Millcreek Holiday Party was so much fun & so much service!

Rotarians enjoyed a holiday get together on December 5th at Judy Zone's home. In addition to the food and fun, members brought dozens of kids' books, coloring books, socks, and other supplies for needy kids in Granite District. Thanks, President Elect, Frank Lilly for organizing!

In attendance were: Linda Book, Christine Casper, Mustafa Celebi, Stephanie Chard, Jason Collier, Jennie Ferguson, Pablo Fiesta, Marty Gelman, Bill Kille, Dayna Revetti, Susan Marks, Danny Schoenfeld, Liz Sherlock, Ron Stevens, Laurie Summers-Pisani, Ladd Tanner, Shannon Tilly, John & Judy Zone - and ten guests.

Here are some photos of the festivities:

Four members attend Cuban cooking class for our November 19 social

Dayna Revetti, Andrea White, Liz Sherlock, and Jennie Ferguson enjoyed an evening of Cuban cooking and eating on November 19.

Millcreek Rotarians! Participate in Santa Sacks: Bring these items to our Holiday Party

Hi all:

I suggest we participate in this year's Santa Sacks Program, a service project of the Granite (School District) Education Foundation. School administrators and faculty refer students in need to this program. It's similar to Sub-for-Santa, but it also provides the basics too. 

There's overlap between the refugees we like to serve and the students who can benefit from this great annual program. They would really appreciate our help. Maybe we can gather some things for the program and bring them to the Holiday Party at Judy's in a couple weeks. 

The Foundation has had a successful year gathering supplies and volunteers, but here's what they still need:

Toothpaste

Toothbrushes

Coloring Books (from pre-K through 2nd Grade)

Socks (from ages 4 to 11)

Cash Donations

New Kid-friendly Books. It's short notice, but these folks might be good candidates for dictionaries in the coming years.

You can see that the needs are very basic. There are many families whose kids go to Granite Schools who struggle throughout the year. In fact, we work with some of them at the Sunnyvale Center. This is one more opportunity for us to continue our service to this community.

I will bring a big box. If we can gather the goods, unwrapped, at Judy's meeting, I will deliver them to the Granite Warehouse the next day. 

In the meantime, have a Happy Thanksgiving! 

Best

Frank Lilly

President Elect

Community Service Chair

FUN, FUN, FUN STUFF COMING UP WITH ROTARY CLUB OF MILLCREEK

Attendees:  Ladd Tanner, Susan Marks, Christine Casper, Laurie Summers, Marlin Clark, Frank Lilly, Danny Shoenfeld, Bill Kille, Stephanie Chard, Dayna Revetti, Liz Sherlock, Andrea White, Margereta Vlasic, Shannon Tilly - 14

Topics:

• November 19 - Cuban Cooking Social at Harman's at City Creek.   Sign up at www.harmonsgrocery.com/cookingschool.  If you have trouble with registration, call Dayna Revetti - 330.720.0915

• November 21 - Speed mentor/interview technique event with Rotaractors - see Stephanie Chard e-mail.  The event will be at 6pm at Westminster.  Please RSVP to stephanie@thetrainingtable.com

• No meeting on Turkey Day

•  RCMC Holiday Party Thursday, December 5 at Judy Zone's - details to follow

• Our membership committee gave a read out and reported on ideas for increasing membership for the Presidential Citation as well as for growth.  Kudos to Dayna Revetti, Bill Kille, Shannon Tilly, and Susan Marks for the best committee read-out we've had to date.  Ideas and updates included:

1. Increase membership
2. Develop and implement a new member orientation and mentor program
3. Increase retention
4. Increase attendance

More to come from this great committee.

Details being worked for December schedule as Cafe Madrid is booked.  For our service project, plan to purchase a toy and bring to a meeting to donate to Toys for Tots (unwrapped). Keep updated on the blog or watch for RCMC texts and e-mails.

LASTLY, DUES ARE DUE FOR 4TH QUARTER - PAY NOW!!!

Great social at Shannon's ~ Interesting program by her Rotarian dad!

Thanks so much, wonderful Millcreek Rotarian Shannon Tilly, for hosting club members at your home on Thursday, October 24 for enchiladas and pot luck. The food was fantastic, the turnout terrific, and the program by your dad - a Rotarian from Washington State - was very inspirational. What a great guy, and what a great Rotary Club - building homes for the poorest of the poor in Nicaragua.

In attendance: Mustafa Celebi, Marlin Clark, Gina Coleman, Paul Halliday, Bill Kille, Frank Lilly & his partner Robert Rhodes, Dayna Revetti, Danny Schoenfeld, Laurie Summers-Pisani & her husband Dave, Shannon Tilly and her husband Craig, Sonia Woodbury, John and Judy Zone, 6 Rotaracters, and Shannon's mom and dad, Earl and Barbara.

Here are some pics to remember the evening!

MEETING MINUTES - OCTOBER 10, 2013

Attendance:  Andrea White, Bill Kille, Charles Boynton, Dan Schoenfeld, Frank Lilly, Jennie Ferguson, Judy Zone, Laurie Summers-Pisani, Liz Sherlock, Ron Stevens,
Shannon Tilly, Susan Marks - 13 members

Raised $40 Happy Bucks

Dan will be in charge of sending texts to the group.  Chris Casper is working on final list to share with members on texts and cell numbers. 

Take attendance at ALL meetings and events for district info.  This is fixed effective July 1, 2013.  We will need to keep this a focus from here on.

Frank presented results from survey about service.
He will talk to Ellie at Sunnyvale about their specific needs.
A committee was formed for Sunnyvale:  Frank, Ron and Charles.  More may join.

Next meeting at Shannon's home on the 24th at 6:30   Rotaractors are invited.  Bring sides/drinks for dinner.  Shannon will make enchiladas.

RCMC Board Meeting - October 1, 2013

The Board met on October 1 and decided to create a standard agenda to be used to facilitate all our meetings.  I am posting here for our Club's input. 

• Social
• Welcome and thank yous
• Seargent at Arms Happy Bucks
• Community announcements
• Topic/Speaker
• Member spotlight
• Adjourn

MEETING MINUTES - OCTOBER 3, 2013

Attendees:  Christine Casper, Mustafa Celebi, Sonia Woodbury, Danny Schoenfeld, Margereta Vlasic, Miriam Kramer, Dayna Revetti, Susan Marks, Laurie Summers, Shannon Tilly, Andrea White, Chas Boynton, Ron Stevens, John Zone, Judy Zone

Guests:  Steve Barth
Special Guest:  Steve Skinner, District Governor

Welcome and happy bucks started our meeting.

The rest of the meeting was spent listening to our District Governor, Steve Skinner, present.  His focus was the Rotary International (RI) theme for this year - engage rotary, change lives.  He talked about the franchise of Rotary and the importance of following the requirements.  He commended our Club for their great energy and impact in our community.

Upcoming events will be posted on the blog.

See you next week, October 10, 2013 at Cafe Madrid.  The meeting will start at 5:30.

Upcoming Events

Club meetings are first & second Thursdays of each month, 5:30-6:30pm Cafe Madrid 5244 S Highland Dr Salt Lake City

October 10: Club Local Service Visioning Session. President Elect Frank Lily will be sending a survey about your local service ideas. Please return to him at least a week before this meeting.

Thursday, October 24, 6:30pm: Club Social and service info. Join us at Shannon Tilly's home 3554 East 3800 South for enchiladas. Shannon's Rotarian dad will visit with us about home building projects in Nicaragua.
October service project TBA.

November 7: Rotaracters speak to us about their Nepal trip.

November 14: Youthlinc Guatemala alum (& son of our club secretary Christine Casper) Sam Casper speaks to us about his local and international service.

For questions about all upcoming events, contact Club President, Laurie Summers-Pisani lelsummers3@msn.com.

2013 Wine into Water great memories & great thanks!

Our second annual wine tasting event to raise funds this year for clean water projects in Cambodia was bigger and even better than last year's benefit. Once again, club members pitched in to bring everything including an incredible assortment of delicious appetizers.

We want to thank Pago restaurant, Wasatch Academy of Wines, Kiler Grove & Castle Creek wineries, and High West Distillery for their participation in the tastings this year. Emily Graham and her accompanist provided beautiful guitar and vocals for our listening enjoyment. Assistant District Governor Derick Loyola pitched in as one of our sommeliers. And we cannot thank enough Club President Laurie Summers Pisani for letting us use her gorgeous backyard for the party!

As result of this group effort, this fundraiser is held at no cost to our club. Therefore 100% of the $5,500 contributed at the event will go directly toward international water projects and the local service efforts of our club.

Enjoy the photos, and see you next year!

2013 Wine into Water held Friday September 20: