Georgetown Rotarian Ron Swain spoke to us about how the Peace Pole initiative began in Georgetown. Georgetown Rotary started a racial unity committee in 2020 after death of George Floyd. Ron told us a story he told his own Rotarians at that time about growing up in Macon Georgia in 1950s and 60s. He was not able to join the white boys playing baseball across the street even though he had a passion for baseball. This story led to the start of the racial unity committee, which then expanded into peace building. The mission of the committee is “to develop and implement a model for the Rotary Club of Georgetown, using the Four-Way Test as a guide for ending discrimination, with a particular focus on race or ethnicity as a foundation for peace building in our community.” Their vision is “that our model is an inspiration for other Rotary Clubs and organizations in exemplifying how people of all races and ethnicities can live in harmonious unity, equity and peace.” As part of their committee work, they learned about peace poles, which invite communities to engage in peace building. One of the committee members proposed building peace gardens at all Georgetown schools that would include peace poles. Home Depot agreed to donate materials for peace gardens and the Sun City Woodworking Club offered to build two benches for each garden. The Georgetown Rotarians used a DAP grant to purchase the peace poles and signage, and each school designed their own peace garden. Pictures of these peace gardens can be seen on their club’s website. Ron told us stories about how some of the peace gardens are helping to resolve student conflict. As part of his year, District Governor Doug is using District funds to provide 10 peace pole. Ron provided the NxNE Austin President Karen with information about how we could obtain a peace pole. Ron also talked about how their club has a “minute for peace” at the end of each meeting and provided a handout with 52 quotes that could be used for a “minute for peace” and quoted us one of them. At the end of the meeting, there were many thought-provoking questions from the audience.