Meeting Minutes - November 2, 2016

Missing in Action:
B. Brooks, M. Clement, B. Dean, P. Dean, M. Fessler, D. LeMoyne, T. Medina, C. Santelli, N. Schrader, P. VerPlank, A. Wahl, B. Yost.

Thoughts and Prayers:
    Steve Fredericks, (Marge Denniston's husband) has been very ill since July.
    Pam Dean is “coming along” after her knee replacement surgery.

Guests:
     Shirley Bassage
     Lu Kwan, guest speaker

Birthdays and Anniversaries:
    Maurina Schmidt will celebrate a birthday next week
    Rory Sloan, son of Bob and Dianne, “became a teenager” this week.

Fines and Happy Bucks:
    -- Kim Clement announced that their son, Cody, is engaged. Congratulations!
    -- Jenn Preston and family enjoyed a Disney World vacation in Florida.  
    -- Bob Sloan paid a Happy Buck for his new Beagle puppy, named Blue.
    -- Eric Chapman enjoyed a few days in Denver last week.
    -- New member Rollo Black confessed to leaving his ABC's or Rotary book home today!
    -- Jim Bush, recovering from recent back surgery, rejoined us this week. Welcome “back”, Jim!!
    -- Bob Ike offered a very happy buck because his daughter, Charlie, came home last Thursday after her appendix operation and is now back in school.
    -- Gary Haigh was happy because the Sabres won a game, and also because wife, Rena, put up the outdoor holiday decorations!
    -- Tom Breen, on vacation from the Post Office this week, was glad to make a meeting.
    -- Gary Hopkins offered a Happy Buck for the Pal-Mac varsity girls socccer team on winning the 2016 Section V Class B championship. After some prodding, he also modestly admitted that his daughter, Ashlyn, had been voted the team's Most Valuable Player! Congratulations to all!
    -- Stacy Wicksall rejoined us this week after attending a library conference in Fargo, N.D. Last week. She also was happy for a number of grants recently given to Macedon Public Library.

Rotary announcements:
    -- The sign-up sheet was passed around for those planning on attending the annual Holiday Party at Parkwood Heights on Wednesday evening, December 14; cocktails at 6:30, dinner at 7:30.
    -- Because the date of the hoiday party was moved back to Dec. 14, there will be a regular meeting at the American Legion on Wednesday, Dec. 21.
    --  Cindy Surline announced that the annual Salvation Army “red kettle” bell ringing will be conducted at Breen's from December 12 through 19. A sign-up sheet will be available next week for members who wish to participate.
    -- Copies of Jim Bush's two books – Halloween Candy and Halloween Candy II – are still available from the author or Marty Medina. Cost is $6 each, with half of the purchase price donated to the Club's Literacy projects.

Program:

     Eric Chapman introduced this week's speaker, Lu Kwan, a Fairport resident and former Xerox employee, who now serves as President of “Upstate New York Falun Dafa Association”. This not-for-profit organization, based in New York, exists to “revive 5,000 years of traditional Chinese culture” through an exciting and fascinating stage presentation called “Shen Yun”. And, this program of classical Chinese dance and live orchestra will be coming to Rochester in January.

     The speaker described this presentation as “much more than just music and dance”; it is a show  with uplifting energy which combines vivid and athletic classical Chinese dance with state-of-the-art animated backdrops that immerse the audience into the action.

     The two-hour and fifteen minute show will be presented at Rochester's Auditorium Theatre in a limited, two-show engagement on January 28 and 29, 2017. The Saturday evening performance is at 7:30 p.m., while the Sunday matinee begins at 2:00 p.m.

     You can learn more about this awe-inspiring performace on the website ShenYun.com/Rochester.