President Mike Markovitz brought the meeting to order at 12:15 PM at Purkey’s Pink Apple with Terri Detrick leading the Pledge of Allegiance and Dave Wilson giving the Invocation.

 

 

Timothy Genetti – guest speaker –Rotary District Conference
Wally Ruiz – guest of Marta Kovacs Ruiz
John – exchange student

 

 

 

Pres. Mike is looking for Nominations for Tunkhannock Rotary President for 2020-2021 as Susan Kelly has had to decline her election as President for that year.  Please provide any nominations to Pres. Mike as soon as possible.

 

 

Pres. Mike passed around a thank you note that we received from Camp Create for our donation to their 2018 Camp.

 

We also received a thank you from the Girls Softball team for our support for their trip to the World Series.

 

 

Next Month’s Board Meeting will be Tuesday February 19, 2019 at the Community Bank in Tunkhannock in the Main Conference Room.

 

 

Samantha Maruzzelli is doing a 14-day series on our Tunkhannock Rotary Facebook page about the reasons to FALL IN LOVE with Rotary until Valentine’s Day. One day the reason is going to be Business Development. Sam needs pictures of Rotarians (inside or outside) of their business or place of employment. If you are interested in being in this post, please send Sam a picture of yourself with your business sign or logo in it. Sam would like to run this one early next week so if you could get it to her asap that would be great. Email it to smaruzzelli@tcginsurance.com before Monday or Tuesday.

 

 

 

At the Feb meeting, several issues were discussed including cooler issues (eliminate, restrict size, etc) that require further follow up and discussion at future meetings. Sub-committee assignments were made.  We still need someone to head up the sponsorship sub-committee.  If you are interested, please contact Ron.

 

The next meeting will be March 4 at 6 PM at the Tunkhannock Public Library.

 

 

Sam reminded everyone to please give their donation sooner rather than later. Remember the Rotary year ends June 30.

 

 

Committee updates are being worked on by Ron and Secretary Carol.  Mary has been adding the new Rotary members to the poster.  The Club received kudos from District Governor Roger Mattes for our surge of new members recently.

 

 

The next National Drug Take Back Day will be Sat April 27, 2019 from 10 AM to 2 PM.

 

 

Pres Mike has spoken with Rod and the 2019 Tunkhannock Rotary Relays Invitational will be held Wednesday May 1, 2019 at 4:30pm at the Tunkhannock High School Football Field.  Please mark you calendar and be prepared to volunteer to help on the day.

 

 

John from Brazil has had a good week and his team won their basketball games last week.

 

Anne Sehne mentioned that there will be a 2^nd orientation this week for new inbounds and outbounds at her house. The new student, who will be hosting from Peru, needs to get here by Feb 15 and may be arriving around Feb 12.

 

Anne will be going to the upcoming New Generations Service Exchange meeting in Frankfurt, Germany on Feb 16 & 17.

 

 

 

District 7410 Conference is April 5-6, 2019 at the Radisson Lackawanna Station Hotel in Scranton.  Registration info is available at the District 7410 website.  You can use the link on our home page to get to the District home page.

 

 

RYLA will be held June 23-27, 2019 at Keystone College in LaPlume, PA.

 

 

District 7410 News Letter came out this past Saturday (2/2) by email.  Please take a few minutes to read through it, as a lot of activities are going on in the District.

Newsletter went out and website & Facebook updated.

 

 

Nothing to report.

 

 

Prior to adjournment, Terri Detrick led the recitation of the 4-Way Test by the attendees.

 

 

Tim is from the Hazleton Rotary and is chairperson for the 2019 Rotary District 7410 Conference, which will take place April 5-6at the Radisson Lackawanna Station Hotel in Scranton.

 

The room rate is quite special at $105 per room plus tax per night. $6 off with conference registration.

 

Apr 5 & 6 is too early for golf, so instead they will have a community project on Friday at 1 PM to make 2,500 needs bags to give to those in need and homeless. They want travel sizes samples of various sundries.  Please bring them to your local club.  Boscovs had donated 2,000 washcloths for the bags. 

 

District Conference is a good place to learn about Rotary. They will highlight 3-4 projects in the District, including the Honduras project.

 

Felix Stuffs from the Bahamas will Rotary President Barry Rassin’s representative. Valerie Wafer and David Forward will also be speakers.

 

As usual, there will be the House of Friendship, so bring your club banner, a poster about what you do in your club and a basket for the raffle.

 

Sat morning, there will be a meet and greet at 8:30 AM with a free bloody Mary or mimosa.  Another option for Sat morn is the coal mine tour.

 

There will be a free wine tasting on Sat at 3:45 PM that Ron Furman is helping to organize.

 

Friday night is an Italian Buffet dinner and Sat night is an Irish buffet where you should dress up in your family heritage clothes (Irish, Italian , Polish etc.).  There will be a Hospitality room with Irish beer, whiskey and wine.

 

Registration is by mail or online. If you register before March 4, the whole weekend is $99 for the first 100 registrants and $145 after March 4.  Tell us something interesting about yourself or unique when you register. You can e-mail Tim with any questions.

 

The goal for the Conference is:  Fun! Fun! Fun!

 

Timothy Genetti