February 27, 2013 - Meeting Minutes

Our newest member, Tom Brighton (center) poses with club president Dianne Sloan (l) and his sponsor, Richard Searle (r).

Guests:
Students Katey Sciandra, Allie Phillips, Ben Krenz, Mila

Missing in Action:
Gene Bassage, Margaret Brooks, Eric Chapman, Mark Clement, Vicky Daly, John Denniston, Chase Ellsworth, Gary Haigh, Gary Hopkins, Jeff Johncox, Debbie LeMoyne, Anne Morrell, Peter Park, Arnie Pechler.

Please keep the following in your thoughts and prayers this week:
Margaret’s brother John passed away,
Also Jim Breen, Sr passed away.

Birthdays/Anniversaries:
None this week.

Singing:
“You Are My Rotary,” sung to the tune of “You Are My Sunshine” - additional verses by Kim Clement.

Fines, Happy Bucks, Confessions:
• Kim offered a happy buck on Mark’s behalf for Margaret’s Pie, and then pitched in a couple of her own for the Murder Mystery Dinner and time with her granddaughter.
• Leslie also had happy bucks for the Murder Mystery Dinner and confessed that she completely forgot about the previous week’s Board of Directors meeting.
• Pat seconded Mark’s buck for Margaret’s pie.
• Bob Sloan happy-bucked for the MMD.  Also, he took son Rory ice fishing.
• Dianne also pitched in a buck for the MMD.
• Richard had a happy buck because his son was flying in to spend a few days before going on mission in the Baltics.
• Pam offered a buck for the successful Valentine’s Day activities at the Wayne County Nursing Home.  She, along with several other Rotarians, presented balloons to the residents.
• Bob Yost, one of those several, matched Pam’s happy buck.
• Cortney got to spend some quality time with her nephew.
• Tom Breen also had a happy buck for the MMD, also for the spelling bee.
• Jim Bush offered a happy buck/confession for the MMD, which he missed.  He was sure that he was guilty of something else, but couldn’t remember what it was.

Notes and Updates for the Club:
   Our regular club meeting on March 13 will be an evening meeting, 6pm at the American Legion in Palmyra.  
   The Sodus Rotary Club would like you to know about an upcoming fundraiser concert featuring Russell Moore and IIIrd Tyme Out.  The Bluegrass performers appear at the Sodus Central School Auditorium March 23.  Tickets are $20 and available at the Sodus Rotary website: http://www.sodusrotary.org/events/
   The annual Wayne County Rotary Spelling Bee for Literacy Volunteers was held Saturday, Feb 23.  Our own Pal-Mac Interact team, “Miss-Spellers” took first place in the youth division for the third year in a row.  “Spell Like the Wind,” sponsored by Ontario-Walworth Rotary took first place in the adult division.  Our club’s team, “BBLT” came in somewhere between fourth place and last place.  Many thanks to our club members for their support and to Bob Ike, who served as pronouncer along with Don Alhart.
   March is Literacy Month.  Our club is assembling “Reading Adventure” packs, to be distributed to students in the Pal-Mac School District.
   Bob Ike is now our program coordinator.  He offered sincere thanks to Deb LeMoyne for all the hard work she put into making our meetings informative and fun.  He also mentioned that we now have, on loan from the school district, a laptop and projector at the Legion for presentations.  The laptop does NOT have a cd-drive however, so your speakers will need to have their presentations on a USB-drive, or bring their own laptop.  Programs are being assigned to members alphabetically.  Watch your e-mail for messages from Bob.
   The GSE team from Switzerland/Latvia will be visiting our club from May 23-27 (not March, as reported in the last Crier – oops!).  Host families have been lined up.  Since the team will only be with us from Thursday through Monday, we are moving our meeting that week to Thursday evening. 

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Foundation Auction:
   Pam Dean won a veggie-chopper with a bid of $5.
   Bill Dean paid $5 for a brass ruler with the Rotary wheel on it.
   Bob Sloan purchased a lantern/radio for only $7, after some fierce bidding.
   Bob Yost had the winning bid on Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies, 7.

   Gary Haigh won the Exempt Button for March, in absentia, with a bid of $11.

Dick Kirchhoff won $11 in the 50/50 drawing.  He donated it to Polio Plus.

Visiting Students (l-r): Katey Sciandra, Ben Krenz, and Allison Phillips