We celebrated Malwina's half birthday last Thursday.
Opening and Invocation led by Sue Colacino
Wellness Report – All is well
Guests: Celebrating Malwina’s half birthday! Her host mom and sister, Michelle and Andrea Malach
Happy Moments:
Birthdays: We celebrated Malwina’s half birthday. The club donated the funds to send her on her Sr. Trip! Malwina shared that in Poland they celebrate “name days” in addition to birthday. Malwina’s name day is July 4th.
Bob Havarilla celebrates a birthday this week
Club Anniversary — Susie Earl - 31 years, Charlie Hallagan - 68 years, Maury Strobridge - 69 years
David Doebler - sharing that his brother, Doug Doebler, is on vacation and stepped on a sea urchin - in spite of this, he’s having a great time on vacation.
Jeff Patchen - shared how much fun they had at Doug Kent’s Bowling Lanes for their company party.
Holly Kreuser - when Grace went back to college, she had a car accident, but she is fine. Meg has left the nest for a bit, moving to New Mexico and Ryan may be relocating to Oswego — they may be real empty nesters (again) in 2023.
Chuck Waterman - his badge has walked away! Also he went on a vacation, skiing out west — he jumped out of a helicopter and skied down the mountain!
Clayton Depew- is a Cincinnati Bengals fan! He can now proclaim it — sorry Bills fans.
Jean Bendix - her mom flew to LA to visit her grandchildren. She has a hysterical video of her watching the Bills game with Jean’s daughter, Aubrey. If you want to see it contact Jean.
Mitch Ruffalo - More praise for Doug Kent’s Rose Bowl Lanes, he had his company party there and they did a great job. Mitch also took his mom to Runaway Blue recently - they also had a great time. Remember to support our great local businesses.
Queen of Hearts. Jorge Bueso did not pick the Queen - the pot continues to grow.
Committee updates:
Community Service
- Continuing to work on Rotary Salutes the Newark Wayne Community Hospital and getting proper permits to do the canal clean up project.
- Shop with a Cop was successful.
- Night to Shine is coming up in February.
- Rotary Salutes update: Linda Werts — meeting, Friday, 1/27 at 9:00 am at Erie Shore conference room. Need to make some decisions regarding how to go about honoring the staff of the hospital.
International Services
- Donna Johnson will be heading up mission trip to Tabi for the water project
- We have been accepted for global grant partnering with a Rotary Club in Istanbul to fund fetal monitoring imaging equipment
Foundation - Scott Healy
- Rotary year runs from July 1 to June 30. We have 51 Paul Harris Fellows, 33 multiple Paul Harris Fellows, 6 major donors
- All time giving for our club is $517,866
- Newark goal for this year is $10,000 - year to date - have raised over $7,000
- Polio 3000 now 2000
- just under 50,000 ytd giving
Public Image - Josh McCrossen
- Please try to report in each committee meeting so that we can use the information to promote the activities of the club - the ways we serve and support in our community and beyond.
Membership -
- Proposing that we restructure the way we pay our Camp ONSEYAWA obligations. We will cap our dues at $150 per year for the next 3 years.
September 9, 2023 - date for next Family Festival. Please get involved with one of the committees. Many hands makes light work