Spotlight 04-10-12, Vol. 74, No. 15

Posted by Elizabeth Walker 
 

Program:

Program Host Mitch Zoldowski introduced Sarah Neidert from the Brighton District Library who discussed electronic business resources.

 

Brighton Rotary Spotlight

Jane McManus, President

April 10, 2012, Vol. 74, No. 15

 

Guests:           Sarah Niedert, Brighton District Library

 

Announcements:

Welcome Back to Adrienne Knack after the birth of her daughter Lily on February 23rd!

Happy Anniversary this week to Jane & Mike McManus, 43 years!

Happy Rotary Anniversary to Cathy Riesterer (8 years), Jerry Dunneback (8 years), Brian Wutz (2 years), and Tom Zizka (19 years)!

The Rotary Runners are at the starting line!  Members will meet one night each week to run and socialize.  If interested, contact Mike Bourke.

The Red Leinkugel New Member Gathering on April 4th was great fun  THANK YOU to membership chair Julie Fessler!

Thank you to our Gleaners volunteers for all of your work on Saturday—things were very busy and a great deal of food was distributed.  Service above Self in action!

There will be a brief meeting about Club Bylaws today conducted by Mark Marker.

President Jane announced that a golf package for four rounds of golf, plus cart and $50 lunch voucher for Lakelands Country Club (value of $290) valid until 05/31/2013 is available for bids, all proceeds going to our Club.  The package was donated and won during Tony N’ Tina’s Wedding silent auction, but has been donated back to the Club to raise additional funds.  Bids will be accepted until April 24th.   Current top bid is $150.Contact President Jane to participate.

Peggi Tuggle circulated a volunteer sheet to staff Checkpoint #4 at the West Boat Launch for the March of Dimes Walk on April 29th.    Three vehicles will be raffled to raise money:  a 2012 Buick LaCrosse, a 2012 Titanium Ford Focus Escort and a 2013 American Chopper purple bike.  Raffle tickets will be $10 for one or $20 for three.  See Bill Anderson  for more info.

Nancy B. Johnson and President Jane will be attending the Rotary Leadership Institute in Troy on April 14th.

There is still time and room to attend the District Conference in Holland on April 20-22.  One highlight will include youth exchange students describing their projects. 

Visiting Howell Rotarian Harry Griffith distributed flyers last week about the 2012 Annual civic Dinner and Volunteer Appreciation dinner hosted by the Livingston County Salvation Army on April 26th at 6:30pm at the Johnson Center.  Dinner tickets are $30 each, and donations are encouraged to help defray the cost of the dinner for some of the honorees.  More information can be obtained by emailing April_Dertian@usc.salvationarmy.org or calling 517-546-4750, ext. 105.

Derek Smith announced that SELCRA is one of three organizations that have been recognized by the State of Michigan for the Governor’s Fitness Award.  Ceremonies will be held on April 26th at Ford Field to announce the winner.

Upcoming Events:

04/10/12                            Bylaws committee meeting

04/14/12                            Rotary Leadership Institute

04/20-22/12                       District Conference in Holland, MI

04/29/12                            March of Dimes Walk at Kensington Metropark

05/5-9/12                           Rotary International Conference in Thailand

6/26/12                              President’s Night

 

Program:

Program Host Mitch Zoldowski introduced Sarah Neidert from the Brighton District Library (BDL) who discussed electronic business resources.  Sarah arrived in Brighton three years ago after working in the Birmingham, Michigan, library system and is the Web Librarian for BDL.  She focused her presentation today on the online business databases available for use by patrons, specifically:

  • Business and Company ASAP:  which contains information on companies, markets, and industries along with business and trade journals, newspapers, and company directory profiles with full text and images.
  • Business and Company Resource Center, which contains company and industry information, articles, publications and advanced search capabilities.
  • General Business File ASAP, which facilitates the analization of company performance and activity, industry events, and trends while also giving access to broker research reports.
  • Reference USA Business database, which contains a directory of companies grouped by genre/industry including a list of physicians and dentists, from US and Canadian companies.
  • Small Business Resource Center, which facilitates accessing information about starting, financing or managing a small business.
  • Value Line (Standard Edition), which contains access to stock and financial information for industries and specific companies.

Installed in the library is the software called “Business Plan Pro” which allows data to be imported for Microsoft’s Excel and encourages the creation and tracking of plan versus actual comparisons and to visually track your cash flow.  The Business Resource Center location within the Brighton District Library can provide lists of many freely available business websites that may be of interest.

 

Progressive 50/50 Drawing  $385 pot in week 4, 40 cards remain (2 cards were lost last week & Tom Z removed another to keep our system on track). Bill Metz drew the two of clubs Peggi Tuggle drew the jack of diamonds, and Frank Mancuoso drew the three of spades.