Welcome to another issue of our biweekly bulletin! Find out who our upcoming speakers are, what we covered during the last weekly meeting, and our up coming events and fundraisers!
CLUB ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The meeting opened with the song "Summer Time" started by Vince! Thanks Vince for starting the meeting off on this "note!"
Dan Sterba spoke about Football Tickets and Bus Trip (Below)
Art updated us on Oswen, our GOL sponsoree. He is on the mend at now being hosted by John Koch.
Dues are due! They are due July 1 - Look out for your invoice from Dan Sterba - . There are several options for payment but the first payment is due August 1st. There is a blue link to pay through Club Runner. If any issues arise contact Dan or Erika.
Our next Rotary lunch meeting will be August 17th. Al Abdelaziz (6th. Ward Councilman in Paterson) will be our speaker. Please be there at 12:15. $25 a person unless you've paid your dues, Then you get the first ten free.
Paterson President Bonnie Miele, DG John Cosgrove and new Rotarian T'Shon Wells!
Thank you to Al Scala for his work for the past two years!
DG Cosgrove with our Stirmga Free sign!
TODAY'S SPEAKER
This Meeting's Speaker: John Cosgrove
67th DG Cosgrove spoke of our rich history in our club. He spoke about Gift of Life that our own Art Scialla started, which as saved over 1600 children year to date.
Our initiative this year that has come from Rotary International is the Stigma Free program. This supports awareness to people who are fighting demons, to speak up and seek help. At our first District Staff meeting, we had the President and CEO of New Bridge Medical Center. Their President spoke about mental health issues. District 7490 will form a committee and we will come together in October with all Mental Health facilities to see how we can further support this cause.
We are having the Bergen County Prosecutor at the next District Meeting. They will speak about how they are working on helping people with Mental Health issues instead of incarcerating them
John spoke about the Rotary Foundation . We are one of the lowest districts in the WORLD in terms of donating to the Foundation. We need to change this. Three years from now, the money that we put in comes back to us in the form of grants. Phil Wilson is our District Polio co - chair. HE was inflicted with Polio at 7 years old and has done a great job on raising awareness to this foundation. Remember to thank Phil for his service has he is moving out of the district soon.
The District is also presenting a challenge - three clubs a month, ours will be SEPTEMBER, to fundraise/buy food for our Veteran Food Pantry in Paterson. Please remember to focus on getting food. We will coordinate with Debbie Flower.
Membership - we have 1045 members. Rotary International wants us to be over 1,100 people. Cosgrove wants us to each focus on bringing in one member this year. His goal is to get between 1200-1300 members.
He thanked Bonnie for voting on his budget - John's budget includes a marketing firm that will help get the world out about all of our good works as well as an accounting firm to help with our non-profits in the district. He will develop a non-profit check list for all clubs to use to help with our own non-profits.
Our newly inducted Rotarian, T'Shon Wells of Wells Cleaning Company, gave a short presentation on his business. He grew up in Paterson and his mother owned three hair salons in the neighborhood. He learned from his time at William Paterson what chemicals were needed is different commercial buildings such as schools.
His first contract was for $500 and he quit both of his jobs to become an entrepreneur. He learned about taking chances and risks as he left a state job with a Pension and started his own business. At one point, he was kicked off of NJ Transit for bringing his cleaning products on board! But he kept with it and through his resiliency he has a very successful company . He now has contracts with Met Life and has a goal to help with clean-up around the state to combat illegal dumping in commercial districts. He is looking to branch out in New York with the rodent problems in NYC. He is providing cleaning services to churches and day cares.
He is now educating hospitals, doctor offices, urgent cares on how to clean properly and effectively. He is creating and providing jobs to people that may not have transportation within these cities. He is proving jobs to teens getting out of Highschool as well. He has summer programs where the teens help clean the streets.
T'shon was mentored by Rotarian Carnie Bragg, who helped T'shon start his business. He also was mentored by former Rotarian Mr. Grady of Mr. G's restaurant who became a client
Paterson Rotary Club in New Jersey will be selling CharityMania football tickets to help different projects they support including their Gloves and Hats program , Toys for the Holidays , Prom Gowns for High School Students and food year round with the Food Boost program and special meals for the Holidays
You can purchase a $25 worth of music downloads and get a free ticket that has three random football teams on it per week, for the 18 weeks of the football season. You have the chance to win between $25 - $400 a week depending on how your team scores. You can go online with your ticket number each week to see if you won. Tickets must be purchased by 9/6/2023 to enter the game. Our club will make $15 from the sale of each ticket and we appreciate your support!
**IF YOU PURCHASE 5 TICKETS ONLINE, YOU GET ONE FOR FREE**
Total people in attendance - 21 Paterson Rotarians and 4 guests
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Do today's duty, fight today's temptation; do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them. Do today what should be done. Your tomorrow may never come. Today is the pupil of yesterday.
We are thinking for all of our members, family and friends who are suffering an illness or other adversities especially Pat Scialla, Tony Pecci and Gloria Counsellor. We are reminded to think about our brothers and sisters in Ukraine.
ROTARIAN CODE OF CONDUCT
As a Rotarian, I will:
1. Act with integrity and high ethical standards in my personal and professional life
2. Deal fairly with others and treat them and their occupations with respect
3. Use my professional skills through Rotary to: mentor young people, help those with special needs, and improve people’s quality of life in my community and in the world
4. Avoid behaviour that reflects adversely on Rotary or other Rotarians.
5. Help maintain a harassment-free environment in Rotary meetings, events, and activities, report any suspected harassment, and help ensure non-retaliation to those individuals that report harassment
(Updated from Rotary International January 2019 Mtg., Bd. Dec. 119).
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