March 20, 2013 Meeting Minutes

Guests:
Autumn Sloan, Rory Sloan, Brian Hopkins, Sue Elliott, Wayne Matthews, Eric Vonzeilen, Wayne Brophy, Mila

Missing in Action:
Gene Bassage, Mark Clement, John Denniston, Chase Ellsworth, Gary Haigh, Robert Ike, Jeff Johncox, Dick Kirchhoff, Peter Park, Dave Pray, Dave Read, Joan Shaffer, Cindy Surline, Cortney Surline.

Please keep the following in your thoughts and prayers this week:
Shirley Bassage, injured her leg during a tour of a horse track;
Arnie’s grandson, Sage, was injured in a car accident;
Dianne’s cousin, was recently diagnosed with a melanoma.

Birthdays/Anniversaries:
Leslie

Singing:
“God Bless America” – led by Kim

Fines, Happy Bucks, Confessions:
• Bob Sloan confessed to a new Subaru Forester
• Eric visited Tory in Arizona
• Nancy’s son surgery went well, prompting a happy buck from her.
•Leslie was at least a dollar’s worth of happy to have her sister and brother-in-law here from New Zealand.
• Bob Yost had a visit from his daughter.
• Bill Dean offered a happy buck and shared a tale from Pam’s PETS training.  Seems when asked, “How long have you been a Rotarian?” someone replied, “I’ve always been a Rotarian.”

Notes and Updates for the Club:

-  The District Assembly is Saturday April 13 at the Red Jacket High School in Shortsville.
-  The annual joint Lions/Rotary dinner takes place Tuesday April 16 at the Alling Coverlet Museum in Palmyra.  Guest speaker is Craig Schaller from WHAM 1180.  Meet and greet 6pm, dinner at 6:45.  Cost is $17 per person.
-  Kim and Mark are signing up people to solicit donations from county business for the fair booth project.

Mila and Leslie, in honor of their recent birthdays, gave a presentation about birthday celebrations around the world.  Mila asked her many exchange student friends, via Facebook, how they celebrated birthdays in their home countries.  Almost all said, we get together with family and friends and have cake.  Not extremely helpful.  She and Leslie put their heads together and came up several traditions from various countries, then put them to our members in the form of a quiz. It was a very entertaining program.  And it turns out family, friends, and cake are common elements of birthday celebrations around the world.


Here we see Mila with her birthday cake from Rotary - Happy Birthday!

Bob Sloan won the 50/50 and donated his winnings to the Fair Booth project.