The 5th Annual Peter Formicola Sunshine Camp Golf tournament this past Monday was a wonderful event with a sold out field of 144 golfers and over 170 in attendance for dinner! What perfect weather and wonderful day for fellowship and sport.  

BIG shout out to co-chairs Wayne Wegman and Don Barone as well as the entire golf committee for such an outstanding job and dedication to this premier fundraiser of ours. Thank you to Don Alhart for emceeing our dinner and helping us to honor the great man Peter was and all that he did for our community and our Campus.

Midvale did an outstanding job - Rich Marr and Mike Kiel along with their teams put on a great day for us all.

Thank you to our tournament sponsors and all of you that made donations during our cash call - it was truly an exceptional event. I look forward to hearing what we raised for the Sunshine Campus!

Congratulations to the winners -

Mens Division

            Doug Hannie
            Roger Oelheim
            Bryce Hauschildt
            Eric Ruppercht

Mixed Division

            Nancy Rencis
            Richard Bucenic
            Bruce Olson
            Tony Jackson

Womens Division

            Beth Howard
            Chris Postler
            Bruni Postler
            Pat Gianforti

9/2/14 - Nora Brown, Executive Director - Rochester/Finger Lakes Film & Video Office

Rochester Riverside Convention Center

9/9/14 - Rochester Riverside Convention Center

9/16/14 - New RCSD Leaders

- Keith Babuszczak, Chief of College and Career Readiness

- Adele Bovard, Deputy Superintendent for Administration

- Christiana Otuwa, Deputy Superintendent for Teaching and Learning

- Christopher Suriano, Executive Director of Specialized Services

Rochester Riverside Convention Center

9/23/14 Ty Kelly and Logan Newman, East High Optics

Rochester Riverside Convention Center

The Rotary Office will be closed on Monday, Septmber 1st in observance of Labor Day.

What a great day at this year's Peter D. Formicola Sunshine Camp Golf Invitational - We would like to thank our co-chairs Don Barone and Wayne Wegman for their work and leadership on this year's tournament and to our committee for their hard work as well.

Donald W. Alhart

Tracy R. Armstrong

Donald Barone

Bob Cieslica Jr.

Tracey Dreisbach

Joseph Floreano

Allison Formicola

Andre Godfrey

Douglas D. Hannie

Brian McLaughlin

Peter J. Noto

Nancy O'Brien

Kenneth J. Pink

Erich K. Postler

Peter J. Sarratori

Meredith J. Smith

Patrick Stack

Lynn Sullivan

Wayne Wegman

John G. White Jr.

We rounded out our summer with Heritage Kids and Mary Cariola's day campers.  They enjoyed a beautiful week of train & tractor rides, music and swimming.  We had a great summer and are already looking towards next year.

Thank you to all of the AMAZING staff that worked so hard to ensure our campers had the best weeks of their lives. 

The Community Service Teams is looking for volunteers for the Heritage Christian Legacy Mile and 5K on Saturday, September 6th from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m.

We are looking for five people to to help out at the water station and eight to ten people to assist in directing and cheering for the runners.

Please consider helping out with this oppotunity.  To sign up, contact Pat Stack at (585)683-4689 or pstack@frontiernet.net.

We are looking for volunteers to help out at this years Foodlink's Festival of Food on Monday, September 15th from 6:00-9:00 p.m. at the Rochester Public Market.

If you are interested in volunteering please contact Pat Stack at (585)683-4689 or pstack@frontiernet.net.

Open to beginners and above shooters.

Date: Thursday, September 25th

Timeline:

3:00 p.m. - Registration begins

3:30 p.m. - Safety talk

4:00-6:00 p.m. - On Course

6:00-6:30 p.m. - Drinks

7:00 p.m. - Dinner and awards

Cost is $20 per person includes two free drinks and dinner.  RSVP to Myrna in the Rotary Office at 546-7435 x201 or myrna@rochesterrotary.org. 

We need a few volunteers to host a Governor Elect and spouse that will be visiting our area Jan 9-17, 2015. The Governors Elect are from all over the world and will be visiting Rochester as part of the Milt Matthews Governor Elect Hospitality Visit that has occurred here for the past 45 years. Our role will be to host our guests in the latter half of their visit from Jan 13-17, along with an district-wide gathering on Jan 11^th. More information and a host application is provided at http://clubs.rotary7120.org/international/MMGE-Hospitality.htm. Our Club already has two volunteers to host these international Rotarians, 2-3 additional hosts are needed. For those unable to host for the entire period of Jan 13-17, you can still help during some of those day excursions. If interested, please contact Jeff Bartkoski, VP International(jbartkoski@mercyflightcentral.org or office phone: 396-0584).

Sunshine Escape is an adult weekend for campers 21 and up.  It will be held at the Sunshine Campus October 10th-12th 2014.  We will be doing great fall activities.  We are looking for staff also.  Please visit www.sunshinecampus.org to apply.

Seabreeze is offering us a code all summer to get $5 off ticket cost.  You can buy your tickets online at www.seabreeze.com and enter promo code 801 to receive the discount.

The Membership Committee's mission is to grow and sustain the Rochester Rotary Membership. We accomplish this by identifying and recruiting a diverse group of qualified new members and support their initial involvement in the Club.

Each year our Club has a goal to bring in 35 new and dynamic members. At present we have 339 members of our club. Under the leadership of Mary Lewis Consler the committee engaged in a strategic planning process that will help the committee be even more proactive. The strategic plan has a number of sub committees that are listed below:

Under Represented - we have a number of member categories that could use increases.   A good example is military.

Marketing Collaboration - working with our marketing committee this sub group will assist with additional materials that will help with recruitment.

Corporate Membership - this has been a goal for a long time and we will be working directly with each of the larger corporations in this region on corporate memberships. Each new person must pass our membership criteria.

Small Business - this is a specific effort to attract new members that are business owners.

Internal Communications - this effort will see the Membership Committee reaching directly out to other members of our club for  referrals.

You will hear more about these initiatives over the course of the new-year. The Membership Committee is excited about the formation of the Engagement Committee lead by Steve Hoitt.

To recommend a new member please contact Mary Lewis Consler at 310-7113 or Scott Rasmussen at 273-5932.

Rotary Friendship Exchange (RFE) opportunity to New Zealand

Our district has been invited to participate in a RFE with New Zealand District 9940 in the lower half of the north island. District 9940 consists of 59 Rotary Clubs and is the best mix of rural and city life including Wellington, the New Zealand capital city. 

The exchange will begin with a visit to D9940 for a period of two weeks from February 14 - 27, 2015.  February usually is their most settled weather for the year including long evenings with daylight savings time - our winter is their summer.

2013 RPO Sponsors