Meeting: Thursdays, 7:30-8:30 AM, at the Peabody Marriott, Centennial Drive, Peabody, MA
November Theme: Foundation
November Birthdays:
November 20: Melissa Clattenburg (Bob)
November 24: Mike Tallo
November Wedding Anniversaries:
November 30: Bob & Susan Wood
NEXT BOARD MEETING: Monday, November 30th, 5:30PM at GraVoc. E-mail President Cathy (Cathyg@Gravoc.com) with agenda items.
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Citizens For Adequate Housing:
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Team Assignments: STEVE SMITH (Meal Pickup), PEGGY LYONS (Salad and Cookies)
Arrive by 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.
*** We will have to decide on a new restaurant to get our dinner items... Fatima's will be closing soon and we wish her the best of luck in her future endeavors!
Some suggestions were Gallo Nero, Oliverias, and Santoros. Cathy will look into menus and pricing and let the group know of our options.
MEETING NOTES
Today's visiting Rotarians: None
Guests: None
Today's Business Meeting included updates from all the committees and regarding ongoing projects:
Secretary Gary reminding the club that we have to let Rotary International know who will be on the incoming board prior to December 1.
Treasurer Loring gave a summary of the clubs finances including the year to date amount in donations, the amount that is pledged for the rest of the year, and the remaining balances. We hope to fully replenish the account with Taste of the North Shore ticket sales!
Foundation - Peg P is still collected Pennies for Polio.
Membership - Steve Smith reminded everyone to keeping referring new members. He is always willing to follow up and contact potential members.
Literacy - Martha announced that introductory reading sessions have happened in the schools. Reminder - the Guest Reader Program starts in January - if you or anyone you know is interested in participating, applications are available.
Scholarship - Peg L presented a new scholarship format covering more relevant information. The new questions include what areas of community service they have been involved in and how they are affecting their community.
Programs - Grace let the group know that we are booked right into the new year with guest speakers!
Cash for Gold Recap - we made a $200 profit!
Taste of the North Shore - 10 tickets were passed out to each club member so that we could start the ticket sale push over Thanksgiving! The first letters are going to all restaurants that participated last year.
We will be holding the first committee meeting after the next Thursday meeting, December 3. Please stay if you are interested in helping with the event tracking and organization.
Anton's Cleaners is dry cleaning glently worn jackets in preparation for donations to kids and families in need this season. Please bring any jackets and coats to the next meeting and Steve Smith will make sure to get them to Anton's.
Thank you Steve!
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50-50 Raffle: Neither Grace nor Vanessa picked the Queen of Hearts so no-one won again this week!!!
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Reminders:
There will NOT be a meeting next Thursday because it is Thanksgiving!
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Mel reminds us to keep selling the Entertainment Books. He asks that you bring the sales money each week to the meeting.
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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:
November 26: THANKSGIVING--No Meeting
December 3: Open
December 10: Open
December 17: Yankee Swap
December 24: CHRISTMAS EVE DAY--No Meeting
December 31: NEW YEAR'S EVE DAY--No Meeting
Please make every effort to attend your Rotary meetings. The more members we have each week, the better we look to potential members--and to our visitors and speakers.
Thank you!
UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES:
February 9, 2010: World Understanding and Peace Dinner
March 23, 2010: Taste of The North Shore
April 14, 2010: District Assembly
May 13, 2010: Joint Meeting in Peabody with GSE Team (tentative)
“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” Thomas Jefferson
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.
It is an exciting time for The Rotary Foundation and Rotary's US$200 Million Challenge. The Rotary Foundation is teaming up with world-renowned violinist and polio survivor Itzhak Perlman and the New York Philharmonic to present the Concert to End Polio, a benefit performance supporting the PolioPlus Fund.
It is an honor that Mr. Perlman and the New York Philharmonic are supporting Rotary in our effort to achieve a polio-free world. Their participation demonstrates the importance of this unprecedented global health initiative.
The Concert to End Polio will be at 7:30 p.m., 2 December 2009, in Avery Fisher Hall at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York City.
Concert tickets are $70-$200 and are currently on sale. A private reception with Perlman will follow the concert. A premium concert seat and admission to the reception is offered at a package price of $500. All proceeds will benefit Rotary's $200 Million Challenge.
A block of tickets have been reserved for Rotarians until 1 November. To order your tickets for the concert and post-concert reception, call the Philharmonic box office at 212-875-5656 and mention that you are a Rotarian.
I ask that you promote this benefit concert at all Rotary events you attend this fall. In addition, it would be great if you could promote this concert on your club web page. We have created a web banner ad and a concert ad that are both available at www.rotary.org/endpolioconcert for your use.
This concert will bring us one step closer to fulfilling our promise to eradicate polio and improve the future for the children of the world because The Future of Rotary is in Your Hands.
I hope you will join me at Lincoln Center where we will Celebrate Rotary and enjoy an evening of great music.
Sincerely,
Glenn E. Estess, Sr.
Chairman
The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International
