Beacon News July 31st 2002

 

Visiting Rotarians: 

Cindy Gibbons - Brockport

 

Guests:

None

 

Birthdays:

Richard Baum - Richard paid so the club would not have to sing.

 

Anniversaries:

Sal & Cheryl Pitti

Frank & Caroline Carberry

 

Save the dates:  

August 21 – New teacher luncheon - The club has invited 150 new Greece Central School District teachers to the luncheon.

 

Sept. 21 – Governor’s Dinner – District Governor Don Alhart will address the Area 9 clubs (of which Greece is included) in the district at the dinner.  The event will be held at the Beahan Road Party House.  A wheelchair ensemble called the “Moving Experience Group” will perform the entertainment.

 

Announcements: 

Last Week’s meeting was held at Camp Haccamo over 45 club members were there to celebrate their fellowship and to help the camp by weeding and fixing up our cabin, the train track, and pool.

 

Exchange Student – the club’s exchange student arrives Aug 23rd at 9:09 am.  U.S. flight  #1608.  There will be a welcome party on Saturday Aug 25th.  The location of this party will be announced at a later date.

 

Camp Haccamo – the camp is looking for a couple club members to volunteer to help at the Carnival Night Aug 7th and the Senior Ball Aug 15th from 4:30 – 7 pm.  If you can help, please contact Chuck Krause at (Home) 225-7654, (Work) 325-1010, (Cell) 703-0918, or Krause.chuck@pmlmail.com

 

Upcoming Meetings

August 7th – School for Challenged kids

Aug 14th – Walking Boys of Sudan

 

Fining with Paul:

  • Al Schneier – trip to Casino Niagara.  Al gave 20% of his winnings.  (Maybe other club members will do the same in the future.  Hello Judy Collins!)

  • Rich Vogelzang – new car from Doan that Mike Sofia paid for sticker.

  • Brad Shea – trip to Spain. He missed a meeting but did try to make up there but could not find a club.

  • Rosa Smith-Montanaro - Darien Lake where she had rendezvous with finemaster Paul in the wave pool.

  • Don Riley fined for his car’s license plate.

  • Al Wallace – new car from Doan.  He was also out of county with a couple other Rotarians.  He did not disappear like last year but he does not remember where he was.

  • Bill von Dohlen – trip to Albany to see daughter.

  • Sal Pitti trip to Catskills and missed meeting.

  • Doug DeVey Bike Trip along Erie Canal from Buffalo to Albany over 400 miles.   Then trip to Adirondacks and Conn.

  • Mike Sofia business/vacation trip to Newport R.I.  He also missed several meetings

  • Chuck Krause – new car from Doan.

  • Jim Todd missed meetings because he has been traveling around New York State to see nephews play baseball in the NY/Penn league.

  • Kim Putman – fined for picture in paper and trip to Toronto with kids

  • Richard Baum– missed many meetings. He took trip to California and missed the LPGA

  • Judy Van Bramer – she missed a meeting because her daughter was visiting.  She took trip to Niagara on the Lake and she had picture in paper.  She has been drafted to the Memorial Art Gallery council

  • Mike Taylor – vacation on Lake Huron with his family.

  • Greg Halstead he missed a meeting and went to the Harbor fest in Oswego with “Nuke” Wallace.

  • Paul Chatfield confessed to trip to Pocono’s for a NASCAR race. And took kids to Darien Lake.

  • Tracy Wooden trip to NYC

  • Sue Edgett – trip to Oswego for Harbor fest.

  • Linda Deutsch moved to Greece and took many vacation trips.

  • Tom Lockwood, Dave Fisher, Ray Pschierer, Paul Pickering, Mike Perotto, Greg Sadwick, Pat Dottore, Elaine Gorman (Elaine offered a golf foursome she won in a raffle as her fine payment)

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  • Today’s Speaker – Liz Richardson

  • Our past president Liz Richardson was our guest speaker today.  She has been asked to be the Area IX Coordinator for the Polio Plus Campaign.

  • She spoke about Rotary’s efforts to Fulfill our Promise to Eradicate Polio.  Rotarians are on the verge of ridding the world of polio.  The number of polio cases has declined by 99% in the 16 years since Rotary International and the Rotary Foundation made polio eradication the highest priority.

  • The RI Board of Directors and the Foundation Trustees have unanimously resolved to introduce a new campaign to raise additional funds for PolioPlus.  The campaign, “Fulfilling Our Promise: Eradicate Polio,” will last only through the 2002-2003 year with the goal of raising $80 million.

  •                 The funds raised through this campaign will multiply quickly because they will be matched or surpassed by funding from the World Bank, the Gates Foundation and the United States Foundation.  In some cases, every dollar brought to Rotary will become a contribution of up to five dollars that will go to distribute vaccine.

PolioPlus Factoids

  • Greece Rotary raised $28,000 in the 1986 PolioPlus campaign with only 59 members

  • Less than 50 cents a day equals $175.00, which is the RI recommendation for each member.

  • Less $1000.00 a day for 3 years equals $1000.00 the cost of a Paul Harris Fellow.

  • A fundraiser dedicated to PolioPlus would raise awareness of Rotary and help foster membership.

  • For more information Liz Richardson can be contacted Home (392-4456), Email: lizzeroo@aol.com

 

50/50 – Mike Perotto

 

Meeting Make-Up schedule:

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

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