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THE HIGHLAND FLING
The Weekly Newsletter for the Rotary Club of Highland, Ill.

St. Joseph Hospital's CEO
 Next Week's Program
Buzz Widmer, Floral Update 
Club Officers 
Jennifer Whitten
President
 
Terry Lammers
President-elect
 
Wayne Steiner
Secretary
 
Maura Donnelly
Treasurer
 
James Kemper
Sergeant-at-Arms
Service Hours
1916 Service Hours since 07/01/2008
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Volume 58, No. 17 October 27, 2009 
Meeting each TUESDAY at Michael's Restaurant, 415 Broadway - 12:00 noon
 
NEXT MEETING  - TUESDAY, November 3rd, 2009, Noon at Michael's Restaurant.
INTRO
Today's meeting was opened by. President Jennifer Whitten, who started the meeting; Adrian Rogier led us in prayer.
GUESTS
Peggy Sebastian
ANNOUNCEMENTS
 
Rotary District Conference 6460 - Will be held in Godfrey Illinois.  The dates will be November 13th & 14th and the speaker will be John O'Leary.  Agendas were on the tables along with sign up sheets.  There are 7 attendees so far!
 
Business Education Seminar 'Social Media & Your Business' 11/13 8-10am $10 Chamber Members, $15 for non-members - Korte Room - Continental Breakfast Provided. RSVP 654-3721 or email Jami at the Chamber
 
Brigadier General Jack W. Nicholson
will Have a 'meet and greet' at the VFW Fish Fry on November 13th. He is receiving the Silver Start this week, the 3rd highest honor for combat valor. On November 14th members of the community are invited to join General Nicholson for a dinner at Michael's for $15/person. He will be the keynote speaker. Reservations are limited to 200 and can be made by calling St. Paul office 654-2339.

COMMUNITY SERVICE - David Daiber
We have 1916 hours right now  - remember we have a goal of 10,000.  If you've been holding back on reporting your service hours, now's the time to get them in!
Upcoming service opportunities:
  
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Blood Drives:
-November 5th from 2:30-8:00pm at the Triad Middle School
 
-November 16th, St. Louis Ram's blood drive at the VFW in Highland from 10am-7pm (and get a free Rams T-shirt!)
 
Be sure and let David Daiber 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 contact David Daiber.

UPCOMING PROGRAMS -  Holli Martin


11/03/2009 Floral Update: Buzz Widmer
11/10/2009 NICE Foundation - Bill Beltz
11/12-11/14 District Conference
11/17/2009 OPEN
11/24/2009 OPEN
12/01/2009 OPEN
12/08/2009 Christmas Dinner TBD
12/15/2009 Dr. Dwight McCleod/Dental Mission
12/22/2009 Tas Update: Ron Scheider
12/29/2009 OPEN

If you have any suggestions or would like to sponsor a program, please email Holli at holli@hype-creative.com

SONGS
Tom Hill led us in "Give My Regards to Broadway" and "That Rotary Wheel."

180 SECONDS of FAME

None
 
SECRETARY'S REPORT - Wayne Steiner
MISSING:   Jan Brinker, Rich Clayton, Len Daiber, Larry Deiters, Angela Fears, Ed Ferguson, Dan Fieker, Laura Foerster, Mark Frey, Mike Gould, Ronald Hesson, Wil Holzinger, Don Johannes, Terry Leitschuh, Glenn Meffert, Greg Miranda, Robert Nagel, Bill Pierce, Jim Rankin, Dave Rehkemper, Rick Ringwald, Howard Robertson, Eunice Rogier, Floyd Rogier, Eric Schmidt, Art Schuetz, Michael Sutton 
 
BIRTHDAYS:
None

ANNIVERSARIES
None

MAKE-UPS:  
Adrian Rogier at Petosky, MI and Skip Butler (twice) at Goodyear, AZ.
DRAWINGS/FINES/HAPPY BUCKS - James Kemper
POT OF GOLD:
$370 in the pot...no winner!  Wayne Steiner had the winning ticket but didn't pull the ace of spades.
 
FINES:
James asked who was happy...If you were, you owed a buck.
 
HAPPY BUCKS:
Adrian Rogier - was happy to sell Rotary Calendar's for his son Robert in Potsky, MI
 
Bill Sulliven - was happy the Fighting Illini was ahead the first quarter
 
Lisa Hunsche - was happy her dad was doing better and he really appreciated the card we sent
 
Tom Hill - Reported that Bill Pierce is in the hospital at St. Elizabeth's - no visitors, but cards would be nice
PROGRAM
 
10-27-2009 Peggy Sebastian 
 
Peggy Sebastian
St. Joseph's Hospital's CEO
 
Peggy Sebastian sighted what she hopes to bring to St. Joseph's Hospital:
*Community Partnerships through the following:
            - The Board of Directors
            - Friends Board
            - Advisory Council
            - One on one meetings with various leaders in the community.  She encourage each of us to meet her for coffee or lunch and talk about our views of the hospital.
 
*Things that are being implemented in 2010
  - A Senior Renewal Program (would help people in difficult levels of transitions, like loss of a loved one or change in physical health or feelings of loneliness, anxiety or just dealing with changes in daily routines.)
  - They are starting a Priority Care Facility that would provide same day, walk in care, open 7 days a week from 7am to 7pm, and be staffed by experienced family medicine physicians, with no appointment necessary and hopes of being in  and out in 1 hour.
 
Peggy is excited to be at St. Joseph's Hospital and wants to have a hands on position....we are lucky to have her!
MAKE-UP OPPORTUNITIES
MONDAY
Wood River St. John's UCC 12:00
O'Fallon Katy Cavins Community Center 12:00
Alton-Godfrey Alton Sports Tap, 3812 College Ave 6:00

TUESDAY
Benld Toni's 12:00
Collinsville Knights of Columbus Hall 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 Airport Restaurant at 7:00 on Wednesdays

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 The Lighthouse, 3751 S. 6th St. 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 Angie Fears to have your email address added/corrected. You can email her at afears@national-bank.com as well.
 
Sincerely,
 
Angie Fears
Highland Rotary Club