Newark Rotary Bulletin 2017-18 (11) October 23, 2017 (Oct 23, 2017)

Oct 24, 2017

Jennifer Makin

1st Organizational Crab Feed Meeting

Oct 31, 2017

Sucy Collazo

Spooky Halloween Presentation

Nov 07, 2017

DARK -- No Speaker

(Schmoozefest Night Before)

Nov 14, 2017

Al Huezo

TBD

Nov 21, 2017

DARK -- No Speaker

Thanksgiving Week

Nov 28, 2017

Paul Malnyk, SVN International, Corp.

Commercial Leasing Investment in Silicon Valley

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Schmoozefest -- Night Meeting!

Bistro 880, Newark DoubleTree

Nov 06, 2017 5:30 PM

Area 3 Veteran’s Day Service

Washington West Hospital

Nov 09, 2017
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

Board Meeting

Bistro 880, Newark DoubleTree

Nov 28, 2017 11:00 AM

President

Laurence Hansen

President Elect

Jennifer Makin

Secretary

Pamela Breen

Treasurer

Jan Crocker

Immediate Past President

Mike Hannon

Membership

Sucy Collazo

Foundation

Nancy Thomas

Publicity/Marketing

David Zehnder

Community Service

Jeff Aguilar

International

Belle Maloney

Club Services Director

DAVID Benoun

Vocational Service

Belle Maloney

Youth Service

Terrence Grindall

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This Week at Newark Rotary
October 23 - 29, 2017

This week's Meeting:
Tuesday, October 24

Crab Feed Planning

Not to be crabby, but let's all get together and plan our next great crab feed!

The Newark Rotary Crab feed is our one major annual fundraising event. Our success in past years made it possible for us to exceed the initial funding requests of 27 local and international charitable and educational organizations.

In total, as a result of our successful crab feeds, we were able to give more than $33,000 to these organizations.

In this week's meeting, President Elect Jennifer Makin will guide us through our first all-hands meeting to begin pulling things together for our 36th annual crab feed. With your participation, we have every reason to believe this will be our most successful crab feed ever!

NOTES:

If you haven't already, be sure to block out January 27, 2018. This is the date of our crab feed and all club members are expected to participate in setup and other support activities throughout the day, until clean-up is done.
If you have your crab feed pin from last year, please be sure to wear it for this very important crab season kick-off.

Meeting time: 12 noon, Tuesday, October 24

Location: Bistro 880 in the Newark DoubleTree Hotel.

Last Week in Rotary
(Three for the Price of One)

Here's a brief recap of what happened at the last three Newark Rotary meetings.

October 3

District Governor Orrin Mahoney
Governor, District 5170

This was a special meeting for all of our members. It was an opportunity to hear from our District Governor and learn about how the District is working to help our club succeed.

We also inducted three new members to our club.

Chomnan Loth
Leticia Salinas
Jonathan Arguello

And if that weren't enough, President Hansen was proud to be able to honor his wife, Gail Hansen with her Paul Harris Fellow award.

Be sure to scroll to the end of this page to see more pictures from DG Mahoney's visit.

October 10

Club Assembly

This was the first official club assembly of the Rotary year.

There was little official business conducted. Instead, most of the meeting was given over to open dialogue about what members want from the club and how we can move the club further in the direction of truly being beneficial to all concerned.

October 17

Newark Parks Master Plan

With today's speaker, we got two for the price of one!

Past Newark Rotary President David Zender and Edda Rivera, City of Newark Marketing Coordinator teamed up to give us a look at what's in store for parks in the city of Newark.

As Community Services Director, David Zehnder has been hard at work for months developing a master plan for the city's parks system. He shared with us some of the highlights of the master plan.

City of Newark Marketing Coordinator Edda Rivera followed David with additional details about park development and improvements we'll be seeing over the coming months and years.

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A Word From the President:

Teamwork

Rotary International and the Newark Rotary club are as successful as they are because of the hard work and dedication of tens of thousands of people who have stepped up to give a little more of themselves for the benefit of others.

As we begin ramping up our efforts for our 36th annual crab feed, I am reminded of how important teamwork is in making this fundraiser a success for the community. I am looking forward to another successful crab feed in 2018. It warms my heart to read the thank you notes from organizations we have been able to fund. And I look forward to the camaraderie we all share leading up to and on the day of our event.

Laurence Hansen

Additional Pictures from District Governor Orrin Mahoney's visit on October 3