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Launching a Flag Holiday Program

Posted by Bill Bexley on Oct 09, 2018

Our Rotary Club is launching a Holiday US Flag Program for the Cities of Carrollton and Farmers Branch. We are starting in the Brookhaven neighborhoods, Brookhaven Estates, Brookhaven Hills, Johnston Park, and Oakbrook Estates. We will expand very quickly into other neighborhoods when we have about 6 subscribers.

We are doing this in partnership with Scouting Units in the North Star District. They will deliver and pick up the flags for 5 holidays. They are Memorial Day, Flag Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, and Veterans Day.

Signing up is easy. Go to www.flagsovercfb.com and either sign up via your credit card, or complete the Order by Mail Form. Click on Form to download.

If you are not part of the neighborhoods mentioned above, simply click on and fill out the Don't See Your Neighborhood info on the website and send it to us. As soon as we have a number of subscribers in your neighborhood, we will quickly add it as part of our coverage area. We hope you will tell your neighborhoods about this opportunity.

The cost is $45.00 per year for the 5 holidays. Part of the proceeds go to the Scouting Units delivering and picking up the flags. The balance goes to scholarships and community organizations we support.

Carrollton-Farmers Branch Rotary Club is at Brookhaven Country
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Posted by Erin Carney on Aug 09, 2018

Carrollton, TX - City Government Police Chief Derick Miller providing an insider’s look at the City’s efforts to ensure all members of our community are treated with dignity and respect. Proud to have such a talented, accountable leader helming the men and women in blue.

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Carrollton-Farmers Branch Rotary Club is at Farmers Branch Elementary.

Posted by Erin Carney on Aug 20, 2018

The CFB Rotary PomPom Patrol was on the scene for the first day of school at Farmers Branch Elementary School this morning to greet each student and wish them a successful 2018-19 school year. Want to get more involved with Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District this year? Give our club a shout - we have an amazing mentoring program that’s changing the world one buddy at a time. #cfbfirstday #cfbmatterstome #changingtheworldonebuddyatatime #pompompatrol

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Paul Lonquist - Club President of the Year 2017/2018

Posted on Aug 18, 2018

Congratulations to Paul Lonquist as the District 5810 President of the Year 2017/2018. Paul was honored at the District 5810 Awards Banquet receiving the most prestigious award. Please come to next Thursday's meeting to help congratulate Paul for his outstanding year.

Volunteers Help Sort School Supplies for Metrocrest Services

Posted by Erin Carney

Thanks to our friends Metrocrest Services for hosting our rambunctious club tonight as we helped with their back to school efforts. The organization is set to serve over 1,400 kids in preparation for the 2018-19 school year, and currently have enough to fill the need of 877. Want to help bridge the gap? Donate today at www.metrocrestservices.org or drop into their offices with school supplies M-F 8am-5pm.

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ICE Bucket Challenge

Posted by Erin Carney

Ice, ice baby! Club President Dr. Paul Lonquist, President-Elect Jerry Bates, and Immediate Past-President Steve Patrick braved the ice bucket challenge in the Texas summer heat in celebration of an awesome year of fundraising efforts. A club that fundraises and laughs together, achieves together! To view a Video, click on this link https://youtu.be/TvtJANyIQes. ! #iceicebaby #thebigchill #serviceoverself

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Newman Smith Interact Club Seniors Receive Sashes

11 seniors from our Interact Club at Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District’s Newman Smith High School completed enough service hours to earn an Interact stole to wear at graduation. Collectively, these students spent 492 hours putting #serviceaboveself this year! #cfbmatterstome #cfbrotary

Tree Planting at City Hall Carrollton

Posted by Bill Bexley on Mar 10, 2018

Many of our members, guest, as well as members of our Interact Clubs from RL Turner and Newman Smith gathered at City Hall to complete our tree planning project for 2017/2018. This was part of our goal to plant 62 trees, one for ever member as of June of 2017, in both Carrollton and Farmers Branch. A total of 31 trees was planted in Carrollton and 31 trees planted in Farmers Branch last year. Many of the trees in Carrollton were planted at Rosemeade Recreation Center in the new Dog Park. We had lots of help with City of Carrollton landscape crews and Lorri Dennis, Certified Arborist. Click on Album to see the Slideshow of pictures.

Rotary Park - Farmers Branch Texas

Rotary Park also know as Gussie Field Watterworth Park, was once again host to Joni and Friends. Joni and Friends is an organization that supports people and families with disabilities. They gathered at the pavilion which is adjacent to the fully accessible playground and park that our club, the Rotary Club of Farmers Branch and the City of Farmers Branch dedicated almost two years ago. Children of all ages with special needs can play along with their siblings and family members. An adult volunteer that is wheelchair bound said that this was the first park that he could access all the way to the top. It was a fun filled day. Our club was honored to sponsore the Ice-cream Truck.

Fourway Speech Contest

One of the world’s most widely printed and quoted statements of ethics is The 4-Way Test. Created in 1932 by Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor and adopted by Rotary in 1943, The 4-Way Test has been translated into more than a hundred languages and published in thousands of ways.

This week's CFB Rotary featured The 4-Way Test Contest. Four outstanding speakers came from CFBISD high schools (Creekview, Newman Smith, Ranchview, and R.L. Turner) to present speeches today. The names in order are Elizabela Hernandez, Creekview, Hoewon Huh, Newman Smith, Joshua Straup, Ranchview, and Edger Avila’ Mendoza, RL Turner, who was the winner. They were all outstanding! Well done, students!

Mentoring Christmas Party

More pictures from yesterday’s Mentoring Christmas Party...

Mentoring Christmas Party

Our Club’s annual Mentoring Christmas Party was held today, and all the kids, their mentors, and even Santa joined in the celebration! Thank you, Victoria Mendoza, for all the hard work you put into the CFB ISD mentoring program, and thank you to all of our Club members and others who mentor these kids! Merry Christmas, everyone!

Rotary Christmas Party @ Sam Pack’s Car Museum

our club’s annual Christmas party was held on December 7, 2017, at Sam Pack’s Car Museum. Club members, spouses, and friends enjoyed celebrating Christmas together, but they also donated Christmas toys to be donated to Metrocrest Services for local children. Thank you for all the planning for this event, and for all of you who attended. Our local kids will also appreciate your Christmas giving!

ClubRunner App

Posted on Oct 31, 2017

The ClubRunner Mobile App is your key to connect to your ClubRunner website on the go! Completely, free to download and use, this app will let you access the key info you need while you're on the go. Password protected just like your website, the ClubRunner Mobile app allows you to to view your member directory, contact your members and executives, read the latest articles posted to your website, learn more about your upcoming events and speakers, view your meeting details and track your attendance statistics, right from your smartphone or tablet!

To download the app from the Apple App Store or from Google Play, simply type in 'ClubRunner' in the search bar. Our mobile app is compatible with all versions of the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch sets that have iOS 8.0 or later and with versions of Anrdoids that are 4.0.3 or better.

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District Awards Banquet

3rd Annual Glow Ball Tournament - Huge Success

Posted by Bill Bexley on May 08, 2017

The 3rd Annual Glow Ball Tournament was a huge success. We especially thank Sonja Dodds for organizing the event. We played for the first time at Riverchase Golf Course in Coppell.

We have 52 players that teed off at 6 pm for our 9 holes before dark. Following dinner in the clubhouse, we wen back around 8 pm and teed off for he glow ball part of the tournament on the same 9 holes.

There were numerous calls to the clubhouse from neighbors asking if there was a tournament going on. They wanted to see if they could play. Also, a neighbor out walking the course for exercise joined our threesome and road with us to the finish of the tournament. We all had a lot of fun.

Thomas Bexley and his friend Coby Allen joined me to make up our threesome. The pictures are of Thomas, Allen an my self. The video shows what it looks like teeing off one of the tee boxes.

As usual, it was a lot of FUN and we raised a lot of money for our community organizations and our upcoming playground park for Carrollton.

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Third Annual Glo-Ball Golf Classic Friday, May 5th

Posted by David Hale on Apr 20, 2017

The Third Annual Carrollton-Farmers Branch Rotary Club Glo-Ball Golf Classic will take place Friday, May 5th at Riverchase Golf Club Coppell, TX. The entry fee is $200 and includes: green fees, golf cart, goodie bag gifts, dinner provided by Nuevo Leon, 2 Glo-Balls, 1 Mulligan (day) & 1 Mulligan (night), and 1 drawing ticket. Registration begins at 5:00 pm sharp. Please allow time for Friday afternoon traffic. Please click here to access a PDF of the Registration Form, and direct all questions to Tournament Director Sonja Dodds at 972-245-5235. We look forward to seeing you out there!

Rotary 4-Way Test Competition

Posted by David Hale

Four wonderfully talented students from the Carrollton/Farmers Branch ISD competed in the Rotary 4-Way Speech Contest. The 4-way test for Rotarians is a set of principles that we recite every week as a reminder of our duty to ourselves and our communities. They are: 1. Is it the Truth?, 2. Is it fair to all concerned?, 3. Does it build good will and better friendships?, and finally 4. Is it beneficial to all concerned? The students write and present a timed speech based on these principles of Rotary to the club. What an awesome experience to hear these future leaders to engage a room! This years winners were: 1st Place going to RL. Turner student Dillion Odle. 2nd Place going Ranchview student Prasana Kuxmohan and 3rd and 4th place being shared by Roxanne Hill of Creekview and Analyn Moran of Newman Smith. Congratulations to all of you

Mentoring Christmas Party a huge hit!

Posted by David Hale on Jan 08, 2017

Click on the link below to view Christmas Party Video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHjQrhl_7Fg

Mentoring Christmas Party 2016!

Posted on Dec 14, 2016

The Carrollton/Farmers Branch Rotary Club celebrated the Christmas Season with our very special guests from the Carrollton/Farmers Branch Independent School District. These students, along with their Rotary Club Mentors, enjoyed good food, games, and the reading of the The Grinch who stole Christmas from our very own Dr. Bobby Burns! The afternoon was topped off with a visit from Santa who gave out gifts to all the kids. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all!

Veterans Day 2016

Posted by David Hale on Nov 14, 2016

The Carrollton/Farmers Branch Rotary Club continued it's tradition of honoring our beloved veterans who have served our great nation so well. Guest speaker,United States Air Force veteran, Nilo Castillo was the keynote speaker at the luncheon. We are so thankful to our veterans and it continues to be an honor to recognize them for their service!

C/FB Rotary Honored with District 5810 Community Service Award

Posted by David Hale on Sep 26, 2016

The Carrollton/Farmers Branch Rotary Club is honored to receive the Rotary District 5810 Community Service Award. Every member should be proud of this award! The all inclusive Rotary playground at Gussie Field Watterworth Park was one of the significant projects that helped the Club garner this award. Well done everyone!

Battle of the Badges Blood Drive 2016!

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