Meeting: Thursdays, 7:30 AM, at the Peabody Marriott, Centennial Drive, Peabody, MA
PRESIDENT: Steve Morad
PRESIDENT-ELECT: Cathy Gravel
VICE PRESIDENT: Nichole Nelsen
SECRETARY: Gary Epstein
TREASURER: Loring Merrow
SERGEANT AT ARMS: Jeff Doherty
PAST PRESIDENT: Grace Martins
BOARD MEMBERS: Scott Bronstein, Tom Rowen, Steve Smith, Peggy Pedro, Joanne Donovan
Rotary International President (2008-2009): D. K. Lee
District Governor (2008-2009): Tom Elliott
DG-Elect (2009-2010) : Ingrid Brown
DG-Nominee (2010-2011): Steve May
Assistant District Governor: Helene Andersen Michel
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Peabody Club Members at District Level:
Fred deNapoli (ADG for Ipswich, Malden, Saugus, Wakefield)
Peggy Pedro (ADG for Chelsea, Everett, TBM, Swampscott
Herb Harris (Outbound Ambassadorial Scholar Coordinator)
Cathy Gravel (Youth Exchange Student Host)
OCTOBER Theme: Vocational Services
HAVEN FROM HUNGER
November 7th:
Team Assignments: STEVE MORAD (Meal Pickup), CATHY GRAVEL (Salad), MEL BABNER (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 new assignments.
Question of the week:
President Steve did not ask one today. Where's Herb to remind him?
Meeting notes
Today's visiting Rotarians: None
Guests: Tracy Stanley from Big Brothers Big Sisters
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Today's Breakfast: Same as last week and the week before and the week before and the week before and the week before and the week before and the week before and the week before.
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President Steve thanked the club Members who helped out at the Peabody Chamber of Commerce Expo that was held at the Holiday Inn last week.
Gary, Herb, Peg and Steve. Thank you!
On October 30th, we'll be thanking our golf tournament sponsors. It looks like we'll net a bit over $5,000. Also on the 30th, our speaker will be District Attorney John Blodgett.
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President Steve reminded us that he has the tickets for the Taste Of The North Shore (March 24th).
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President Steve thanked Cathy for completing our club's District Simplified Grant application and sending it in for review. The club is proposing a "Safe 2-Pedal" day including bike safety information and bike helmets. We should hear within a few weeks if the grant was approved.
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Gary talked about the "fireside chat" to beheld at Sugar Cane to talk with new Rotarians about Rotary and the role of the club and their role within the club. More to follow.
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Mel Babner reminds everyone to sell the Entertainment Books.
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Tracy Stanley our guest speaker explained the function of Big Brothers Big Sisters in our community. Tracy encourages everyone to get involved. It is rewarding for both the "little Brother/Sister" as well as the "Big Brother'Sister" She said right now in Peabody there is a need for both but Brothers espically. Tracy said at the monent the organization is matched with about 35 local businesses. If you don't have the time perhaps one of you employees does. The time commitment is a few hours a couple times a month. Grace has more information if you would like to learn more.
Reminders:
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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 Babner. Every nickel helps!! Mel Thanks Dick Berg, Peggy Pedro, Joanne Donovan and North Shore Bank for their generous contributions.
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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 interest to the club.
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Happy Dollars: Acting Sergeant-at-arms Steve Morad collected $?.
Reminder: If you see any news articles or pictures 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 $128. Neither Joanne nor Loring picked the KING OF CLUBS or the $50 Joker.
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Your Contributions to Rotary at Work
The total of Donations that Peabody Rotary made during the 2007-2008 year under President Grace: $22,208.83 !!
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OCTOBER BIRTHDAYS:
OCTOBER 8: PAUL PIECOTT
OCTOBER 21: GRACE MARTINS
OCTOBER WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES:
OCTOBER 18: GAYLE AND DONALD CAVANAUGH
OCTOBER 19: MIKE AND STEPHANIE TALLO
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.
Upcoming Programs:
NEXT MEETINGS:
OCTOBER 23: Tracey Stanley, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of MA Bay
OCTOBER 30: District Attorney John Blodgett
NOVEMBER 6: General Business Meeting
NOVEMBER 13: Peabody Chief of Police, Bob Champagne: State of the Peabody Police Department
NOVEMBER 20: Carmine Nigro, FBI: Economic Espionage/Counterintelligence
NOVEMBER 27: NO MEETING, HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!
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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:
MARCH 24TH: TASTE OF THE NORTH SHORE at Danversport Yacht Club.
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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!!
Answer : No Question today
" Let us keep our hearts strong, enthusiasm fresh,hope high. As long as we keep imbued with this spirit, Rotary can never die."
The Rotarian, August 1926
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?
