September 18 Newsletter

ROTARY CLUB OF STOW MUNROE FALLS NEWSLETTER:  SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Invocation:  Pat Messmore began the meeting with the invocation

Guest Announcer:  Jeff Wagner, guest announcer welcomed Mark Lucco back and thanked Nancy Rice for her help at the check-in table.  He also explained why the husband bought three gallons of milk when his wife only wanted one gallon.   Ask Jeff for the explanation.

Fines: There were no fines this morning.

Happy Bucks:  Marty Tass told us about the “Beerfest” fund raiser that the Stow Community Foundation is holding at Silver Springs Lodge on October 11^th.   MadCap beer, made by their company here in Stow will be featured.

Visitors:  Dave Christman was welcomed back as a visitor today.

New Members:  Katie Wright and Brad Jagger were both welcomed today.

Drawing:  Marv Mills’ table had the winning ticket but Katie Wright drew the king of spades which means the prize pot continues to grow.

Rotary Fun Fact: What year was the name of International Association of Rotary Clubs to Rotary International?  Dick Hall had the closest answer to 1922, and received the Handel ice cream certificate.

Special Days:

Rotary Anniversaries   None

Wedding Anniversaries: Jacqui Bowman, 3 years; Geoff Besso, 9 years; Linda Nahrstedt, 16 years and Roy Mook, 30 years.

Birthdays:   None

Presidential Announcements: by Bob Oborn   

·         Next week we will receive step-by-step instructions for getting into the new Rotary International website.  Several members have had problems doing this.

·         When trying to get into our club’s website, be sure to use all lower case letters.

·         Some people had asked about paying for beverages only at our meetings instead of paying for the whole breakfast.  Silver Lake is already discounting our breakfast and is not able to offer a beverage-only option.

·         We will be offering a prepaid breakfast card with 15 breakfasts purchased ahead of time.  Punches would have to be used by June 30, 2014, the end of our Rotary year.

·         Dick Hall will bring in some shirt samples with our logo on them in response to members’ requests for new shirts.

·         Rotary items that are not heat-sensitive will be stored by Jim Stewart.  If there are items that are heat sensitive, Ron Taggart has offered to store them at Printing Concepts.  Let Bob know if you have such items.

·         Bob thanked John Murphy for being willing to attend the 9/23 Interact meeting.

·         Nine people still have not paid their dues that were due July 1^st.  There is the option of paying either for a half year ($80.00) or a full year ($160).   Please see either Bob or Rich Bedell to make arrangements if you are one of the nine. 

·         Marv Mills announced that next week the program will be his doctor who is involved in the stem cell transplant clinical trial at Cleveland Clinic.

·         October 2^nd will be the first time that the club will volunteer at the Akron Canton Foodbank from 5:00-7:00 p.m.

·         Dick Hall said that there is now one ticket available for the Reverse Raffle.  He asks that money and ticket stubs from everyone be turned in by next week so that the seating can be established.

·         John Murphy asked that as people are contacted about donations for the silent auction, they let the committee know right away what they will be donating so that the items can be processed.  If people want to, they can donate cash toward the purchase of other prizes, but the committee needs to have that information right away too.  

·         Pat Messmore read the football pool results.  The only club member who won this week was John Sues, but many members sold books to winning community members.

Member Moment:  Pat Messmore told us that he is the current president of the Akron Hibernians.  He told us that his two children are now in their senior and junior years at St. Vincent/St. Mary School in Akron.  

Program: Pat then proceeded to tell us about his idea for a potential new fundraiser, A Hole In One Contest.  The handout he used accompanies these minutes. If this were to be successful, it could replace the golf ball drop at least temporarily.

Pat proposed that this happen in April or May but it was suggested that the event be culminated with our Golf Outing to make the best use of publicity and people power for both events.

The contest would take place at Fox Den and Downview with 2-3 volunteers needed at each location per day.   Volunteers would also be needed for marketing, the prize committee and coordinating volunteers.

There would be one qualifier per each location per day to qualify for the final.  There would be a daily prize(s) leading up to the grand prize of $100,000.  

The club did vote to pursue this further.

People we missed today were:Ron Alexander, Jacqui Bowman, Jim Callahan, Bill Choler, Roger Cline, Lou Dirker, Doug Dotterer, Sara Drew, Chris DiMauro, Annie Hanson, Mike Jabbor,
Chad Jones, Tom Loepp, John Long, Dan Mazzola, Jay Minkin, Mike Sekulich, Lorrie Shaffer, Shannon Sinex, Jim Stimler John Sues and Ron Taggart.