Today's Chairwoman: President Ruth Lundin led the Club in the Pledge of Allegiance, the singing of the National Anthem and the recitation of the Four Way Test.
Invocation: The invocation was given by Mike Roberts
Visiting Rotarians and Guests: Ken Omeruo – soon to become a Rotarian
Announcements:
Joni Blackman, Foundation Chairperson attended a District grants training and District Celebration at Niagara on the Lake. At the event two awards were presented to the club.
Joni called on John Healy to come up to receive two awards given to our club at this event.
One was a certificate for The End Polio Now Campaign for raising at least $1500, the second was the Light House Award which requires a club to meet all its goals during the year. John graciously accepted the award, giving the club members the credit for all their hard work which enabled the club to receive this award. Joni also stressed the importance of each member’s gift to the foundation each year and the impact that it can have.
Bob Anderson, RED KETTLE Chair, announced that the sign-ups for bell ringing are online on the Website. Bell ringing for Rotarians begins the Tuesday after Thanksgiving.
Mike Roberts announced a meeting after the meeting that will last only 10 minutes and work will get done.
John Healy- Gebbie reached out to John about creating a “back of the sign” mural/picture/collage for the Jamestown entrance to the city sign. John, Joni & Mike have reached out to a Buffalo architect to begin development of such. If club members have any high-resolution pictures that may be appropriate, please contact one of the committee members.
Ruth Lundin announced that she will be giving reports on the Board meetings once a month. This month she spoke about the budget. She encouraged the fundraising committee to come up with fundraising ideas to increase budget income to cover all of expenses currently being taken from members’ pockets or Rotary savings, i.e., Rotary coffee, T-shirts, mini golf bar crawl, etc. but also as an awareness builder. Ruth suggested all committees consider budget amounts that would increase their visibility and impact in the community.
Mike Roberts – offered himself and Mark Olson to copy brochures or posters for committees.
The Rotary Annual meeting is December 18th. Please try to attend as a quorum is needed.
Youth Exchange:
Cheri Krull, Youth Exchange Chair, announced that interviews will be held on Wednesday at the Resource Center; interested members are welcome to attend, please let her know if you will be there. Also, the Youth exchange kids will be coming on Saturday. If any members are interest in attending the Comedy Center with the kids, let her know.
Reminder to all – Please pay dues timely. The club pays for each of you at the beginning of each Rotary year.
Ruth Lundin – Please, members use the make-up system. Any outside of meeting Rotary meetings or activities are eligible as make-ups. Send an email to Lisa Goodell at RotaryJNYsec@gmail.com to record make-ups. Participation is important to the club!
The international project - Bike to School Project in Singapore exceeded its goal; $3,430 was sent as our contribution to this worthy project brought to us by David Troxell.
50/50 Drawing Winner of $39: Sally Martinez
Sergeant At Arms: Doug Conroe fined Becky Robbins for the $17,000,000 given to BPU, Vicki paid for having missed meetings and there were several winning football teams that added to the bucket of cash.
Happy Bucks were donated by Ruth, Joni, Lori, Jim and Randy. (details on ZOOM)
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