes to reach school from his house by car. In Chile, his school subjects were math, Spanish, English, history, biology, chemistry, and physics. His school begins classes in March and finishes in December. 

Juan Pablo believes the major issues confronting youth today are youth pregnancy, alcoholism, illegal drugs, and violence in youth. He believes illegal drugs are the most harmful because of the consequences they can 
lead to, including “distorted perception, difficulty in thinking and problem solving, problems with memory and learning, loss of coordination, violence and the most tragic, it can provoke death”. 

Our club extends a HUGE thank you to Juan Pablo for his help with interpretation on November 29th during DG Al Cipres’ visit to Huntington. 

Juan Pablo lives for sports and is a determined student. He also likes challenges. His main reason for being an exchange student is to learn English. He is also interested in learning about a culture other than his own and meeting new people. He describes himself as being a very tolerant person who doesn’t dislike too many things.