April 2, 2014 Newsletter
April 2nd Newsletter
INVOCATION: Annie Hanson shared a wonderful invocation making some great statements about us all being minorities, all of us being majority, us being diverse as well as coming together in commons. Recognizing differences and being respectful. It was different, and ear catching. Thanks Annie.
GUEST ANNOUNCER: Dave Renninger - Thanked Mr. Lucco and Carol Flask for taking our money and selling us tickets. LAST IN: Brad Ruth. NO PIN: Geoffe Besso HAPPY BUCK: John Sues- Granddaughter Rianna Ports. She is a 9 year old little girl who qualified to be in the Drive Chip Putt Contest. She is in the division for girls 8-9 years old, she scored the highest. She also beat all girls 10-11 years old. Drive Chip and Putt Contest this week and will air over the weekend LOOK FOR HER! Here is a link with details... http://www.drivechipandputt.com/golf-channel-sets-production-plans-for-live-televised-coverage/ It will be amazing to see, what a proud grandpa! I will be tuned in for sure! ANNIVERSARIES: Club Anniversary Shannon Sinex 3 years. FUN FACT: Ohio is the only State that financially supports Libraries financially. How many public libraries in State of Ohio? 251. Bob Oborn won ice cream. TICKET: Don Coughlin has the winning ticket and Jim Callahan pulls the ace of clubs.
PRESIDENT: Bob Oborn: New member Elizabeth Eaken was pinned and sponsored by Katie Wright. She was welcomed by Shannon Sinex, Andrea Denton and we all welcomed her and accepted her as a new member. Very exciting!
TONIGHT: Food Bank 5-7 PM with Dave Renninger. If you signed up please make sure you register yourself as a volunteer on the website before showing up. Take 2 minutes... Click on link and fill out online application thanks! http://www.akroncantonfoodbank.org/volunteer.aspx
COMMUNITY SHOWCASE: This weekend, if you have signed up for a shift, please make sure you are there! Contact dentonaz@aol.com 330-688-8431 with questions. Thank you Ron Taggart for putting together our display.
TODAY: DICTIONARY DELIVERY: Today we will deliver 9-10AM We are very excited to visit the elementary schools, and deliver these great books! (It was really fun!)
GOLF OUTING: Mark Lucco - Registrations for signups are now printed, please pick one up, start filling them out and getting them in to Mark. Please talk to Mark about being a tee sponsor if you have not already. You can also do a Tribute or Memorial sign on the course they are $50 each. I will attache a sign up flier next week. (Sorry I forgot to get one!)
AWARDS BANQUET: Dick Hall - Weds April 30th White Shirt, Black Pants. We serve about 275 people. 5:30 arrival, and you will be done by 7:30 latest. Please sign up for this great night to serve.
MEMBERSHIP Wine & Cheese: WEDS April 23rd... 5:00-6:30 Please get your names to Andrea Denton ASAP so we can follow up with them. Please take the invitations. Send them out, have a goal to bring 2 people. Cmon folks! (See attached invitation) Email Andrea Denton your guests dentonaz@aol.com or call 330-688-8431 and Give her the Guest Name, Company/Organization Name, Email, and phone number.
HEROES DAY IN MAY: Saturday May 17th. We have quite a few more teams this year, 2-3 more, and we will have about 20-30 more volunteers which will allow us to service a few more houses than last year. I am still taking suggestions for recipients of our services. I sent around a clipboard for those who are not working on a house who want to help. Please make sure if you are on a team that your t-shirt size is on there. I am looking for a few people to help make 5-7 phone calls to other Rotarians and team captains over the next 7 days. Please email me JacquiBowmanSold@gmail.com if you can help.
INTRODUCTION OF GUEST: Karl Kalteuthaler is a professor Political Science at University of Akron and he also teaches at Case. He is here to raise our international awareness of whats going on in the Middle East as of now.
SPEAKER: Karl talked about “Arab Spring” and how it got started. It got started by a vegetable seller that set himself on fire, because he was tired of the government manipulating etc. He talked about that the Gulf countries have oil, can escape this Arab Spring. The standards of living are better, so they can bypass this Arab Spring. He talked at great length, and how it effects the United States. “Anytime countries start to disintegrate, it becomes a problem for us. They become sanctuaries for terrorist groups. Syria is a problem for us years to come, the blowback will be significant.” What can we do about Lybia, and Syria, Egypt.? There is not much we can do. He was very intriguing speaker and helped many of us open our eyes to reality. He was not a very uplifting speaker due to subject, however this was so informational and appreciated to the majority of us as an audience. He answered several questions. It raised quite a bit of concern here in our club and were very engaged in finding out more and having discussion.
(Sorry for all the typos, and run ons... I rush to get information out, and have a tight schedule. I would love to do better on grammar, however I do my best! Thanks for understanding)
Yours in Service,
Jacqueline Bowman
(330) 687-7300