Meeting: Thursdays, 7:30 AM, at the Peabody Marriott, Centennial Drive, Peabody, MA
April Theme: TBA
April Birthdays:
April 8: Bob Wood
April Wedding Anniversarys:
April 5: Al & Catherine DiMambro
April 26: Steve & Lori Morad
April 26: Peg & Jody Pedro
TO ALL MEMBERS: IF THERE ARE ANY ERRORS WITH THE BIRTHDAY OR ANNIVERSARY DATES, PLEASE NOTIFY GARY EPSTEIN. ALSO, THERE ARE NUMEROUS MISSING DATES ON OUR ROSTER. PLEASE GIVE GARY YOUR INFORMATION--JUST THE DATES--NO ONE CARES HOW OLD YOU ARE. BUT WE MAY BE INTERESTED TO KNOW HOW LONG YOU'VE BEEN MARRIED.
HAVEN FROM HUNGER
May 1 2009:
Team Assignments: Steve Smith(Meal Pickup), Peg Lyons(Salad), Grace Martins(Cookies)
Arrive by , 4:15 P.M. would be great,
at 71 Wallis St., Peabody.
If you're unable to attend on the specified date, it's your responsibility to locate a replacement. Please inform the meal pickup person (Chief Entree Officer) of the change and the replacement of your assigned responsibility. Thanks. Look at NEWS and Haven Team Assignments for the future schedule. Please check out the assignments.
On April 3rd there were about 18-20 people served by Rotary
Meeting notes
Today's visiting Rotarians: Ralph Ardiff/ Danvers club
Guests: Bob Clattenberg/Salem Five
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President Steve ran the meeting.
He reminded everyone that the District Conference is on May 1st & 2nd. He said to go online to register. Peabody Rotary is holding a table for 10 at Finz on Friday night. If you are interested contact Steve to hold your spot.
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The District Assembly was on April 22nd. Peg, Cathy Peg Lyons and Martha all talked about the breakout sessions that they went to. Bob Wood was very busy with the assembly making sure everything went smoothly.
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May 7th we will have a joint meeting with Beverly, Danvers and Manchester by the Sea to meet the GSE team. The meeting will be at Danverport at 12:15pm. As we get closer President Steve will need a head count to let Danversport know.
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April 25th is our club project "Safe -2-Pedal Day" The event will be held at Higgins Middle School from 10am-1pm. We will be assisting the Peabody Police with Bike Safety demo's. We will also be handing out Bike Safety coloring books & crayons, helmets and a few bikes. There will be a meeting with the committee right after our regular meeting today. The committee is as follows: Cathleen Wardley, Peg Pedro, Steve Smith, Joanne donovan, Peg Lyons and Cathy Gravel. This is a District Simplified Grant project so we all Rotarians to be involved with project to receive the grant money.
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Grace mentioned that Sponsorship was available for ther High Tea that the Mary Upton Ferrin group was hosting on May 17th at 2pm. If you are interested see either grace or Cathy who are both members of the group.
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Steve Smith proposes Bob Clattenberg, Salem Five Bank.
"if anyone has objection to Bob's membership in the club please detail your reason in writing and submit it to the Board of Directors within seven days".
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Our speaker scheduler, Grace Martins, is asking that you tell her of any people who may want to speak to the club or whom you think may be of
April 23, 2009: Gail Wakefield-Peabody Animal Shelter
April 23,2009:Julie Erickson/ Classification Speech
April 30, 2009: Bob Wood/ Classification Speech
Please make every effort to attend your Rotary meetings. The more members we have each week, the better we look to potential members--and to our visitors and speakers.
Thank you!
Today we heard from Julie Erickson. Julie's Father had brought Julie to one of our Rotary meetings over a year ago. Her Dad has been a Rotarian in Maine for 26 years and was encouraging Julie to join Rotary. Julie just started a new job and is finding it both exciting and challenging. Julie had a little show and tell with her knitting project. We hope to see her wearing the sweater next fall on the first brisk morning. Julie is going to focus more time on her personal life with one way being involved with Rotary. Julie was a skater in her youth years and then turned to running. Julie is hoping to make time this summer to train for a half marathon in the fall. We are happy that Julie listens to her Dad and has joined Rotary.
Our second presenter today was Gail Wakefield from PALS, Peabody Animal Life Savers. This organization is a non profit 501(c)3. It is staffed by volunteers. The history is interesting, starting in Peabody and is housed in Salem at the moment but is looking to get back to peabody some day. If you want more info or to make a donation go to www.palspeabody.com
Reminders:
What do you do with your empty bottles and cans? (And we know there must be a lot of empty beer cans and bottles.) Please bring them (both beer and soda) to the meetings every week to give to Mel. Every nickel helps!!
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Happy Dollars: This week's Sergeant-at-arms Jeff collected $61.
Reminder: If you see any news articles or pictures (not Rotary related) of our members, bring them in so the member can donate $$$ to the club. We can use the money!! But more important--we'd like to recognize and applaud our members.
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50-50 Raffle: The pool was won last week so we are looking for a new card the Ace of Diamonds Neither Bob Wood nor Julie picked the card.
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Please make every effort to attend your Rotary meetings. The more members we have each week, the better we look to potential members--and to our visitors and speakers.
Thank you!
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UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES:
April 25th: Safe-2-Pedal Day
May 1st-2nd: District Conference in Salem
May 7th: Joint meeting at Danverport @12:15
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It's easy to become a Rotary Sustaining member. It's $100 per year, but Loring can bill you $25 per quarter. That's $8.33 a month, or 28 CENTS a day, or a little over a penny an hour.
LET'S BECOME A 100% SUSTAINING MEMBER CLUB!!
THE 4-WAY TEST of the things we think, say or do:
1. IS IT THE TRUTH? 2. IS IT FAIR TO ALL CONCERNED? 3. WILL IT BUILD GOODWILL & BETTER FRIENDSHIP? 4. WILL IT BE BENEFICAL TO ALL CONCERNED?
