Salem Rotary - The Spoke - Archive (Jul 7, 2009)

Guest and Visitarians - there were many this week...
Reverend Ken and he brought a guest and hopefully future Rotarian - Reverend Steve Bascom from the New Methodist Church
Steve - from the Melrose Club
Oscar Padget - Topsfield Club
Dave Benson had a guest
Paul Herrick brought his new office intern as a guest

Recognitions and Fines:

Lefty spent four nights in Las Vegas for a Companpy convention. He also paid a fine for a Blue Cow in the Salem News....Does this have anything to do with the trip to Vegas? What happens in Vegas should stay in Vegas....
Viktoria spent a weekend at Lake George and discovered the magic of bringing a friend to entertain her son
Mark is the proud grandfather to his fourth grandchild.
Pep won a trophy at the 4th of July Parade down at the Willows
Reverend Ken is the recipient of another Paul Harris for the work for his club in North Carolina
Betsye Sargent's son got married and Kenny catered the rehearsal dinner
Juli had a wonderful vacation with her biological daughter and grandson. the highlight of the trip for her grandson was receiving a baseball from Big Papi
I gave thanks for a dry training weekend
John Neely announced that the GSE team for London, England still need 4 members between 25-40 who are non-rotarians
John also provided information and a request for applications for a new District Simplified Grant, as outlined below:
Club members are urged to suggest local projects for District Simplified Grants. DSGs are made annually by our district and are applied for by clubs. They are funded by District Designated Funds (DDF--contributions to The Rotary Foundation that are returned to districts).

Here are some of the Guidelines for the new Rotary year:
- DSG’s will be evaluated and approved in the order that they are received. DSG’s will continue to be evaluated and approved until the funds designated for them by District Governor Ingrid are exhausted.
- Clubs may apply for $1,000-$2,500 in district designated funds.
- Grants should be for local projects within District 7930.
When choosing District Simplified Grant projects, clubs are strongly urged to focus on the areas of peace and conflict prevention/resolution; disease prevention and treatment; water and sanitation; maternal and child health; basic education and literacy; and economic and community development.

Program for the July 6th Meeting:

President John's inaugural meeting! Welcome John and here's to a great year! John outlined a few of his goals for the upcoming year.

Raise more money for scholarships
Hunger is a worlwide issue and a major initiative for Rotary International. He wants to make the issue of local hunger a major issue for our club.
Commitment to raise $2,000 from our club to help eradicate polio
Have FUN!
And in all seriousness, in addition to being President, our new leader also is taking another role very seriously. He is the Chief Complaint Officer - if you have a complaint, bring it to him and he will work within the chain of command and committees to come to a solution. Thank you John.

Events to be aware of -- Save the Dates!!

Tuesday, July 14 DSS Cookout, Plummer Home and I won't give the rain site since it will be sunny! Between 5 and 5:30pm

July 18, Rotary International President John Kenney will be in Massachusetts - Boxborough, Holiday Inn

Board Meetings 10:45 am, third Tuesday of the month, July 21

Please visit the calendar section of our web site

for additional important dates.

Stumpers

This week's stumper: How many committes does our club have?

Happy Birthday to: Roberta Cantor

Please email all announcements to be added to the Spoke and/or feedback to salem_rotary@yahoo.com by Noon on Wednesday. Also, feel free to contact any of the committee members listed below.

Committee Chair: Brenda Smith

Editors: Brenda Smith

Photos: John Quinn (Jay Cue), Trip Mason and File

Graphics and Photo Editing: Rich Eisner

Members: Denise Flynn, Jim Haskell and Sandy Heaphy