Next Meeting
When............ August
11, 2009 at noon
Where.......... The
Franklin Hotel
Program...... DG Fred Cholet’s Official Visit
Coming
Events
Aug 18......... Sandy Jones — Herkimer
County Public Health, “It Takes a Man to Be a Dad”
Aug 22......... Arrival of Youth Exchange
Student
Aug 25......... Rome Hospital, (Topic
Pending)
Sep 01.......... Rome Bowl
Sep 08.......... Lauren Getek, Rome Arts
and Community Center
Sep 13.......... Rotary Eastern Fellowship
Dinner in Rochester with RI President John Kenny
Sep 22.......... Rome Memorial Hospital
(Topic Pending)
Sep 25–27.... Annual District Conference at
the Desmond Hotel in Albany
Sep 29.......... Jim Brown, “The Future of
Rome”
Oct 06.......... Denise Smith, Director of
Patient Services at Hospice
Oct 13.......... International Students on
ISD
Oct 24.......... International Student Day,
Dr. Cantor
Dec 04......... Rome Rotary’s 90th
Anniversary Celebration at The Beeches (PDG Mike Occhipinti)
Attendance: Total Membership: 97. Absent
or [Excused or Exempt]: Adamo, Bahr,
Bauer, Bird, Bottini, Burch, Burns, Cantor, Carey, Carnevale, Conway, Coon,
Corbett, [DiPerna], Evans, Faldzinski, Fariello, Glasso, Henry, Kaucher,
Lockwood, Martin, Mattacola, Mattson, [Mercurio], Miller, Moore, Neiley C,
Neiley N, Nolan, O'Hair, Pendergrast, Ramineni, Ramos, Recco, Riley,
Roubian, Rouillier, Schonewetter Do, Simons J, Simons K, Smith,
Speicher, Taylor, Toukatly, Townsend, Tracy, Trela, Tuthill K, Weber,
Wolf.
Guests and Visiting Rotarians:
Guests: John Smith (Costianes); David Volz (Geller). Rotarians: None.
After-Work Meeting 7/30: Rotarians: Carey, Corbett, Graves, Gray,
Herrmann V, Herrmann WR, Midlam, Ramos, Rouillier, Schonewetter De,
Schonewetter Do, Trela, Tuthill K.
50/50: Carla Till won the
50/50 but drew the Five of Diamonds. You have to play to win!
Make-ups: Mattacola (RACC 7/23); Costianes (Civil War Reenactment
8/1, 8/2); Panara (KC Bingo 7/29); Adamo [4], Bahr [4], Baker [4], Bauer [2],
Bird [3], Bottini [3], Burch [1], Burns [3], Butters [6], Carey [2], Carnevale
[1], Cole [1], Coon [3], Corbett [3], Costianes [2], Dailey [2], DeSimone [5],
Donovan [12], Faldzinski [2], Fariello [1], Fay [6], Foreman [1], Fusco [12],
Geller [2], Glasso [1], Graves [10], Gray [2], Hairston [2], Haritatos [1], Herrmann
V [1], Herrmann WR [4], Kahler J [5], Kahler R [5], Kaucher [2], Kobernuss
[12], Latimer [7], Mammolito [1], Martin [1], Matt [2], Mattacola [4], Mercurio
[2], Midlam [4], Mooney [8], Neiley C [2], Neiley N [6], Nolan [1], Normand
[3], Occhipinti [3], Packer [2], Pendergrast [3], Puma [1], Ramos [8], Rapke
[1], Reames [3], Recco [2], Riley [1], Rouillier [9], Schonewetter De [12], Schonewetter
Do [9], Simons J [1], Skogland [5], Smith [2], Sperlik [3], Summers [1],
Swinney [1], Taylor [2], Till [2], Townsend [3], Tracy [3], Trela [3], Tuthill
K [8], Tuthill W [4], Versace [2], Weber [2], Weed [2], Winberg [6] (Canalfest).
Happy Birthday in August to: Jim Donovan (29); Chris Neiley (17); Donna Occhipinti
(18); Maria Ramos (30); Joe Riley (9), and Harry Winberg (21).
Anniversaries of Rome Rotary
Membership in August: Rhonda Bauer (2008); Ron Cantor (2004); Barb Evans
(3002); Dan Faldzinski (2008); Carol Mooney (2007); Al Panara (2004); Tony
Recco (2003); Joe Riley (1966); Jeff
Simons (2007); and Bill Tuthill (1983).
Quote of the Week: "When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long.
Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes
are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your
power." — Phyllis Bottome, 1884-1963, Novelist and Lecturer.
Rotary
Information
Sharing Rotary
with New Members — Are
your aware of the responsibility or obligation that most Rotarians fail to
perform? It is paying their dues? Attending meetings? Contributing to the
club’s service fund? Participating in club events and projects? No, none of
these!
Of all the obligations a person
accepts when joining a Rotary club, the one in which most Rotarians fail is
sharing Rotary. Rotary International clearly supports the position that every
individual Rotarian has an “obligation to share Rotary with others and to help
extend Rotary by proposing qualified persons for Rotary club membership.” It is
estimated that fewer than 30 percent of the members of most Rotary clubs have
ever made the effort to propose a new member. Thus, in every club, there are
many Rotarians who rarely share their positive experiences of Rotary membership
with other individuals.
The RI Constitution states with
respect to club membership: “Each club shall have a well-balanced membership in
which no one business or profession predominates.” One merely has to glance
through the pages of the local telephone or chamber of commerce directory to
realize that most clubs have not invited qualified members of all business and
professions into Rotary. One of the founding principles of Rotary is a fair and
equitable representation of the professional and business population of the
community it supports. To remain relevant Rotary clubs must include all professional
and businesses within a community. Clubs can further expand the diversity of
their membership by making sure that their membership also reflects the local
business and professional community in terms of gender, age, and ethnic
background.
Only a Rotarian may propose a
customer, neighbor, client, supplier, executive, relative, business associate,
professional, or other qualified person to join a Rotary club. Have you accepted
your obligation to share Rotary? The procedures are very simple, and everyone
must know at least one person who should belong to Rotary.
[Rotary ABC’s, RI 2006, p. 13]
Editor’s Note: August is Membership and
Extension Month. With the wonderful opportunities of sharing Rotary with our
community through Canalfest (and all who worked did so), don’t forget to follow
through with those who asked you about Rotary or showed an interest in our
club.
Announcements
and Events
·
Rotary shirts have arrived. Virginia Herrmann
will have them at meetings. Please bring cash or a check to pick up your order.
·
Juan Carlos Rincon Moreno, our newest RI Youth Exchange
student is arriving in Rome in from Venezuela. Let’s give him a warm welcome.
For information on becoming a host family contact Chris or Nancy Neiley, nneiley@aol.com, or 827-4303.
·
Bruce Melnick (“The Doc of Rock”) is our newest
member. Please welcome him at our meetings and events when you see him.
Canalfest
Canalfest is now over and it was another
spectacular event. The weather was not overly cooperative, but the crowds were
still good and everyone had a good time at the event.
There
were 75 Rotarians serving over the weekend who put in about 1,056 hours of
service. This does not include the 1,000+ hours put in by other volunteers from
the Interact Club, JROTC, Civil Air Patrol, and the numerous family members who
gave us generous amounts of their time.
Canalfest Chair Jim Donovan shared a humorous
story about all of the hoops he had to jump through to make the water events to
be possible. It is almost unbelievable that all of the obstacles put in place
by “the Great State of New York” were overcome. The Club owes a special debt of
thanks to NY State Senator Joe Griffo who enabled us to get all of the
necessary permits in the face of fierce opposition from the involved state
departments.
Program
Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Authority
David Lupinski
Dave spoke to us
today about the Authority and more specifically, about the land fill in Ava.
This land fill only accepts waste from Oneida and Herkimer counties.
The land fill in
Ava opened in October of 2006 after being selected from many potential sites.
Over 1,000,000 yards of material were moved to construct it. There is a complex
double layer liner to protect the ground water and adjacent environment. The
land fill has an expected life expectancy of 62 years. The liquid that leaches
out of the land fill is collected and then trucked to local treatment facilities.
There is about 10 million gallons of such liquid each year.
“Thank you” Dave for the update and for all
your hard work.
Cindy
Roubian, Editor
PP Dennis
Schonewetter, Technical Editor
