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Bill Sullivan
Jennifer Whitten
Wayne Steiner
Maura Donnelly
Terry Lammers
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| Volume 57, No. 35 |
March 10, 2009 |
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Meeting each TUESDAY at Michael's Restaurant, 415 Broadway - 12:00 noon
NEXT MEETING - TUESDAY, March 17, 2009, 12:00 noon at the Highland Country Club. |
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The meeting was opened with the Pledge of Allegiance. President Bill Sullivan started the meeting; Carrie Adolph led us in prayer, reminding us to remember in our prayers those affected by the Maryville Church shooting this past weekend. |
| GUESTS |
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| Randy Schorfiede (proposed new member), Mark Reaka (proposed new member), Ryan Paisley (proposed new "re" member) and Chuck McDonald - visiting Rotarian. |
| ANNOUNCEMENTS |
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Meeting Location Change - The March 17th Meeting will be held at the Highland Country Club. Wayne took a headcount at the meeting. If you weren't in attendance and plan to join us next week, please let Wayne know.
Flyers on the Web - Fish Race and Literacy Project Flyers are available on our website at www.highlandrotary.org
2009 Slate of Officers - The Board for the 2009-2010 Rotary Club year beginning July first was announced and approved by the members. President - Jennifer Whitten, President-Elect - Terry Lammers, Secretary - Wayne Steiner, Treasurer - Maura Donnelly, Sergeant at Arms - James Kemper.
Paul Harris Sustaining Members - Adrian reminded the 10 people who volunteered to be annual donors that we need to make our 2nd donation and meet to decide who gets named as a Paul Harris Fellow. Bill will probably be looking to start some other groups of 10 if anyone is interested.
Rotary Scholarships - Rotary International offers scholarships for college students or University teachers who might be interesed in studying or teaching abroad during 2010 - 2011. If you know of anyone who might be interested, please contact Bill. |
| LITERACY PROJECT - Wayne Steiner |
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Wayne says he has been touched (and believes we all will be) by the generosity of the community involving our Literacy Program. As an example he had a bank customer drop off a truckload (450 books) of books and other art supplies and toys for our school in West Virginia. He asks us to continue to promote this great cause.
After the meeting, Wayne found out that the school would also be interested in any musical instuments for their band program. So add that to your list of things to look for during your spring cleaning! |
| FISH RACE - Rick Ringwald |
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Rick reminded us about ticket sales for the Fish Race. So far we have only sold 315 tickets for a total of $1575. Please sell your tickets!! We need to minimally cover our $3000 prize money and would like to realize a profit. Tickets are due to Rick by March 17th. Time is running out - so get out and sell! Don't wait until the last minute.
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| COMMUNITY SERVICE - Jan Brinker |
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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 (618-651-2757) if you can help out.
Laura is also looking for child care providers for children of those wanting to attend a smoke cessation class. Contact her 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. |
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UPCOMING PROGRAMS - Holli Martin |
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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 Steak Fry (6:00 PM)
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
7/14/09 Michelle Capelle - Elba's Orphan
7/21/09
7/28/09
8/04/09
8/11/09
8/18/09
8/25/09
9/01/09 Dan King - Camp Ondessonk
If you have any suggestions or would like to sponsor a program, please email Holli at holli@hype-creative.com
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| SONGS |
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| Tom and Adrian had us sing "Hey Look Me Over" and "Roll Rotary". Considering that both these songs were probably written before more than half our members were born, we didn't sound too bad. |
| 180 SECONDS of FAME |
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Terry has been approved as our newest member and he was chosen to tell us about himself for approximately 3 minutes. Terry has been Highland's Chief of Police for one month. He hails from Mattoon where he was born and graduated High School. He played ball at Lakeland College and McKendree College and finished his education at SLU and Lindenwood. He served with the Marines and drove an amphibious tank. That's where his interest in law enforcement began. He recently retired after 20 years from the Collinsville Police force. He is married to Brenna and has two daughters, Jessice and Jenna, ages 10 and 12. His thoughts and prayers went out to those at the Maryville Church as well. He was a member there for 7 years and knew the pastor who was killed. He wants us to know that if there's anything the Highland PD can do for you, please let him know.
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| SECRETARY'S REPORT - Wayne Steiner |
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MISSING:
Connie Blackmon, Rich Clayton, Maura Donnelly, Robert Englemann, Ed Ferguson, Dan Fieker, Mike Gould, Jon Greve, Virgil Holdeman, Wil Holzinger, Linda Jakel, George Jones, Mark Korte, Terry Lammers, Robert Luitjohan, Glenn Meffert, Jim Meredith, Greg Miranda, Robert Nagel, Jim Plocher, Jim Rankin, Dave Rehkemper, Howard Robertson, Ron Schneider, Art Schuetz, Gordon Smith, Bob Spengel, Cyril Spengel, Michael Sutton, Marvin Warner BIRTHDAYS: Wil Holzinger - March 16th and Adrain Rogier - March 16th ANNIVERSARIES:
Jon and Teresa Greve - March 12th MAKE-UPS:
Tom Wehrle - Summit County, Colorado |
| DRAWINGS/FINES/HAPPY BUCKS - James Kemper |
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POT OF GOLD:
$786.00 in the jackpot this week....Jake's table had the lucky ticket. Unfortunately that's where his luck ran out. He drew the 3 of Clubs!
FINES: Given the importance of our Literacy Project, James fined anyone who hasn't participated in some way with the Project, either by donating or gathering donations. If you haven't been involved, get involved. If you haven't, you paid $1.
HAPPY BUCKS:
Tom Wehrle had the only Happy Buck. He's happy he survived his 2 week ski trip in Colorado. He returned to us all in one piece. |
| PROGRAM |
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Kevin Dewaele - Investing in a Turbulent Market
 Kevin Dewaele discusses a troubling economy After the presentation Bill urged us to spend money and not participate in the recession. If we spend money, manufacturers will start building products again and people will get their jobs back and...I believe he said, and I quote . . . well, his exact words are not that important. Let's just forget the politicians get the economy back on track ourselves.
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MAKE-UP OPPORTUNITIES
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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.
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Sincerely,
Linda Jakel
Highland Rotary Club | |
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