President Sandy Lane brought the meeting to order at 12:15 PM at Purkey’s Pink Apple with Glenn Holcombe leading the Pledge of Allegiance and Dave Wilson giving the Invocation.

 

 

Nolan Ayres – works for Community Bank in Tunkhannock- guest of Karen Fuller
Trixie Gay – guest of George Gay
Kike, Jana and Ale – exchange students

 

 

The club celebrated Jim Welch’s 90^th birthday with a personal cake with 90 numerical candles and a chorus of Happy Birthday. At his Birthday party at the Triton on Sat, Club Pres. Sandy presented Jim with a Rotary jacket as his 90^th Birthday gift from the Club.

 

Top: Jim with his Birthday cake and wearing his new Rotary jacket with Pres. Sandy

 

Ad Bucks – Elaine Walker– Library Book Sale coming up. Also the Community Chorus is beginning to rehearse on Sun at 3 PM at the Soup Kitchen for the Library Xmas show. The Library is also having an Oct 19 dress up Halloween party for adults, with Man vs Monster, including ax throwing in the parking lot, tickets available at the Library.

 

Ad Buck – Dave Weingust - Gem 104 has holiday promotions for businesses available including holiday giveaways, please see Dave if you are interested in promoting your business on the radio.

 

Congratulations to Chelsea English, who got married last Friday and to Terri Detrick who had a granddaughter on Tuesday.

 

 

Please pay your club dues as soon as possible, if you have not already done so. Thank you if you have already done so. Cost is $135 for period July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2020. We have already paid the first half year of dues for you to RI and our District, so we would really appreciate it, if those still owing dues pay very soon, so we are not forced to terminate your membership in Dec.  The Club is charged dues from RI and District for anyone on our membership rolls on July 1 and Jan 1.

 

 

The next Flash Meeting will be tonight Thursday, Oct 3, 2019 at 5:30 pm at Bogey’s Restaurant.

 

 

Ale – Last week went to 2 movies at Dietrich and went shopping. Tomorrow, the District 7410 exchange students go to Philly.

 

Kike - He has been here 8 months and it has been a good experience at school and in sports (track and field and soccer now).

 

Jana - She will tell us during her presentation.

 

 

 

The Fall Roadside Cleanup will take place at 9 AM on Oct 19 at Fireplace Restaurant Parking lot. Please sign up to help since the more volunteers, the faster the cleanup will go.

 

 

The nominating committee is looking for someone to run for Club President for 2021-2022 to follow Terri Detrick.  This person will be President Elect during Terri’s Presidency.  Please let Sandy, Mike Markovitz or Terri Detrick know if you might be interested in serving our club as President.

 

 

The next Meeting will be Monday evening Oct 7 at 6 pm at the Tunkhannock Library.

 

Ann Way has dropped off the tickets at the local sites, so tickets are available for local purchase. Ticket sales at 1,500 and Sue has tickets for Rotarians and needs money back by Tues of next week.

 

Ron still needs volunteers for parking and other activities.  Good to go with Tunkh Township.  Stage will arrive on Friday. 

Thurs work party will do the parking lot layout at 8 AM & put up the fencing. Friday at 9 AM they will do vendor layout, tents, bales of hay and stage arrive.

 

 

Please give to the Foundation especially if you want to have for taxes for 2019.

 

 

Posters and rack cards are available for the Sat Oct 26 Drug Take Back. Please spread the word.

 

 

Times Tribune will contact Ron for quotes.  Gina and Chelsea will be updating with vendors list and Chelsea with wine facts leading up to the Festival.  Sandy said no Colonel Ricketts nor Wicked Whoopies this year.

 

 

See the Sept & Oct District newsletters for information on the various events and activities happening in District 7410. Please support our fellow Rotarians at other clubs in our District for their fun upcoming activities/events.

 

Pres. Sandy mentioned that we have 6 Rotarians signed up for the Rotary Leadership Institute Courses later this month. Deadline for registration is Oct 19.

Prior to adjournment, George Gay led the recitation of the 4-Way Test by the attendees.

 

 

Her decision to do an exchange was very spontaneous.  Her special interests include: doing sports (especially tennis), eating (favorite foods are sweets like cupcakes), working and helping others. She likes helping a lot and offers her help to anyone who needs it from the club.  She likes reading, especially personal growth and competitively learning with her friends. She also loves to try new things and travel. She mentioned that she could be ready in a few minutes if anyone wants to take her along on a trip.

 

Her father is an opera singer, her mom an engineer and has a 26 yr old brother studying law. She also wants to study law.

 

Her school in the Czech Republic is a medical high school that was bombed during the war. She has studied chemistry there. There are no sports in the school and the students stay in one group and it is the teachers who move from classroom to classroom and subjects.  They study 15 subjects per week. 14 grades and she is in grade 12, so she will have 1 more year of school to go when she returns home, as this year will not count.  She will have to pass some tests when she goes home to catch up with her class.

 

Czech Rep borders Slovakia, Poland, Germany and Austria. Prague is the capital. There is a lot of emphasis on folklore, including national dress.

 

Czech food is typically dumplings, roast duck with dumplings and sauerkraut, potato dumplings with bacon.  Potato cones with poppy seeds, donut like food.  She loves Czech sweets, buns with plum or cottage cheese filling.  Drinks are wine and beer (drinking age is 18). Kofola is like our Coke Cola.

 

Moravia – Brno is her home city, which is the 2^nd biggest city in Czech Republic.

 

She then spoke about her time in PA.  Her current host family has 5 siblings, so it is a big family.  Her first day in school was interesting.

 

She went camping with the Rotary exchange students. She started to play to tennis and had senior night. Rohlik is her favorite bread at home and someone prepared it for her since she really misses it.

 

She went to the Bloomsburg Fair with Ale and Mary and had a great time.  They had haluski at the Fair.

 

Last weekend, she went to a lake house and went kayaking and fishing.

 

Jana Vlckova