The Civitan Club of Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina, USA
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District Details, District Clubs, The Civitan Creed, 
Know North Carolina?- Facts and Figures. 
 
The Salisbury Civitan Club:- Civitan International,  Region 3,  North Carolina District West No. 33,  
Area IV West,  Club No.80.     (our Club's complete credentials and hierarchy) 
        www.civitans.com

    NC District West (District 33)

International President

Region 3 Director

NC West Governor

NC West Governor-Elect

                NC West Area IV West Lt Governor                           

NC DISTRICT WEST IS THE LARGEST DISTRICT IN ALL OF CIVITAN INTERNATIONAL

DISTRICT WEST IS THE LARGEST JUNIOR CIVITAN DISTRICT IN ALL OF CIVITAN INTERNATIONAL

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CLUBS IN NORTH CAROLINA DISTRICT WEST:

Area I-East

BELMONT/MT. HOLLY: Chartered 2/22/93, #33-3347

GASTONIA : Chartered 5/27/22, #33-0070

HICKORY: Chartered 5/24/52, #33-0706

LINCOLNTON: Chartered 12/20/60, #33-1498

MARION: Chartered 4/8/49, #33-0580

MORGANTON: Chartered 9/6/58, #33-1165

SHELBY: Chartered 6/6/61, #33-1539

Area I-West

ASHEVILLE: Chartered 3/23/21, #33-0016

CANTON: Chartered 7/18/22, #33-0078

FRANKLIN: Chartered 5/25/00, #33-3560

HAYESVILLE: Chartered 4/10/90, #33-3164

HENDERSONVILLE: Chartered 3/8/58, #33-1116

MURPHY: Chartered 4/28/50, #33-0642

RHODODENDRON: Chartered 10/29/59, #33-1311

SWAIN: Chartered 2/29/72, #33-2183

TRANSYLVANIA: Chartered 6/10/99, #33-3525

Area II

BOONE: Chartered 10/27/59, #33-1314

CATAWBA: Chartered 7/21/01, #33-3887

MOORESVILLE: Chartered 6/2/77, #33-2443

NORTH MECKLENBURG: Chartered 10/1/90, #33-3202

STATESVILLE EVENING: Chartered 12/18/47, #33-0524

STATESVILLE NOON: Chartered 9/29/75, #33-2399

WILKES: Chartered 6/15/55, #33-0858

Area III

CHARLOTTE: Chartered 7/22/22, #33-0034

MONROE: Chartered 10/10/49, #33-0617

MYERS PARK: Chartered 6/14/51, #33-0670

OLD HICKORY: Chartered 6/27/96, #33-3424

SHARON: Chartered 1/22/57, #33-1003

TORCH BEARERS: Chartered 9/28/00, #33-3567

Area IV-West

CHINA GROVE: Chartered 10/31/49, #33-0622

COOLEEMEE: Chartered 3/18/00, #33-3551

DREAM CATCHERS: Chartered 04/04/01, #33-3584

SALISBURY: Chartered 8/15/22, #33-0080

SPENCER: Chartered 4/2/94, #33-3383

SUMMIT: Chartered 5/26/98, #33-3487

WOODLEAF: Chartered 5/30/49, #33-0608

Area IV-East

CONCORD: Chartered 3/19/56, #33-0912

EASTERN ROWAN LADIES: Chartered 5/24/79, #33-2526

FAITH: Chartered 5/24/45, #330453

GRANITE QUARRY: Chartered 11/2/45, #33-0457

RICHFIELD: Chartered 11/2/49, #33-0624

ROCKWELL: Chartered 3/31/38, #33-0331

STANLY ACTIONEERS: Chartered 4/18/80, #33-2589

Area V-East

ARCHDALE-TRINITY: Chartered 5/20/00, #33-3559

ASHEBORO: Chartered 5/31/49, #33-0599

DENTON LADIES: Chartered 7/84, #33-2837

HEART OF CAROLINA: Chartered 4/6/81, #33-2628

HILLSVILLE: Chartered 11/17/80, #33-2610

LEVEL CROSS: Chartered 5/12/64, #33-1753

NEW MARKET: Chartered 5/30/60, #33-1423

RED CROSS: Chartered 4/14/83, #33-2784

SEA GROVE: Chartered 3/23/99, #33-3518

SILVER VALLEY: Chartered 4/25/59, #33-1236

Area V-West

CENTRAL CAROLINA: Chartered 11/12/57, #33-1089

CHALLENGERS: Chartered 3/19/01, #333573

KERNERSVILLE: Chartered 4/27/57, #33-1036

LEXINGTON: Chartered 4/4/39, #33-0356

MOCKSVILLE: Chartered 6/16/80, #33-2581

OLD TOWN: Chartered 4/06/00, #33-3554

PIEDMONT: Chartered 5/1/57, #33-1018

REEDS: Chartered 6/13/50, #33-0652

THOMASVILLE: Chartered 9/20/54, #33-0793

WELCOME: Chartered 6/4/46, #33-0472

WINSTON-SALEM: Chartered 8/18/21, #33-0039

Area VI

ELLERBE: Chartered 1/23/75, #33-2355

MOUNT GILEAD: Chartered 11/6/39, #33-0373

NORWOOD: Chartered 5/94, #33-3387

OAKBORO: Chartered 9/30/98, #33-3502

RICHMOND: Chartered 11/13/99,#33-3541

ROCKINGHAM: Chartered 12/21/23, #33-0115

WADESBORO: Chartered 5/19/23, #33-0099

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The CIVITAN CREED

I AM CIVITAN: as old as life, as young as the rainbow, as endless as time.

MY HANDS do the work of the world and reach out in service to others.

MY EARS hear the cry of children and the call throughout the world for peace, guidance, progress, and unity.

MY EYES search for others to join in the fellowship and service of Civitan.

MY MOUTH utters the call to daily duty and speaks prayers in every tongue.

MY MIND teaches me respect for law and the flag of my country.

MY HEART beats for every friend, bleeds for every injury to humanity, and throbs with joy at every triumph of truth.

MY SOUL knows no fear but its own unworthiness.

MY HOPE is for a better world through Civitan.

MY MOTTO: builders of good citizenship.

MY BELIEF: do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

MY PLEDGE: to practice the Golden Rule and to build upon it a better and nobler citizenship.

Know North Carolina?

The site of an early attempted English settlement in the 1580s, North Carolina has played a significant role throughout U.S. history. North Carolinians were leaders in the American Revolution (1775-1783) and, through the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, contributed significantly to the ultimate American victory. North Carolina joined the Union on November 21, 1789, as the 12th of the original 13 states. Although hesitant to join the Union in 1789, they were equally reluctant to leave it during the American Civil War (1861-1865). However, once they joined the Confederacy, they gave wholeheartedly of North Carolina's men and wealth. The state has been a pacesetter in internal improvements and public education. From a high sand dune called Kill Devil Hill, located near Kitty Hawk on North Carolina's Outer Banks, Wilbur and Orville Wright made the first successful airplane flights in 1903.

North Carolina's name is derived from the Latin word Carolinus, meaning "of Charles." The state was named in honor of King Charles I and King Charles II of England by their friends and supporters who were establishing colonies in the southern part of the Virginia colony. The state is nicknamed the "Tar Heel State." While time has obscured the source of the name, some historians believe it refers to one of the state's major colonial-era products-tar-which was derived from slowly burning the stumps of longleaf pine trees. More commonly accepted is that the name came about during the Civil War. Some say the name may have originally been used derisively, applied to North Carolina soldiers who could not hold a position against Union troops because they had forgotten to "tar their heels" and thus could not stick to their ground. Others contend the name was applied to North Carolina troops by Confederate leaders as a tribute to their sticking quality during battle. The state, once the northern part of the original Carolina colony, is also referred to as the "Old North State."

North Carolina is often divided into three natural regions,  the Atlantic Coastal Plain, the Piedmont, and the Blue Ridge (or Mountain) province.  The Atlantic Coastal Plain makes up about 45 percent of the state (see Coastal Plain). It is a low, flat to gently sloping plain that tilts slightly seaward. Much of the region is less than 75 m (250 ft) above sea level. The western margin is marked by the Fall Line, in actuality a zone where the rivers descend over small waterfalls and rapids from the ancient, harder rock of the Piedmont to the more easily eroded sands, clays, and shales of the Atlantic Coastal Plain. 

At the Fall Line the land of the Coastal Plain rises in some places to elevations of 120 m (400 ft). The Coastal Plain is actually a series of broad, very flat terraces or steps, which are bounded on their western edges by abrupt rises in elevation that represent ancient beach ridges. The easternmost of these terraces are poorly drained in places, giving rise to large swampy areas or "pocosins," an Algonquian word meaning "swamp on high ground." The Great Dismal Swamp is one of these pocosins. Others are Holly Shelter Swamp and Green Swamp. The river valleys in the eastern Coastal Plain were flooded by a rise in sea level since the end of the last period of glaciation, creating the broad sounds and rivers, which are called estuaries.

About 4,040,000 people held jobs in North Carolina in 2001. Of those, the largest share, about 23 percent, worked in the diverse services sector, doing such jobs as working in tourist facilities or computer programming. About 21 percent of the workers were employed in manufacturing; 21 percent in wholesale and retail trade; 16 percent in federal, state, or local government, including those in the military; 6 percent in construction; 5 percent in finance, insurance, or real estate; 4 percent in transportation or public utilities; and 3 percent in farming (including agricultural services), forestry, or fishing. Only about 5000 people held jobs in mining. In the mid-1990s only 5 percent of North Carolina's workers were unionized. The state has a right-to-work law, which prohibits union membership as a condition of employment.

2000 Census, North Carolina ranked ninth in population in the nation. It had 8,049,313 people, an increase of 21% over the 1990 count, which in itself was a 12.7 percent over the population in 1980. 
Population density is 165.2 per sq mile. North Carolina is less urbanized than most other states. In 1990 only 50 percent of the state's inhabitants were classified as urban dwellers. The state's Top Ten largest cities are Charlotte 544,848;  Raleigh 278,402; Greensboro 224,953; Durham 188,057: Winston-Salem 186,403; Fayetteville 121,306; Cary 95,386; High Point 86,270; Wilmington 76,307; Asheville 69,161.
(Salisbury is ranked 22nd.)

22.0% of the state's population is black. Whites comprise 72% ( 75.6% in 1990). 
Native Americans are 1.2%, Asians and Pacific Islanders 1.4% (0.8% in 1990), 
Hispanics now represent 4.7%,( 1.2% in 1990).
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Rowan County population is 128,000, of which 26,559 live in the County Seat of Salisbury.
Rowan County is 520 square miles, of which the City of Salisbury is 18 square miles.
North Carolina is 53,821 sq. miles; (land 48,718, Water 5,103), Coastline 301 miles, Shoreline 3,375 miles, and is 29th in size among the 50 states. Maximum dimensions are 503 miles from East to West and 187 miles from North to South. The state's mean elevation is about 700 ft.

NC GSP = $98 billion, (manufacturing $59 - Service Ind. $39)
Major crops are Chickens $1.4 billion, Hogs $1.2 billion, Greenhouse/Nursery $973 million, 
Tobacco $784m, Turkeys $475m, Cotton $234m, Eggs $231m, Dairy $208m, Cattle $193m, Soybeans $154m, Corn $102m, Christmas Trees $92m, Peanuts $82m, Wheat $68m, 

Rowan County Gross Retail sales est. $1,100,000,000, of which Salisbury sells $680,000,000.

Education
At the turn of the 20th century, North Carolina's educational system was one of the weakest in the nation. School attendance was not required, and most school-age children did not go to school. Furthermore, there were few professionally trained teachers. Governor Charles B. Aycock, who took office in 1901, began a series of improvements that were continued under subsequent administrations. Schools were built at a rapid rate. The school year, originally four months, was gradually lengthened until, in 1943, it became nine months long. Over the half century many professional schools for training teachers were founded.