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Thursday March 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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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, April 1, 2010
CATHLEEN WARDLEY (Meal Pickup), STEVE PADULSKY (Salad and Cookies)
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. 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: Brian Cassidy from Gloucester
Guests: None
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The Y it Matters Program officially switched to Friday evenings to allow for more time and space for the participants. President Cathy still has days open and in need of volunteers. Please let her know which Friday you are able to help out.
GSE Team visit Update: The GSE team will be here for the month of May visiting each of the 4 zones in the district. They will be in "our zone" the 2nd week of May. We will be hosting 1 of the 2 cluster meetings that week, Haverhill will be hosting the other. Our club will be hosting the meeting on Friday morning, May 14, here at the Peabody Mariott. Then the team will be visiting businesses in the area including the Peabody police dept and perhaps Citizens for Adequate Housing.
Sargent at Arms, Steve, collected a $1 fine from everyone who did not bring their copy of the Future Vision survey, and President Elect Martha requested! We reviewed the survey as a group and tallied up everyone's votes. The club's opinion as a whole was very similar to the tally the board got when they combined their surveys. Martha will bring the clubs findings to PETS this weekend and share our thoughts and concerns. This is a great opportunity for us to learn more about the Foundation and how grant money is disbursed.
Taste Update: There is just over a week until the Taste!!!
Cathy and Vanessa will be collecting and compiling raffle items. Please get your items to them as soon as possible. If you need to, next Thursday's meeting is the deadline to bring in your raffle items!
Assignments for Tuesday evening will be finalized next week. Please let Vanessa know if there is something in particular you would like to work on during the Taste.
We have "sold" just over half the tickets to the Taste, but we don't have most of the money. Please bring in your tickets, ticket money, and updated information to next week's meeting.
Don't forget ticket sales can be processed via credit card for their convenience!
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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: Sorry, Bob picked the 6 of Clubs, and Cathy picked the K of Clubs - no winners this week!
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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 18: Classification Speech (Megan 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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(If anyone has any stories or jokes you would like to add to the weekly Ripple, please email Vanessa at vsilveira@metrocu.org)
It was the end of the day when I parked my police van in front of the station. As I gathered my equipment, my K-9 partner, Jake, was barking,
and I saw a little boy staring in at me. "Is that a dog you got back there?" he asked. "It sure is," I replied. Puzzled, the boy looked at me and then towards the back of the van. Finally he said, "What'd he do?"
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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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