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Bill Sullivan
Jennifer Whitten
Wayne Steiner
Maura Donnelly
Terry Lammers
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6,800 Service Hours since 07/01/2008
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| Volume 57, No. 50 |
June 30, 2009 |
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Meeting each TUESDAY at Michael's Restaurant, 415 Broadway - 12:00 noon
NEXT MEETING - TUESDAY, July 1, 2009, Noon at The Korte Co. |
| INTRO |
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Today's meeting was opened with the Pledge of Allegiance. President Bill Sullivan started the meeting; Connie Blackmon led us in prayer. |
| GUESTS |
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| It was "Go To Rotary with Mom & Dad Day". Anna Knebel was a guest of her dad, Rich Knebel and Logan Wolfe was a guest of his mom, Angela Kim.
Mandy Lewis was a guest of Len Daiber's. Mandy is a Notre Dame student working this summer with Len.
Antonia Iberra, returned after touring the Eastern Coast, visiting a total of 11 States...Her favorites were Boston and Washington! |
| ANNOUNCEMENTS |
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Next Week's Meeting - Will be held at the Korte Company.
Car Raffle - 364 tickets have already been sold, so we're doing very well, but don't let that slow you down! Our third Early Bird Drawing was held with the winner being Dave Rehkemper and the "Bacon Bunch".
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| COMMUNITY SERVICE - Jan Brinker |
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Our grand total, for 2008-2009 is....6,800 community service hours. Not quite the 10,000, but still a great effort!
Upcoming service opportunities:
Farmer's Market - Each Thursday, the Highland "Market und Mehr" (Farmer and Artisan market) continues at Lindendale Park. Deanna Harlan (531-5111) needs help setting signs for Farmer's Market. More help is needed on July 16th to help with traffic flow because of the coinciding swim meet.
Pregnancy Care Center - Is in need of a committee to help with the "Walk for Life" that will be coming up in October.
Relay for Life - Is needing golf cart drivers to shuttle survivors and elderly from HHS School to the HHS Track, they also need help with set up on Thursday night, July 9, contact Mark Reaka for more information.
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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7/07/09 A Look to the Future - The Whitten Regime Begins (Korte Room at The Korte Company)
7/14/09 Wayne Steiner - Polio Plus
7/21/09 FAIR WEEK - meeting at Sharpshooter's Hall
7/28/09 Highland Quarterback Club
8/04/09 Car Raffle - Tri-Ford
8/11/09 Paul Harris Fellows - Adrian Rogier
8/18/09 Ardy the Clown - Jennifer Whitten
8/25/09 Program TBD & Food Pantry Collection Day
9/01/09 Dan King - Camp Ondessonk
9/08/09 Michele Capelle and Elba Herrera de Venta - Elba's Orphans.
9/15/09 Rotary 101 - Invite a Guest
9/29/09 District Governor visit
If you have any suggestions or would like to sponsor a program, please email Holli at holli@hype-creative.com
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No singing today, but we did end out meeting with a stirring rendition of "God Bless America" in recognition of the upcoming Independence Day holiday. |
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180 SECONDS of FAME |
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Skipped this week in the interest of time. |
| SECRETARY'S REPORT - Wayne Steiner |
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| MISSING:
Dick Aten, Skip Butler, Rich Clayton, Cliff Couch, Kevin Dewaele, David Daiber, Larry Deiters, Larry Essenpreis, Ed Ferguson, Dan Fieker, Laura Foerster, Mike Gould, Tom Hill, Wil Holzinger, Lisa Hunsche, Linda Jakel, James Kemper, Brian Knobloch, Mark Korte, Mark Latham, Terry Leitschuh, Glenn Meffert, Greg Miranda, Robert Nagel, Jim Plocher, Jim Rankin, Traci Riechmann, Rick Ringwald, Howard Robertson, Adrian Rogier, Randy Schorfheide, Ron Schneider, Art Schuetz, Gordon Smith, Michael Sutton, Marvin Warner, Tom Wehrle
BIRTHDAYS:
Richard Clayton on July 4th and Roland Harris on July 2nd.
As a reminder - we have a tradition of paying 10-cents for each year of our age on our birthday. (Wayne suggested that Roland pay $4.90.)
ANNIVERSARIES:
None
MAKE-UPS:
Terry Lammers at Columbia, Illinois! |
| DRAWINGS/FINES/HAPPY BUCKS - Terry Lammers |
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POT OF GOLD:
There's now $1,293 in the pot and Wayne Steiner's table drew the winning ticket. Unfortunately, they drew the 9 of Hearts. And the pot continues to grow.
FINES:
If you've ever put quarters or any other coins in the bucket, it just cost you a buck.
HAPPY BUCKS:
Phil Hardas was happy that the "Support the Troops" packages were all delivered!
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PROGRAM |
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Bill Sullivan - The BS Presidency in Review!
Accomplishments for the 2008 - 2009 Year
"Involvement Inspires"
* Service Hours increased from 4,009 to 6,800 community service hours - that's about a 70% increase over last year!
* Two new host families for the Rotary Exchange - Brian & Linda Jakel and Peter & Angela Kim. And we also have a new family - Kevin & Suzie Dewaele - for the upcoming year.
* A second Giving Circle was started for the Rotary Foundation
* Two Paul Harris Fellows were named from the community for their service to the youth of Highland.
* We added 12 new members.
* Promoted individual members in the Highland Newsleader to tell the community about the club's diversity and encourage new members.
* Introduced a new newsletter (eFling) format
* Continued with our four main fundraisers: Citrus Sale, Fish Race, Golf Tournament, and Car Raffle. All of which were very successful this year.
* Renewed our signing abilities with Adrian and Tom.
* Had fun with new programs at our Christmas (Holiday Murder Mystery) and Valentine's (Not-So Newlywed Game) dinners
* Introduced a new location for our weekly meetings (the Highland Country Club) just for a little change of pace.
* Got to know our club members better with the weekly "180 seconds of Fame!" feature.
* Automated our Administrative system with the Rotary International software.
* Completed the following projects
-Food Pantry Landscaping
-Bi-Yearly Food Drive
-Adopt a Family at Christmas
-Elba's Orphan's contributions
-Dug a well in the Philippines well in honor of Rotarian, Dick Beckman.
* We introduced a new "International" project within our own borders. The Literacy project for Critchton Elementary School in West Virginia captured the attention and involvement of Highland and truly proved that our INVOLVEMENT can INSPIRE.
All-in-all it was a great year and Bill thanked all the club members for their support and especially his board for their tireless efforts.
Great job, Highland Rotarians!
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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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Angela Fears
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