The Spoke - Archive  Aug 4, 2009

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And the winner is.....

Recognitions and Fines: 

There were many guests and visitarians this week:

• A visitarian from the Danvers Club
• Reverend Ken
• Sara McBurney from Beverley
• John Fisher brought Steve Bascom from the Weslyan United Church
• Beth Ann Bower brough Jay, a new employee with Salem State
• Frank Campbell tried to steal guests from Jeff Holloran, but also brought two friends from Sarasota, Florida - Lisa Caper and Chris Caper

Now onto the fines and recognitions...

• John Hall paid the $100 for wearing Frank paraphenalia last week in honor of ASAP Drains 20th Anniversary
• Deb's son celebrated his 8th birthday; and she received another positive step that the kids would be free for adoption soon
• John Fisher was in Vermont and had no cell service
• Ken Steigler gave thanks to hear Frank pray
• John Neely - today was his mother's posthumous 100th birthday and she would be telling him to get his hair cut
• Dick Lutts told a joke
• Beth Ann Bower - 5 days in Shelbourne, Vermont
• Roberta Cantor spent a weeked in Provincetown
• Rich Eisner did his version of a triathlon - golf, cookout and father-in-law for a week
• Jake spent time with his 4.5 year old grandson
• Kathy Strout is going to be a grandma - congratulations!
• Juie is still updating personal record information

Program for the August 4th Meeting:

Still on a summer schedule

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

The Poker Tournament - 9/17/09 at The Ward 2 Social Club

And thanks again to Ken Rothwell for sponsoring all of the food and Rob Lutts for covering the open bar that evening.  Please plan to attend the club's important fundraiser.  And come for fellowship and fun!

                          Please visit the calendar section of our web site

                                       for additional important dates.  

And now a few announcements....  

This is membership month, so please take the time to respond to the three proposed new members

District Governor Ingrid Brown will be joining us on August 11 - please try to attend the meeting

Stumpers  

This week's stumper:

How many Rotary Clubs are there worldwide?

Last week's stumper:

What fruit is considered bad luck on a sailboat race?

Answer to last week's stumper:

A banana

 Happy Birthday to:   .No birthdays

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