February 25th 2015 Newsletter

 

Invocation: Jim Stewart opened the meeting with an inspiring invocation praying for protection for our military and the service our club stands for.

Guest Announcer: Bonnie Housley was our announcer today.  She began by thanking John Long, Sergeant at Arms and Tony Falcione for getting everyone checked in.

Visitors: Chuck Hurst is our speaker and Jeff Foster is a guest of Katie Wright.

Fines:  Lorrie Shaffer was last in but we were glad to see her.

             Marv Mills and Eric Weber forgot their badge and Jeff Film forgot his pin.

Special Days:    

Rotary Anniversaries:  Rick Archer has been a member of Rotary for 13 years and Bonnie was his sponsor when he joined.

Wedding Anniversary:  Steve Fry and his wife, Nancy will be married 18 years on March 1.

Birthdays:  There were no birthdays this week.

Drawing:   With the pot at $525, Bruce Hill’s table had the winning ticket but drew the 9 of hearts.

Happy Bucks: Katie Wright said that once again next month will be March Into Literacy.  Last year 400 books were donated to CSB in Summit County.  This year the program will be expanded into Portage County.

                          Brad Jagger told us to be sure to attend the junior class play, “Vintage Hitchcock” at the high school this weekend.  His daughter is part of the cast.  His other daughter as a freshman made it to the speech and debate semi-finals.  He’s a proud papa.

Bob Oborn, serving as president today in Jim Callahan’s absence said that we missed him and our newest members, Steve Dunton, Amber Zibrotosky and Rob DiVincenzo.

Andy Denton is scheduled to be our representative at the Interact meeting next Monday at 2:35.

We voted on the three vacancies for the Board for terms that will expire at the end of June.  Those elected were Rich Bedell, Brad Jagger and Bob Oborn.

The next Food Bank volunteer night will be March 4^th.  Sign up with Dave Renninger if you are able to help.  Lists are also circulating for April and June food bank dates.

Did you know that the cost of breakfast at the club includes tax and tip?

The District Conference for Rotary will be on April 24^th-26^th. The meeting will be combined with a training assembly.  Interact and RYLA will give a presentation Saturday noon and a Memorial Service will be held on Sunday.  Watch for further information.

Mark Lucco discussed the Golf Outing with us.  The date for the outing is June 6^th.  Lists for sponsorship and other type of assistance were circulated and club members are asked to help.  There will be a meeting of the committee this Friday, February 27^th at Bob Evans.

It appears that the club will be helping with beer service at Rockin’ on the River in Lorain the evening of June 13^th from 6:00-11:00 p.m.  We will need 30-35 people so recruit family members, potential members and neighbors now.  More details will follow from Pat Messmore but the entertainment will be by The Michael Stanley Band. 

 

Member Moment:  Jim Stewart grew up in Streetsboro on a small farm.  His Mother was a teacher and his Dad was a barber so there were lots of eye on him as a child.  He moved 22 times as an adult but now has lived in his present home for 17 years.

Program:  Jim introduced Chuck Hurst from the Akron chapter of SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives) who gave us a very interesting presentation.  There are 300 chapters of SCORE nationwide with over 11,000 volunteers.  Their purpose is to assist people who want to be entrepreneurs.  They do this through counseling, workshops and one-on-one assistance.  The Akron chapter serves, Portage, Summit, Media and Wayne counties.  They get a major part of their funding through grants.  Services are free of charge for those wanting to open a business or strengthen the business they already operate.  Most of their operations occur at the Taylor Institute of the University of Akron which is located in the Polsky Building.  They are always looking for more volunteers.  Anyone who is interested can contact SCORE at 330-379-3163.

Foodbank:  First Wednesday of every month 5-7 p.m.

Board Meetings:  Second Friday of every month at 7:15 a.m.

Four-Way Speech Contest:  March 11^th

District Conference and Training:  March 24-26

Achievement Banquet:  April 30

Golf Outing:  June 6

Rockin’ On the River June 13

Installation Breakfast: June 24

Pride Breakfast: July 1

Reverse Raffle Silent Auction:  October 14

 

The meeting was adjourned at 8:30.