November 28, 2012 - Meeting Minutes

Guests:
Bob Daly, Shirley Bassage, students Lauren Zink, Frankie Surace, and Mila.

Missing in Action:
Bill Dean, Pam Dean, John Denniston, Gary Haigh, Jeff Johncox, Anne Morrell, Arnie Pechler, Nancy Schrader, Bob Sloan, Roger Wilbur.

Please keep the following in your thoughts and prayers:
Tom Breen’s mother passed away on the 26th.

Exchange Student Update:
Mila spent time in Virginia Beach.  She experienced her first Thanksgiving, as they do not have this in Poland.  Also, her first “Black Friday,” which they also do not have in Poland.  She will be participating in the school’s musical, “Once Upon A Mattress.”

Singing:
Songmistress Kim led us in for “We Are Pal-Mac Rotary” (sung to the tune of “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad”

Birthdays, Anniversaries:
Vicky and Bob Daly’s anniversary – 53 years
Peter Park’s birthday  – 2 score!

Fines, Happy Bucks, Confessions:
- Gary Hopkins got a buck and a doe on opening day, which prompted him to give a happy dollar.
- Dave Pray has returned from the UK, where he visited Betsy who is doing well.
- Cindy announced that, in the near future, the Brickhouse will be a UPS drop-off  and shipping location.
- Cindy also reminded us that she loves her kids very much.   Then she gave a happy buck because Laura and the kids have moved out of her house.
- Peter was happy about his visit with relatives in Cincinnati; he will next be going to Chicago to act as Best Man in his youngest brother’s wedding.
- Vicky presented a Palmyra pin to Mila.
- Eric spent Thanksgiving in Barbados, where he was able to tour a Rum plant.
- Kim got to spend all week with her boys and granddaughter.
- Bob Yost spent Thanksgiving with Heather.
- Richard and Wynette had 2 of their grandchildren here over the holiday, and were happy there was enough snow to go sledding for a time on The Hill.
- Dianne’s daughter Autumn decided she wanted to be a lacrosse player after seeing Joey play last year; Dianne took Autumn to her first LAX practice.
- Gene was happy about the good weekend for Syracuse – both the football and basketball teams won.

Notes and Updates for the Club:
• The sign-up sheet for the Christmas party went around again today, and will be available next Wednesday the 5 th.  A final count needs to be turned in after that.
• Sign-ups for Bell-Ringing at Breen’s went around today as well.  That event is pretty well booked up.  If any spots remain open or become open, Cindy will send e-mail looking for people to step up and fill in.
• As you may know, our club’s website address is rather cumbersome and not easily remembered.  This makes it difficult to direct people to our site.  We now have a new domain name which directs to our clubrunner site but is easier to remember and to use in any publications.  The new address is www.palmacrotary.org
• At our club meeting on November 7th, we passed a jug to raise money for victims of “Super-Storm Sandy.”  We collected $150, and the club’s Board of Directors voted to match that with club funds.  Dianne sent a check for $300 to District 7490 in New Jersey, where it will be disbursed to local clubs to help provide relief.
• Gary Haigh is stepping back from his role as coordinator of the Dictionary Project.  He was the person who contacted the school to determine the number of students to receive books.  He then ordered the books, held a “sticker party” to get our labels in them, and made arrangements with the school for delivery.  If that sounds like a fun project to you, please contact Dianne as the position will be available.
• Speaking of fun projects, we will also have an opening for Programs Coordinator.  Debbie LeMoyne has done a fantastic job lining up speakers for the past several years, but has decided to step down.  Recently, we have gone back to assigning members to specific dates, asking them to coordinate with Debbie.  If riding herd on the members sounds appealing to you, contact Dianne to volunteer.
• At our December 12 meeting, the proposed candidates for the 2013-2014 board of directors will be presented for approval by the club.
• Leslie reports that the Interact Club’s dog rescue project was a big success.  They collected enough supplies to fill 2 cars, and they will likely make this an annual event.
• The Fair’s spaghetti dinner raised over $4,000 which will go toward the construction of the new booth.
• Our annual Foundation Dessert Auction will be Wednesday, January 16 at Parkwood Heights, in the evening.  This event will be instead of our regular noon meeting that day.
• The 3rd annual Murder Mystery dinner will Saturday, February 2.  There will be no club meeting the following week.

Keeper-of-the-Pins Gene Bassage presented some perfect attendance pins today:  Dave Pray – 7 yrs, Cheryl Ford - 22 yrs, Margaret Brooks – 22 yrs, Dick Kirchhoff – 24 yrs, Gene Bassage – 54 yrs. Congratulations to all.

Our monthly auction this week raised $68 for the Rotary Foundation.

Bob Yost won the 50/50 and donated the $14 to the Fair Booth fund.

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Next meeting:  Noon, December 5, at the American Legion in Palmyra.


Our visiting students today, l-r: Frankie Surace, Lauren Zink, Mila.