December 2019 Rotary Connects the World!
Programs for December (Laura DelPercio coordinator)
Dec. 4 (Yes , it is a Wednesday!!!) Holiday Reception 6 – 8 p.m. in our usual room
Dec. 5 – No morning meeting
Dec. 12 – Club Assembly
Dec. 19 – In Meeting Service Project (Birthday Boxes for Meals on Wheels recipients)
Dec. 26 – No Meeting – Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah!
Board Meeting This Week. If you are a member of the Board, please plan on attending. All members are invited to attend Board meetings. We generally adjourn by 9 a.m. You will receive attendance credit for a missed meeting.
Programs for January (Mike Laur coordinator)
Jan. 2 – No Meeting (day to sober up and change your calendar to 2020 !)
Jan. 9 – Kickoff to 2020 Report to the Community
Jan. 16 – Jill Pante, Executive Mentoring Program with Lerner School of Business
Jan. 23 – TBA
Jan. 30 – Club Assembly
Board Meeting This Week. If you are a member of the Board, please plan on attending. All members are invited to attend Board meetings. We generally adjourn by 9 a.m. You will receive attendance credit for a missed meeting.
UPCOMING EVENTS (need your participation)
Due Dec. 12 – Clothing for McVey students (bring in plain bag, name on outside of bag)
50/50 Winner for Nov. 21 – Mike Laur!
Welcome Christina MacMillan, our newest member!
Ring that Bell!
Thank you to the members who helped our less fortunate neighbors by participating in the annual Salvation Army Kettle Drive. Over three evenings, 12 members braved rain and wind to ring the bell in front of Boscovs. Thank you, Marie Holliday, for making the arrangements.
Food Bank Workers
A great team of Rotarians and family members ( young and old!) spent two hours on Saturday Dec. 7 at the new Food Bank location. We packaged nearly 600 weekend meals for school children, filled the freezer with a pallet load of frozen meats, and sorted apples and potatoes in the pantry section of the Food Bank. Thank you, everyone who helped, and especially Jerry Holt for making the arrangements.
Scouts Supported
A check for $1,000 was delivered last week by Robin Broomall to Boy Scout Troop 603 to help kick off their annual fundraiser, Christmas Tree sales. If you still need to purchase your tree, the tree sales lot is on the front lawn of Iron Hill Museum, 1355 Old Baltimore Pike.
Looking for next year’s grant project
Do you have a worthy project in mind that we can use for our grant project for 2020-2021? It should benefit the community through education, health, environment, or community development (very loosely defined!). Projects must begin and be completed in the 2020-2021 Rotary year. We usually target projects about $10,000. If you have an idea, talk to Robin about it and see if it fits the criteria. Remember – not all Rotary projects are global. Rotary works at home, too.
Can you read?
The Newark Children’s Day Nursery, located only a mile from the Courtyard on Barksdale Road, is in need of readers to the children. Easy — go to Read Aloud Delaware, signup as a reader, designate Newark Day Nursery as your preferred location. Then you can make arrangements that suit your schedule.
Outstanding invoice?
Do not let your quarterly invoice go unpaid. Either get a check to treasurer Shawn or go to www.NMRDE.org and pay via credit card.
If you want to have your contribution made directly to The Rotary Foundation by credit card (weekly, monthly, quarterly, or annually) and not have it included on your quarterly club invoice, go to www.rotarydirect.org to sign up. Easy…..
Greeters Rotary Minute Prayer
Dec. 12 Jamie Zingaro Polly Sierer Tabatha Schury
Dec. 19 Christina MacMillan Mark Sisk Polly Sierer
Dec. 26 Rudolph Dasher Dancer
(If you cannot be here, it is your responsibility to find a replacement!)
Sergeant At Arms Helpers
Dec. 12 Dennis Greenhouse and Joyce Henderson
Dec. 19 Marie Holliday and Jerry Holt
Dec. 26 Prancer, Comet, and Vixen
(If you cannot be here, it is your responsibility to find a replacement!)
Thought for the Week:
When everything is coming your way, you are in the wrong lane!
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