Rochester Rotary                                                                   9/1/2016
Rotary HEADLINE News
Rotary Office Closed
NFL Tailgate Party & Football Season Discussion
Foodlink - Festival of Food Volunteers Needed
Hurd Orchards Thanksgiving Tasting
B2B Tour at Progressive Machine & Design
Rotary Friendship Exchanges Provide Opportunities to Make New Friends in Every Corner of the World
Memorials
Tootsie Roll Bright Spot - The Basics & Rotary Foundation Centennial challenge
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Upcoming Committee Meetings


9/6/16 Tuesday Luncheon
11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. -
Registration, Networking & Lunch
12:30 p.m. - Program
Floreano Riverside Convention Center

9/8/16 Campus Facilities Committee Meeting
8:00-9:30 a.m.
Board Room

9/8/16 Membership Committee Meeting
12:00-1:30 p.m.
Board Room

9/13/16 Tuesday Luncheon
11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. -
Registration, Networking & Lunch
12:30 p.m. - Program
Floreano Riverside Convention Center

9/14/16 Friendship Committee Meeting
12:00-1:30 p.m.
Shadow Lake Golf Club

9/16/16 Business to Business Committee Meeting
12:00-1:30 p.m.
Board Room               

2016-2017   

Club Board 

 

Club President

Donna Dedee 

President Elect

Mark Armbruster 

Immediate Past President

Peter Sarratori  


Vice Presidents

Megan Alchowiak

Jeff Bartkoski  

Barb Cutrona 

Peter Glennon 

Ronald Pawelczak 

Meredith Smith

Julie St. Germaine

Pat Stack  

Mark Zawacki

 

Treasurer

Don Twietmeyer 

Assistant Treasurer 

Dusty Faske 

Sgt.-At-Arms

Maggie Brooks  

Sgt-At-Arms 

Jeff Halik 

New Member Liaison

Ray Isaac 

Historian

Carl Krause 

 

Rochester Rotary Staff

   

Tracey Dreisbach

Executive Director

Myrna Padilla

Executive Assistant

Heather Rossi

Event Director

Brandi Koch

Sunshine Campus Partner

Director

Pam Reinhardt

Accounting Manager

 

Sunshine Campus  
Tree House
 
More information can be found on the Sunshine Campus Website or you may call the Rotary Office.
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News of YOUR Club
Rotary Office Closed 
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The Rotary Office will be closed on Monday, September 5th in observance of Labor Day. 
NFL Tailgate Party &
Football Season Discussion
Join us Tuesday, September 6th at the Floreano Riverside Convention Center where veteran local sports journalists Scott Pitoniak, Leo Roth and Thad Brown will conduct a panel discussion about the state of the Buffalo Bills and the NFL.

Scott is a best-selling author of 22 books,
including five about the Bills, whom he's covered for 32 years. The Syracuse University graduate currently is the sports columnist for the Rochester Business Journal, the AFC East correspondent for USA Today Sports Weekly and a Bills correspondent for WROC-TV. His work has been recognized by the Associated Press, the Professional Football Writers of America and the Best American Sports writing anthology. 

Leo is a long-time award-winning columnist for
the Democrat and Chronicle. The Buffalo
native's work has been recognized by the Associated Press, the Professional Football Writers of America, Gannett, the Rochester Press-Radio Club and the New York State Publishers Association. He is a Frontier Field Walk of Fame inductee. Leo is a graduate of Buffalo State and has covered the Bills since 1989.    

Thad has been a sports anchor/reporter for
WROC News 8 since August 2000 and recently succeeded John Kucko as the station's sports director. This is actually Thad's second tour of duty with WROC. The Aquinas Institute alumnus interned under Kucko during the summers of 1996 and 1997 and worked behind the scenes for the sports department in 1998-99. After graduating from Hofstra University in 1998, Thad spent a year covering sports for WBNG-TV in Binghamton. This is his 17th season of covering the Bills.   

Upcoming Speakers

9/6/16 NFL Tailgate Party and football season discussion with Scott Pitoniak, Leo Roth and Thad Brown
Floreano Riverside Convention Center

9/13/16 Mayor Lovely Warren
Floreano Riverside Convention Center

9/20/16 Vinnie Esposito, Regional Director of the Empire State Development Finger Lakes Regional Office
"Update on the Finger Lakes REDC and Finger Lakes Forward Initiatives"
Floreano Riverside Convention Center 

9/27/16 No Tuesday Luncheon
Instead join us for a B2B Happy Hour from 5:00-7:00 p.m. at Nosh
to enjoy a drink and conversation with your fellow Rotarians. 
Foodlink - Festival of Food
Volunteers Needed 

We are looking for volunteers to help out at this year's Foodlink Festival of Food on Monday, September 19th at the Rochester Public Market. Volunteers will help out with admission, providing water, ice and supplies to vendors, trash pickup, site tear-down and a lot of fun and food.

We are in need of 10 volunteers, we ask that you please arrive at the Public Market by 4:30 p.m. The event goes from 6:00-9:00 p.m. and we should be done by 9:30 p.m.

Sign up today by contacting Myrna in the Rotary Office at 546-7435 x201 or myrna@rochesterrotary.org.
Hurd Orchards Thanksgiving Tasting


We hope you will join us Friday, November 4th at Hurd Orchards for a Thanksgiving Tasting event you will never forget.
 
As the lanterns and candles are lighted and the pot bellied stove in our market glows with warmth our holiday tables are made festive with bouquets and still life and are richly laden with our delicious foods. Our cathedral-like barn, beams warmed with the patina of age, glows with seasonal color. Filled with character and twinkle and feeling, our Tastings are a moment to share the depth of what our farm means. Our tastings have been featured in many articles over the years, most notably in Victoria Magazine in November of 1994 and Better Homes and Garden magazine in November 2004.
 
The cost is $70 per person and reservations are needed by September 30th. Space is limited so sign up today and don't miss this delicious event with your fellow Rotarians!

Register Here
B2B Tour at Progressive Machine & Design

Join us Wednesday, October 12th at 4:30 p.m. to tour Progressive Machine & Design facility in Victor, NY just off the I-490 and Rt96.

This 140,000 Sq. Ft. Climate Controlled Manufacturing and Assembly Facility spreads across three buildings enabling PMD to design and create not just robotic machines but solutions for their clients manufacturing needs. They create manufacturing systems from robotics to custom conveyor systems. With over 150 employees in the Rochester area and growing, PMD is a world leader in effective automation technology.

Reserve your space today by clicking on the link below.
Register Here 
Rotary Friendship Exchanges Provide Opportunities to Make New Friends in Every Corner of the World 
Exchange participants take turns hosting and visiting one another, forging friendships that last a lifetime. All exchanges are funded by the participants, and hosts are not expected to assume a significant financial burden. Visitors pay their own way, but are rewarded with warm hospitality and an international travel experience unlike any other. On a Rotary Friendship Exchange, you are never just a tourist.
 
Here in our District, several opportunities are coming up to host and/or visit Rotary districts in the USA and several countries:
 
Initially hosts are needed for a group of Rotarians from Oregon District 5110 that will be in our district from September 22 to October 5. There will be three sessions of four to five days each. For this opportunity, replies must be in by August 20, and hosts will be assigned to our Oregon guests during the September 2nd RFE Committee meeting.
 
In the next couple of months we will be offering opportunities for a Rotary Friendship Exchange visit to Scotland from April 30 - May 14, 2017 and early next year we will offer a visit to Finland from August 8 - 20, 2017. In the next year RFE teams will be coming to our Finger Lakes District from Australia, Finland and Scotland, as well as Oregon.
 
Please contact Doug Cook at 671-4675 or dougfromtor@rochester.rr.com for more information or if you are willing to host any of our Oregon guests. Host volunteers have highest priority for future RFE trips, those exchanges that are scheduled in the next year as well as additional RFEs being planned for 2018 and 2019.
Memorials
Many thanks to all for the memorial contributions made. Your generosity helps support capital projects and items that continue to make the Rochester Rotary Sunshine Campus one of the premier camping facilities for people with disabilities in our community.

Myron Andruschak
J. Robert Maney
Patricia Jenkins
J. Robert Maney
Aldo Fioravanti
Robert J. Enright
Rochester Rotary Friendship Committee
Phyllis Hahn
Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Tirabassi
"Beefur's Sunshine Treehouse"
books are here! 
Don't miss out on your copy! Contact Myrna in the Rotary Office at 546-7435 x201 or myrna@rochesterrotary.org to order your copy of "Beefur's Sunshine Treehouse" the cost is $10 per book.

Tootsie Roll Bright Spot - The Basics & Rotary Foundation Centennial challenge 

 
 
Rotary's Challenge - EREY - "Every Rotarian, Every Year" - to donate $100 to the Annual Giving Fund of the Rotary Foundation. During the Centennial year of the Rotary Foundation we will have a special incentive for those members who wish to become Paul Harris Fellows.

Rochester Rotary Makes it Fun
  • Pledge to give $100 - Members who are already a Paul Harris Fellow will match your donation with Recognition points they have accumulated and wish to share.
  • You become a member of the Rochester Rotary "Tootsie Roll Family"
  • You get to name a "Tootsie Roll Bright Spot" - a fellow Rotarian, friend, co-worker - anyone -
  • That person is recognized at a Tuesday Rotary meeting with a gift of a Tootsie Roll Pop - and public acknowledgement
  • YOU get a "Tootsie Roll Sticker" for your name badge to show your commitment to give $100 to the Rotary Foundation as well as a Tootsie Roll Pop too!
  • When you have completed that gift - you receive a Sustaining Member sticker for your badge from Rotary International
You can name a Tootsie Roll Bright Spot for every $100 you pledge.   
 
To make a pledge or for more information contact Rotarian Hank Ralston at 697-0880 or hank@ralstonagency.com.     
September Birthdays

September 2- Ralph Fornuto
September 3- John White
September 5- Bill Weir
September 5- Cheryl Nelan
September 7- Tom Arcuri
September 9- Sergio Esteban
September 10- Bill Shaheen
September 10- Kathleen Pringle
September 11- Jeff Bartkoski
September 13- Dan Meyers
September 13- Betty Strasenburgh
September 15- Charu Narang
September 19- Paul Law
September 20- Jeff Halik
September 21- Heidi Macpherson
September 23- Jerry Archibald
September 25- Patricia Phillips
September 26- Andrew Brady
September 26- Anne Riley
September 26- John Bartholomew
September 26- Dave Mack
September 28- Ira Korn
September 30- Amanda Galley
September 30- Mat Adams

Birthday gift contributions made will benefit the students at our adopted school, School #8, Roberto Clemente School #8 scholarship students and community service projects with in our community. You may mail your gift to the Rotary Office or bring it with you to a Tuesday meeting.
 
Please contact the Rotary Office if your birthday is not listed so that we may update your information.
What is going on in the District?

Rotary 7120 Literacy Workshop
September 17, 2016

Clifton Springs Hospital
Registration at 8:30 a.m.
Guest Speaker: Kathryn Yarlett
Topic: Preparing our Children for Kindergarten Readiness, What we can do as individuals and as Communities

For more information click below for the Literacy Workshop Flyer.
2015 RPO Holiday Gala Pops Sponsors