The Fremont Club Experience

The Award Winning Rotary Club of Las Vegas Fremont

            "The Downtown Club"

Join us Tuesdays, 12:15 p.m., inside Hugo's Cellar at 

The Four Queens Hotel & Casino, 202 E Fremont St, Las  Vegas, NV.

Fremont Street

 Greetings!     

 

 

Past Pres. Dulcinea Almazan (11-12) opened our meeting this past Tuesday in honor of our club's past presidents. Our Rotary guests included Brenda & Bob King, Sasquatchian, Canada (the first Rotary club formed outside the US), and Diane Griffin, returning from Prince Edward Island. We were happy to welcome Past Pres. Elise Sauers (97-98) back, as well as former member Jim Schmidt, guest of Past Pres. Roger Tabor (02-03) and Brenoch Wirthlin who was a guest of Mike Woodfield.

 

Block Party Co-chair Carla Smith asked everyone to commit to securing auction items and remember to sell those tickets. Past Pres. Scott Stolberg (07-08) announced Rotary at Work day has been moved to Saturday, May 4th, 8:00 am (please note date change from meeting announcement). We will be sprucing up the gardens at the Easter Seals facility. Remember to bring tools, gloves, hats & trash bags.

 

Cross fines to Carla for enjoying the casino "experience" prior to the meeting and for being absent the week prior, which caused her to miss the special birthday presentation President Lane had planned to deliver, to PP Roger for inviting PP Scott to an art exhibit at a synagogue and knowing more of the guests than Scott, to all "non" past presidents who have yet to serve and finally to President Lane for having absolutely no clout at the meeting.

 

Our past presidents meeting is always one of our favorites as we have an opportunity to hear how our club has grown and evolved over our 27 year history. We were sponsored by the Southwest Club and chartered in 1986 with a group of young and vibrant members. PP Jim Main (87-88) said the members preferred the hands-on projects (like today) rather than sending money outside our community. The 1986 International Conference was held in Las Vegas in 1986 which was a boost to the Las Vegas clubs, including Fremont. The infamous belt buckles were brought in that year as a fundraiser - and the story is too long to tell here about how they continued to show up in someone's garage over 27 years until we found a way to distribute them once and for all. PP Drew Levy (91-92) was honored to serve as president in Rotary as his father was in the big club. During his year our club received its first District Awards and a good amount of fundraising was completed. PP Roy York (95-96/10-11) served twice and remembered a very successful fundraiser at Lonnie Hammargren's home, which funded the dollars for the Clark County Health District mobile immunization van. During PP Roy's second term the Big Game boards were introduced and those have continued to be an important part of our club's fundraising. PP Roger Tabor (02-03) served again in our club after being president in his previous club. He remembered the comradery was high in our club with so many socials, and many of our events were downtown to support our "downtown" club status. He started our current captain assignments during his year and encouraged our members to do makeups any time there were away from their home club.

 

PP Allen Puliz (04-05/06-07) also served twice with a big push on membership. He admitted he wasn't too big into the "district stuff", but that changed when PP Roy served as District Governor and brought the spotlight to the Fremont club. Lots of fundraising was done with hats, shirts and belt buckles (see-they keep turning up!). PP Allen was very proud of the momentum our club was gaining during his terms and was very pleased to pass the gavel to PP Scott Stolberg (07-08). PP Scott admitted he probably ignored the DG district a little too much, but he said the reason he served was because of what we did in our own community. Under his term we completed our first cleanup at the Rotary Reflection Garden at Easter Seals, which took an army of volunteers and an entire day to complete. He hopes to finally remember his debunking someday. PP Linda Bertuzzi (10-11) learned our club's 25th anniversary was during her year, so we hosted the biggest block party ever on Fremont Street celebrating the service of our club in the world of Rotary. The dollars raised went towards our literacy project - the new Las Vegas Fremont Rotary Reading Room at the Agassi Club, complete with new furniture and nearly 1,000 new books. She also recognized our 3 charter members and started our Rotarian of the Year program. PP Dulcinea Almazan (11-12) said she held a tremendous amount of respect for the all the presidents who had served with dedication and passion before her. Her goal was to "keep it humming" which she did by holding a strategic planning meeting, providing a club plan for her year and future years. We earned 9 awards at the District level and she was thrilled to see our "signature event" really take shape with our 2nd annual block party on Fremont Street. She remembers her debunking well and is thankful for her extended family of step-sisters and queen mother.  Thank you to all of our presidents who have led our club - it's an awesome job to hold!

 

 

 

                                                                                             
 Committee Reports    
  
3rd Annual Block Party
 

Just a reminder to save the date! Friday, April 26, 2013. The Las Vegas Kendall and the Band Fremont Rotary Club will be holding its 3rd Annual Block Party at the heart of the Fremont Street Experience. With live music by The Wedge Brothers and Kendall Tenney at the helm as emcee, it promises to be another lively event. Proceeds from this year's event will go to our club's Foundation and the Ronald McDonald House. We have secured several sponsors, including our Platinum - NOVA HOME LOANS - and have room for a few more. If you are interested in being a sponsor, please contact any one of the Las Vegas Fremont members to get more information or click here to request information. We are also requesting donations for auction and raffle prizes. Tickets are $60 each or 2 for $100. This IS the party of the year in District 5300 - don't miss it!

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     Programs 
 
February 19 - Four Way Speech Contest
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 Projects & Events
 
February 14 - 26 - 2013 India NID Trip
February 16-18 - Las Vegas Mayor's Cup International Soccer Tournament
February 20 - Agassi Birthday Bash
April 13 - Corazon Super Build, Tecate, Mexico
April 19 - District Assembly
April 26 - Las Vegas Fremont 3rd Annual Block Party
May 16-19 - District 5300 Conference
  Rotary International Conference, Lisbon - June 23 - 26, 2013
  
  
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  District 5300 & RI News

 

National immunizaiton Day in India - February 24, 2013

 

2013 Colleen & LindaGodspeed  to Las Vegas Fremont Rotary's own members, Colleen Braid and AG/PP Linda Bertuzzi, who are leaving for India on February 14th for two weeks.  They will be part of the National Polio Immunization Day being held throughout India on February 24th, delivering the two life saving polio vaccine drops to the children in the Mewat villages.  Unique to this 2013 Dream Team trip is the water retention dam build at Johari Wala, which received a majority of the seed money from the Southern Nevada and California Rotary clubs in District 5300.  We will see you in two weeks!  Thank you for representing District 5300 in Rotary's mission to eradicate Polio.

 

February 2013 District Highlighter

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Feb 17, 2013

 

Celebrating 25 years of women in Rotary

Volume 4-Issue 28

Lisbon RI Conf 

In This Week's Newsletter
Upcoming Calendar
District 5300 & RI News
Club Leadership
Birthday & Anniversaries
Captain's Duties

 Leadership

President 
Lane Kay 
Lane Kay 
President Elect
Robin I Smith
Robin Smith
President Elect Elect
Ray Jansma 
Ray Jansma 
Secretary
Teresa Sowers
Sowers 
  Treasurer
Al Guida, Jr.
al guida 
Past President
Dulcinea Almazan
Pres Dulcinea 
Public Relations
Gary Prater
International
Steve Reiter
Membership
Michael Woodfield
Fundraising
Robin Smith
Foundation
Allen Puliz
Projects
Rob Goldstein
Vocational
Carla Smith
Club Administration
Marilene Nevins

Club Anniversaries

 

 

Albert Guida, Jr

27 years

 

Jim Main

27 years

 

Gary Prater

27 years

Birthdays & Anniversaries 


Donna Bishop
February 1
 
Carla Smith
February 4
 
Mike & Lisa Clayson
February 9
 
Amy Tabor
February 15
 
Kathy York
February 26
     
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 Meeting Captain        

Ray Jansma
February 12
 
Terry Wong
February 19
 
John McInerney
February 26
 
Colleen Braid
March 5
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