Taste of GI is just Four Weeks Away - We need lots of cooperation and help. Looking for volunteers for set up and working 2-4 hour shifts. Pres. Elect Sherry will have sign up sheet at our Breakfast Meeting. Set up at 10 AM and the event runs from 11 AM to 8 PM. We have placed that SignUp Sheet and the Project Checklist in the Private Documents on the Club Documents segment of www.rotaryclubgi.org web site. Please sign in to the Member section of the web site, look at the documents, establish your place in this important project! Any questions please call Sherry now at (716) 417-4937 or Email her -
Excellent program at Rotary this week, Robin Kwiatek GI Schools Technology Manager, gave us a fine view of how technology is helping students learn (and keep them safe).
Note in the Upcoming Events you just read, we will have our Adopt-A-Hiway cleanup of Beaver Island Pkwy on Saturday, Oct 5 - mark your calendar.
If anyone is interesting in helping with Meals on Wheels, please talk to Dan Flaim.
Membership Moments
Hope you filled in the survey on our Club's culture we received last week. Then we particularly hope you are getting your thoughts together for our Club Assembly, Sep 25, as we chart our future. That will be a casual working evening, at the GI School District offices on Ransom Rd. Subs will be brought in to eat, we will offer and review ideas for planning the great future of Grand Island Rotary.
Keep thinking Membership Prospects Are the folks you meet every day at business, socializing, family, people interested in service opportunities? Fill out that Membership Lead Card and turn it in.
Please remember to bring copies of the Rotarian Magazine to Pres. Elect Sherry at the next meeting, for placement in waiting rooms around Grand Island. Of course that is after you have read it!
Rotary Beyond Grand Island's Shores
ROTARY and its concept of 'Service Above Self' starts local with a community minded Club. Our G I Rotary is important in itself and can do great things locally. But there is so much more Rotary International does; please be aware and participate. Here are some items to extend yourself and your concept of Rotary:
An opportunity to rub shoulders with RI Leaders from US Northeast and Ontario - volunteer to pick them up from Buffalo airport, drive them to Niagara Falls, CA, for a major Zone Institute there running Sep 17 - 21. See President Dick Earne for details.
A unique chance to see & hear the RI President Elect, Holger Knaack of Germany at Annual Eastern Cities Fellowship Dinner in Rochester, Monday, Sep 23. President Dick Earne will arrange car-pooling and perhaps a table for us to hear a notable Rotarian and meet with Rotary leaders from all Upstate NY and Niagara, Ontario.
To develop your Leadership Skills, Network and increase your knowledge of Rotary, participate in RLI (Rotary Leadership Institute). Sessions covering all levels of leadership, both for yourself, and for your Club, are being held Saturday Oct 5 at NCCC in Sanborn. Talk to President Dick and others who have taken one or more of these sessions - they are worthwhile, both personally and for the Club!
How about enriching yourself, and your partner, by joining a Rotary Friendship Exchange to Sweden and Latvia in May / June of 2020. What's involved - generally couples will first host, then visit, couples in the partnered area over a 4 week period to gain understanding of the sameness, and differences, of lives of Rotarians between here and Sweden / Latvia. And of course, some flat-out tourism also. Sound interesting? Email John Crossingham: Xngham@cogeco.net for more info.