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Thursday February 25, 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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March Theme: Literacy
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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.
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March Birthdays:
March 3: Peg Lyons
March 11: Judith Harris (Herb)
March 12: Bob Clattenberg
March 14: Gary Epstein
March 29: Joanna Merrow (Loring)
March 30: Megan Shea-Pereira
March Wedding Anniversaries:
None!
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: TBD
5:30PM at GraVoc. E-mail President Cathy (Cathyg@Gravoc.com) with agenda items.
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CITIZENS FOR ADEQUATE HOUSING
Thursday, March 4, 2010
BOB WOOD (Meal Pickup), STEVE SMITH (Salad and Cookies)
Steve Smith has volunteered to cover for Mike Tallo at Citizens. THANK YOU STEVE!
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
Today's visiting Rotarians: None
Guests/Potential Member: Merrit Kirkpatrick from the George Peabody House Museum
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Thank you to everyone who helped man the Rotary table at the Business expo on Tuesday! There was a good turnout and we had good representation from our club.
President Cathy passed around a signup sheet for the Y it Matters Program. She would like volunteers to participate in the Wednesday evening program. As a club, we donated $3000 to support this program and we would like everyone to try and donate one hour of their time. Project examples and suggestions were also passed around and are available from Cathy if you need ideas.
John and Megan were inducted by President Cathy and Steve Smith! We would like to officially WELCOME you to Peabody Rotary John and Megan!
*Club members - don't forget to sign their membership book... Sargent-at-Arms Steve will soon be on the lookout for missing signatures!
Ann gave her classification speech this morning. She shared with us about her family, the time she loves spending with her kids, and all about her career with Eastern Bank. Thank you for sharing with us Ann, and Welcome to the Peabody Rotary Club. We are glad to have you with us!
Taste Update:
We have 3 more restaurants confirmed this week: Oliveiras, Carrabbas, and Woodmans!
Here is the latest list of participating restaurants:
Bertucci's, Brutole Restaurant, Capt's Waterfront Grill, Carrabbas, Century House, Danversport, Edible Arrangements, Oliveiras, Not Your Average Joes, Perfecto's Cafe, Polcari's, QDoba, Santoros, Teresa's Italian Eatery, Woodmans, and Wrappinis
Confirmation letters/emails are going to out to the restaurants this week. Bob has a contact at Sports World Memorabilia on Route 1. Bob will contact him this week about participating in the Taste. If this new store works out, this will make the process of getting auction items more convenient and won't cost us money upfront!
The Taste was featured in the Peabody Weekly, and is also listed on the District’s home page www.rotary7930.org!
On the sign up sheet I’ve been passing around, members have listed 98 tickets sold so far! That’s 1/3 of the way there!
Don't forget ticket sales can be processed via credit card for their convenience!
Please continue to bring your updates and ticket money to every Thursday meeting!
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Happy Dollars: We collected $54 this week for everyone’s happy thoughts!
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. But more important--we'd like to recognize and applaud our members.
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50-50 Raffle: That was a short raffle!
We just started a new deck last week and Loring picked the 5 of hearts already! He was the lucky winner of $28!
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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!!
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NEXT MEETINGS:
March 4: Tom Dumas-Physicist (Vacation in Antarctica)
March 11: Membership meeting /complete survey
March 18: Classification Speech (Meghan Pereira)
March 25: Philipp Häsler- Ambassadorial Scholar
April 1: Membership meeting
April 8: Grace Martins (Nicaragua Project)
UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES:
March 11-13, 2010: PETS
March 19, 2010: Literacy Month/STOP program, reading at Carroll School @9:30
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 Event
May 14, 2010: Joint Meeting in Peabody with GSE Team
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
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