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Rotarian - Lewis Marshall

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Apr 03, 2017

Club Assembly

Wild Game Cookout Final Planning

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This Week's Program

Colleen Justin and Loretta Burns

Speaker: Ashley Moore

Rotarian: LifeLink Foundation, Organ Donation

Rotarian: Lewis Marshall

Last Meeting- March 20th

Last week’s program was provided by Rotarian Jamey Moody. Jamey’s guest speaker was James S. Moody, Jr., U.S. District Court Judge, Middle District of Florida. James S. Moody Jr. (born 1947) is an American lawyer and judge. He currently serves on the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida. Moody was born in Tampa, Florida. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Florida in 1969 and his J.D. from the University of Florida College of Law in 1972. Moody was in private practice in Florida from 1972 to 1994. He was elected circuit judge of Florida's Thirteenth Judicial Circuit (Hillsborough County), serving from 1995 to 2000. President Bill Clinton nominated Moody to the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida on June 8, 2000, to a new seat created by 113 Stat. 1501. Confirmed by the Senate on July 21, 2000, he received commission on July 28, 2000. He assumed senior status on March 31, 2014. One celebrated case that he handled was that of Sami Al-Arian, whom he sentenced to the maximum 57 months in prison and three years of supervised release on May 1, 2006, for aiding a terrorist organization, the Palestine Islamic Jihad. Judge Moody spoke to the club about “Federal” court cases vs. “State” court cases. Federal cases have limited jurisdiction and deal with Federal Law’s and sometimes civil cases if there is more than $75,000 in dispute. Federal court also hears cases between states. Drug cases are both Federal and State and can be tried in both, but they are usually not. Federal court drug cases are usually large quantities, large dollar amounts or from arrests made offshore. Federal convictions are “scored” for sentencing. Judges have sentencing guidelines that are based on a “point” system. The more points awarded, the longer the sentence. Points are awarded in drug cases for: the amount of drugs, firearm, obstruction of justice, criminal history, etc. Points can be deducted for Plea Bargaining, juvenile, etc. One of the differences for Federal court is that the sentence is generally more than one would receive in State court. A 9 month sentence in State court could be 15 years in Federal court. Judge Moody shared with the club a few examples of cases he has tried including; Overtime, Bad Faith Insurance and Murder for Hire. -submitted by Mike Arndt

Club News

Club Directory

2017 Plant City Noon Rotary Club Directories are available. See Jodi Stevens to get one if you haven’t already!

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Wild Game Cookout - Friday April 7th

It is extremely important that you get the word out about our event this year. Our club has historically had the best Cookout and we want to ensure that we keep that reputation for years to come. There are numerous Wild Game Cookouts during this time of the year. It is our duty to reach out to our Friends, Family, Neighbors, Employees, Customers, Etc. and make sure that they know when the Plant City Rotary Wild Game Cookout is. Other clubs and organizations are going to be selling to the same individuals very soon and you do not want to find out in late March that you were too late. 2017 Wild Game Flyer is available for you to print and pass out, put on Facebook, send in email to your contacts, etc. It is very important that we get a jump start on the event this year!

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Wild Game Cook-out Tickets
Wild game cook-out tickets have been distributed for you to sell. If you have not received yours yet, or if you need more, contact Tim Kip or Jeremy Burris

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Wild Game Info Needed

If you have special announcements, recognition, etc. that you would like Billy Herold to announce during the Wild Game evening, please get the information to Billy as soon as possible so he can include it in his programming planning.

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Rotary Scholarships
Jana Butler announced that the 2017 Rotary Scholarship process is underway. Applications have been given to PCHS and interviews are being scheduled for March 23. Students that attend other schools but are residents of Plant City are eligible as well. If you want to be a part of this scholarship awarding committee, or need an application, let Jana Butler know.

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Program Chairman

John Haney is our program chairman. Please notify him regarding upcoming speakers and programs. Call 813-716-5108 or email John at jhaney@acebid.com

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Birthdays This Month

Jake Austin, March 5th

Charles Deusner, March 26th

Club Anniversaries This Month

Terry Jones, 2 years

Doug Watson, 2 years

Alan Kicklighter, 4 years

Tim Shuff, 6 years

Brett Mueller, 9 years

Nate Kilton, 11 years

Mike Arndt, 15 years

Lewis Marshall, 20 years

Steve Lambert, 21 years

Bob Roderick, 37 years

Convention: Southern hospitality
The Atlanta Host Organization Committee is offering some good old-fashioned Southern hospitality at the Rotary International Convention from 10 to 14 June. It has planned a wide range of activities featuring everything from good food and music to inspiring tours of local landmarks. If it’s your first convention, these events are chances to meet fellow Rotarians from around the world, and if you’re an experienced convention goer, you can catch up with old friends. Hall of Fame baseball player Hank Aaron will host Rotarians for a “Strike Out Polio” night at the new SunTrust Park, where you’ll...

Member spotlight: The power of the press
When Teguest Yilma helped found the Rotary Club of Addis Ababa Entoto in 2002, she thought polio had already been eradicated from most of the world. But while Ethiopia had been free of the disease, Yilma was shocked to learn that new cases had started cropping up in surrounding countries such as Somalia. “I was thinking, it’s not possible, we can’t be free if the countries around us are not free,” she says. Yilma, the managing editor of Capital, Ethiopia’s largest English weekly newspaper, has brought a journalist’s skills to the fight against polio. She became vice chair of the Ethiopia...

Member interview: Writer sheds light on FDR’s right-hand woman
Battling breast cancer in 2000, Kathryn Smith found comfort pursuing her lifelong interest in Franklin D. Roosevelt. The more she read, the more intrigued she became with the 32nd U.S. president’s private secretary, Marguerite Alice “Missy” LeHand. “I thought, what a fascinating life she had because she was by his side through the polio crisis, establishing the polio rehabilitation center in Warm Springs and then after his return to politics,” she says. Smith, a past president of the Rotary Club of Greater Anderson, S.C., and a longtime newspaper journalist, turned that curiosity into a book...

The Rotarian Conversation with Ban Ki-moon
One of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s earliest memories is of fleeing with his family into the mountains during the Korean War, his village burning behind him. His father and grandfather had to forage for food in the woods; his mother gave birth to his siblings away from anything remotely resembling a health facility. “I have known hunger,” he says. “I have known war, and I have known what it means to be forced to flee conflict.” The soldiers who came to their rescue were flying the blue flag of the United Nations. The UN provided them with food and their schools with books....

Culture: Life in the bike lane
Like a lot of us, I spent much of my childhood riding bikes, but fell out of the habit for a while. Forty years. Then my wife and I moved to New York, where cyclists risk their necks in a daily Thunderdome of cabs, police cars, firetrucks, double-decker buses, messengers on motorbikes, and delivery trucks backing around corners at 20 miles an hour. Not for me! At least not until my 50th birthday, when my metabolic furnace flamed out. Calories started going directly from beer bottle to beer belly. It was time to start exercising. Either that or give up Samuel Adams, and I couldn’t do that to...

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