The Spoke - Archive  Mar 30, 2010

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 Rotary International Theme

2009-2010

"AND THE WINNER IS" - 50-50 RAFFLE

VISITING ROTARIANS AND GUESTS

Andrew Barnes - Anna Kulakowski

                                   FINES & RECOGNITIONS

JOHN NEELY

Went to Wisconsin with his wife to visit their daughter.

RANDY BURBA

Spent a couple of weeks at a resort in Jamaica.

ANITA BLACKABY

Paying a fine for missing 3 weeks in a row and also had her picture in the paper with Governor Deval Patrick.

BETSYE SARGENT

Is going to be a new Grandmother. Congrats Betsye!

JULI LEDERHAUS

Took 2 1/2 weeks off and went to California and Hawaii. She played golf six times while away. She is also paying a fine because she has a picture of her husband wearing a grass skirt.

                                         ANNOUNCEMENTS

President John is pleased to announce that we raised $420.33 for this months Change to Change Lives initiative. So far the club has raised over $2,900.00 to benefit St. Joseph's Food Pantry. Great job everyone and lets keep it up.

The Salem Rotary Club will be hosting a Celebrity Bartending Night to benefit the Scholarship Fund. The event will take place Tuesday May 11th from 5:30pm to 7:30pm at Finz Restaurant in Salem. We encourage all Rotarian's to attend and please bring guests. Post card sized invitations will be given out to all Rotarian's to distribute to family, friends and co-workers. This event will be a lot of fun. So far we have Rotarian's Ken Rothwell, Bruce Whear, Frank Campbell  and State Rep. John Keenan committed as bartenders. We will have more celebrity bartenders named later.

Immediate Past President Dave Wescott received a nice banner sized letter from the 1st grade students at the Horace Mann School. They thanked him for providing books and reading to them. President John would like to take this opportunity to thank the entire Literacy Committee for all of their hard work.

Please make note that our meeting scheduled for Tuesday May 18th will be moved to Thursday May 20th. This is to accommodate a visit by the incoming GSE team from London, England. The Salem Rotary Club will be one of two sites in the District to host the team. We are expecting visitors from several area clubs to join us.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SALEM ROTARIANS

No Birthdays this week.

SPEAKER/PRESENTER OF THE WEEK

Classification Speeches - Chris Casey & Troy Wilson

FUTURE SPEAKERS/PRESENTERS

April 6th - Katherine Howe, Author

April 13th - Student Awards, Education Committee

April 20th - Dr. Ed Bailey, Chief of Pediatrics, NSMC

UPCOMING EVENTS - SAVE THE DATE

Please visit the calendar section of our web site

  for additional important dates.

Salem Rotary Club Celebrity Bartending Night

Finz Restaurant, Pickering Wharf Salem

Tuesday May 11th - 5:30pm to 7:30pm

Please do your best to attend and bring guests

"QUOTE OF THE WEEK"

"Golf is the toughest game in world to play, and the easiest to cheat at."

STUMPER OF THE WEEK

When is World Water Day?

LAST WEEKS STUMPER

As of February 28th 2010, how much money have Rotarian's raised toward our goal of $200 million to help fight Polio?

ANSWER TO LAST WEEKS STUMPER

115.6 Million dollars to date.

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:  Brenda Smith

Acting 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