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Service Above Self
We meet In Person
Thursdays at 7:45 AM
Millennium Diner
156 East Main Street
Mailing: PO Box 225
Smithtown, NY 11787
United States of America
Mailing: PO Box 225
Smithtown, NY 11787
United States of America
CHRISTMAS in JULY 2024 was a huge SUCCESS!!!!!
Thanks to all that came down to Long Beach, Nissequoge, and helped out, participated and showed support for our ongoing efforts with the Smithtown Food Pantry.
Special thanks to the Smithtown H.S. East Interact Club. They made the evening a huge success by selling ALOT of 50/50 raffles.
Before the sun went down, they sold $1800 in raffles. The food pantry will be presented with a check for $1000, (we always round up) and some lucky lady took home $900.
Thanks to P.Pres John Zollo & The Dedications.
Senator Mario Mattera was Gary's guest speaker at the last meeting for the Rotary 2023 - 2024 year
The Senator spoke to our very packed meeting about the state his 2nd District.
In attendance were Rotarians:
Smithtown Superintendent, Ed Wehrheim,
Town Councilman, Tom Lohmann, &
Superintendent of Highways, Robert Murphy
VP Vinny Puleo presents Smithtown Supervisor Ed Wehrheim with an Honorary Membership to The Rotary Club of Smithtown Sunrise. Congrats Ed!
We had an incredible turnout for our end-of-year dinner, celebrating a year of community service and leadership.
Thank you, Gary Carpenter. Wear your Past President & Paul Harris Pins proudly. Well deserved!
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The Rotary Club of Smithtown Sunrise is proud to announce the presentation of a $5000 check to President of St. Catherine of Sienna Hospital, Declan Doyle.
What an amazing day! The Smithtown Sunrise Rotary Club has a fantastic time at the @smithtownchamberofcommerce Annual Festival Day. 
It was a great day to be out in the community, connecting and having fun together.
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🌟 The Rotary Club of Smithtown Sunrise is proud to have presented Rotary Awards to outstanding students at Nesaquake Middle School! 🌟
CONGRATULATIONS
TO OUR EXCEPTIONAL AWARDEES:
**6th Graders**: William Niens & Giuliana Northorn
**7th Graders**: Gillen Coniglio & Andrew Morlas
**8th Graders**: Nicholas Gentile & Gabriella Virgilio
A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO:
Mr. Dan McCabe and Mr. Derek Solomon, along with Rotarians Lou DeBenedittis, Nick Schroeder, and Matt Kelly, for their support and dedication.
đź‘Ź KEEP SHINING BRIGHT STUDENTS! đź‘Ź
The Rotary Club of Smithtown Sunrise invited the Smithtown H.S.E. Interact Club to join in on one of clubs meeting. Instead of meeting at our usual 7:45 AM we changed it to a dinner meeting so no one would miss school.
How thoughtful are we?
**Smithtown, NY – May 18, 2024** – This past Saturday, May 18th, the Smithtown Sunrise Rotary Club joined more than 800 Rotary clubs and 30,000 Rotarians across 10 states and 7 countries for the annual Rotary Day of Service. This extraordinary event saw volunteers from Connecticut to Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, and New York in the United States, as well as from Australia, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, coming together to make a positive impact in their communities by collecting clothes for the homeless, refurbishing parks, and much more.
The Smithtown Sunrise Rotary Club's project focused on the installation of a Peace Pole and a kindness rock garden at the visitors' entrance of Smithtown High School West. Throughout the day, nearly 20 Rotarians, along with their children and grandchildren, and members of the Smithtown High School West Interact Club, collaborated on this meaningful project. Volunteers worked diligently, painting and designing rocks to be placed in the garden, symbolizing messages of peace and kindness.
“We are thrilled to be part of such a significant and wide-reaching day of service,” said Matt Kelly, Director of Community Relations of the Smithtown Sunrise Rotary Club. “The Peace Pole and kindness rock garden not only beautify the entrance of Smithtown High School West but also serve as a lasting reminder of the values of peace and community that Rotary stands for.”
The Rotary Day of Service underscores the organization’s commitment to making a difference locally and globally. This year’s participation highlights the collective effort of Rotarians worldwide to address various community needs and promote goodwill.
For more information about the Smithtown Sunrise Rotary Club and its community service projects, please visit SmithtownSunriseRotary.com or contact SmithtownSunriseRotary@gmail.com
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Join The Rotary Club of Smithtown Sunrise Wednesday evening March 13, 2024, for our Annual Snowball.
We will present the Joe Winters Humanitarian Award to:
Maryellen McCrossen
The Rotary Club of Smithtown Sunrise sponsored a Cultural Arts Dinner Event at Smithtown Pasta House hosted by the WIHN Foundation.
RAISING AWARENESS FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION & MENTAL HEALTH.
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
The Smithtown Food Pantry.
Our club hosted an evening at Long Beach, Nissequogue, NY.
Christmas in July.
The Rotary Club of Smithtown Sunrise was pleased to present Pat Westlake from the Smithtown Emergency Food Pantry with a check of $1,000.
Monies raised was from our “Christmas in July" event with The Dedications. Through all of the community efforts the pantry is able to provide between 11,000 and 14,000 meals per month to those in need.
The Smithtown Sunrise Rotary had our joint quarterly meeting with The Smithtown Rotary Club on Thursday July 27. We had over 50 people from both clubs. Also in attendance was our Rotary District 7255 District Governor, Thomas Crowley of Hampton Bays & Assistant Governor Flora Parekh of Ronkonkoma
The Rotary Club of Smithtown Sunrise awarded 6 Nesaquake Middle School Students
"THE ALL-STAR STUDENT AWARDS"
CONGRATULATIONS !!!
The D.G. Sonia Saleh & The A.D.G. Flora Parekh Visit Smithtown Sunrise
Can you....IMAGINE ROTARY ?
Smithtown Sunrise Rotary: Left to Right: Gary Carpenter,
P.P. Andrew Ratway, John Barry, Matthew Kelly, Carl Superina,
Gary Schnirman, Pres. Nick Schroeder, Steve Stare,
D.G. Sonia Saleh, A.G. Flora Parekh,
V.P. Vinny Puleo, Treas. Joel Beja, Corres. Sec'y. Fred Vogeney esq.
Debra Magliano & Louis DeBenedittis
The Rotary Club of Smithtown Sunrise with the Winter Bros organization
honored Christine Ponzio with
The Joe Winters Humanitarian Award.
From L>R: John Barry, Fred Vogeney, Howard Knispel, Debra Magliano, Carl Superina, Matthew Kelly, Keith Radonis, Joel Beja, Thomas Lohman, Gary Schnirman, Gary Carpenter, Nick Schroeder, Christine Ponzio,
Steve Stare, John Zollo.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
(L) Legislator Leslie Kennedy, (M) Matt Kelly, (R) Suffolk County Executive, Steve Bellone
Our newest & youngest club member received The Irish American of Distinction Award for District 12
The Rotary Club of Smithtown Sunrise
Presented a $1300 check to Pat Westlake and
The Smithtown Food Pantry
The Rotary Club of Smithtown Sunrise Invites All to Attend Our Annual Snow Ball
The Joe Winters Humanitarian Award is Presented to:
CHRISTINE PONZIO
for online registration, payment, or donation,
please go to: https://www.smithtownsunriserotary.org/
The Smithtown Community Band will be performing once again at the Smithtown Historical Society's Frank Brush Barn Grounds.
This year's concert series will be on 5 Tuesday evenings beginning on June 28th.
The Rotary Club of Smithtown Sunrise will be a sponsor.
Also, the club will be there to collect food donations for the Smithtown Food Pantry.
Attached is the flyer from our guest speaker yesterday
The Family Entertainment Event
Benefitting pediatric cancer research at
The Feinstein Institute and Cohen's Children's Hospital
It is Saturday, September 17, 2022
4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Elks Lodge, 120 Edgewood Avenue, Smithtown, NY.
Bring your kids or grandkids, it will surely be a great time!
The tickets are not on sale yet and will be placed on sale closer to the event at the website on the flyer.
It's spring and that means it's PROM time. If you have a prom dress hidden in the closet or know someone that does, please follow this link for some ideas on how and where to donate it so another girl can
FEEL PRETTY IN PINK...... https://insteading.com/blog/5-places-to-donate-prom-dresses-for-reuse/
Our member Carl Superina has 2 granddaughters diagnosed with a rare and incurable disease. Shwachman - Diamond Syndrome (SDS)
To help support his family, Carl has arranged a TEXAS HOLD-EM Night.
The Rotary Club of Smithtown Sunrise
Presents the Winter Bros Center for Autism a Check for
$30,500.00
The Suffolk County Bar Association highlighted our own Past President and Crouner Extraordinaire
The Rotary Club of Smithtown Sunrise will be meeting at Napper Tandy's this Thursday, July 29, 2021, for an open meeting. We would like to give anyone who might be interested in community service to meet the members of a small group of Big-hearted members. We will not be meeting at the Millennium Diner at 7:45 AM, as usual, instead, we will be at NAPPER TANDY's in the Heart of Downtown Smithtown from 6 pm-8 pm.
Please feel free to stop by and say hello...Ask for Nick, Gary, Steve, or Vinny. We would be glad to speak with you and answer any questions you have. In many parts of the world, it is very prestigious to belong to a Rotary Club. You've probably seen the signs on the side of the road showing the name of the local club. Anywhere you go in the USA or worldwide you can find a Rotary Club.
It takes very little to do a LOT!!
HOPE TO SEE YOU!!!
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. |
DG Mary Ellen Ellwood Visits The Rotary Club of Smithtown Sunrise!
With President Nicholas Schroeder and AG Flora Parekh
The Rotary Club of Smithtown Sunrise Indoctrinates & Welcomes John Barry July 15, 2021
L: Pres. Nick Schroeder, M: Kevin Simmons, R: VP Vinny Puleo.
The Rotary Club of Smithtown Sunrise Indoctrinates & Welcomes Kevin Simmons July 8, 2021
Kevin is the principal of Smithtown H.S. West.
He brings his experience of community service and leadership to our club.
Kevin seemed to fit in immediately. WELCOME !!
L: Pres. Nick Schroeder, M: Kevin Simmons, R: VP Vinny Puleo.
JOIN THE ROTARY CLUB OF SMITHTOWN SUNRISE FOR THEIR ANNUAL SNOWBALL
HONORING JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW YORK
The 2021 Annual Snowball Theme Will Be Rotary Jeopardy!
The Rotary Club of Smithtown Sunrise is a 501c3 organization that holds an Annual Snowball every year to fundraise for worthy causes.
This year the club chose to honor Junior Achievement of New York, also a 501c3 organization.
The theme "Rotary Jeopardy" will be a fun way to test your Trivia knowledge on various topics while having fun and raising money for a good cause.
There is a link to the registration kit and everything you need to join the fun on the right in the HOME PAGE DOWNLOAD FILES
NAME THAT TUNE-A-THON
Oct 29,2020 will be an evening-long remembered.
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.
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.
A TRUE TEAM EFFORT. It's what we do!...... Viva La Smithtown Sunrise!
What a wonderful night fundraising for the Smithtown Emergency food pantry!
On Feb 7,2020 Vito L. Poveromo passed away. (June 9. 2028 to February 7, 2020)
On Sept 6 2018, Club President John Zollo welcomed out 3 newest members.
Town Clerk and Rotarian Vinny Puleo swore the new members into the world of Rotary and our Great Club.
They say good things happen in 3's. We are very honored to have these 3 new members.
Pictured from L>R: Pres. John Zollo, Anthony Colletti - Director of Community Relations at The New & Beautiful Whisper Woods at Smithtown,
Smithtown Councilman, Tom Lohmann & Smithtown Councilwoman Lisa Inzerillo
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On Sept 6 2018 The Rotary Club of Smithtown Sunrise officially had their new slate of officers sworn in.
(Better Late then Never)
On right: Town Clerk Vinny Puleo assisted with the swearing in.
Pres. John Zollo, Pres Elect Gene Nally, Treasurer Deirdre Bolen, Secretary Cara Vercellone & 15x's Sgt at Arms Steve Stare
Our Speakers on Aug 23 2018 were Jane Lohmann and Jessica Heins.
Dancing Classrooms LI teaches middle school age children ballroom dancing.
For more information: www.dancingclassroomsli.org
(At this wonderful presentation were from L>R: Rotarian, Smithtown Clerk and 5x's Paul Harris Fellow Vinny Puleo, Past Club Sec'y Terry Wolf, Smithtown Councilman Tom Lohmann, Rotarian Larry Vetter, Pres Elect Gene Nally, Smithtown Supervisor & club member Ed Wehrheim, Past Club Treas Adrienne Giannadeo, From Dancing Classrooms LI Jessica Heins and Jane Lohmann, 4x's PP, Sec'y Extraordinaire, & Always Very Popular Cara Vercellone, Past Club Treas. Gary Schnirman, PP & Club Treas. Deirdre Bolen)
On Aug 9 2018 The Rotary Club of Smithtown Sunrise Presented 2 checks of $3,000 to John Feal.
The funds were raised at the clubs annual fund raiser, The 2018 Disco Party.
(Presenting the check from L>R: Sgt at Arms Steve Stare, PP Andrew Ratway, PTreas Gary Schnirman, 2x Pres. John Zollo, JOHN FEAL, PP & Treas Deirdre Bolen, Rotarian Larry Vetter & Rotarian Peter Sciurca)
Over the summer of 2018 on Tuesday evenings the Smithtown Community Band performs outside the Brush barn. The Rotary Club of Smithtown takes this opportunity to set up a table and collect food and donations for the Smithtown Food Pantry. We have been doing this for a couple of years now and the community is starting to catch on. Cara and her children, Izzy & Jacob along with Gary & Anita Schnirman were there to greet the community and help with the food collections. Looks like they had a good time doing it. 
The Rotary Club of Smithtown Sunrise is conducting a fundraiser to benefit The Feel Good Foundation and 911 Responders.
The event is a Disco Dance Party at the Watermill Inn.
District Governor Wendy Walsh visited The Rotary Club of Smithtown this morning. Very inspiring and motivating and can she fill a room. Thanks Wendy for a GREAT MEETING!!
On March 30, 2017 The Rotary Club of Smithtown Sunrise, represented by past president Cara Vercellone (L), presented a check to the Smithtown Food Pantry for $1,000. This was in addition to a large donation of packaged and fortified meals that were supplied through the Feed Long Island initiative coordinated by Rotary clubs across the Island. With Cara are 2 of the wonderful volunteers that help run the Smithtown Emergency Food Pantry. - See more at: https://portal.clubrunner.ca/1769/Stories/smithtown-food-pantry#sthash.K336ENq5.dpuf
The Rotary Club of Smithtown Sunrise and the The Smithtown Fire Chiefs Organization Presented Checks for $4550 each to The Firefighter Cancer Support Network and The Stony Brook Burn Unit
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The Rotary Club of Smithtown Sunrise &
The Smithtown Fire Chiefs Organization are
Co-Hosting this years Snowball
We will be honoring The Firefighter Cancer Support Network and
The Stony Brook Burn Center
If your having a couple of libations with lunch or dinner, you better have Alan's business card in your glove compartment. He came to our club and had everyone's attention.
P.P. & Pres. Elect Cara Vercellone, with Rotary Jeopardy producers Jacob & Isabella.
2:43 PM
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Thanks to our Secretary and Past President, Otis Thornhill for this information:
HOTEL KEY CARDS
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!
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!
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