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
April 3 2009:
Team Assignments: Nicole Nelsen(Meal Pickup), Jeff Doherty(Salad), Cathy Gravel(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: None
Guests: Youth exchange student Martin Munera
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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 is on April 22nd. President Steve asked who was planning on going. If you want to attend contact either Steve or Loring. Peg suggested all new members should attend, that it was very informative and you would have a better understanding of Rotary.
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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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President Steve announced that we will be donating a total of $1000. to the "Take a Bow" group at the High School. The group had sold $250. in ticket sales and $550. in the auction items. The club will contribute $200. more to make it an even $1000. Steve will present to the group leader with the BIG check.
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Peg mentioned that Bob Wood apologized for not being at the meeting but he had already attended 5 Rotary meetings this week.
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Peg also mentioned she had just had a meeting about the Foundation and the Money and that the club is qualified to receive several Paul Harris awards.
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A big thank you to Rudy for purchasing the Pizza for the family "Y it Matter" dinner last Wednesday. The Rotary club along with a few other organizations sponsor this group.
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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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Nicole said she received a deposit from the student we are sending to RYLA. She is very excited about going, we look foward to hearing her report.
Nicole also told us she spoke with Citizens about serving them a meal once a month starting in July. More to follow on this.
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Steve Smith proposes Ellen Gale, Eastern Bank. Ellen will replace Gayle Cavanaugh
"if anyone has objection to Ellen'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 9, 2009: Martin Munera/Rotary Exchange Student
April 16, 2009: Gail Wakefield-Peabody Animal Shelter
April 16,2009: Julie Erickson/ Classification Speech
April 23, 2009: Cathleen Wardley/Classification Speech
April 23, 2009: Joanne Donovan/ 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!
Martin gave his presentation about his country Columbia. He presented a power point presentation with many beautiful pictures of his country. Martin talked about his family and the things they like to do together. He also talked about what he found to be the most different here. He spoke about the first time he saw snow and his skiing experiences. Martin would like to see a few more sights before he returns to his country.
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 Steve collected $45.
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 $104.00 We are looking for the 8 of Clubs. Mel nor Mel picked the 8 of clubs.
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 22nd: District Assembly
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?
