Thursday, June 18, 2009 

  The Ripple    

  
The Newsletter of the

Rotary Club of Peabody - District 7930  

P.O. Box 94, Peabody, MA 01960

WWW.ROTARYPEABODY.ORG

Meeting: Thursdays, 7:30 AM, at the Peabody Marriott, Centennial Drive, Peabody, MA 

      June Theme: Fellowship 

June Birthdays:

June 24:   Lori Morad (Steve)

June Wedding Anniversarys:

June 1:  Vanessa & David Silveira

June 30:  Bob & Melissa Clattenburg 

  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. 

Meeting notes

Today's visiting Rotarians: None

Guests:  None  

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President Steve thanked the scholarship committee, chaired by Cathy Gravel.  The Award ceremony was held at a reception for the scholarship winners at Gra-Voc on Tuesday, June 16th.  Ten of the eleven recipients and their parents were there!!  Great turnout!  That presentation was followed by a Board meeting. 

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Our big FELLOWSHIP event of the year will be on WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24TH, 6:00PM, AT THE WARDHURST GRILLE.  Dinner choices are Prime Rib, Lamb Shish Kebab, Chicken Parmigiana and Baked Haddock.  A great meal and fellowship for only $35!!  Be sure to return your registration forms to Cathy soon.  There will be no meeting the following morning so hangovers can be treated.

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President Steve will soon be meeting with members of the Chamber of Commerce and the City Council to begin planning the Golf Tournament.

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 President Steve announced the recent passing of Bob Wood's father.  The entire club sends its condolences to Bob and his family.  

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Vanessa is doing the North Shore Cancer walk this weekend.  If you'd like to sponsor her, give her a call or e-mail today. 

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President Steve introduced our guest speakers Kim Alford (pictured) and Nichole Gilligan from Citizens for Adequate Housing.  Kim is the Program Director there and Nichole is the Food Manager.  They have been with CAH for 15 1/2 and 11 years, respectively.  Beginning August 7th, we'll be bringing a meal a month to CAH.  Inn Transition houses 14 families, which include 32 children.  Eight of the families are there for the sober living program while the other six families are there as an emergency shelter.  Their meals are generally community events--the families take turns preparing the meals for everyone.  When the CAH residence was being renovated, we brought a meal a month to the residents who had to live in a motel.  They really enjoyed and appreciated what we did for them and the fact that others cared about them.  MARK YOUR CALENDARS:  On August 7th, at 4:30PM, the entire membership will present the first meal at Inn Transition, 42 Washington Street, so everyone will learn the procedure.  We'll continue on the first Friday every month.  And as a "heads up", we'll all have to do this volunteer work more frequently.  We'll be feeding close to, if not over, 50 people, so rather than only three volunteers per month, it will take more.  (Another good reason to get more members into our club!!)

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    Our speaker scheduler, Grace Martins, asks that you tell her of any people who may want to speak to the club or whom you think may be of

  interest to the club.  

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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!!  Mel thanks Dick Berg for his generous contributions.

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Happy Dollars:  This month's Sergeant-at-arms, Steve Padulsky, collected $46. 

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: Neither Cathleen Wardley nor Peggy Lyons picked the Ace of Diamonds, so neither won the $149. 

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Upcoming Programs:

NEXT MEETINGS:

June 24 (No meeting June 25): Club Installation Dinner

July 2:  Cathy's first meeting as Club President 

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!

UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES:

June 24th:  Club's Annual Dinner at the Wardhurst

June 30th:  District Installation Dinner at the Danversport Yacht Club

July2nd:  First meeting of President Cathy's term.

August 7th:  First Dinner Service for Citizens For Adequate Housing 

September 13:  International Festival

September 14: Golf Tournament 

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Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind - John F. Kennedy

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Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies – Woody Allen

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A young businessman had just started his own firm. He rented a beautiful office and had it furnished with antiques. Sitting there, he saw a man come into the outer office. Wishing to appear the hot shot, the businessman picked up the phone and started to pretend he had a big deal working. He threw huge figures around and made giant commitments. Finally he hung up and asked the visitor, "Can I help you?"

The man said, "Yeah, I've come to activate your phone lines."

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?

Please keep this in mind!

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  Note: Other Rotary Club meeting locations are posted at www.rotary.org, then, click on 'Club Locator'.

The District 7930 Club locator can be found at www.rotary7930.org/clubs.html.