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Thursday February 11, 2010
The Ripple
The Newsletter of the
Rotary Club of Peabody - District 7930
P.O. Box 94, Peabody, MA 01960
WWW.ROTARYPEABODY.ORG
Meeting: Thursdays, 7:30-8:30 AM, at the Peabody Marriott, Centennial Drive, Peabody, MA
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February Theme: World Understanding
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How to propose a member:
Identify an individual (would s/he pass the Four-Way Test?).
Invite that person to a meeting.
Fill out a proposal card.
Board votes on the proposed member.
Proposed member has information session with Secretary Gary.
Proposed member is asked if s/he would like to join. If yes, application is signed.
Proposed member's name is published in The Ripple.
If there are no objections sent in writing to the Membership Chair within seven days, the proposed member becomes a member.
Jesse Philbrick of Carrabba's has been accepted as our newest member!
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February Birthdays:
February 1: Fred deNapoli
February 14: Robert Donovan (Joanne)
February 17: Steve Morad
February Wedding Anniversaries:
February 3: Steve and Nancy Padulsky
February 17: Peggy and Donald Lyons
TO ALL MEMBERS: IF THERE ARE ANY ERRORS WITH THE BIRTHDAY OR ANNIVERSARY DATES, PLEASE NOTIFY GARY EPSTEIN. ALSO, THERE ARE NUMEROUS MISSING DATES ON OUR ROSTER. PLEASE GIVE GARY YOUR INFORMATION--JUST THE DATES--NO ONE CARES HOW OLD YOU ARE. BUT WE MAY BE INTERESTED TO KNOW HOW LONG YOU'VE BEEN MARRIED.
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NEXT BOARD MEETING: Monday, February 22nd,
5:30PM at GraVoc. E-mail President Cathy (Cathyg@Gravoc.com) with agenda items.
The board will be reviewing a survey given out at the PETS meeting regarding information on how we apply for grants every year.
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CITIZENS FOR ADEQUATE HOUSING
Thursday, March 4, 2010
BOB WOOD (Meal Pickup), MIKE TALLO (Salad and Cookies)
MIKE TALLO HAS NOT BEEN AROUND IN AGES--WILL SOMEONE TAKE HIS PLACE ON MARCH 4TH? PLEASE E-MAIL HERB (h_harris@smallbizpros.com).
Arrive at 4:45 P.M at 42 Washington St., Peabody.
If you're unable to attend on the specified date, it's your responsibility to locate a replacement. Please inform the meal pickup person of the change and the replacement of your assigned responsibility. Thanks. Look at NEWS and Citizens For Adequate Housing Schedule for the future schedule and specific responsibilities.
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MEETING NOTES
Guests: Our guest had to cancel due to what we thought was going to be a big storm!
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Gary announced that our Peabody club had 92% attendance in the month of January. Great job everyone!
Cathy, Peg, Joanne, Steve, Bob, and Fred attended The World Peace Dinner on Tuesday and said they had a wonderful time.
March is Literacy month. Reminder, Martha would like everyone to commit to a half hour of time on Friday March 19, at 9:30am to read to the students at the Carroll school.
Martha is working on trying to streamline the CORI application process and would like to see if she can centralize the information, and hopefully make the process easier and more convenient.
Taste update – We now 15 restaurants lined up with only a few more to go!
Peg is going to follow up with her contact at Century House to see if they can participate this year.
Jesse is trying to work out some scheduling/staffing issues at Carrabas to see if they can participate.
The Taste is mentioned in the Peabody Chamber Monday email blasts. We will also have a full page flyer insert in the March Newsletter...
Thank you for everyone’s participation. Please continue to bring your updates and ticket money to every Thursday meeting!
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Happy Dollars: Joann Donovan filled in as Sergeant-at-arms this week. Thank you for stepping in! She collected $50 including some late fees J
Reminder: If you see any news articles or pictures (not Rotary related) of our members, bring them in so the member can donate $$$ to the club. We can use the money!! But more important--we'd like to recognize and applaud our members.
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50-50 Raffle: Our newest member Jesse Philbrick picked the winning card, 7 of clubs, and won himself $114! CONGRATULATIONS Jesse!
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REMINDERS
Our speaker scheduler, Grace Martins, asks that you tell her of any people who may want to speak to the club or whom you think may be of
interest to the club.
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Secretary Gary Epstein reminds members of Rotary's attendance requirements. Members cannot miss more than three consecutive meetings without making up. However, there are plenty of opportunities to make up. Attend a Board meeting (All members are encouraged to attend, anyway.), attend a committee meeting, work on the website, and the most basic make-up--attend other clubs' meetings. Be sure to steal ideas our club can use!!
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What do you do with your empty bottles and cans? (And we know there must be a lot of empty beer cans and bottles.) Please bring them (both beer and soda) to the meetings every week to give to Mel. Every nickel helps!!
Thank you to Herb and Vanessa for bringing cans and bottles to Mel this week!
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NEXT MEETINGS:
February 18:
February 25: John and Megan will be inducted. Ann will be giving her classification speech.
UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES:
February 23, 2010: 105th Anniversary of Rotary
March 11-13, 2010: PETS
March 23, 2010: Taste of The North Shore
April 14, 2010: District Assembly
April 19, 2010: 142nd anniversary of Paul Harris's birth
April 26, 2010: Alumni EventY
May 13, 2010: Joint Meeting in Peabody with GSE Team (tentative)
May 21-23, 2010: District Conference
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Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind - John F. Kennedy
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It's easy to become a Rotary Sustaining member. It's $100 per year, but Loring can bill you $25 per quarter.
That's $8.33 a month, or 28 CENTS a day, or a little over a penny an hour.
LET'S BECOME A 100% SUSTAINING MEMBER CLUB!!
THE 4-WAY TEST of the things we think, say or do:
1. IS IT THE TRUTH?
2. IS IT FAIR TO ALL CONCERNED?
3. WILL IT BUILD GOODWILL & BETTER FRIENDSHIP?
4. WILL IT BE BENEFICAL TO ALL CONCERNED?
Please keep this in mind!
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Note: Other Rotary Club meeting locations are posted at www.rotary.org, then, click on 'Club Locator'.
The District 7930 Club locator can be found at www.rotary7930.org/clubs.html.
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