Our Greeter today was Dottie Bloom and she did a marvelous job.
President Amir Famili rang the bell at 7:30 A.M. to open the meeting and welcomed all. Then Dottie Bloom gave a very nice invocation.
Secretary John Scott. Began the meeting having the members recite The Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. Flag. Then he led us in reciting the Four Way Test. John asked Bill Palmer to introduced our guest.
GUEST:
Arista Yvette Pyne, Yvette & Bill’s granddaughter.
THANK YOU CARD:
Sec. John read a thank you note to the club from Julianne, a recipient of one of our $1,000 scholarships.
ANNUAL SUMMER PICNIC:
Sue Weber announced that the picnic will be hosted at the Webers’ farm in Vera Cruz on Sunday August 4th starting at 4 P.M. with supper at 6 P.M. A signup sheet is going around. Please bring chairs.
STRIKE OUT HUNGER AT THE PHILLIES:
On August 15 . RI President Mark Maloney will throw out the first pitch. And $10 of each ticket from Rotarians will go to PolioPlus.
ANNUAL CHRISTMAS PARTY:
Our annual Christmas party is scheduled for Friday, December 6 at the Brookside Country Club in Macungie.
PERFECT ATTENDANCE AWARDS:
Sec. John read a list of all active AWRC members who have achieved perfect attendance over the last Rotary year and before. Those present came forward for a photo.
SEND AW PHOTOS TO MARLENE HELLER:
Our Public Image Chair, Marlene Heller asks that each of us that take photos of our Rotary meetings and events send copies to her. Please include the date, the people’s names and the event. These will help build our archives.
JULY DINING OUT:
Pres. Amir reported that 12 Rotarians and guests enjoyed a good meal and good fellowship at Zanzibar’s last Friday evening.
THURSDAY EVENING MEETING:
TOMORROW, July 25 at the Holiday Inn at 5:30 P.M. is our next meeting. The program will be a review of funding requests from the 2019-20 budget.
NEXT MORNING MEETING IS July 31 with Jeanne Shipe as our Greeter. The program will be Lori Peters induction as our newest member and her classification talk. And Camp Neidig Attendees will describe their experiences.
Pres. Amir introduced our Sgt-at-Arms Mitch Huston who conducted the drawings and collected Happy Dollars.
The door prize donated by Donna Beach and Dottie Bloom was won by Ron Coleman..
The $129 pot of the 50:50 was WON by Jean Masiko’s ticket being drawn followed by THE BLACK marble. Jean promptly lost her marbles onto the floor. Many marbles will return next week.
HAPPY DOLLARS:
Mitch Huston is most happy that he found a Doctor who solved his water on the knee problem.
Gail Micca is happy that she had a wonderful trip for two months in Italy and Spain with her daughter.
Gary Heller is happy to be celebrating his 66th birthday.
Sue Weber is happy for Gary Heller. She led us in singing Happy Birthday.
Joe Goll is happy that Peggy and he are celebrating their 43rd anniversary today.
Dawn Costello is happy to be able to attend our meeting today. She updated us on granddaughter having graduated High School, and grandson had graduated from Wharton.
Dottie Bloom is happy to be here and also that they had a great vacation two weeks ago.
Jeff Kistler said it is great to have Dawn here today.
Bill Palmer is most happy that his granddaughter, Arista Yvette Pyne, has attended her first Rotary club meeting. He is proud that she is a senior at Penn State, Harrisburg, studying Mechanical Engineering.
Arista Pyne is happy that she came today.
PROGRAM:
Today’s program consisted of the next round of reviews of funding requests from our 2019-20 annual budget. Gwenn and Gary introduced the form at both at a Wednesday and a Thursday meeting and explained the concept of having every member understand and vote on their degree of support as guidance for the board.
Copies of the specific requests were e-mailed to all members in advance. And hard copies for today’s review and voting were distributed, executed and collected by Gary and Gwenn.
Gwenn Carr opened with a discussion about the $12,000 request in support of the Northwestern Snack Pack program. This program is operated by the Lowhill Food Pantry folks with no Rotarians nor Interact students helping to assemble or distribute the packs. And a meeting last week confirms the group is not seeking that kind of help.
Jeff Kistler observed that this is a good end result. It means that the program is self-sufficient except for a possible donation of funds. Bill Palmer suggested we no longer operate under the Rotary Community Corps auspices, since no Rotarians are involved.
Next Bill Weber reviewed a request for $2,000 for a Youth Exchange student’s support.
And John Scott discussed a $1,200 request to support the children’s Bike Works project.
The members did their weighted voting of all three requests. These will be added to those from the Thursday evening group.
CLOSING:
Pres. Amir suggested that we continue to pray for our Rotary family. He closed our meeting by our reciting the saying “One profits most who serves best.”
Good photos by Gary Heller
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