August 5, 2015 - Meeting Minutes

 
 
Guests:
Speaker Kathy Dunn from Towpath Volunteers, Bailey Cole, Joey Tesar, Dan Courtney, Shirley Bassage, Ray Warrick (Rush-Henrietta Rotary), Christina Valcore (Newark Rotary).
 
Missing in Action:
Tom Brighton, Eric Chapman, Marie Cramer, Pam Dean, Gary Haigh, Dick Kirchhoff, Deb LeMoyne, Marty Medina, Jim Murray, Arnie Pechler, Jenn Preston, Dave Read, Nancy Schrader, Cindy Surline, Eric VanZeilen, Pat VerPlank.
 
Please remember the following in your thoughts and prayers:
Leslie Vecchiotti is having surgery on Friday.
 
Singing:
Kim had to leave early, so she asked Jim Bush to lead us in our singing today.  He took us off-script and we sang “Joey T,” a Kim Clement original set to the tune of “Edelweiss,” in honor of her visit.
 
Birthdays and Anniversaries:
Ray Warrick has been in Rotary 23 years.
Bill and Pam Dean will celebrate 48 years of marriage on August 6th.
 
Fines, Happy Bucks and Confessions:
• Bob Yost had a happy buck for the great time had by all at the Sloan’s cottage on Saturday.  They threw a little party for Joey.
• Leslie was sorry to have missed Joey’s party and Bailey’s welcome home, but she was busy in Florida visiting Juliana.
• Dave Pray tells us his daughter Betsy got a full-time communications job in Washington, DC.
• Bob Yost’s daughter Heather is now working for Apple.
• Anne had a happy buck to thank the Sloan’s for the nice party.
• Mary Courtney had a summer job as assistant director of professional development at East High.  She has left Rochester Early College and will be teaching at East High starting this fall.
• Bob Sloan threw in a happy buck, thanking all who came to Joey’s party, and saying how nice and how fun it was to have her.
• Mark “finked” on anyone who wasn’t displaying the Rotary logo at today’s meeting.
 
Notes and Updates for the Club:
- The District Golf Tournament will be held on Friday, September 4th at the Lima Country Club, with registration at noon and tee-off at 1pm.  Cost is $80 per person, which includes golf, cart, lunch, and dinner.  Deadline to sign up is Tuesday, August 25th.  If you would like to participate, please contact Bob Yost ASAP.
 
- Tom Brighton presented a $500 check from the ExxonMobil Foundation to our own Pal-Mac Rotary Foundation at today’s meeting.  Tom is Mobil retiree, which allows him to request grants from the ExxonMobil Foundation to charities of his choice.  Any Mobil retiree is eligible to make this request, by documenting 40 hours of community service.  Thanks, Tom, for thinking of Rotary!
 
- Tickets for this year’s Canaltown Day Drawing fundraiser were distributed at today’s meeting.  Each Rotarian/Couple is encouraged to sell 10 books of tickets.  The prizes this year will be: 1st – 48” Smart TV; 2nd – iPad Air Wi-Fi; 3rd - $250 Gift Card from Breen’s; 4th/5th - $100 Gas Card (donated by Community Bank); 6th – Dinner Cruise from Midlakes Erie Navigation; 7th - $100 in NY Lottery scratch-offs; 8th - $50 Gift Certificate from Akropolis Restaurant; and 9th - $50 Gift Certificate from Athenia Restaurant.  If you didn’t get your tickets or need more, contact Tom Breen.
 
- If you signed up for the Bills game excursion, and have not yet sent your payment to Eric, he asks that you please do so.
 
- Were you greeted at our meeting today?  The greeters are back.  The club has a committee of greeters who rotate each week, providing a smile and a handshake to all attendees of our weekly meeting.  They also offer the invocation.  If you’d like to be in the rotation, please contact Bill Dean.
 
- Congratulations to Andy Wahl.  He won $14 in this week’s 50/50.
 
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