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Vol. 13, Issue 36
Editor: Paul Rutter
TODAY'S PROGRAM and ASSIGNMENTS: (April 3 , 2003)

Program: Club Assembly
Auction Item:
Myrick
Invocation: Turley
Note Taker: Zimbler
Thank speaker
: Assembly
future assignments


since April 17, 2002

FUTURE PROGRAMS & EVENTS


April 1, 2003 Board of Directors - 8am @ autoport
April 3, 2003 Club Assembly
April 10, 2003 Presentation of checks to groups we help

April 17, 2003 Classification talk - Don Bedell
April 19-May 18 GSE team visit (we're at the beginning of visit)
April 24, 2003 GSE Team from South Korea

May 3, 2003 Lederer Park Clean-up (lunch at Outback)
May 4, 2003 2:00 P.M. Memorial servie for Eugene Lederer at Lederer Park

 

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LAST WEEK IN REVIEW

Visiting Rotarians: None
Make-ups turned in: None
Guests: Dave Filson, former Rotarian from Lewistown who is now working at Penn State. Tim Geibel, originally from Butler, new to the community working as a Transportation Planner for Centre Region Planning
50/50: Mary Ann Eberly drew the ACE OF SPADES and won over $1000. Her birthday is on Saturday, so she is sure to buy herself something special You can buy three chances for $2 now, to make your chances better! A new deck will be unsealed on Thursday.
Auction: None

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ANNOUNCEMENTS: (Please send announcements for the newsletter to Paul)

    3/19 Spaghetti Dinner Workers
    I think just about the entire club was there helping out. Thanks!

    3/19 Spaghetti Dinner Ticket Sales
    Folks who sold their allotment of 12 tickets: Abramson, Bacastow, Bedell, *Bell, Christian, Coble, Davis, Domalski, *Eberly, Edwards, Ferguson, Gambone, Hickey, *Hill, Immel, K Kerner, King, *Lucci, Martin, *Moose, *Mose, Murray, *Myrick, Rawson, Taverno, Walsh, Whitfield

    *denotes members selling more than 12

    (also 6 tickets was the number set by the board as a membership requirement for sales)

    12/17 Bell Ringing for
    Interfaith Mission
    14 of us

    12/11-15 Festival of the Trees
    Hill, Hickey, Eberle, Kauffman, Davis, Zimbler, Jones, Ferguson, Christian, Mose, Geise, Brytczuk, Potalivo, DeArmitt, Aungst, Gambone, Meckstroth, Walsh, Moose, Martin, Abramson, Myrick, Domalski, Coble, King, Fetter, Eberly, Rutter, Holmes, Friedman, Johnston, Held, Kerner

    12/12 Cruise sellers of all 19 tickets: Abramson, Beaver, Coble, DeArmitt, Domalski, Eberle, Eberly, Edwards, Fetter, Geise, Goldstein, Hampton, Held, Hickey, Hill, Johnston, Chris Kerner, Kelly Kerner, Lederer, Martella, Moose, Mose, Potalivo, Rutter, Walsh, Whitfield

  • Look at Rotarian Magazine online for Polio Plus ideas
  • Dr. D spoke about volunteers that are needed for the GSE team. Please contact him if you can help. There will be a pizza night and a visit to Stone Valley.
  • We earned a real rough approximate $4500 in the spaghetti dinner. Better numbers will be available soon.
  • Paul Bell announced that Jason Harpster won the Whitewater Scholarship. He is the son of a dairy farmer who has never been on a plane.
  • The District Assembly is March 29th in Altoona at the Casino
  • The Rotary shirts are in and are being distributed. If you ordered one please contact MaryAnn Eberly to arrange picking it up. There are 4 outstanding. Please pay Carl Hill if you have not already. The denim shirts were $21.95 and the polo shirts were $14.95. The XXL sizes of each were $2 more.
  • The March Madness fund raiser is in process. stay tuned for results. Contact Paul for more information.
  • The evening club is sponsoring an Easter Egg hunt at Holmes Foster Park
  • District 7370 (Williamsport) is holding their District Conference at the Nittany Lion Inn this weekend. We are invited.
  • Spring Clean-up at Lederer Park and lunch at Outback is May 3rd.
  • The memorial for Eugene Lederer is May 4th at 2:00 P.M..
  • The District Conference this year is on May 1-4 in Hagerstown, Maryland.The rates for the hotel, events, and meals etc.are available at this link for downloading. I'd suggest checking out the Hagerstown club's Web site too in case they throw anything up on the Web in addition. I try to keep the District Web site up to date to with information as I receive it. Like Jim and Carol's version last year, Hagerstown is offering the chance to purchase individual event tickets.
  • The club has a list serv. All active members are on it. The email address for it is SCDTROTARY-@LISTS.PSU.EDU. It only works if you are a subscriber so if you aren't on it and want to know even more about the club email Paul Rutter to see about your admission. It is a private listserv not open to the public. If you are already on it and want help with it please call or email me.

    Marlene Davis, January 2003
    Don Bedell, December 2002
    Tom Murray, Oct 2002
    Scott Rawson, August 2002

  • About a month ago we lost the Club Web site when our Internet provider of server space went out of business. Through the kindness of a local Internet Service Provider (Centre of the Web) and my own business (Paul Rutter Web Design) the club Web site is back on the Internet. The new address is http://www.centreweb.com/rotary/club/ or http://www.sc-rotary.org. There are a few bugs to work out with files that are missing as a result of our old ISP going out of business without notice. I hope to have them back in place soon. Many thanks to Vicon for the three years of service we did get from them at no charge.
Previous Week's Speaker:
Kim Tait on Community Agriculture Enterprises

Roger introduced Kim Tate, proprietor of Tate Farm in Boalsburg who talked about the Community Harvest Project - a farm membership program. People buy membership to a farm and then receive produce raised on the farm. Stated in Europe (Switzerland). The program allows small farmers to stay on the land. Started in US in Massachusetts in 1986. Families share the harvest and the risk. These farms are presently feeding about 250,000 people in the us. Each farm services from 20-500 families. Famers receive money up front. Tate Farm state the program in 1998 and feed 100-150 families. Each family gets to take about 10 lbs of food per week(about $17 worth). Cost is fairly competitive with the supermarket prices. Year round share is $1000/year; Season share (June-Oct) is $600 per year.

This week’s note taker: Mark Whitfield

Rotary Birthdays this month:

Gary Brytzcuk, April 9; Marc Meckstroth, April 11; Bonnie Abramson, April 14; Pam Ferguson, April 15; Brian Christian, April 26; James 'Dr. D' Dayananda April 27;
(if I missed yours please email me)

I'm missing birthdays for Hampton, Bedell, Davis, and Hudson,

Etc.

 M  A  K  E  -  U  P  S

Reminders on makeup's:
All makeup's are good for credit toward meetings missed 14 days before or 14 days after the makeup. Makeup's made at other Rotary Club meetings also get a dues credit. Makeup's at service projects get attendance credit only. All makeup cards should be turned into the club secretary promptly. To find out where you can makeup, check the RI Club Directory, or District Web site.

NEIGHBORING CLUBS- check out the web site listing
MEMBERS- check out the web site listing
COMMITTEE CHAIRS- check out the web site listing

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Contact club webmaster: Paul Rutter
DATE
AUCTION
INVOCATION
NOTES
THANKS
April 3
Myrick
Turley
Zimbler
Assembly

April 10

Potalivo
Walsh
Abramson
C Kerner
April 17
Rawson
Whitfield
Aungst
K Kerner
April 24
Rutter
Zimbler
Bacastow
King
May 1
Taverno
Abramson
Beaver
Martella
May 8
Turley
Aungst
Bedell
Assembly
May 15
Walsh
Bacastow
Bell
Martin
May 22
Whitfield
Beaver
Brytczuk
Meckstroth
May 29
Zimbler
Bedell
Christian
Mose
June 5
Abramson
Bell
Coble
Assembly
June 12
Aungst
Brytczuk
Davis
Murray
June 19
Bacastow
Christian
Dayananda
Myrick
June 26
Beaver
Coble
Dearmitt
Potalivo
 
July's to be published later
 

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