Newsletter - Archive  Sep 7, 2009

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"The Peal"

Rotary Club of Canandaigua

Official Newsletter of the Canandaigua Rotary Service Foundation

Today's program:	Canandaigua Academy Lacrosse Program -- Ed Mulheron
Next week:	The Humane Society -- Bill McGuigan
Pledge:	President Jack
Invocation:	Dick Joseph
Song Leader:	Bob Simpson -- America the Beautiful
Visitors:	Carol and Gary Francis (Judy Bennett & Paul Minor), Kathy Nevin (Mark Vahey), Bob Fuller (President Jack), David Carro (Scott Kesel), Mitchell Buck (Joe Delforte); and Jackpot winners Lauren Kolb and Alison Grems.
Visiting Rotarians:	Glenn Balch from Scottsville.

Exchange Students: Pia is enjoying volleyball practice and looking forward to school. Adam just arrived on Monday and is already deep into soccer practice.

Announcements:

Eastern Cities Dinner Sunday Sept. 13. Pier Festival next summer, same weekend as Riesling Festival. Working with Dixon-Schwabl Agency. District golf tourney Sept. 11 in Lima. Rotary/Kiwanis golf tourney date has been changed to Sept. 23. $50 at Center Pointe. See Doug Lowden for both golf opportunities! Family picnic Sunday Sept. 27 at Greg Gullo's. 2pm start, 4pm dinner. Let Tom Sheavly know ASAP even if you cannot attend.  Scott Kesel has VIP seats available for Racing fans on Canandaigua Appreciation Night, Sept. 18. Joe Kardesh thanked the Rotarians who showed up to help with Camp Onseyawa take-down. Counselors had already done it! Nancy Ruscio's RPO Committee is meeting Thurs. 9/10 before lunch (11:15) Mary Green introduced the Jackpot winners in attendance: $62.50 Alison Grems (she and Jack Moran were 2 of 4 on a winning $250) $500 Lauren Kolb $750 Janet Tenreiro (donated $375 to the Foundation) $10,000 Marty Potter (donated $1000 to the Foundation) Donna Miller read a Thank You certificate from the Veterans for the Poppy Sale. Bob Palumbo announced a raffle drawing that the Police are sponsoring. The grand prize is a heavy duty golf cart worth $5000-$6000 -- which we want to win for Camp Onseyawa! Rotarians are strongly urged to buy lots of raffle tickets.

Fines: Mitchell Buck $5 for collecting so many fines last spring. Jim Holden matched his $5.

Happy Dollars:

Andy Platou for his family who will be visiting for the Ring of Fire Clark Kurtz for celebrating his anninversary at the Yacht Club during the tornado Lloyd Lill was assessed $115 for hiking the Appalachian Trail, spending time at the Chesapeake Bay and traveling thru at least 7 states -- but he had a Pit Pass to cover it. President Jack for his wife's new car Bob Metzger for doing an e-Rotary meeting Ken Poole with pride that Patty will go to England as a student for a week in spring Paul Minor because his son graduated from college and will be here this weekend for Paul and Judy's wedding! Paul then successfully bid on the Pit Pass.

Remembrances: We had a moment of silence for John Cuddeback.

Program notes:  History of Canandaigua Rotary

Bob Palumbo reviewed some facts and figures about Rotary International. It's HUGE -- equal to the largest corporation in the world. Over 1.2 million members, 32,000 clubs, in more than 200 countries and territories. Headquarters are in Evanston IL and there are 7 international offices. The CEO is the General Secretary who oversees 650 staff worldwide. The Rotary Foundation started in 1926 with a $26.50 donation. Since then more than $1 billion has been contributed. Many club members travel internationally for Rotary, and most are very heavily involved in their local community. Rotary is more than a lunch club and it's more than selling tickets. Therre are many hands-on events. In 1921, every member of the Canandaigua club helped to move the entire contents of their fellow Rotarian's grocery store from his old location to a new store. Talk about hands on! The Club's first outing was in 1947 at the 4H Camp in Bristol Hills. Bob had earlier distributed a 10 question quiz to each table. The answers were read and altho some complaints about cheating (looking up the answers in the club directory) were voiced, it was agreed to award Mary Green's table a lottery ticket for each person for scoring highest. Janet Tenreiro's table was awarded a single lottery ticket for the highest score sans look-up.

50/50 results: Mary Green tried the Joker Draw for $583 but failed. Tim Reed won $25.