Beacon News January 2nd 2002

 

President Del called the meeting to order today.  The first of the New Year.  There was a very large turn out this week.  

Visiting Rotarians:

None

 

Guests:

Steve DiGennaro - Frank Ardino

Deb Walker – Carolyn Hauer

Joe Robach – Del Smith

Ed McKeown – Del Smith

Bill Selke – Del Smith

Mike Cerrotto – Del Smith

 

Birthdays:

Allan Wallace – Dec 27th.  Joe led the club in song.

 

Anniversaries:

Paul & Sheila Pickering – Dec 27th- 32 years

Dave Nagel toasted the couple and led us in song.

 

Fining with Tom:

Ø       Laurel Harrington fined for a trip to Stanford Mass. for business.

Ø       Mike Taylor – Maryland trip with family

Ø       Rino fined for not doing any haircuts today.

Ø       Joe Robach paid fine for buying a car from Mike Sofia.

Ø       Linda Deutsch – skied the “mahogany ridge” at Holiday Valley .

Ø       Al Schneier – took trip to Rochester train station.

Ø       Don Riley – missed meeting due to knee surgery last week.

Ø       Chuck Krauss – took trip to Buffalo to see family, but missed snow.

Ø       Gabe Geiger – bought a new car from Mike Sofia.

Ø       Ralph Rosati, Phil Doane, Gene Noga, Ralph Annucci, Brad Shay, Frank Ardino, Sue Edgett – missed meeting.

Ø       Tracy Wooden – missed two meetings.

Ø       Rick Antelli – fined for being boring also.

Ø       Kim Putman – missed meeting.

Ø       Paul Chatfield paid fine for being boring.

Ø       Mary Ann Kiely took trip to Las Vegas .

Ø       Elaine Gorman, Bill Von Dohlen, Cynthia Martone, Greg Halstead, Carla Vossler, Rich Baum, Rich Strauss – missed meeting.

Ø       Steve Voellinger- missed many, many meetings.

Ø       Judy VanBramer – missed meeting.

 

Announcements:

LPGA Mall Sales – Chuck Krause Greece Ridge Center Mall topped all other mall for sales this year.  We sold $33,000.00 total.  The goal for the mall was $24,000.00.

 

Ziti Dinner – next week’s speaker will be Ralph Annucci and he will be discussing the upcoming dinner and also giving a little history of the past dinners.

Only 4,800 tickets have been sold so far this year!!!!

   

District Assembly – Saturday March 23rd @ Suny @ Geneseo.  East Rochester is sponsoring the ½ day event.  Ask Del for more details.

 

Just a reminder:

The club will be going on it’s yearly road trip in about a month because of the winter shutdown at Ridgemont CC.  If you have an interesting idea for a location for a meeting please give Dave Kotesky 377-8078, dkoteskey@grinnelltravel.com  or President Del 227-8235, delsmithcpa@aol.com a call or email.

 

Today’s program and Speakers:

Assemblyman Joe Robach was our guest speaker this afternoon.  He talked about the state of New York especially since Sept 11th.

 

He stated the state will be affected financially

for about 15 months by Sept 11th.

 

The WTC produced about 47 billion of NYS economy.  5 billion came to the state in sales tax receipts alone.

The WTC was worst than Pearl Harbor because of the huge economic impact and that it was an attack on regular citizen instead of the armed forces.

 

One good affect of the WTC attack has been that Albany has been less partisan.  Maybe the budget will be passed on time!!!

 

50/50 – Colleen Meger

 

Meeting Make-Up schedule:

http://home.rochester.rr.com/greecerotary/makeup.htm

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