Nov 13 2012 Bulletin
INVOCATION: Ron Maghes shared a wonderful invocation with us this morning.
GUEST ANNOUNCER: Dave Renninger, thanks Dave! Thank you to Mark Lucco for the wonderful job as our Sarge of Arms. We appreciate you too! Visitors: today Past Dist. Governor Jack Young, and Ryan Bowman. Last in: Paul Organ. No Pin: Chief Dirker, Jeff Wagner, Dick Hall. $50 fine Ron Taggart. Birthday: Debbie helped us sing to Dicky Spangler on the 15th he will turn 39! Then he gave her a smooch. No Sign in: Rich Bedell. Wedding Anniversary: John Long 39 years. Club Anniversaries: Paul Organ 14, Bill Choler 15, and Mike Sekulich 21 years. Fun Fact: Rotary’s shortest theme of the year: ACT. Jim Stewart guessed correctly! Winning Ticket: Sekulich/Housley table and Carol Flask drew the 7 of diamonds.
HAPPY BUCKS: Chief Dirker- Shop with a Cop starting sell $100 worth tickets will allow one shopper to go with a cop shopping. Please help if you can.
Jeff Wagner - Go Spartans! He also shared some Marines thing that he passed around, honestly it was over my head, or my bucket. ha ha. Christina Gary - She gave away free haircuts that were donated to us, she also made and printed thank you notes for the club that we can use, she also completed a vigorous race and shared with us that she is signing up for 5 races next year.
PRESIDENT: Thanked Dave Renninger for organizing Akron Canton Regional Foodbank volunteer night, 1st Wednesday in December we will be going again! We had 17 ppl last time. Brad Jagger finished his blue sheet today... Yeah! We also pinned Carol Flask today, sponsored by Bonnie Housley. We and welcomed her to the club. She shared with us her many years of service to our community and is honored to now be able to serve with us. Club has 4 board positions opening. Please think of stepping up and being part of the board, and think about what you can do to contribute. Heroes day is confirmed for Saturday May 17th, 2014 from 8AM til 1PM. I will be putting together the committees soon. Please come to me with any additional Veteran/Heroes that we can serve this spring. Dave Christman will be back to the club, and will be pinned here soon. Welcome Dave.
CLUB ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Dick Spangler - Holiday Gift Program Our club will be sponsoring 2 families from the 6 elementary schools for a total of 12 families for the Christmas. Please contact Dick to sign up to donate, or to shop. We will also have a wrap night to wrap the gifts as well.
Mike Sekulich - Final numbers from reverse raffle we netted $16,772. Thank you so much, and thank you Mike and Dr. Murphy.
Bruce Hill - Salvation Army bell ringing please sign up we only have 3 spaces to fill.
ROTARY SPEAKER: Jack Young was here to talk to us about Typhoon Haiyan damage to the Philippines. Effecting over 200,000 people, and projections say that this tragedy will take about 10,000 lives. We need to step up as Rotarians and make a difference and do our best to help Shelter Box. www.ShelterBoxUSA.org This worldwide organization helps with disaster relief. They had volunteers already there from October so they witnessed the typhoon first hand. Jack says, there is limited flights into Philippines, although we have committed to help over 2 million with temporary housing. Please donate so we can provide these tents/shelter boxes. 32,000 tents were given to Haiti. Each box cost is $1000. Inside is a specially designed tent, blankets, water filtration unit, cooking equipment, mosquito nets and other vital equipment for survival. During Haiti tragedy, one elementary school class of 4th grade raised $26,000 and sponsored 26 shelters for Haiti. So please even if you personally cannot sponsor, get into the community and let’s get together and sponsor these shelters. Ray Evans shared his experiences with the shelters, and started with his donation of $100 from our club. Ron Taggart immediately matched it, as well as the Oborn’s. After the meeting others did the same. Rich Bedell will be collecting checks for this effort, make checks out to Rotary Club of Stow-Munroe Falls and send to Rich Bedell at 1390 Mockingbird Tr. Stow 44224. You can also contact Jack Young with any questions about the shelter boxes at (440)759-4000 or email Jack1Villa@aol.com.
INTRODUCTION OF SPEAKER: Ron Maghes shared with us that he has been here since 1959 in Stow. Married 45 years to Teresa, and have 3 children 4 granddaughters. Introduced his son Michael Maghes.
SPEAKER: Michael Maghes first complimented his father’s work ethic. They tease him that he was born with a brief case in his hand. His first job was here at the country club, mowing greens. Worked at House of La Rose, for 10 years. He then 7 years ago was led to start a company that assisted restaurants and bars into more profitability. Arnone Inc. www.Arnoneinc.com He still runs that business today. He really has a passion for Italy and started a company importing olive oil, coffee, other products. Its called Arnone Imports www.Arnoneimports.com. Michael would love to you to visit his sites, and see his products. He loves his “work” and is so happy that he has passion in his work-life. His message to us today was really telling us to “do what you love” find passion in what you do, then call it work. Life couldn’t be better. How can you bring more passion into your work?
After dismissal many Rotarians stepped forward and we are well on our way to sponsoring a few boxes in the name of OUR club. We can track the box, and know where it ended up. Please get out there and do what you can as a Rotarian. Have a great rest of your week! Sorry if I missed anything there was a lot of information today!
Attendance sheet included with emailing to members.
Jacqueline A. Bowman
Rotary Club of Stow-Munroe Falls