President Mike Markovitz brought the meeting to order at 12:15 PM at Purkey’s Pink Apple with Rod Azar leading the Pledge of Allegiance and Lou Divis giving the Invocation.

 

 

None – Club Assembly

 

 

Ad Buck Terri Detrick for Business & Professional Women Wine Down 2019, which will take place Thurs May 16 from 8-9 PM at the Dietrich Theater. The movie is Second Act with Jennifer Lopez. Please contact Terri for tickets and Lou Divis or Terry if you would like to be a sponsor for this event.

 

Ad Buck – Elaine Walker for Tunkhannock Public Library’s Books and Brew Event on Saturday, May 18 at Lazybrook Park from noon-4 PM. Advance sale $25, at the gate $35 and VIP $40 (11am early entry, exclusive access to cellar & brew masters) (120 seats available).

 

 

The next Flash Meeting will be tonight – April 18th at 5:30pm at Bogey’s.

 

 

The next membership mixer will be Thursday evening May 30th from 6 pm to 8 pm at Bogey’s Restaurant. 

 

 

The Officer Installation and Awards Banquet will tentatively be Thursday Evening, June 20th starting at 5:30 PM at Shadowbrook in place of the Flash meeting.

 

 

 

Next Meeting will be Monday evening May 6 at 6 pm at the Tunkhannock Library.

 

Board voted to eliminate all beverages being brought to the Festival by ticketholders and “no firearms”.

 

Ron had contracted for a stage from Mountain Productions for $1,800. It is on wheels.

 

Tickets will state no firearms or beverages and will have an “attend at your own risk” disclaimer on the back.

 

 

Starting to work on plans for a Spring / Early Summer Rotary Day Trip – Details to come in the coming weeks.  Board approved Boyertown trip, car museum, train with lunch, & shopping.

 

 

Total club per capita is $270 with 30 members still to donate.  $238 of that is share. Al would like to have 100% participation before he leave office as Club Foundation Chair.

 

 

Harry reported that the fireworks are under contract (half paid), stadium is reserved for July 3, with rain date of July 5. Harry looking for someone to take over as Chair for next year.

 

 

No issues.

 

 

Committee has received all scholarship application and will be reviewing them very soon.

 

 

Clyde Ellsworth will be submitting his application soon and will be sponsored by Harry Sharpe.  Mary Tempest will sponsor David Weingust.

 

Pres. Mike gave out paper work for members to make suggestions for individuals to invite to the upcoming membership mixer.

 

 

Next Drug Take Back is April 27th, 2019.  Since DTB started, 100 tons of drugs have been collected in PA.  Public Service Announcements are being done by Matt Pompey.  Robo calls to go to parents of TASD students next week.

 

CVS corporate contracted a firm to put permanent DTB boxes in all their pharmacies, but will still take part in Wyo Cty DTB event.  There is also a permanent box added to the Tunkhannock State Police Barracks.  We are getting good PR for this event with our posters, rack cards, PSAs and ads that will be appearing in Advance and Examiner.

 

If you gave out poster and rack cards and were not on the original distribution list please let Frank know where you put them so he can add your name and locations to the master list for the next DTB distribution.

 

Glen has posters and rack cards, so please take and distribute to as many places a possible especially if you have signed up to cover a particular location. 

 

 

Global Project was presented to the District Committee for Approval at the District Conference.  Thank you to Jodi Crimmel / Norm Kelly / Jon Buxton / Rick Miller for Presenting to the District. It was accepted by the District Committee at the Conference to put $30,000.00 toward the project from the District. Total cost is $60K for water, irrigation and repairs in Haiti. We have reserved $10,000 from the Club, but if Rotary Foundation (RF) approves $30,000 match, then we will not have to use all of our $10K.  May be mid-May before RF Coordinator Valerie reviews it and we will see if anything else is needed, then it goes forward to RF for approval.

 

 

35th Annual Rotary Relays will be held on Wednesday – May 1, 2019 – 4:30pm at the Tunkhannock High School Football Field. The rain Date is Friday May 10, 2019.

 

This is a Junior High track and field event and all events are relays.  It is the only relay event for approx. 300 junior high athletes. There are 6 officials who will run the event and we have hired electronic event timing.

 

Please sign up to help at the Relays. Most volunteers should be there at 3:45PM but not much earlier to avoid buses, unless you are a set-up volunteer and you need to be there much earlier to avoid the buses.  You can park inside the stadium behind the concession stand. You will be assigned to an event. 

 

Anyone who wants to sponsor the event, the costs is $100 to have your logo on the shirts.  Shirts will be made and sold at site at the event.

 

Abington, Elk Lake and Susquehanna will be coming this year.  So far, 7 teams have provided verbal okay and there may be 4 more.

 

 

Spring roadside cleanup will be Saturday, April 27, 2019. Volunteers will meet at the Fireplace Restaurant at 9 am. John could use a few more volunteers and he already has 2 drivers.

 

 

We will be submitting a District Grant for an inclusive (handicapped) swing system for Lazybrook Park.  The system includes 2 swings, which also help with balance. The cost is $3300 and would be part of our community service project for Sandy Lane’s year as President. 

 

12th Annual Rotary Northeast Golf Tournament is coming up and we will be a sponsor for the event which entitles us to send a 4 person team. Ron Furman is leading the recruitment of golfers for our team so let Ron know if you are interested in playing.

 

Norm Kelly will be our official voting representative at RI Convention in Germany in June.

 

Fran Turner 100^th BD Party.  Fran will receive 2 Paul Harris pins, a jumbo card from the club and plaque awarding him paid lifetime membership in our Club. He will celebrate 70 yrs in Rotary on Aug 1, 2020.

 

Director-elect Mary Tempest will replace current Director Al Noble on the Board for May and June, while Al is away.

 

Our Rotarians in Action Service Project for 2018-2019 will be hands-on work at Patriot’s Cove.  Jeff Swire would be interested in doing a service project with us and Pres. Mike may open it up to other Rotary Clubs in our Cluster.

 

The Board approved sponsorship for the Kevin Kitchnefsky Golf Tournament. We will sponsor a team of up to 4 golfers plus make an additional donation up to a total of $500.  The tournament is June 23. Please let Ron Furman know if you would like to play or want additional info on the tournament.

 

Towne and Country Grille will be opening May 8 and we hope to move our Board meetings back there for our May meeting.

 

5 Students applied to RYLA and we could only send 3, but due to a cancelation from another club, we can send 1 more, for a total of 4.

 

 

Elaine gave the Treasurer’s report from Tues Board meeting.  Grand total for period ending March 31 was over $110,000. However, we have been making very large check donations in April, so the next Treasurer’s Report will be significantly reduced.

 

 

Club Foundation Chair Al Noble presented new Paul Harris pins to Norm Kelly (Paul Harris +4) and Carol Ziomek (Paul Harris +7) for their cumulative donations to the Rotary Foundation. Norm and Carol are both members of the Paul Harris Society and have committed to donate a minimum of $1,000 per year to the Rotary Foundation.

 

L to R: Norm Kelly, Pres. Mike Markovitz and Foundation Chair Al Noble

Prior to adjournment, Rod Azar led the recitation of the 4-Way Test by the attendees.