Rotary Informer

Four Way Test:  Thank you Gary Fedus        

 

Invocation:  Thank you Randy Evans for the invocation

 

Visiting Rotarians:  John Van Etten – Terre Haute, IN; Currie Andrews – Brentwood, TN; Moose Dunne – Clearwater Beach, FL and Julian Magnus and Tom Morrow, Summer Rotarians

 

Other Visitors:  John Doyle, Stuart Fenton, Guy Golembiewski, Jeff Wynder, Betsy Newton (Terry Newton's boss)

 

Life Events:  BJ let us know that Angie’s mom, Ima Williams, fell and broke a couple of bones and is recovering at Boulder Park and would appreciate any cards and calls

 

Song of the Week:  The illustrious Steve Cross and Howard Richards led us in Van Morrison’s “Moondance” and then we sang the ever popular; “Smile”

 

 

Diamonds & Denim:  Please bring in your bottles of wine for the Basket Raffle. Ingrid Flemming will collect and store them. This item brings in money and we are attempting to have a live-auction item of a “Wall of Wine”. We need around 80 bottles to accomplish this.  Bottles of wine should be $20.00 to $25.00 in value. This is a very easy way to participate in the event

 

Diamonds & Denim Auction on line Auction:  This starts on September 1st. There are some great things online to bid on and we will have a silent auction and live auction on the evening of the Diamonds & Denim event. Register here to bid on any online items:

 

Lorraine Manary:  Lorraine thanked everyone who donated to pack the bus. They had a record number of items donated and they will be distributed to the schools based on the “reduced” and “free lunch” counts

 

Mike Snyder:  Mike let us know that there are 27 tables already sold for Diamonds & Denim and 25 individual tickets. If you want to go, get your tickets soon or, you may not get in. Last year was a sell-out and we anticipate the same for this year’s event

 

Steve Cross:  Steve reminded us that September 3rd will be the first Thursday social event and it will be held at the City Park Grill starting at 5:30 p.m. Come and join the fun

 

Dave Thomas:  Dave announced that we will be heading back to the Perry Hotel on September 2^nd for our weekly Rotary Club Meetings

 

Christian Smith has taken over the Program Chair position. If you have any suggestions, please let him know

 

 

 

 

Dave introduced our own Lorraine Manary, who gave us an overview of the Frey Foundation findings of; “Poverty in Paradise” for Charlevoix, Cheboygan and Emmet Counties. The findings show that, as much as our economy is moving forward, there is still a long way to go. We need to become involved in making our area affordable to the people who work in providing the services we all expect in our beautiful area.

 

To see the entire breakdown go to Bridge magazine on line:

 

Calendar Winners:  Calendar winners were read off by Dave Thomas and can be viewed by clicking on the following link:  http://petoskeyrotary.org/Page/raffle-calendar-winners

 

Two Week Notification:  This is the second of our two week posted notification for the following Board Approved, Prospective Members to the Rotary Club of Petoskey:

 

Corporate Members from McLaren Northern Michigan:

Dr. Guy Golembiewski

Dr. Kirk Lufkin

Moon Seagren

 

Individual Member

Stuart Fenton, Emmet County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney

 

Corporate Member

Jeff Wynder

 

We have also readmitted Dee Keil who has returned to American House as the Executive Director.

 

This is the first of the two week notification for Georgia Abbott who has been Board Approved to the Rotary Club of Petoskey. Georgia is the Technical Trade School Director of the Industrial Arts Institute in Onaway