Our Greeter today was Jeff Kistler and he did a marvelous job.
President Jeanne Shipe rang the bell at 7:30 A.M. to open the meeting and welcomed all to AWRC. Then Rev. Jeff Kistler gave a very nice invocation
Pres. Jeanne began the meeting having the members recite the 4 Way Test, followed with our saying the Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. Flag.
GUESTS:
Andrea, our Y.E. student from Croatia; Becky Haviland, Andrea’s host; Diane Davidson, P-E Whitehall Area RC.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Ri FOUNDATION UPDATE:
Chair, Barbara Kistler, reminds us all or the E.R.E.Y. -- EVERY ROTARIAN EVERY YEAR -- plan and asks for each of us to donate to the RI Foundation’s Annual Fund.
Barb also announced a new emphasis by RI called “Immediate Disaster Relief.” They are working with ShelterBox, USA.
TT5 BASKETS OF CHEER:
Pres. Jeanne asks for more bottles of cheer to be donated so we can raffle off two baskets.
YOUTH EXCHANGE HOST NEEDED:
Sue Weber again asks us to find host families for our young lady from Denmark starting in August. Hosts do not have to be Rotarians. Contact Sue with ideas or questions.
DINING OUT IN MAY:
Ronnee Klotz announced that arrangements are made for AW Rotarians and guests to dine at the new Greenhouse Restaurant on Tilghman St. in Allentown on Thursday May 23 at 6:00 P.M.
SHELTERBOX CHALLENGE:
For every dollar donated to the purchase of ShelterBoxes by April 30, , 2019 a member has committed to match them, at least until the donated total exceeds $1,000 and TWO ShelterBoxes can be purchased. Interact clubs are now included. Then an additional $1,000 of matching is available from our AW funds.
Please give your checks Payable to the “Allentown West Rotary Foundation” to Treasurer Chris Blechschmidt, or President Jeanne.
At TT5 the Northwestern Lehigh Interact club students will present us with a check for $1,000 for a ShelterBox. Other donations are approaching $1,000.
DISTRICT CONFERENCE 2019:
The conference offers a single day option for Saturday. And that includes the finals of the Four Way TEST Speech Contest.
LOWHILL FOOD PANTRY HELP IS NEEDED:
P-E Amir Famili asks for a volunteer to help on Saturday morning, May 4.
OTHER PLANS:
May 8th will be a DESTINATION MEETING at LCCC and scholarships will be awarded.
May 15th will be an Open House Mixer meeting here at Luther Crest.
The project with Second Harvest now is scheduled for June 8.
THURSDAY EVENING MEETINGS:
The next one is May 9th at the Holiday Inn at 5:30 P.M.
NEXT MEETING IS May 1st. Our Greeter will be Mustafa Jaffer and our program will be Fred Buse, Master Gardener talking about A Day in the Spring.
Pres. Jeanne introduced our Sgt-at-Arms, Mitch Huston who conducted the drawings and collected Happy Dollars.
The door prize donated by Jeff Kistler was won by Len Salines.
The $22 pot of the 50:50 was not won by Bob Gordon’s ticket being drawn followed by a white marble. A lot of marbles will be around again next time.
P-E Amir brought two lovely fresh flower centerpieces and Mitch raised $85 for TT5 with an auction.
HAPPY DOLLARS:
John Scott is happy to say that he now has lost over 100 lbs.
Gail Micca is happy to say that she recently lost 15 lbs.
Mitch asked that the record show that the Webers had nothing more to say today.
Jeanne Shipe thanks Gail Micca for her work in getting the new AWRC exchange banners.
And Jeanne while in Ohio over Easter also visited 2 RCs there.
Bill Palmer is happy to have had a great family Dinner at his home on Easter Sunday.
Diane Davidson was happy to be here today.
Ron Coleman gave $5 in recognition of his gaining 5 lbs recently.
Ralph Witcher is happy to report that son, Seth, will be performing at Music Fest this Summer.
Ronnee Klotz is happy that Herb survived the rains as he hiked the Appalachian Trail, altho a part was closed.
PROGRAM:
Our program today was Gwenn Carr -- supported by Gary Englehardt -- .all about TT5 which is THIS COMING SUNDAY April 28, at the Holiday Inn from 4 to 7 P.M.
Gwenn reviewed where we are right now. We have 145 tickets sold -- waaaay too few. We have 13 food and drink Partners, 5 of whom have been there every year. And we have over $10,000 committed by our event sponsors, which is very good.
Gwenn and Gary still need some AW volunteers to move stuff from their house to the Holiday Inn the morning of Sunday April 28. Please contact Gwenn if you will help.
PLEASE send the names of your guests to Gwenn so the registration efforts will proceed quickly with the proper table assignments.
Gary distributed copies of a list of the ten LIVE auction items. Gwenn reviewed the list with us explaining just how fabulous each is.
Then a list of the approximately 140 items for the SILENT auction was distributed for us to review. Good stuff.
We are on our way, folks. We hope you all attend on Sunday -- and buy stuff too.
CLOSING:
Pres. Jeanne had us recite the 4 Way test, And we closed our meeting by reciting the saying “One profits most who serves best.”
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