June 12 TRI-GEAR REPORT
6-12-14 CLUB MEETING AT DOMANI
Flag Salute: President Bob Bustard
Invocation: Bob Balentine
Members Present: Bob Balentine, Bob Bustard, Irma Chazotte, Bernie Cohen, Pat DiRosa, Jan Doornbosch, Stuart Gold, Ann Kilmartin, Cindy Rose, George Sherman, Nancy Swales and Vlad Zherenovsky.
Visiting Rotarians and Guests: Guest Speaker Alyssa Petrillo, Michael and Peggy Vesta (guests of President Bob), Rosemary Bustard, Carol Cohen, Nancy Kilmartin, Pam Sherman, Marina, Alan and Sophia Zherenovsky.
Make Ups:
(Please be sure to report your make-ups for our records and to improve our percentage of attendance!)
Birthdays and Anniversaries – Bernie Cohen celebrated a very special birthday on May 27, a milestone which he matched in happy dollars. He also announced that any financial gifts given to him at his upcoming party will be donated to the Park Ridge Rotary Charity account to be earmarked for the Dr. Stewart Alexander Scholarship Fund. We all are deeply grateful to Bernie for his generosity and wish him many more years of good health and great happiness.
Also celebrating recent birthdays were Vlad Zherenovsky and your editor.
Sunshine:
Our thoughts and prayers go out to all who are currently contending with adversity of one type or another.
Happiness:
by G. Sherman
Many happy dollars were offered in gratitude for Bernie’s generous donation.
Irma was happy to have had a wonderful trip to Lake Wallenpaupak in Pennsylvania.
Nancy Kilmartin was happy for her mother’s receipt of the District’s prestigious Art Fenniman Award. Ann was happy that we had been able to keep the secret.
Peggy Vesta was happy to announce the engagement of her son.
Stuart was happy for the two awards from RI that were presented to the club at the last District Staff Meeting. He was also happy for his grand-daughter’s Bat Mitzvah.
Pat DiRosa was happy for her daughter’s upcoming wedding.
Jan was happy to have won a sailing race. He was also happy that the club finally had been able to install the beautifully engraved bench in Park Ridge Memorial Park in memory of WWII Vet, past club president, and long-time member Bob Spearing.
Cindy was happy to be celebrating Gypsy’s 6th anniversary.
Bob Balentine was happy for the wonderful event Wednesday celebrating the life and service of Bob Spearing.
President Bob was happy for the dedication ceremony and for all the support he had received during his year as club president.
Announcements:
by G. Sherman
The Installation Dinner for PE Pat Little will be held at the River Vale Country Club on Thursday, June 19 beginning at 6:30. Cost of the event will be $25.00 for club members and $60.00 for guests. (Club dues subsidize $35.00 of each member’s cost.) IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT YOU RSVP PE PAT BY FRIDAY, JUNE 13!
District 7490 Banner Exchange will take place Friday, June 20 at Biaggio’s in Paramus. Cocktails at 6:30; dinner at 7:30. Cost - $95.00pp. Join us at Biago's Ristorante as we install Calisto and Lisa Bertin as our 2014-15 District Governor and First Lady. Come wish Calisto and Lisa all the best for a great year and be there to celebrate Len Agrusti's very successful year as Governor.
Come for fellowship, fine food, music and dancing with special guest Hunter Hayes.
Registration may be done online on the District’s website, http://www.clubrunner.ca/Portal/Home.aspx?accountid=50049
Mark Your Calendar with these UPCOMING EVENTS:
by G. Sherman
Tues., 6/17 – Board Meeting – Pascack Historical Society, 19 Ridge Ave., Park Ridge – Dinner at 6:00; meeting at 6:30
Th., 6/19 – President Pat Little’s Installation Dinner – River Vale Country Club, 660 Rivervale Road, River Vale, NJ 07675. THERE WILL BE NO CLUB MEETING ON JUNE 20.
Fri., 6/20 – Banner Exchange – Gov. Calisto Bertin’s Installation dinner – Biaggio’s Ristorante 299 Paramus Road, Paramus – 6:30.
Th., 6/26 – BBQ at Lehmann Gardens – 5:00-7:00. (NO MEETING AT THE CORNERSTONE THAT AFTERNOON)
Program:
by G. Sherman
Thursday evening, members and guests welcomed Park Ridge resident and former Park Ridge Rotary Club scholarship winner Alyssa Petrillo to their meeting at Domani. Since graduating from Park Ridge H.S. in 2011, Alyssa has become increasingly engaged in providing health care to those in need both close to home and far afield.
Currently a student at DeSales University in Center Valley, Pennsylvania, Alyssa returned home last week from a two week mission trip to San Ignacio, Belize where she served as a community health nurse. In her presentation she spoke of the lack of medical care available to many of the people there, and described the difficult conditions in which the few available health care workers function in that nation.
For Alyssa the two weeks proved to be a life altering experience as she is now more committed than ever to becoming a nurse. Given her passion, enthusiasm, determination and experience as a Tri-Boro Ambulance EMT since age 16, we have no doubt that she will succeed.