Rotary Ramblings

[Garland, Lorie]

Here are the Ramblings for the last couple of meetings. My apologies for
the lateness. I haven't been able to do these at work
and my home computer was not working. I look forward to seeing you all
today at 12:00! 
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Rotary Ramblings

June 2, 2009

President elect Bob opened our meeting

Sid Bremen gave the invocation. Pat, The Man of Steam, led us in two
opening songs - #57 Old Macdonald, and #42 Jingle Bells

Harvey Introduced our visiting Rotarians and guests:  Jeff Dennis - New
Providence Bahamas; Herb Scheer - Buffalo, NY  Guests were Shane Teachy
(Gen Manger Delray Beach Club) Dave and Roy Simon; and Dave Buist
(General Contractor inducted today)  Make-Ups:  Mike Campbell, Steve
Butera, Sylvia Picaro, Craig Hamet, Kurt Heide

Fred Bonardi gave the stock report..+1 DOW, +1 NASDAQ, +1 S&P

Candace Etzler thanked all who donated to the Birthday books campaign
for Pine Grove Elementary School.

Tony Allison gave the Sergeant @ Arms report - Thanks Ernie for your $49
contribution to the  pot today in honor of your anniversary!  Total for
the day was $112.00 with generous donations of the rest

Atlantic HS Scholarship recipients, Sadia and Alexandra joined us for
lunch and thanked us personally for our generous gift to each of them.
Sadia is interested in a medical field probably research at UF.
Alexandra, also UF, is torn between biology and English but does know
she wants to work for National Geographic and do some photography for
them one day!

Our presenter today was Ed Morantz from the Boy Scouts.  They are
celebrating their 100th anniversary in 2010.  He showed us a DVD which
talked about the core areas of scouting - leadership, character, service
and environmental preservation.  Volunteers are what make scouting run.
Without backing from the public and parents scouting would not be as
successful as it is today.  He believes boys learn to be thoughtful
responsible leaders through the pain of leadership learned through
scouting.  We belong to the Gulf Stream Council which has about 24-25
thousand members.  Delray has outreach clubs, which helps kids at risk.
In order to find a club for a child to join or to volunteer, please call
the council office.

All are welcome to attend Mayor Ellis' Distinguished Citizen Dinner at
Old School Square on June 19th.  This serves to honor her and raise
money for scouting.

Green Hat is $683.00  Sid drew the 8 Spades... Till next week!

 

 

 

 

May 26, 2009

Rotary Ramblings

Bruce played for us today.

President elect Bob opened our meeting.

Hack gave the invocation

Jimmy led us in two songs - #9 Battle Hymn of the Republic and #69
S-M-I-L-E

No birthdays or anniversaries today

Harvey introduced our visitors and guests; Dave Frodenbehr, Richard
Cellestino (Boca Sunrise); Hal Foles; and Jeff Denis (Bahamas.)  Dave
O'Connell introduced Bruce Buist (prospective member)

Fred Bonardi gave us good news!  DOW +179, +51 NASDAQ, +18 S&P  

Tom cook gave $20 for good to be back (Welcome back!)  Today's total was
$95.00

Dave Roytenberg, Mae Volen Center asked our club to help with delivery
of meals to the homebound.  The need is very great for shut ins with 750
people waitlisted right now.  There was a grant given to provide 100
more food packages to Delray, Boca Raton, and Boynton Beach...Please
help drive and deliver!  They need each club to have 5 volunteers for
the 4th Saturday of each month at 11:00 to help deliver meals.  They
meet at Victory Christ Church on Boca Raton Blvd.  Please help!

We had 5 Scholarship recipients from Atlantic High School visit with us
to thank us in person for the scholarships.  Shelly Chin (MIT)
Economics/Engineering program; Matthew Celestio (UF) Business Major and
future Rotarian;  Demy chin (Univ MI) Biology;  William Hunter (Duke)
Electrical Engineering/Physics.  What a smart and talented group of
upcoming freshman!

Today, Lisa Johnson from the Girl Scouts did our program.  In southeast
Florida, there are 19,200 girls participating in scouting from ages 5 -
17 with about 6000 volunteers helping.  Each troop has approx 5 - 40
girls.  The purpose of participation is the develop leadership skills
and life skills for girls so they can change the world they live in for
the better.  The 3 keys are discovery, connection, and action.  A girl's
discovery of her own sense of self, values, life skills, and critical
thinking work in conjunction with connection by having a sense of
belonging to a team.  The discovery, connection and action help girls
take change their communities and advocate for the things they believe
in.

Why is girl scouting important?  A girl is killed in gunfire every 6
hours in our country, every 20 seconds a girl is abused, and every 60
seconds a baby is born to a teen mom.  The average age of a prostitute
in the USA is 14.  Shocking statistics that girl scouting is trying very
hard to eliminate or at least reduce.

Last year our council earned $895,000 from cookie sales to support their
numerous projects.  Not only do they taste excellent but they help the
community when you buy them!  I hope that means they took the calories
out first!!!  In addition to cookie sales their funding also comes from
grants and fees to participants

Steve Bates presented the Girl Scouts with a check for $250.00

Green Hat at $662.00 Dave O'Connell drew the Ace of Hearts.

 

 

 

 

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