| Next Week's Program |
Wayne Steiner Highland Fiber to the Home Initiative |
| Club Officers |
|
Bill Sullivan
Jennifer Whitten
Wayne Steiner
Maura Donnelly
Terry Lammers
Sergeant-at-Arms |
| Service Hours |
|
3,737 Service Hours since 07/01/2008 |
|
Join Our List
|
|
|
|
| Volume 57, No. 32 |
February 17, 2009 |
|
|
Meeting each TUESDAY at Michael's Restaurant, 415 Broadway - 12:00 noon
NEXT MEETING - TUESDAY, February 24th at Michael's Restaurant located at 415 Broadway in Highland at 12:00 Noon. |
| INTRO |
|
|
The meeting was opened with the Pledge of Allegiance and a welcome from President Bill Sullivan. Our prayer was offered by Fr. Peters. |
| GUESTS |
|
| Terry Bell, Highland's new police chief and Randy Schorfheide from St. Joseph's Hospital. Both were given applications for membership. |
| ANNOUNCEMENTS |
|
|
Rich Knebel recieves first Fish Race tickets from race chairman Rick Ringwald
Fish Race - Rick Ringwald handed out 20 tickets today for each of us to sell; proceeds to support our International and Literacy projects. The Fish Race will be Sunday, March 22 at Korte Rec. Center. First heat starts at 7:00 PM. If you would like to help on this committee, contact Rick.
If you were not at this week's meeting, you can see Rick at the Chamber's Business After Hours, hosted by Regions Bank - Thursday from 5:00 to 7:00 PM.
Literacy Project - Bill reminded us to bring in books and sports equipment for our Literacy Project. The items can be dropped off at the Library, FBC Bank or Terra Properties. This week we sent a check for $1,500 to Crichton Elementary school to help them begin their Accelerated Reading program. A thank-you email from the school's principal expressed how overwhelmed they were with our club's generosity.
In addition, Bill recognized the donation of 11 cases of children's books from St. Joseph's Hospital book sale. Future Rotarian, Randy Schorfheide, helped coordinate the receipt of the donation.
Adrian Rogier receives check on behalf of HACSM
Food Pantry - Today was our day to bring in items for the Food Pantry for which we collected 219 lbs. of food and $465 in cash donations. In addition, Bill also made a presentation to HACSM Board member, Adrian Rogier, of $10,000 as our second installment of the club's $30,000 pledge to the HACSM Building Fund. |
| COMMUNITY SERVICE - Jan Brinker |
|
The Pregnancy Care Center's Spring Banquet is on Thursday, March 19 and they are needing some help. This banquet is prepared and served solely through donated time. If you are available, and not attending, this could be a great way to support the local center. Contact Carrie Adolph for further information.
Laura Foerster is looking for help stuffing 300 - 400 goodie bags at St. Joseph's Hospital, 4th Floor, Patient Dining Room, on Friday, March 20, 2009 at 3:00 PM. This is a family-friendly event, so kids are welcome to pitch in! Contact Laura if you can help out.
Be sure and let Jan know all the service hours you put in...remember we have a goal of 10,000 hours. To find out more info on any of the above areas to volunteer email Jan Brinker at jan_korte_brinker @yahoo.com. |
|
UPCOMING PROGRAMS - Holli Martin |
|
|
2/24/09 Wayne Steiner - Highland Fiber to the Home
3/03/09 Carrie Adolph - Pregnancy Care Center
3/10/09 Investing in a Turbulent Market - Kevin Dewaele
3/17/09 Firearms Safety - Mark Owensby, Rampart Range
3/22/09 Annual Fish Race (7 p.m.)
3/24/09 Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
3/31/09 John Foppe - Community Link
4/07/09 Traci Riechmann - HIS Kids
4/14/09
4/21/09
4/28/09 Alcohol Abuse...from a primary care physician's perspective - Dr. Laurence Yung, MD
5/05/09
5/12/09
5/19/09
5/26/09
6/02/09
6/09/09 Annual Highland Rotary Club Photo
6/16/09 Rotary Family Picnic
6/23/09 Mark Rieka - Relay for Life
6/30/09 The BS Presidency - A Year in Review
7/07/09 A Look to the Future - The Whitten Regime Begins
If you have any suggestions or would like to sponsor a program, please email Holli at holli@hype-creative.com
|
| SONGS |
|
| Tom led us in "Give My Regards to Broadway" and "All Hail to Rotary". (Tom seems to think that the club is made up of tenors. Will someone buy that man a pitchpipe?) |
| 180 SECONDS of FAME |
|
|
Skipped this week to make more time available for our newer members to do their own individual "180 Seconds of Fame". |
| SECRETARY'S REPORT - Wayne Steiner |
|
MISSING:
Dick Aten, Skip Butler, Rich Clayton, Tiemen Dalhuisen, Angela Fears, Ed Ferguson, Dan Fieker, Roland Harris, Robert Hellige, Wil Holzinger, Lisa Hunsche, George Jones, James Kemper, Jack Klaus, Brian Knobloch, Mark Korte, Terry Leitschuh, Robert Luitjohan, Holli Martin, Glenn Meffert, Jim Meridith, Greg Miranda, Robert Nagel, Jim Plocher, Jim Rankin, Traci Reichmann, Howard Robertson, Eunice Rogier, Floyd Rogier, Bill Schaefer, Eric Schmidt, Art Schuetz, Gordon Smith, Cyril Spengel, Marvin Warner, Jennifer Whitten, Buzz Widmer
BIRTHDAYS:
Marvin Warner on February 20th
ANNIVERSARIES:
None reported this week.
MAKE-UPS:
No Make-ups reported this week |
| DRAWINGS/FINES/HAPPY BUCKS - Terry Lammers |
|
POT OF GOLD:
$612 in the pot this week. Adrian drew the winning number for his table (can you imagine that!) but the Jack of Spades eliminated any dreams of riches. Better luck next time.
FINES:
It cost you $1.00 if you failed to bring a donation for the Food Pantry.
HAPPY BUCKS:
Maura has happy that HHS Varsity Cheerleaders took 1st Place this weekend....way to go girls, we are proud of you. |
| PROGRAM |
|
|
New Member Induction
 New members Ron Hesson, Laura Foerster, Rick Ringwald, Phil Hardas and Larry Deiters. (Not pictured, Mike Sutton)
President Bill Sullivan welcomed several new members to the Highland club. Laura Foerster, Rick Ringwald, Mike Sutton, Larry Deiters, Phil Hardas and Deacon Ron Hesson all received their "official" welcome to Rotary Internationals and were each given the oportunity to tell us all a little about themselves, their family and occupation. (One of the group, who shall reamin unnamed, expressed disappointment on finding our that there really is no secret handshake.)
Welcome to each and everyone of you, we all look forward to serving our local, national and international community with you.
| |
MAKE-UP OPPORTUNITIES
|
|
MONDAY
Wood River St. John's UCC 12:00
O'Fallon Community Center 12:00
Alton-Godfrey Moonlight Restaurant, Alton 6:00TUESDAY
Benld Toni's 12:00 Collinsville Porter's 12:00 Fairview Heights Ramada Inn 12:00 Granite City Niedringhaus United Meth. Church 12:00 Belleville Fischer's Restaurant 12:10 WEDNESDAY
O'Fallon Sunrise First United Methodist Church 6:45 AM Litchfield Maverick Steak House 7:00 AM Land of Goshen Lewis & Clark Com.College, LeClaire Room 600 Troy Road, Edwardsville 12:00 St. Clair Co West Shrine of Lady of Snows 12:00 Lebanon Lebanon Visitors Center 6:00 Bethalto Villa Rose Retirement Community 6:30 THURSDAY
Mascoutah Skooters 11:45 East Alton Keasler Recreation Complex 12:00 Edwardsville First Christian Church 12:00 Carlyle Governor's Run 12:00 Springfield South BSA (5231 S. 6th St. Rd.) 12:00 For other opportunities, go to www.rotary.org and click on club locator.
|
| If you currently are not receiving the fling via email, please see Linda Jakel to have your email address added/corrected. You can email her at ljakel@bnd.com as well.
Sincerely,
Linda Jakel
Highland Rotary Club | |
|
