February 19 Newsletter

ROTARY CLUB OF STOW-MUNROE FALLS NEWSLETTER

INVOCATION:  Bruce Hill shared a wonderful invocation for us today, and reminded us to appreciate our differences.

GUEST ANNOUNCER:  Tim Stephan filled in today as sarge for Mark Lucco, great job! The fashionable Jeff Wagner announced all of our buzz for the day...  Our visitors Patti Filmore, Elizabeth Eakin and our speakers. No Pin, Bill Choler & Linda Trevorrow. Tony Falcione paid with a $50. Happy buck: Bob Oborn state barber test passed with flying colors, and today president is clean shaved! Birthdays: Carrie Leising, Eric Weber & John Long. Club Anniversaries Geoff Besso, 7 years.  Trivia: Jeff mumbled something in some type of language called pig spanish, and Christina Gary says “Cuba” and wins. Jeff told us a few jokes something about a bloody car. Of course Jeff’s table had the winning ticket and Christina pulled the jack of hearts.

PRESIDENT ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

President Bob Oborn - shared the following events for the club:  

Dave Renninger:  March 5th Foodbank, fill out the volunteer application online prior to showing up to the date. Looking forward to a great turn out 5-7PM. 

Interact Club need someone for 2/24/14 Monday after school meeting for an hour. 

District Training Assembly Double Tree Hilton Independence March 29th 8:30Am-1:00 $40 club will pay for you to go, lunch included. 

He also updated us about the Pediatric Cardiac Surgery training we raised $633 dollars to that effort as we bring Doctors from Haiti as well as 2 children training them how to perform these surgeries in Haiti in the future. 

Denny Eberhart is pending authorization for transfer to our club, we will enjoy him. 

Still looking for someone to sponsor a Highschool foreign exchange student, actually 3-4 families would be great.  

Salvation Army we raised over $3000 dollars with bell ringing this season, great work! 

Heroes Day in May - I am holding a meeting tomorrow morning 7:30 AM Bob Evans Hudson Drive, Stow. Heroes Day is May 17th 8:30am-1:00 PM

INTRODUCTION SPEAKER:   Bruce Hill: introduced Judge Elinore Marsh Stormer shared her biography, and all of her accomplishments, which was very lengthy. Wow she has accomplished many things and is very involved in our community. Judge spoke with us about what we need to do to prepare for probate. She reminded us to us that probate does good things too! She shared with us 3 brochures that she reviewed with us, and gave us resources to get the information and forms for free. Then she introduced Jon Oldham, Magistrate/Judicial Attorney he shared some things specific to us, local business owners. Do these things to protect your business. 

1. Key person insurance:  Can jump in and cover a key employee 
2. Operating agreement for LLC:  will set forth who takes over, if someone passes away.  Make sure that you have an operating agreement or Buy/Sell agreement for a corporation.  Upon death of business owner the life insurance will pay the worth of the business to the family. 
3. Have a treasure map that shows who the key people who help you run your business,  on a daily basis so that when someone steps in to help, they have success and less frustration through that grieving time. A list of key people. Login and Passwords for accounts online, etc.