E-News for Week of Dec 15 (Dec 15,2014) (Dec 14, 2014)

Executives & Directors

President

Rose Angela Gronda

President Elect

Bob Howey

President Nominee

Laurie Dixon

Secretary

John Allen

Asst. Secretary

Rick Williams

Treasurer

Ed Shenton

Asst. Treasurer

Matt Hatty

Director-Vocational

Kathy Kane

Director-Club Services

Dennis Levko

Director

Jean Wloszek

Director

Mike Doyle

Director-Generations

Janie Dunn

Past President at Large

Dennis Mator

Imm. Past President

Ronnie Ruelle

Rotary International

President

Gary C.K. Huang

THS Interact

President

Gabrielle Maciag

Rotary District 6400

District Governor

Liz Smith-Yeats

Area 6 Assistant Governor

Noel Jackson

District Governor Elect

Wayne Titus

District Governor Nominee

Susan Goldsen

President Rose Angela presents Linda Dickman with a donation of $500 for Christnet.

President Rose Angela presents the Woodhaven-Brownstown Rotary Club a check for $500 to assist with their service Projects.

PDG Donna Schmidt and PRID Mike McCullough give an update on the Ethiopia project.

The Trenton Rotary held a Wine, Women and Warmth service project on December 3rd to benefit the Kids Talk Program sponsored by the Guidance Center.

DG Liz Smith and Kathy Kane start their first blanket.

President Rose Angela and Paulette Dillingham join them.

Elaine Hart picks a pretty blue blanket.

Jane Dunn rings the bell when her blanket is done.

Lauren Jocks shows her husband, Bruce, how to make the blanket.

Scott Gronda helps Kyle Stack prep the blanket.

Matt Hatty and Jean Wloszek team up.

Mike McCullough and Ronnie Ruelle prefer the zebra print.

The Rotary Club of Allen Park joined in this service project.

Jane Dunn, Mike McCullough and Rose Angela Gronda take a break.

Rick Williams helps out.

The entire group shows off their finished products.

The Trenton Rotary Club held its Wild Game Luncheon on Wednesday, Dec 10th.

President-Elect Bob Howey is ready to greet the first guest.

Tom Dickman, John Allen and Ron Sheck man the check-in table.

DG Liz Smith, her husband Jamie, Mike McCullough and President Rose Angela are first to arrive.

DG-Elect, Wayne Titus and his wife Lisa are next to arrive.

Joe Hoshaw watches as Kyle Stack and Paulette Dillingham demonstrate their technique for selling Big Wheel tickets.

Waiting for the event to begin.

Having a great time!!

John Martenson's table takes time for a picture.

The Taylor Rotary is represented at this event.

Ed Shenton and his family.

President Rose Angela welcomes the guests as Emcee Bill LeFevre looks on.

Mark Angelotti tries the pulled pork.

Joe Hoshaw and Joe Dixon enjoy the buffet.

Stay tuned next week for more Holiday pictures!!

President's Corner

Rose Angela Gronda

December 15, 2014

Today, we welcome the Trenton High School Choir. We appreciate them taking time away from their busy day to come and sing some Christmas carols for us!

Whew, what a busy couple weeks we've had since our last meeting! Our Wine, Women & Warmth event went very nicely with more than 25 people attending and more than 40 blankets made. In addition to Rotarians and spouses from our own club, we had Rotarians from other clubs, such as Allen Park, Woodhaven/Brownstown and Detroit, including DG Liz! We took some time to share some wine, food and fellowship as well. We'll present the completed blankets to the Kids Talk program chair soon and hope that they'll bring comfort to some children.

We participated in the Trenton Christmas Parade on December 6th with five Rotarians covered in Christmas lights and carrying our Rotary banners. We set out to Light Up Rotary and we think we did that! Thanks to Wes Mator, Mark Angellotti, Jane Dunn and Matt Hatty for braving the cold that night.

The 27th Annual Wild Game Luncheon took place on December 10th. We were pleased to have DG Liz Smith and her husband, Jamie, as well as DGE Wayne Titus and his wife, Lisa, attend the event. Bill LeFevre was full of entertaining comments as usual! Thank you to chairman, Bob Howey and his committee Mark Angellotti, Bob Haveman, John Howey, Skip Howey, Bill LeFevre, Dennis Levko, Jim Mans and John Martenson for another great event!

We rang the bell this weekend for the Salvation Army and we were lucky enough to have weather in the 40's this year. Much different than last year during the Polor Vortex! We look forward to hearing from Mark and Dan about how we did this year. Larry Kearney and Paul Frost led the band around town on Friday night as well so they'll give us some results as well!

We ended the week with our Rotary Christmas Party on Friday. We had a nice meal at Fratello's along with some good group conversations to make for an enjoyable evening! We'll share more pictures in next week's newsletter.

Board members, please remember we have a board meeting at 7am this Thursday. Thank you!

Have a good week!

Speakers

Dec 15, 2014
Trenton High School Choir
Christmas Concert

Dec 22, 2014
Family Christmas Party


Dec 29, 2014
No meeting - Christmas Holiday


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Upcoming Events

Board Meeting

Mom's Restaurant

Dec 18, 2014
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM

***December is Family Month***

Please plan to attend our Family Christmas Party at our noon meeting on December 22nd. Children, grandchildren and spouses are welcome to attend. Please make sure to write down the names of your guests on the sign-up sheet or send an email to Rose Angela by December 15th.

Thank you!

Quote of the Week:

To love beauty is to see light. - Victor Hugo

There are at least 10 great reasons to attend Rotary District Conference in 2015!

Reason #5: You're just 15 minutes from downtown Traverse City, renowned for its variety of food, nightlife and shopping!

Click on this link to register online:

http://www.rotary6400.org/DisCon15/index.html

Foundation Minute for December 15th from Regional Rotary Foundation Chair Neil McBeth

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people – children, families and entire communities – benefit from projects funded by The Rotary Foundation. Its concentration is in six areas of focus: promoting peace, fighting disease, providing clean water, saving mothers and children, supporting education and growing local economies.

In this season of giving your $10 gift can provide bed nets to combat malaria in countries like Uganda and for a donation of $25, it can purchase the necessary school uniform which enables a child to attend school. Your $50 gift can provide water filters that will combat deadly waterborne diseases in Guatemala, and $85 can purchase purple markers used to mark the pinkie fingers of children who have received the polio vaccine. $100 can provide a sewing machine used to launch a business in India, and $250 gives mothers living in domestic violence shelters the means to bathe and care for their babies.

Rotary’s “Doing Good in the World” takes on many projects and tasks that make the world a better place. Your contribution and support of The Rotary Foundation allows this to happen.

Thank you. Wishing you peace and joy this holiday season and a happy, healthy, New Year.

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