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Rotary Club of
Allentown West
Pres. Jeanne Shipe
Asst. Gov. Gary Rohrbach
District 7430 Governor
Cindy Hornaman
 
MEETINGS:
Wednesdays at 7:30 a.m.
at Luther Crest
2nd and 4th Thursday
at 5:30 p.m.
at the Holiday Inn
 
WEBSITE
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Here are the AWRC
Board Members for 2018-19
 
 
President  - Jeanne Shipe
 President- Elect   -  Amir Famili
Immediate Past President - Mike Gschwendtner
 
Secretary -Joe Goll
Treasurer - Chris Blechschmidt
Sergeant at Arms and PR Chair - Mitch Huston
Service Committee and Domestic Grants Chair - Gail Micca
 
RI Foundation and International Grants Chair - Barbara Kistler
 
Fundraising Chair - Len Salines
 
Evening Meeting Rep  - Barbara Kistler
Membership Chair - John Scott
 
Youth Services Co-Chairs - Bill Weber and Sue Weber

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GREETERS

    

Jan 16th  --  Dorothy Bloom 
 
Jan 23rd  --  Gwenn Carr
 
Jan 30th  --  Dan Crane
 
 
Feb  6th  --    Ronnee Klotz
 
Feb 13th  --   Scott Hock
 
Feb 20th  --  Ron Coleman
 
Feb 27th  --  Jean Masiko
 
 
Mar  6th  --  Gary Heller
 
Mar 13th  --  Marlene Heller
 
Mar 20th  --  Carrie Ballek
 
Mar 27th  --  Joe Goll
 

-NOTE that the Greeter Schedule also appears as a "site page" accessible on the left of our website Home Page without logging-in.

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THURSDAY  EVE  PROGRAMS
 
 
Jan 10th  --  is a Mixer at the Holiday Inn. Please bring candidates for membership.
Jan 24th  --  Dining at Curious Goods
 
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TT5  MEETING  SCHEDULE
 

FRIDAY, January 18th at the Holiday Inn at 7:00 a.m. for Breakfast  --  7:30 a.m. is the meeting.
 
 
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CALENDAR of EVENTS
 
         
    Jan 10th  --  Thursday Evening Mixer at the Holiday Inn at 5:30 P.M.
 
     Jan 18th  --  TT5 Meeting at the Holiday Inn 7 a.m.
 
     Jan 24th  --  Dining Out at Curious Goods at 6:00 P.M. - 7705 Bake Oven Rd, Germansville, PA 18053
 
     Feb 28th  --  Dining Out at Tacos & Tequila in Allentown.
 
     Mar 27th  --  Destination meeting at Parkland H.S.
 
    Jun 24th  --  D7430 Changeover and Awards at DeSales University at 6 PM
 
    
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2019  DISTRICT 7430  CONFERENCE
 
  • Registration for District Conference is open.  The conference this year is in Allentown, so it will be very convenient for us all to attend. 
    • Here is the link to view the event and get registered:
Club Events
7:30 am Breakfast at Luther Crest
Luther Crest Facility Main Dining Room in the Administration Building
Feb 27, 2019 7:30 AM
 
5:30 pm Evening Group Happy Hour
Feb 28, 2019 5:30 PM
 
6:15-7:15 pm Kingdom Life Food Pantry shelf stocking
Kingdom Life Food Pantry
Mar 01, 2019
6:15 PM – 7:15 PM
 
9-11 am Lowhill Food Pantry
Mar 02, 2019
 
7:30 am Breakfast at Luther Crest
Luther Crest Facility Main Dining Room in the Administration Building
Mar 06, 2019 7:30 AM
 
7:30 am Breakfast at Luther Crest
Luther Crest Facility Main Dining Room in the Administration Building
Mar 13, 2019 7:30 AM
 
5:30 pm Evening Group Happy Hour
Mar 14, 2019 5:30 PM
 
AWRC Board Meeting
Mar 19, 2019
7:15 AM – 8:30 AM
 
10am-noon Lowhill Food Pantry
Mar 20, 2019
 
7:30 am Breakfast at Luther Crest
Luther Crest Facility Main Dining Room in the Administration Building
Mar 20, 2019 7:30 AM
 
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TELL  HALYNA
 
     As you become aware of any member of our Rotary family that would benefit from our support with cards, flowers or visits, please notify Halyna Steguta at:  hsteg@aol.com
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CONTACT INFORMATION
AWRC  ACTIVITIES
 
Kingdom Life Food Pantry:-  Jean Masiko – masiko@aol.com
 
Parkland Snack Packing:--  Gail Micca gailmicca@gmail.com
 
Lowhill Food Pantry and Northwestern Snack Packing: 
 
Membership:     John Scott  johnscottl@msn.com
 
Public Relations:  Mitch Huston – jazz111@aol.com
 
TT5:  Len Salines – lenmary3657@ptd.net
          Gary Englehardt – genglehardt@thepegasusorg.com
          Gwenn Carr – gwenn.carr@thepegasusorg.com
 
Dining Out:  Ronnee Klotz – ronneek@gmail.com
                       Jean Machamer – jeanmachamer@ptd.net
 
Evening Meeting :  Herb Klotz
 
Purple Pinkie: Barb Kistlerbarbara.kistler@rcn.com
 
Park Cleanup:  Dennis Houser – houserdah@gmail.com
                          
Purple Pinkie 5K at LCCC --  John Scott --     johnscottl@msn.com
 
Miracle League:  Dale Heffner – dheffner@electrochemical.net
                             Barb Kistler – Barbara.kistler@rcn.com
 
  Meals on Wheels:  Dorothy Bloom – bloomnbunny@ptd.net
 
Kids of Character:  Gwen Pongracz – gwen.pongracz@gmail.com
 
Purses for Polio:  Barb Kistler – barbara.kistler@rcn.com
RLI:   website www.rlinea.org        
 
Threads of Change - Foster care support --  Dale Heffner  dheffner@electrochemical.net
                         
Speakers
Feb 27, 2019
World Women Leaders
Mar 06, 2019
2020 District 7430 Conference Discussion
Mar 13, 2019
Parkland Cares
Mar 20, 2019
Community Assessment Report
Mar 27, 2019
Student of the Month, Meet PHS Interact Students, PHS Faculty & Staff
Apr 03, 2019
4-Way Speech Contest 1st Round
Apr 10, 2019
Quarterly Club Assembly + Treasurer's Report
Apr 17, 2019
TT5 Light!
Apr 24, 2019
Ready for TT5!
May 01, 2019
May 08, 2019
Annual Scholarship Awards to PHS, LCTI, NWLHS Students
May 15, 2019
View entire list

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       MEMBERSHIP  IS  EVERY 

MEMBER'S  BUSINESS

      Consider bringing a friend and colleague to a meeting. Or refer them to Herb Klotz.

       Please bring a candidate to our next breakfast meeting and / or our Thursday Evening Happy Hour.

        Our Evening Meetings  --  2nd & 4th Thursdays at the Holiday Inn in Breinigsville  5:30 to 6:30 P.M.

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ROTARY  INFO  IS  AVAILABLE
 
NOTE  that there is great Rotary information available each meeting at the front table. This includes AW Banners for you to exchange when you visit other RCs.
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HOW  TO  UPDATE  CLUBRUNNER
 
 
TO UPDATE YOUR PERSONAL INFO in ClubRunner:
 
Just login and click an “Member Area” top right. Then scroll down two  lines on the right column and click on “Active member List.”
 
Click on the first letter of your last name, and then on your full name.
 
This page is all about you.
 
Click on any of the six menu items and edit your profile as needed.
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Check out the AWRC
Facebook Page
See Home Page link
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SPEAKERS  WANTED
      Please suggest or request speakers and topics for future meetings and send  your ideas to Jeanne Shipe.  Jeanne.Shipe@gmail.com
Bulletin Editor
Bill Palmer
Russell Hampton
National Awards Services Inc.
ClubRunner
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TOMORROW  IS  OUR 
THURSDAY  EVENING 
OPEN HOUSE  MIXER
5:30 P.M.  at the
HOLIDAY  INN
 
 
 
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PICTURE  OF  THE  WEEK
 
FOUR  NEW  MEMBERS
 
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         QUOTE of the WEEK --
  “A life dedicated to serving others is the life we should all aspire to live.”
          ― Auliq-Ice  
 
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LET'S  GO  --  AW  ROTARIANS
PLEASE  HELP  COMPLETE  OUR RECORDS
 
The following members are rquested to e-mail Bill Palmer the date that they first joined Rotary membership anywhere, PLUS the date that they joined AWRC. According to our records you each joined on Jan 1st, 1900. I don't think so.
 
 
Dawn Costello      
           
Chuck Ehninger   
 
Ihor Fedoriw         
 
Jerry Frank 
          
A J Henry              
          
Daryl Smith           
 
 
Bill's e-mail is  bill966@ptd.net          
 
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Allentown West Meeting notes Jan 9, 2019
 
Our Greeter today was  Randy Beitler 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 Randy Beitler 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: Subrina Taylor, member candidate;
 
 
Pres Jeanne showed a number of pictures from the last few weeks. The she reviewed announcements.
 
 
LOWHILL FOOD PANTRY:
Please remember that the Collection jar is at the registration desk for cash and check contributions.
 
THE ROTARY FOUNDATION (TRF):
Pres. Jeanne reminds us that donations to TRF’s Annual Fund and PolioPlus fund will be matched with dollars up to $100 and recognition points thereafter.
 
TOMORROW  EVENING IS THE ALL NEW THURSDAY EVENING OPEN HOUSE MIXER:
January 10th at the Holiday Inn in Breinigsville starting at 5:30 P.M. --  IN THE RESTAURANT  -  will be a MIXER meeting for potential AWRC members discussing all things Rotary. John Scott, Membership Chair, has at least five   candidates signed up and emphasizes that we need to bring guests.
 
APRIL 28TH is TT5. The next PLANNING COMMITTEE MEETING is on Friday January 18th at the Holiday Inn at 7 a.m.
Gwenn Carr asks that we have a big turnout at the January 24th Dining Out at Curious Goods. We need their support at TT5.
 
KINGDOM LIFE FOOD CENTER:
Jean Masiko said that we need two more volunteers to stock shelves on Friday evening, January 11th.
 
SNACK PACKING AT PARKLAND:
January 16th at 2:30 P.M.  is the next event..
 
MEALS  ON  WHEELS  PLAN:
Dottie Bloom is working on the degree of involvement AW Rotarians may have on Presidents’ Day, Feb 18th.
 
DESTINATION  MEETINGS:
Mar 27th at Parkland H.S.
Apr or May at LCCC for scholarship awards.
 
JANUARY  DINING  OUT:
Thursday, January 24, 2019 – Dining Out at Curious Goods 6PM. A sign-up sheet went around.
 
FEBRUARY  DINING  OUT:
On Feb 28th at Tacos & Tequila in the 500 block and Hamilton in Allentown.
 
DINING OUT SUGGESTIONS NEEDED:
Ronnee Klotz asks all members to tell her to which restaurant we should go in the months ahead.
 
4-WAY TEST ANNUAL SPEECH CONTEST:
Once again AW Rotarians will conduct a local contest here at a regular Wed. morning meeting. Regionals are mid-April, and the finals are on May 4th at the District Conference. The AWRC competition will be held here at Luther Crest in early April..
 
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY:
Dee Eng from the Emmaus RC told us that ERC on March 7th will make two special recognition awards to Rotarian women from ERC, and from Area 1  --  that includes AWRC.
 
ROTARY LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE (RLI) :
There is a training meeting on March 30th in King of Prussia that many D7430 Rotarians might attend. Pres. Jeanne will be going. AWRC will reimburse your registration fee.
 
DISTRICT CONFERENCES:
DGE Herb Klotz explained that the 2019 District  Conference is on May 3,4 and 5, at the Renaissance Hotel and in Symphony Hall in Allentown. Herb suggested AW Rotarians attend as a way to learn about a district conference. In 2020 AW Rotarians have the responsibility to plan and implement that year’s conference in K.O.P.
 
NEXT  MEETING  --  Jan 16th  --   Our Greeter will be Dottie Bloom. Our program will be our member Stephanie Fenstermacher giving her Classification Talk, all about being a Baker.
 
Pres. Jeanne introduced our Sgt-at-Arms, Mitch Huston who conducted the drawings and collected Happy Dollars. He still was using the new Geoff Legg sound system which works well.
 
 
The door prizes  donated by Randy Beitler was won by Amir Famili.
 
The $13 pot of the 50:50 was NOT won by Jeanne Shipe  ticket being drawn  followed by a white marble. Multiple  marbles will be around for next week.
 
HAPPY DOLLARS:
Jean Masiko is happy to announce that Joel is doing well and they celebrated his 84th Birthday last week. And they had a good week in Florida.
 
Joe Goll paid a dollar to have Ralph Witcher agree to take possession of the “Bingo Wheel” from Joe.
 
Randy Beitler is a new grandpa of a baby boy born last Sunday.
 
Ernie Boll, as usual, is just plain happy.
 
Bob Gordon is happy that some of his research work recently was published.
 
Amir Famili thanks us all for the prayers for his son who is recovering nicely now.
 
Herb Klotz is happy that Ronnee and he are heading to San Diego for a week of Rotary training with over 500 DGEs from all over the world. He has been told by PDGs just how special the experience will be.
 
 PROGRAM:
Today was a Club Assembly with two specific reports. First was a quarterly update by Treasurer, Chris Blechschmidt. Our overall status is that we are doing well with all commitments being funded from our May 2018 Tempting Tastes fundraiser.
 
 
Chris used a series of pie charts and described how both Revenue and expenses relate for both our Operating statement and for our 501-C-3 AW Foundation.  He explained that 10% of the net funds raised each year goes into a “Reserve” account. This is a cushion to cover future needs.
 
Then he noted that each year 5% of the Reserve funds is returned to the Operating Budget for project use.
 
We have separate accounts for the two Snack Packing programs. Each has some funds coming in, and each has a healthy balance for continuing the program.
 
 
Next President Jeanne distributed a list of the many committee assignments and projects being run by AW Rotarians, and showed who is doing what. After our members studied the list there were many comments for Jeanne to add duties and names.
 
Jeanne plans to update the list soon. There also is a plan to write a number of “Position Descriptions” for the AWRC board members and committee chairs. Additionally there will be write-ups about our individual projects and how they are operated.
 
CLOSING:
We closed our meeting by reciting the saying “One profits most who serves best.”
 
 

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 Here is a link to our District Governor Cindy's latest Newsletter:

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https://clubrunner.blob.core.windows.net/00000050086/en-ca/files/homepage/double-i-inspiration-inormation-jan-2019/DGNL-Jan-2019.pdf

 Give it a try. It is informative and entertaining.

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BIRTHDAYS
 
 
Joel Masiko           Jan 03
Dottie Bloom         Jan 04
Gwenn Carr           Jan 07
Jeanne Shipe         Jan 12
Ernie  Boll              Jan 20
Geoff Legg             Jan 22
Mercedes Scott       Jan 25
Dar Utt                    Jan 26
Dale Heffner           Jan 29
 

Anniversaries

 

Jean & Joel Masiko         Jan 01 1996  23 years
Sally & Jerry Frank          Jan 05 1985  34 years
Dottie & Rick Bloom        Jan 20 1979  40 years
 

JOIN  DATES

 

 
Dawn Costello       Jan 01
Chuck Ehninger    Jan 01
 
Ihor Fedoriw          Jan 01
Jerry Frank            Jan 01
 
A J Henry               Jan 01
 
 
Jean Masiko                 Jan 01
Joel Masiko           Jan 01
 
Daryl Smith            Jan 01
 
Laura Long            2 years         Jan 04 2017
Richard Sniscak    6 years         Jan 13 2012
Gail Micca              1 year           Jan 31 2018
 
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