Monday, November 9, 2015

ROTARY WEEK VOL 3 NO 2

SALLY DAVIES, THE
COMMUNITY RELATIONS COORDINATOR
AT CLOVER RIDGE PLACE 
CAN BE EMAILED AT:   Welcome@cloverridgeplace.net

 THERE WILL BE NO
 SILENT AUCTION ITEM
 THIS WEEK

BILL TUBBS, PUBLISHER OF THE ELDRIDGE NORTH SCOTT PRESS AND 
WILTON-DURANT ADVOCATE NEWS, WAS HONORED OCTOBER 3RD DURING THE NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION 2015 ANNUAL CONVENTION AND TRADE SHOW IN ST. CHARLES, MISSOURI.    HE WAS
PRESENTED WITH THE JAMES O. AMOS AWARD AT THE BUSINESS LUNCHEON, RECOGNIZED AS THE HIGHEST AND MOST DIGNIFIED TRIBUTE TO COMMUNITY JOURNALISM.   THE AMOS AWARD IS PRESENTED TO A WORKING (OR RETIRED) NEWSPAPERMAN WHO HAS
PROVIDED DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
AND LEADERSHIP TO THE COMMUNITY PRESS AND THE LOCAL COMMUNITY.
BILL (A FREQUENT VISITOR TO  MAQUOKETA ROTARY MEETINGS) IS THE BROTHER OF MAQUOKETA ROTARIAN ALAN TUBBS AND
MAQUOKETA FARMER STEVE TUBBS,
AND THEIR LATE FATHER EDWARD TUBBS WAS A LONGTIME MEMBER OF THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY CLUB.   
IN ELDRIDGE, BILL IS A MEMBER OF THE NORTH SCOTT ROTARY AND IS THE EDITOR OF THE ROTARY DISTRICT NEWSPAPER.    HE IS A GRADUATE OF IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY AND HIS JOURNALISM CAREER BEGAN AS AN INTERN AT THE DEWITT OBSERVER AND MAQUOKETA NEWSPAPERS.    IN 1971 HE BECAME PUBLISHER OF THE NORTH SCOTT PRESS IN ELDRIDGE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE LATE ROBERT MELVOLD AND HIS WIFE FRANCIS OF MAQUOKETA AND THE LATE ROBERT PARROTT OF DEWITT.
HIS WIFE LINDA (IN ABOVE PHOTO)
IS CO-PUBLISHER OF THE NORTH SCOTT PRESS, IS A GRADUATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA AND HER FATHER WAS THE LATE 
L.L. LONG OF MAQUOKETA, A SCHOOL
SUPERINTENDANT.
BILL AND LINDA ARE NOW SOLE OWNERS OF THE TWO COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS.   
BILL IS VERY ACTIVE IN ROTARY (PAST DISTRICT GOVERNOR) AND HAS ATTENDED OVER 15 INTERNATIONAL ROTARY CONVENTIONS.  
THE AMOS AWARD WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1938 AND THERE HAVE BEEN A FEW OTHER IOWA WINNERS OVER THE YEARS, BUT NONE IN EASTERN IOWA.    IN PHOTO ABOVE, PRESENTING THE AWARD TO BILL AND LINDA, JOHN EDGECOMB OF GENEVA, NEBRASKA, PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION. 
A HIGH AND WELL DESERVED HONOR FOR ELWOOD HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE BILL TUBBS.

FROM  THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY
CLUB .....
CONGRATULATIONS BILL!

AT WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11TH,
VETERAN'S DAY MEETING, RED
HENTON WAS GUEST SPEAKER..
AND TALKED ABOUT HIS WW2 YEARS
IN INDIA.    GOOD TALK WITH SOME 
FUNNY INSERTS.....THANKS TO RED.....
95 AND GOING STRONG.

CLUB NEWS:
WE WILL BE RINGING THE SALVATION ARMY BELL AT WAL MART AGAIN THIS DECEMBER, FOR ONE FULL DAY.
SIGN-UP AT NEXT MEETING.    ROTARIANS TERRY AND KAREN SLATTERY ARE HEADING UP THE COMMUNITY (AND OUR CLUB)
DRIVE AGAIN THIS YEAR.  A BIG JOB.

WE  HAVE A NEW MEMBER OF OUR
CLUB....MORE NEXT WEEK.


































 

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