Beacon News March 13th 2002

 

We’re Back!!  At Ridgemont

 

Andy Velard substituted for John Zink today as our sergeant at arms.

 

Visiting Rotarians:

Mike Postilli – Hilton

Mike Jimenez – Rush-Henrietta

 

Guests:

Tom Lockwood - Carolyn Hauer

Mary Farone – Cynthia Martone

 

Birthdays

Dave Kotesky – March 1st

 

Anniversaries

Bill and Christina Testa – March 2, 1991

 

Fining with Tom

  • Cindy Martone fined for making club dance last week.  Also took trip to Washington DC.

  • Dave Kotesky took trip to Florida with family

  • Bob Potter missed meeting due to trip to Florida on Business.

  • Bill Testa fined for having his cell phone ring during the meeting.

  • Al Schneier took trip to NYC.

  • Dave Fisher took trip to Florida for the month of February.

  • Ralph Annucci trip to West Palm Beach.  Ralph fined Tom for his appearances on TV and in the paper.

  • Deb Walker missed meeting.  She took a trip to Chicago.

  • Dr. Strauss squealed on Paul Chatfield for a “big” contract his company landed.

  • Dan & Liz Richardson spent a week in Vera Cruz Mexico with a former exchange student of the club.

  • Brad Shea took cruise to Mexico.

  • Joe Darweesh, Gary Valentine, Keith Rockcastle, Pam Leathersich, Tom Lawson and Greg Halstead missed meetings.

 

President Del read a letter he received from the Vera Cruz Rotary Club. This club honors another club in the Rotary World by toasting it at their weekly meeting.  They stated that on February 19th that our club received such an honor.  They send their greetings and friendship to our entire club members.

 

Induction of a New Member

Past President Joe Darweesh presided over the induction of our newest member (# 94) Tom Lockwood Walker today.

New Member: Thomas G. Lockwood

Sponsor: Carolyn Hauer & Rino Pappano

Classification: Commercial Real Estate Broker

Hobbies/interests: model railroading and model boating

Committee Preference: TBD

 

Announcements:

Del thanked Judy VanBramer, Cynthia Martone and Carla Vossler for hosting the club the last three weeks.

 

Monthly Board meeting this Monday March 18th @ 7 pm.  The location has been changed to Grinnell travel on West Ridge Rd.  All club members are invited to attend.

 

The Golf Tournament committee will be meeting prior to the board meeting @ 5pm at the same location.

 

Chuck Krause picked up LPGA Raffle Tickets for the club.  We are all asked to sell $20.00 worth of tickets.  Sue Edgett is distributing them today since Chuck is out of town.

 

District Assembly

SUNY @ Geneseo

Hosted by E. Rochester club, Saturday March 23rd 9 AM - 1 PM, Breakfast at 8 AM

If you are interested in attending, please give president Del a call or email (227-8235, delsmithcpa@aol.com).  The club will pay for you to attend.

 

District Conference April 12-14th.  Lancaster Post Hotel. Lancaster Pa. If you did not receive your packet or want more information, please contact President Del (227-8235, delsmithcpa@aol.com).

 

Today’s program

Brad Shea gave the club a refresher course about the LPGA.

This year’s tournament runs from June 17-23. Rotary and their two camps, Camp Haccomo and the Sunshine camp are the beneficiaries.  Wegman’s is the major sponsor of the event and contributes $250,000.00 to the tournament.

If the LPGA were not held the assessment per member to operate the camps would be $450 per member per year.  There are 15 clubs in the area that participate.

Club members are asked to volunteer for 3 shifts during the week to staff a concession tent.  Last year our tents sold over $37,000.00 worth of food and refreshments.  The next closet tent in sales was at $28,000.00.  Our tent is located between the 11th Tee and the 17th green.  Club members can bring friends relatives or any one else to help at the tent.  It is a great way to introduce someone about Rotary.

Three years ago, 14 Greece Rotarians took and passed a 6-hour course on food preparation and handling put on by the Monroe County Health Dept. This course was required by Wegmans and LPGA for us to operate our food concession tent during the LPGA event for the last 3 years.  It is required by Monroe County Health Dept. that at least one certified person be present while our tent is operating. And Health

 

Meeting Make-Up schedule:

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

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