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Service Above Self
Mailing: PO Box 225
Smithtown, NY 11787
United States of America
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Smithtown High School East Interact Club
in partnership with
The Rotary Club of Smithtown Sunrise invites you to their
First Responders Fundraiser Dinner.
Thursday, January 25, 2024 at 6:00pm at the St. James Fire Department
533 NY-25A, Saint James, 11780.
Proceeds will be donated to the Johnny Mac Foundation.
Tickets: $15 each for adults and $10 each for children
Sponsorship Opportunities Available!
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The Rotary Club of Smithtown Sunrise is inviting you to attend our 2024 Annual Snow Ball Honoring St. Catherine of Siena Hospital and Joe Winters Humanitarian Award Presented to MaryEllen McCrossen. Wednesday March 13, 2024 6:00pm at Watermill Caterers, Smithtown, NY 11787 Cocktail Hour, Dinner, Live Band, Dancing and Raffles Tickets are $150 per person Limited Seating Available - Pleasew RSVP by Feb 16, 2024 Sponsorship Opportunities Available! TO PURCHASE TICKETS, PLEASE VISIT https://www.smithtownsunriserotary.org/ |
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The Rotary Club of Smithtown Sunrise sponsored and participated Field of Heros Free Youth Baseball and Softball Clinic hosted by NYS Senator Mario Mattera and Town of Smithtown Supervisor Ed Wehrheim.
All proceeds from the event will go towards the long overdue renovations of the Community Living Center courtyard at the Northport VA Medical Center. Shoutout to our fellow Rotarians who volunteered at this event Pres. Gary Carpenter, VP Vinny Puleo, PP Nick Schroeder, Community Relations Director Matt Kelly, Sgt. At Arms Steve Stare, Secretary Fred Vogeney, Carl Superina. It was truly a great day, supporting a great cause! With about 2,000 people in attendance, we say thanks to all who made this event possible our elected officials, Major League Baseball players, coaches, sponsors and volunteers for all the help and support!
For more info https://www.heros4ourheroes. org
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The Rotary Club of Smithtown Sunrise Christmas in July - Long Beach, Nissequogue, NY Past President Cara Vercellone's daughter, Isabella, and her 2 friends, Carissa & Ciara help raise over $1600 via a 50/50 raffle. Over $800 will be donated to the Smithtown Food Pantry. Also a big shout out to Past President John Zollo and the Dedications for helping with the festivities. Good Things Happen to Good People... Cold you have asked for a better-looking sunset or was it a SUNRISE?
The Rotary Club of Smithtown Sunrise is supporting our local food banks with a summer concert at Long Beach, Smithtown 50/50 Raffle and Music by our own Past President, John Zollo, and the Dedications We support the Smithtown Food Bank. |
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DG Mary Ellen Ellwood Visits The Rotary Club of Smithtown Sunrise!
With President Nicholas Schroeder and AG Flora Parekh
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Every year the Rotary of Smithtown Sunrise has an annual Oktoberfest fundraiser to raise money for our local food pantries just ahead of the holiday season. Typically our members would join in a festive dinner and dance party with raffles and baskets and great fanfare. Normally we would raise around $4500 and the food pantries have always been very thankful. This year an event of that magnitude posed a challenge given Covid-19. Good thing our club likes a challenge! Our club president, Cara Vercellone, brought an idea to the club floor. To stay to true to our commitment and with the help of ZOOM she came up with the idea of incorporating the musical talents of 3 of our club members in a virtual Name That Tune A Thon. Here is how it would work - Past President & vocalist, John Zollo, Secretary and guitarist, Keith Radonis, and member keyboardist, Eddie Martella would each play 7 songs of their choosing. The Club members formed teams. These teams would guess the title, artist, and decade of the song. That was the fun part! The business end was raising money. Each team had to raise a modest $400. Our early estimates and goals were very modest. We were hoping to raise $4000 to $5000 and make a serious impact on the food pantries. In the end we came up with close to $10,000. Far beyond anyone's imagination and all while having some of the funniest and fun experiences of our lives.
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motivating and can she fill a room. Thanks Wendy for a GREAT MEETING!!
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It's time for an all-out assault on heroin
Ever wonder what is on your magnetic key card?
Answer:
a. Customer's name
b. Customer's partial home address
c. Hotel room number
d. Check-in date and out dates
e. Customer's credit card number and
expiration date!
When you turn them in to the front desk your personal information is there for any employee to access by simply scanning the card in the hotel scanner.
An employee can take a hand full of cards home and using a scanning device, access the information onto a laptop computer and go shopping at your expense.
Simply put, hotels do not erase the information on these cards until an employee reissues the card to the next hotel guest.
At that time, the new guest's information is electronically 'overwritten' on the card and the previous guest's information is erased in the overwriting process.
But until the card is rewritten for the next guest, it usually is kept in a drawer at the front desk with YOUR INFORMATION ON IT!
The bottom line is: Keep the cards, take them home with you, or destroy them.
NEVER leave them behind in the room or room wastebasket, and NEVER turn them into the front desk when you check out of a room.
They will not charge you for the card (it's illegal) and you'll be sure you are not leaving a lot of valuable personal information on it that could be easily lifted off with any simple scanning device card reader.
For the same reason, if you arrive at the airport and discover you still have the card key in your pocket, do not toss it in an airport trash basket.
Take it home and destroy it by cutting it up, especially
through the electronic information strip!
If you have a small magnet, pass it across the magnetic strip several times. Then try it in the door, it should not work. It erases everything on the card.
Information courtesy of: Metropolitan Police Service.
PLEASE FORWARD to friends and family
This is pretty good info. Never even thought about key cards containing anything other than an access code for the room!