State College Downtown Rotary Weekly Newsletter, Paul Rutter-Editor

Visiting Rotarians: Carol Lloyd of the Pleasant Gap club, Marge Nevera of the Altoona club, And Gary Peterson, President of he evenign club introduced all of his club by having them stand. (This was a joint meeting with the evneing club.)
Make-ups turned in:
Guests: Media and Congressman Peterson's staff
50/50: There are 27 cards left. The pot is probably about $700. Russ Brooks drew the Queen of diamonds.
Auction: Bonnie Abramson donated a gift card to Best Buy. The winner was __________ for $30.

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

June 4-6 Community Service Special Olympics

May 29-31 Volleyball Concession Stand Fundraiser -Whitfield, Bell, Zimbler x2, Christian, Friedman, Hellyer, DGE Jerry Friedman, Jones x2, Kauffman, Rutter x2, Bedell, Holmes x2, Carol Lloyd, Eberly x2, Held, Fetter, Mary Johnston, Mose x2, Coble, Debbie Fudrow, Meckstroth, Beaver, Taverno x2.

April Lederer Park Spring clean-up.

Mar 12 & 13 Spaghetti Dinner Fund Raiser Workers-the entire club helped in some capacity, I think,

Mar 2004 Spaghetti Dinner Fund Raiser Organizers-Hill, Eberly, Bedell, Guise, ?

Previous Mystery member's experience: None today. click for answer
International Conference 2005 is in Chicago, June 18-22.
Thanks to all that helped at the Volleyball Fundraiser
The Board is meeting Tuesday, June 1, 2004. 8:00 a.m. It is Hugh's last as presiding officer.
There is a signup sheet for the Special Olympics too. That is the next weekend, June 5-6. We will run the popcorn booth.
Membership Committee sign-up sheets are being passed out, get your selections in to Roger for what you want to do or else you will be placed where your help is needed most.
The board approved sending two students for RYLA summer program. Leann Martin is taking care of the organizing behind these efforts. RYLA is a big program from Rotary. This is our first year in a long time participating. RYLA is Rotary Youth Leadership.
Please sign up to lodge the RYEX kids on Sunday night, June 13. You can pick them up at Carl's old church after dinner and deliver them back there the next morning after serving them breakfast.
Jim Eberly mentioned the Centennial project. We are selling bricks for $100 to raise money for the park. The subsequent bricks are $50. Funds donated are through the clubs 501(c)3 so that means tax deductible.At summer concerts in the parklet we will be doing water sales to raise money too. The dates are July 27 and August 10. Mark your calendar!
The District Newsletter is online at the district Web site.
The club has a list serv. All active members are on it. The email address for it is SCDTROTARY-@LISTS.PSU.EDU. 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.
mystery answer: none this week.

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Previous Week's Speaker: Congressman John Peterson

PA 5th district Congressman John Peterson was the speaker at the joint meetign of the two State College Rotary clubs today. Mr. Peterson, a Republican, was first elected in 1996. He is from Titusville, PA and is a veteran and before being in Congress was a small businessman as a grocer. Several members of his staff were present including Mike Glaser from the State College office.

The 5th district for many years was the largest geographically east of the Mississippi which lends itself by definition to mean that we are a very rural region.

Congressman Peterson kept his talk to two topics, the conflict with Iraq and the recent high cost of fuel. Mr. Peterson was proud that many terrorist attacks have been prevented since 9/11. Regarding fuel, Mr. Peterson said he expects gas to costs upward of $2.50 per gallon by the year end. He noted that Saudi Arabia is playing us like a puppet regarding fuel supply. Mr. Peterson said that other economies that are growing like China and India will be in the market for more fuel and will compete with the US for energy. He suggests that we need to shift to alternative fuels, not environmentally safe ones, but natural gas for automobiles. Nothing was mentioned about making vehicles more efficient.

He noted the forwardness of our own CATA busses and how CATA is already using natural gas for 95% of their fuel usage.

Next Mr. Peterson tackled productivity and the need for broadband technology in the rural areas and for businesses to make them more competitive. He mentioned the need for technology training as a source of job knowledge. He said that Pennsylvania lagged far behind in technology knowledge opportunities and we are losing jobs and our population because we have so few people that are proficient in technology.

Chris Hickey thanked Congressman Peterson.

This week’s note taker: Dana Catalano

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DATE	AUCTION	INVOCATION	NOTES	THANKS
June 10, 2004	Aungst	Brooks	Coble	Hill
June 17, 2004	Bacastow	Brytzcuk	Davis	Holmes
June 24, 2004	Beaver	Catalano	Dayananda	Immel
	July 2004 to be published later

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