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Secretary's Note:
 
Sorry that the publication of this bulletin has been so delayed but my life has gotten in the way.  Several additional bulletins will be forthcoming to bring us up to date no later than May 26.  So you will be receiving several bulletins over the next few days.
 
Rotary Facts:
 
“On this particular day, a Chicago lawyer, Paul P. Harris, called three friends to a meeting. What he had been thinking and talking about for some time was a club that would kindle fellowship among members of the business community. It was an idea that grew from his desire to find respect for individuals and well being within a group of like-minded men. A walk after dinner, watching how a friend was admired by his neighbors made a profound impression on Paul. He wanted to find out if such a condition might happen to a "group" of people. For Five Years Paul thought about this vision, often discussing it with his dear friend Silvester Schiele. Then on a cold Thursday night, in February, after one of many pleasant dinners together Paul and Silvester walked across a windy Chicago Street and crossed the river to their mutual friend Gus Loehr's office. Hiram Shorey, a tailor was there too. So, the rotary club of Chicago was founded, that day, by Paul Harris. It was the first “service club” organized in the world.”[1]
 
Pledge and Invocation:
 
President Samantha Maruzzelli brought the meeting to order at 12:15 PM at Purkey’s Pink Apple with Mike Markovitz reciting the 4-Way Test and leading the Pledge of Allegiance and Dave Wilson giving the Invocation.
 
Guests:
 
 
Club News:
 
During lunch, it was announced that a gavel had been found in the parking lot by one of the waitresses. Although it was not Sam’s missing gavel, it was made for her to replace her gavel until it can be ransomed back.
 

President Sam with her new 'gavel'
 
Secretary’s Report – Carol Ziomek
 
Bulletin went out yesterday and has a new feature Rotary Facts to help new members and remind not so new members about Rotary. The first feature appeared in the bulletin for last week and was on our guidance documents.
 
As part of the Plant a Tree Initiative, Carol was inspired by John Hovan, who arranged for 70 trees to be planted for the members of the Tunkhannock Rotary by the Arbor Day Foundation. She arranged with the Arbor Day Foundation to plant 24 trees in honor of the 23 members plus faculty advisor of the Interact Club in the Chippewa National Forest in the heart of northern Minnesota. The trees are in recognition of the outstanding work of our Interactors this year and their participation in Earth Day activities.
 
President’s Messages
 
Detective David Ide asked us to greet people and make sure the drugs make it into the bins for the Drug Take Back program at CVS and Rite Aid Pharmacies. 3 of our members have volunteered.
 
There was a very good turn-out at our Mixer and at least one member application has been received.
 
There will be no lunch meeting on Relay Day May 10.
 
May 10 is the Rotary Relays, Make up Day is May 11 - Rod Azar.
 
The 34th Annual Relay Relays Invitational now has 6 teams registered and may get a few more. Same vendors and officials involved as last year.  A volunteer sign-up sheet was passed around. 
 
Volunteers should get together a little before the relays to get everyone up to speed. 
 
The hardest thing is the hurdles relays.  It was suggested that instead of doing a relay, they can all run at once and the timing people would be able to be added up the individual team members times to give the team total. Also, this would be a safer option.
 
Rod is looking for relay sponsors for $100 each to get their logo on the t-shirt.  They have a new design for the t-shirt. The back of the shirt will list the schools with the family name or logo for any sponsor.
 
The relays will start at 4:30 PM. Volunteers are asked to arrive between 3:30pm & 3:45pm (to avoid school bus traffic). Please park behind the HOME bleachers inside the stadium, or in the dirt Triton lot.
 
There will be 5 AA officials. The Junior class is running the concession stand, so refreshments will be available. The relays will end around 7:30 PM. The rain date is Friday May 11.
 
Harvest & Wine Festival – Ron Furman
 
Next planning meeting is 6 PM Monday, May 7 at Tunkhannock Public Library.
 
Interact – Dave Wilson
 
Leah Rome won first prize of $1,000 for her Essay at District Conference.
 
Signage – Wayne Krause
 
2 signs have been erected and 2 more signs to go up next week if crew are available.
 
District Conference – Samantha Maruzzelli & Anne Sehne
 
Samantha noted that Norm Kelly won District Rotarian of the Year. District Conference was good as was the facility. Exchange students had a great time. The quality of the speakers was ranked highly.
 
Anne remarked that the evaluations of the Conference were outstanding and deemed to be of zone quality. A State Police woman spoke about sex trafficking.  Her phone kept going off during her talk.  She revealed she had posted an ad online for sex services for $300/hr or $150/half-hr.  All the calls were people responding to her ad. She answered the phone and put it on speakerphone for everyone to hear.  At end of the conversation, she told them that soliciting prostitution was illegal.  People on the other end definitely hung up.
 
Next year District Conference will be at the Radisson Hotel in Scranton on Fri and Sat.
 
Exchange Students – Anne Sehne
 
6 full-time exchange students going out plus 8 short term students for next year from our District. Our Club has 2 outbounds and a short-term exchange student.'
 
At conference, the students were introduced to Jenga by the adults and there was a bit of a competition. Since the kids won, they are going to the Railriders on May 12 and families are invited to attend. It will be a Rotary event.
 
CIA Trip – Samantha for Tom
 
14 people still need to pay their $49 final payment for the CIA trip. Please pay as soon as possible.

 
Our next Meeting will be Thursday, May 3. Our speaker will be Nico Chaulet, Inbound Exchange Student from France.
 
President Samantha Maruzzelli adjourned the meeting at 1:30 PM.

 
Speaker: 
Vitto Sica
Inbound Exchange Student
 
Vitto is from Naples, Italy, where they have great pasta and food in general.
 
He talked about various historic cities in Italy, starting with Rome, then Milan (the business city) with more opportunity for jobs and business, shops etc. Milan has fashion week and is the center of fashion in Italy.  Prada, Valentino, Armani etc. are there. His brother Stefano took the SATs and scored over 1000 and was accepted into Ecoles Bocconi in Milan to study economics.
 
Venice is on the sea and with the sea-level rising, it will disappear.  They are building a wall that will be moveable to block the sea from coming up higher in the city.  The wall may take 10 years to complete.
 
Florence is the city of Leonardo da Vinci.  The world-famous Uffizi Gallery is filled with works by the masters, etc. They take the students there, and it takes over 2.5 hrs to go through.
 
Naples is his city, with the Mount Vesuvius volcano in the area.  Etna and their volcano are connected and if one erupts, then the other is safer and vice versa.  Naples is famous for its spaghetti and pizza is the most popular and best known creation of all Neapolitan cuisine.
 
Capri, Sorrento and Pompeii are in the area of Naples. Pompeii, which was buried by the eruption of the volcano now has a virtual reality experience.  Casts of the people who died in the eruption can be viewed.
 
Positano is on the Amalfi coast and has beautiful places by the sea, including his summer house.
 
Capri is a very expensive island, where everything is white and beautiful.
 
Vitto then talked about the food, with pasta as the first meal. The 2nd meal is meat or eggs.  Bolognese sauce and lasagna are the best.
 
Vitto ended his presentation by talking about his experiences in Tunkhannock as an exchange student. During the Fall, he played soccer here and had a lot of fun and met a lot of people.
 
He also played basketball, where he met a lot of people from his soccer days.  They do not have team sports in school in Italy.
 
He also talked about the Exchange students ski trip and how many had never skied before.
 

Vitto Sica
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June 1, 2015
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June 1, 1987
31 years