Roseland Rotary Meeting July 10, 2014
Roseland Rotary Meeting July 10, 2014
It is said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder! Roseland Rotary meetings are somewhat like that. What one Rotarian thinks is a great meeting another may disagree. Today’s meeting may reflect this as much as any meeting we have had. Our speaker was a no show and so the members, that were in attendance, filled in. Some may say it was a poor meeting however, I would rather say it was a meeting saved by one of our members and therefore a great meeting. Read on dear friends.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
What can make a meeting successful is attendance and Roseland Rotary members responded with good numbers today. We had 24 members in attendance with 2 guests. That would be one of our best attended meetings in a long time. Why we even ran out of food and the Waterford had to scramble to provide for everyone. As always the Waterford came through.
Chris Varda commented on Walgreens “Customer Appreciation Day”, “Way to Well” next Thursday at the Walgreens store at US 933 and Darden Road. He passed around a signup sheet for volunteers to man a Roseland Rotary table at the event. Rotary needs one more person to help from 11:45 am to 2:00 pm and one person from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. This will give us two members for each time slot. We will have a table with a banner and Rotary information to pass out. Visibility in our community is what we are trying to accomplish. Thanks Chris for including Rotary in your event. If you can help, please call Chris Varda during working hours at 574-271-0357.
Dave Keck made an announcement on behalf of Dismas House. On Friday July 18th from 6 PM to 10 PM at the Mishawaka Riverside Inn there will be fun evening featuring local leaders dressed as lively women performers. Tickets at the door or call Dave Keck 574-298-1720.
Cliff Witkowski read a nice Thank You letter from the Food Bank thanking Roseland Rotary for their support.
Derek Hayes reminded everyone of the upcoming Cubs game in just 3 weeks. So far only 4 to 6 Roseland Rotarians have signed up. It’s a great trip, bus ride, to and from the game, lunch and drinks on the bus plus tickets for just $65.00. For details or tickets please call Derek at 574-276-0770 or e-mail at hayesd@1stSource.com.
Ben noted that we still have members that have not had their picture taken for the Membership Directory. He said he will be contacting those members regarding making arrangement to have their photograph taken. Ben will be setting up next Thursday at the Waterford from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Members can drop by before the meeting or after to have pictures taken. If you cannot attend the lunch meeting please try and take a few minutes to have your picture taken, it takes less than 2 minutes.
Brian Bernth reported on the Roseland Community Picnic officially called Roseland Good Neighbors Summer Picnic. The event is scheduled for August 23 with the 24th as a rain day. Look for more details to come.
Fines and Happy dollars ended with having a lot more fines than Happy Dollars. It’s easy to understand if you were there to hear the jokes. Frank Toepp told one about two nuns running down the road with a urinal. Joe Maloney told a joke about Murphy going into a gay bar or something like that. Morey Rosen told one about his wife hanging upside down because right side up she couldn’t breathe. OK, you had to be there! Chris Varda paid because he was happy to be here, must have been the jokes! Jason Taege was fined for being him, not sure what that was about. A number of members were fined for not having pins, what a ghastly development that is.
Jerry Hunt was asked to auction off a few boxes of Sour Cream Popcorn. Now auctioning off boxes of Sour Cream Popcorn is not exactly an easy job. Actually it’s easy if you start the bidding at 0 and go up to say 10 cents a box. It’s not easy when you start at $5.00 a box. Still Jerry sold one at about $6.00 and the rest members just bought out of the goodness of their hearts. There is also the remote possibility they just like Sour Cream Popcorn. Just saying!
As it turns out our main speaker was none other than our own Jennifer Price. Jennifer was asked to tell us a little about herself and she wowed us. It seems Jennifer spent time in India working with the poor. Now I can tell you, Jennifer has stories to tell and observations to relay. Did you know that in much of India the second born daughter is killed? It’s a cruel thing but a way of life because of life. This was cause for many questions from Roseland Rotarian struggling to understand how such a thing can be allowed to happen. To say the least Jennifer did an outstanding job. Someday she will put on a program for us.
Jerry Hunt won the drawing
Remember, be a good Rotarian and do you good deed every day.
Have a great week Rotarians.