Apr 12 Rotary Luncheon

 

President Samantha Maruzzelli brought the meeting to order at 12:15 PM at Purkey’s Pink Apple with Al Noble reciting the 4-Way Test and leading the Pledge of Allegiance and Dave Wilson giving the Invocation.

 

 

Nat. Poetry week was last week, so John Hovan composed and recited a poem for us.

 

Ad Ron Furman - Mehoopany Creek Watershed Assoc. having a cook-out event on

 

Ron will also be bringing homemade maple syrup next week for our Rotary lunch.

 

 

The first 2 welcome signs are now up on Rt 92 south and near Creekside Gardens, still have 2 more to go although they were taken down to prep. Wayne, Ron Furman, Norm Kelly, & Mike Markovitz worked on the first 2 over the weekend.

 

Old Sign

 

New Signage

 

 

Remember that we have the Apr 19 Mixer at the flash meeting. We will have hors d’oevres, desserts by Sisile and cash bar.

 

Last week’s Flash meeting had 9 members attending.

 

You can now sign up for individual days at the District Conference.

 

 

May 10 is the Rotary Relays, make up day is May 11. Preliminary sign-up sheet was sent around to get volunteers.

 

 

There will be a Board of Director’s meeting on Tuesday, Apr 17.

 

 

Please give to the Rotary Foundation before the end of our Rotary year (Jul 1, 2017 to Jun 30, 2018). We get a foundation banner if we are one of the top 3 clubs in the District. He would like everyone to contribute at least something to Fdn.  31 of our 70 members have donated so far this year.  Needs to be in by June 30. We are at a $190.97 per capita so far.  $204 per member overall. 

 

We have several multiple Paul Harris Fellows in our club and several Paul Harris Society Members ($1,000 per year donations). 

 

 

Ron Furman will get the trees from the Game Commission in late Apr – early May and then we will plan the planting event at his Farm to meet our commitment to plant a tree for each of our members.  We have 11 trees planted so far (10 for Veterans plus Norm Kelly planted 1 in his garden).  If you planted a tree this Rotary year, let us know so it can be added to our completed total.  We need a total 70 trees.

 

 

29 applications this year vs 5-7 last year.

 

 

$49 per person final payment is due NOW. Please pay Sandy as soon as possible.

 

 

Interactors will be joining with others at the School for Earth day projects on Apr 21.  We gave them a donation of $200 for pizza and refreshments after their work.

 

 

Club Foundation Chair Al Noble presented a new Paul Harris Fellow +6 pin to Carol Ziomek, who is also a member of the Paul Harris Society. Acting Treasurer for the day, Ron Furman pinned Carol with her new pin in lieu of Treasurer Sandy Lane, who was Carol's sponsor.

 

Ron Furman (left), Carol Ziomek and Al Noble

 

Our next Meeting will be Thursday, Apr 19. This meeting will be a Club Assembly plus Rotary Moment.

 

President Samantha Maruzzelli adjourned the meeting at 1:30 PM.

 

Rotarian Lou Divis showed a slide presentation of some of the highlights of the 2017 Peace Camp.

 

Peace Camp will be Aug 13-17 2018.  Rotarians are welcome to come, have lunch and see what the kids are doing. The children are 6-12 years of age.  An article will appear in the paper advertising the Camp and flyers go home to all kids in the School District.

 

The Peace and Justice Commission from Wilkes-Barre helps lead the Camp and the Leader is from Guatemala. It has been ongoing for 5 years at St. Peter’s.

 

The kids are learning to be peace makers in our community and thus supporting the peace work of Rotarians worldwide.  It is also helping the kids gain self-esteem and avoid bullying.  We are waging peace by funding Peace Camp.

 

They have a lot of presentations including:

They also enjoy healthy lunches prepared by Rotarian Samantha Maruzzelli’s team.

 

After her presentation, President Samantha Maruzzelli presented a check for $2,000 for the 2018 a Peace Camp to Lou.

 

Lou Divis (left) receiving check from Pres. Samantha Maruzzelli