Yes, we have an important breakfast meeting, this Wed. Nov 6, as we welcome our District Governor, Bob Artis, for a visit. If you are going to get a breakfast sandwich, coffee, etc, please come early at 7 AM so we can start the meeting promptly, then get you out promptly. Many great things happen at the District level: Sherry's report last week on District Youth Conference, info on District Grant session and Rotary Leadership are below. District Governor Bob Artis of the Clarence Club will update us on District news and present his platform for his year as DG. We will also have Deputy District Governor, Pat Sullivan of the Niagara County Central Club introduce our District Governor. It is important both to hear DG Bob's message about District efforts, and then also we need to show DG Bob that we in Grand Island Rotary are moving forward. Please RSVP to Mike via email reply below or call Mike at 578.8948.
Our Nov. 20 Dinner meeting at the Launch Club will feature Grand Island's veteran service to Grand Island and the nation, plus the developing Veterans Memorial at the crossroad of Baseline and G I Boulevard. In addition to hearing of the Memorial from Dan Drexelius, a leader in that Veterans Memorial Project, we would like to honor all our veterans. If you are a veteran, please Email Mike Billoni and tell him of your service - and by the way, tell him you are coming!
As you come to either this week's Breakfast meeting, or the Nov. 20 Dinner meeting, please bring a few cans, bottles or boxes of food staples - especially spaghetti, both sauce and pasta, peanut butter, are needed - those staples Neighbors Foundation eagerly uses in to supply Grand Island folks in emergency need of food. The Foundation (remember it was started by Rotary 45 years ago) need the additional stock as they approach their busy season, both Holiday giving and the inevitable cold weather time when families utility bills go up, yet income stays same - must they save on food, how can they? ? We in Rotary can help the Foundation help the community. Bring some food staples for their Pantry.
Further ahead, be prepared for an excellent Breakfast meeting on Dec. 4, as we hear from Faheen Mojawalla (and son Yussuf) of 'The Spa of Shipping on G I' aka Island Ship Center. Remember we will be deep into the Holiday Gift Season, which these days means receiving (maybe even returning) numerous shipments from Amazon and others. Hear from Faheen, directly involved, about the modern phenomenon of Amazon and shipping in the modern purchasing world.
On Sat., Nov 16, the District holds a Grant Management Seminar, to review the steps for grant writing, submitting and possibly receiving, grants from the District fund. District Matching grants provide an 'easy' way to increase our resources in a project such as aiding with a Well in The Congo. But 'easy' still means work, it starts with attending a Grant Management seminar to fully understand the guidelines of the Grant process. We must have attendees, if we are to follow thru on plans such as Major Celestin's. We will go to neighboring Clubs with the message for help, but we must show the District we are organized for the effort by attending this seminar.
Rotary Leadership Institute
Another District-wide service that more of us should attend - Rotary Leadership Institute is a series of training, discussion and fellowship building sessions to provide Rotarians a chance to increase both personal leadership skills and Rotary understanding. Team building, details of Rotary (and community) organization, personal development, all incorporated in three levels, being presented simultaneously by District leaders. The next set of these are at an all-day session, Saturday, Dec. 7 in the Hilton Garden Inn in Niagara on the Lake, just across the border. Please talk to President Dick Earne about the content and advantages of this excellent program.
Here are the Kaegebein EarlyAct Students in Action
The EarlyAct Club at Mary Haggerty's Kaegebein Elementary School, with Stephanie Pritchard as Advisor, have decided to make lap blankets for area hospitals, modest, but very useful items to give patients, whether in bed or wheelchairs, a bit of extra covering to keep them warm.
Leadership Spots in 2020/21
President-Elect Sherry Miller will be President in 2020/21, you knew that. Please help her fill out a Leadership Team for that year (starting July 2020, AKA just 8 months away).
Please consider taking the Pres. Elect post in 2020 /21, as a prelude for Presidency the next year. Sound like TOO much of a challenge? Perhaps as a team, Co-VP's then Co-President in 2021/21. Sure, it's a challenge, but many have done it, rewards and satisfaction follow. Talk to Sherry.
There are also a Director position (a 3 year slot) and Secretary position to fill. In addition, Director Mary Haggerty needs at least one Member to join her on the Scholarship selection committee. Those High School scholarships are a very important feature of our support to youth - join in the process of selecting outstanding service-oriented youth.
Check our calendar above, you see that Saturday & Sunday Dec. 7 & 8, plus 14 & 15, and a midweek day, Dec. 11, primarily for our Interact, EarlyAct partners will be dates for bell ringing at our G I Tops. Check your schedules and other commitments now, please free up time one - no several - of those days, be prepared to sign up and help.
Published Author in our Midst!
We hope you saw Brooks Rimes' note to all of us a few weeks ago about the new book 'Cryptograms - Quotes of Famous Women' he has just published. I have put an example from it below, a quote that you have to decipher, that should be of special interest to we, as Rotarians. Do you remember how cryptograms work: the letters of the quote words have been replaced with new, unrelated letters (tho the new letters stay same thru this particular quote). Included (in crypto form) is the author of the quote in lower right. Brooks makes it tough, only giving you a single substitute, here I offer you a real hint, a whole word -
Volume 1 | Issue 19 (11/2/2019)
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