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

 

   

President Elect Michael Woodfield stepped in to lead our meeting this week during President Teresa's absence and did a "fine" job. Our usual opening rituals were kicked up a notch when Marilene Nevins passed out our song - "The Hokey Pokey" - which we all performed fairly well. Past President and Charter Member Jim Main provided a great meeting team and shared a little about himself. He joined the newly chartered Las Vegas Fremont Rotary Club in February, 1986, serving as President in 1987-88. He is a CPA and founding partner of a boutique accounting firm, Main Amundson and Associates, with his life-long friend and partner, John Amundson. He has been married to his wife April Stearns Main for 32 years and they have a daughter Kaitlin, and twin sons Mike and Matthew.

 

Visitors:


 

Judge Richard Scotti, Green Valley Rotary Club
Russell Swain, Past President Las Vegas Rotary Club
Phil Bailey, Red Rock Rotary Club
Roy White, Fair Oaks Texas Rotary
Bruce Bentley, Hanford Sunrise Rotary Club, California, Vocational Chair, who also presented PE Michael with a banner from his Club. 


 

Immed. Past Pres. Robin Smith also presented a banner from her recent visit to Hawaii.


 

Announcements:


Putting for Polio - Phil Bailey announced the upcoming Putting for Polio event on March 14, from 2-5 pm. They are seeking sponsors for various components of the event. Contact Phil at 702-688-9306 if you want to play and/or sponsor.
Downtown Rotary Charitable Fund - Board held their recent meeting at the Tabor's home which went very well. Past Pres. Roger Tabor gave a few updates and reminded our members that all members are welcome and the next one will be in March.
Mexico Super Build - Immed. Past Pres. & District 5300 Super Build Co-Chair Robin Smith reminded everyone to sign up for the Super Build. Currently two homes are listed and there is a good possibility that two more will be added. We will be travelling by vans into Mexico. Contact Robin or International Chair Steve Reiter if you need more information.

 

Cross-fines:

To meeting greeter Bernice Davidson for not giving out the member's badges; to Past Pres. Roger for his "unfailing effort to uncork a screw-top wine bottle;" to Rob Goldstein for his obsession with Tabor's wrinkled table cloth; to Asst. Gov/Past Pres. Linda Bertuzzi for chairing a great Presidents Advance; and to Russ Swain for wearing his Rotary jacket to a West Care meeting at Green Valley Ranch on the same day as Presidents Advance.

 

Program:


Christina Moon, Program Director for Miracle Flights for Kids, was our featured speaker. Miracle Flights is a national charity with Las Vegas roots. Founded in 1985, Miracle Flights for Kids� is a national, 501(c)(3), nonprofit organization dedicated to helping low income very sick children overcome financial obstacles that prevent them from accessing proper medical care and second opinions .The core program provides airline tickets for families to travel to medical treatment facilities anywhere in the continental US at no cost. The agency also covers life skills needs, such as providing assistance dogs. Their key partners are Southwest and Frontier Airlines. The charity is always in need of donated miles, as well as dollars. Christina stated on of the best things we can do for them is to continue to spread the work about the organization and bring more awareness to others about what the services it provides. Learn more at their website at

 

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Committeee Reports

JDRF Ambassadors Indoor Soccer Event
by Past Pres. Lane Kay

A big shout out to our Fremont Rotarians for spending their Sunday afternoon hosting the 3rd Annual Indoor Soccer Social for the JDFR Ambassadors. I would also like to thank Meir and Kyle for donating the field and for Phil and his staff for helping out with the event. Even though we had the soccer field for an hour, the kids wanted to play dodgeball and kickball.   We never played soccer but the kids (and adults acting like kids) had a ball anyway!

2015 JDRF Soccer
   

  January Agassi Birthday Bash

 

Past Pres. Paul Bell served as the Birthday Bash Captain for his third month in a row, providing pizza and juice, along with a little bit of fun.  This is one hour a month worth sharing with these deserving kids at Agassi Boys and Girls Club and it's especially fun as we celebrate in the Las Vegas Fremont Rotary Reading room, establish in 2011.   February's Bash is on the 18th - we are looking for a captain. If it's your birthday, step up and share it with these great kids!

 


 

 2015 Block Party 

 

With the Block Party just a few months away, the Committee is moving full speed ahead with planning and organizing our biggest fundraiser of the year.  The most recent committee meeting was extremely productive and great new ideas are being implemented to provide more visibility to our very important sponsors.  Chairs Terry Wong and Colleen Malany will have updates for the members at the next meeting.  In the meantime, they are asking everyone to bring in the sponsors and start selling the tickets which are being printed.  The first three charities benefiting from the Party will be JDRF, Alzheimer's and Down Syndrome, with more grants being accepted throughout the year by the Downtown Rotary Charitable Fund.  As in the past, Platinum sponsor is $5,000, Gold is $3,000, Silver is $1,500 and Bronze is $750.  Another great addition this year will be the ability to sell raffle tickets ahead of time and our guests will not need to be present to win.  Get ready to party!!!

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 Programs 

February 3rd: Vaha Esikia, Head Rugby Coach for UNLV
February 10th: Open
February 17th: Open
February 24th: 4 Way Speech Contest
March 3rd: RYLA Students
March 10th: Dan Stover

 Projects & Events

February 11 - Spread the Word Nevada Book Cleaning, 5:30 to 8:00
February 14-16 - Las Vegas Mayors International Soccer Tournament
February 20-22 - President Elect Training (PETS), details
February 22 - National Immunization Day, India
April 23 - Block Party - Celebrate Rotary Las Vegas Style

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2014-15 Presidents Advance

District 5300 Presidents Advance Chair Linda Bertuzzof the Las Vegas Fremont Rotary Club, along with co-chair Raghada Khoury of the Apple Valley Rotary Club, organized and led the recent Advance at Green Valley Ranch. In an effort to make the weekend ALL about the Presidents, each one was provided with a questionnaire to assess their needs at a club level and this information established topics for all of the break-out sessions on Saturday.  The attendees, which included many presidents-elect, rotated to new groups throughout the day, meeting and interacting with many leaders they had previously not met.  They left with pages and pages of notes and ideas to share with their clubs - in fact, one President was so excited about her experience, she called her Public Relations chair at 10:00 on Saturday night!  Robin Smith of the Las Vegas Fremont Rotary Club was also on hand, organizing the Governor's Hospitality Suite and tending the wine & vodka bar.

 

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February 1, 2015

 

Celebrating

29 years of 

"Service Above Self"

Volume 6-Issue 23

 

In This Week's Newsletter
Club Leadership
Birthday & Anniversaries
Captain's Duties

 Leadership

President 
Teresa Sowers
Sowers   
President Elect 
Michael Woodfield
 
Secretary
Larry Goldstein
 
  Treasurer
Al Guida, Jr.
al guida 
Past President
Robin I Smith
2013-14 Pres RS   
 
Club Administration
Marilene Nevins
 
Bulletin Editor
Linda Bertuzzi

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29 years

 

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29 years

 

Gary Prater

29 years

 

Bonnie Helms

1 year

 

Birthdays & Anniversaries 


Lisa Prall
February 4

Carla Smith
February 5

John & Claire Chmela
February 13

Amy Tabor
February 15

Kathy York
February 16

Tami Bridges
February 26

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February 10
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