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:

MEETING MINUTES - SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

ATTENDEES:  Christine Casper, Andrea White, Paul Holliday, Ladd Tanner, Ron Stevens, Charles Boynton, Shannon Tilly, Bill Kille, Marlin Clark, Susan Marks, Dayna Revetti, Judy Zone, Liz Sherlock, Margereta Vlasic, Miriam Kramer, Sonia Woodbury, Marty Gelman - 17 attendees

• Ladd Tanner ran the meeting and opened with happy bucks - we have a lot of people that have turned bad things into good showing hope and good attitudes.   What a great Rotary Club.
• Several events were announced around Millcreek/Salt Lake City
• YMCA Annual fundraiser on October 23 - Ron Stevens and Marlin Clark are both on the Board and will share data/invitations
• Sonia Woodbury is a guest speaker on building a sustainable community.  The series can be found at TEDX2.0 Salt Lake City
• Shannon Tilly's dad and brother build homes in Nicaragua.  They will come to a future meeting to share their project with us.
• We officially welcomed new members LIZ SHERLOCK AND CHARLES BOYNTON.  They were given new member packets, a flag and their Rotary pin.  Please welcome these two new members
• The rest of the meeting was spent on our annual fundraiser, "Wine into Water."  Judy Zone will reach out via e-mails with reminders on assignments, etc.  Net-net:
• Sell four tickets and plan to attend
• Arrive at Laurie's at 4:30 to help set up on Friday, September 20th
• Bring an appetizer for 12-15 people - be sure to e-mail your appetizer choice to Gina Coleman so we don't have duplicates 
• Our next meeting is Thursday, September 12 at Cafe Madrid at 5:30