The Spoke - Archive  Sep 22, 2009

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 Rotary International Theme

2009-2010

"AND THE WINNER IS" - 50-50 RAFFLE

VISITING ROTARIANS AND GUESTS

Tom McNulty - Marblehead

Rev. Ken Steigler, Wake Forrest

Paul Tierney - Punta Cana, DR

Delores Tierney, Punta Cana, DR

Joe Barbeau - Mike McLaughlin

Robert McLaughlin - Mike McLaughlin

Lorraine McLaughlin - Mike McLauglin

FINES & RECOGNITION'S

PAUL HERRICK

Celebrating his 5th wedding anniversary and his 5th house in as many years.

REV. KEN STEIGLER

Spent a week in Nashville, TN.

KEN ROTHWELL

His son ran for over 180 yards with 2 touchdowns in his football game last week. He also dressed for the varsity game last week as well.

RICH EISNER

Played in 2 golf tournaments last week. One of the tournaments he played with Bill Kielbasa. He also closed his pool for the season.

JOHN NEELY

John is paying a fine for being late to today's meeting and violating dress code for wearing sweat pants and a sweatshirt. His exchange student finally made it home to Romania 15 days later than expected.

ANITA BLACKABY

Wants to thank Ken Rothwell for catering the House of Seven Gables lobster fest. They raised $39,000.00 from the event. Also, Harbor Sweets has teamed up with the House of Seven Gables so if anyone is thinking holiday gifts a portion of some candy sold will go the House of Seven Gables.

DAVE GENDALL

Played golf with his son, brother and nephew.

JOHN FISHER

Played in another golf tournament last week.

BRUCE WHEAR

Fined for coming in 2nd place in the poker tournament and graciously donated 5% of his winnings to the club. Too bad he didn't win anything....

DAVE BENSON

Celebrating his 20th wedding anniversary.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Please take a moment to thank Ken Rothwell and Rob Lutts for sponsoring the very successful Salem Rotary Texas Hold'Em Tournament. The club raised $5,300.00 this year. $1,000.00 of the proceeds went to Polio Plus while the remainder went to scholarships. Congratulations to Bruce Whear who came in second place in the tournament.

The club needs to be represented at the District Foundation/Membership meeting on Thursday October 1, 2009. President elect and foundation and membership committee members are expected to attend. Please see President John to sign up.

If anyone is interested in volunteering for the Interact Club at Salem High School please see Liz Bradt. The Interact Club is an extension of Rotary at the High School. If interested, sit with Liz at next weeks meeting for lunch and she will provide you with what is expected.

All Rotarian's are invited to the Phoenix School in Salem at 89 Margin Street to witness the Act Club Inauguration of Officers. Tuesday September 29th at 10:30am. Please See Betsye Sargent for additional information.

President John will be launching another initiative to fight hunger. As you know, one of President John's main goals during his term is to tackle hunger in Salem. This program is titled "Change, to Change Lives". He is asking all Rotarian's to bring in your spare change from home and donate it to our fight hunger initiative. The members of the Royal Order of Turkey's will be collecting the change. It will then be taken to the free coin counter at the bank turned into cash and donated to the local food banks. REMEMBER, a $1.00 donation to a food bank provides them with $5.00 worth of food. Lets put our change to good use instead of it just sitting on your dresser or in a drawer somewhere.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SALEM ROTARIANS

John Hall - September 22nd

Mary Ann Lyons - September 23rd

Jim Robinson - September 25th

Jane Stirgwolt - October 2nd

John Stueve - October 2nd

SPEAKER/PRESENTER OF THE WEEK

Nelson Benton

Salem Evening News

Nelson has been in the newspaper industry for 37 years and stated that the Newspapers are not dead. Although there has been many changes over the years and many changes to come 104 million people read the newspaper on a daily basis. 90,000 people read the Salem News either by print or on-line. When it comes to pricing for advertising it differs between print and on-line. The Salem News publishes a quarterly magazine distributed in Marblehead. It provides a great opportunity for advertising.

The Salem News spends a lot of time and money fighting for documents pertained to a story. For instance, they spent a lot of time and money on the Hamilton Police training story. The Salem News also plays a big role in local politics. Nelson mentioned the Mayor race in Lynn and a couple key races in Beverly and Peabody. Politics on the North Shore should be very interesting in 2009 and 2010.

UPCOMING EVENTS - SAVE THE DATE

Please visit the calendar section of our web site

  for additional important dates.

"QUOTE OF THE WEEK"

"Avoiding the phrase, I don't have time... will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life".

Bo Bennett---

STUMPER OF THE WEEK

Removing an appendix is called an appendectomy, removing tonsils is called a tonsillectomy. What is it called when they remove a growth from your head?

LAST WEEKS STUMPER

Name the Rotarian who's first name matches their street address?

ANSWER TO LAST WEEKS STUMPER

Michael Wheeler - Michael Road, Beverly

FUTURE SPEAKERS/PRESENTERS

Tuesday September 29, 2009

Salem Mayor Kimberly Driscoll

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 Chairman:  Bob Dionne

Newsletter Editor:  Bob Dionne

Photographer: John Quinn & Juli Lederhaus

Graphics and Photo Editing:  Rich Eisner

Committee Members:  Denise Flynn, Jim Haskell and Sandy Heaphy

Salem Rotary Club

PO Box 608

Salem, MA 01970

(978) 744-9070