Meeting Minutes July 17, 2014

Small but sincere attendance: Danny Schoenfeld, Laurie Pisani, Judy Zone, Shannon Tilly, Susan Marks, Charles Boynton. One guest: Alan Andersen, a potential new member.

Laurie Pisani will send out a text or email to members asking them to rsvp for the Aug 23 pool party at Linda Book’s home (see Upcoming Events) Let her know if you are bringing an appetizer, salad or dessert.

Angie Rowland, the Principal of the new International Charter School, has asked us if we can help them open the facility, moving in, cleaning, etc. sometime at the beginning of August. We have set a club service project for Thursday August 7^th. More information to come from either Danny or Frank.

We discussed that we missed our long standing partnership with Sunnyvale Welcome Center L Unfortunately, since Ellie Goldberg left, we have been unable to get a partnership going with the new director. 

Members asked if we could have Ellie Goldberg, who is currently working with women refugees on business initiatives, to come and speak to our club. President Frank would like to table this request till our October Service Retreat. Btw, Susan Marks will help Frank with the Retreat.

Susan and Shannon discussed the membership committee and the need for one more member of that committee. Also, the membership committee will call our members and ask them personally if they can come to the Mayor Ben McAdams program (and Membership Meeting) on Sept 11 and bring a friend.

We also talked about the importance of every single member attending the District Governor visit on August 28.

Alan Andersen, a potential new member and a Salt Lake tax attorney, introduced himself and talked a little about his background.

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves what Rotary is and why we joined.

Really meaningful words from the President of Patong Beach Rotary Club, Thailand.

Minutes of July 10, 2014 Club Business Meeting

1. Welcome new members Rose Defa and Amanda Torres!
2. Rotary Moment: Susan Marks and Laurie Pisani shared about wearing your pin, and how folks notice and ask you about it. Judy shared about traveling internationally & visiting Rotary Clubs & how that makes you understand how big Rotary is.
3. Reminder about Installation event at the Dodo this Saturday July 12 2-4pm. $30 p/p.
4. Linda Book’s swim party is on Saturday August 23, 6pm. Pot luck details to follow.
5. Random suggestions: Mustafa is an expert on clean energy and should present sometime. Perhaps the club should get polo or t-shirts.
6. Frank needs assistance in planning our Strategic Planning Retreat for October.
7. Our guest speaker was Sarah Ann Whitbeck, who suffers from hydrocephalus, and is a volunteer for the Hydrocephalus Association. She discusses the disease which has no cure, the age groups it effects, and the difficulties someone with the disease must struggle with. There is a Hydrocephalus Walk at Murray Park on Friday, Sept 12, registration at 5pm and walk at 6:15pm. Our club will support as our September service project.
8. Miriam discussed Chapter 2 of the Century of Service book on Rotary. This chapter talked about how Paul Harris started Rotary in Chicago as a networking group in 1905. The name “Rotary” grew out of the early club members’ decision to ‘rotate’ their meetings between each others’ offices. The membership grew and became quite exclusive. The organization got bad press because the membership seemed elite and only interesting in furthering their own business success. In response, the first Rotary Club took on service projects in the community as a core value. After one year, there were 140 members of the club.
9. Wine into Water update (Friday, Sept 26 starting at 5:30pm $50 p/p – members there at 4pm to set up):

• Judy reviewed the importance of members using the online payment system we will have to secure RSVPs before the event. Pay by credit card or check, but send names to Laura Egbert (Ladd’s accountant) beforehand to ease check-in. Invitations should be ready in mid-August.
• Frank will talk to Instant Payments about the system, and will make sure Laura Egbert or Ladd are good with downloading the excel format ‘backend’ of the webpage and adding RSVPs to ease check-in.
• Frank will recruit members for check-in.
• Ladd will secure wine and a sommelier from Pago, Jason will secure wine and a sommelier from Kiler Grove, Steve Barth will work with High West,  Laurie will get Wasatch Academy of Wines and one other wine tasting station that John Zone will pay for. We need Paul for grape juice!
• Rose Defa will ask her son to be our background musician. Plan B is the Barth’s neighbor.
• Laurie will pick up the 4 tables from the Youthlinc office.
• Andrea will bring a water dispenser and will donate 100 wine glasses for the event.
• Danny will buy two pop up tents for club use for this fundraiser going forward.
• Please check Judy’s previous email for your job for the event, and start asking friends to come!

1. Our July service project is the Rotary RAW bike race in Logan on Saturday July 26. Contact Shannon Tilly if you want to go shannon.tilly@hsc.utah.edu
2. We raised $31.54 in Happy $$ towards polio relief in the Polio Pig tonight.

See you on July  17 5:30pm at Café Madrid.

2013-2014 Rotary Club of Millcreek accomplishments!

In preparation for our installation dinner of our new Board this Saturday, here is a run down of all our club accomplished this past Rotary Year:

Local service

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Continued our commitment to Sunnyvale Welcome Center: 

     ‘Winter Games’, trip to the Leonardo, babysitting during financial literacy lessons for parents, participated in Girl Scout cookie drive, 

      donated hundreds of dollars in items: hygiene supplies, books and school supplies, socks, and ‘reward’ items.
 Participated in golf for diabetes, ‘Purge the Spurge’, donated benches

       for the Jordan River.

International service

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Used funds from our annual fundraiser, Wine into Water, to fund

      one deep water well in Cambodia in partnership with Logan Rotary Club 

      and the Rotary Club of Pursat, Cambodia.

·         Entered into a Global Grant proposal with Logan Rotary Club for water 

       and sanitation projects along the Amazon River in Peru.

Club service

·         Grew in membership by 4

·         Had socials every month at different members’ homes

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Attended Memphis the Musical, a cooking class, and a Cuban dinner

·         Held our Wine into Water fundraiser, with over 100 in attendance. All club members participated again in some way to make the event a huge success, raising over $5,000 for water projects.

Vocational service

·         Held a professional and personal mentoring meeting with our Rotaracters

·         Had members share about their professions and their lives at our business meetings

Youth service

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Supported a Rotaract Club (college Rotary) and an Interact Club (high school Rotary)

·         Sponsored a Youthlinc Service Year student (a member’s daughter) in her local service and international service to Kenya.

Rotary service

·         Had ‘Rotary moments’ at club meetings to learn about the history of 

      Rotary

·         Members attended District Conference and Northern Assembly

      One member attended the Rotary International Conference in Lisbon, Portugal

Attendees: Miriam Barth, Chas Boynton, Bill Kille, Jennie Ferguson, Susan Marks (and her daughter!), Shannon Tilly, Judy Zone, Frank Lilly, Margareta Hjorth-Vlasic, Sonia Woodbury, Dayna Revetti, Stephanie Chard, Danny Schoenfeld (13 members).  We were also joined by members of the Hispano-Latino Club: Azucena, Jesse, Rocio, Alfredo, Oscar, Alicia and Francisco. It was so great to have you!

Service Project 

Driving for Diabetes - 14 June 2014 - This is a fun day for a great cause. Email Danny with questions.

http://shop.drivingfordiabetes.com

We need a service chair! Please let Frank know if you would like to head this amazing committee, and to help organize service opportunities for July and August. 

We also need a representative from our club to sit on the District’s Polio Committee. They are planning a big promotion around Rotary Week (ending 25 October 2014) and they need our help!

Socials

Saturday, June 21: Stephanie is hosting a BBQ at her home, starting at 6:30pm.  Please BYOB and email her with what appetizer/side/dessert you'll be bringing.

Saturday, July 12: Installation Late Brunch/Brinner will be held at the Dodo at 2:00.

Saturday, August 9: Lawn and Swim Party at Linda's!  Party will start at 6pm. Please let Linda know if you have any lawn games to bring. More details to come.

RYLA

We are sponsoring two kids this year, giving them the option of contributing $50 or participating in two service projects. 

Wine into Water Update

We briefly discussed alternative dates and locations, due to numerous members unavailability for our original date.  We will continue to discuss next week at Stephanie's.

Judy is looking for someone to chair the Silent Auction.  Also, everyone should start thinking about what item you can donate for the silent auction (we are going to keep it small at 20 quality items). 

Presentation by Francisco Soto – Hispano-Latino Rotary Club

Francisco gave a wonderful presentation on their ongoing project "Casa Hogar La Paz," a home for elderly residents of Guanajuato, Mexico.  Our club is interested in helping by collecting monetary or in-kind donations (bedding, canes, adult diapers, dishes, hygiene kits, etc).  A proposal to our club was made to join the Hispano-Latino Club in a trip to this area of Mexico to visit Casa Hogar La Paz!  Sounds like a great opportunity!

Member Updates / Happy Bucks

Chas presented updates on The Draw, the Parley's Trail and Tunnel.  Contact him to make donations to help complete the artwork elements of this project.  

Miriam showed pictures and updated us on the water project in Cambodia that we helped sponsor with our Wine into Water fundraiser!  

She is proposing that this year's funds help us partner with the Rotary Club of Logan to fund a well in Peru.  She also discussed the possibility of a trip to Peru, in December 2015 (roughly $2500)!

Meeting Minutes- June 5, 2014

Attendees: Frank Lily, Stephanie Chard, Marlin Clark, Rose Defa, Danny Schoenfeld, Dayna Revetti, Chris Casper, Shannon Tilly, Ladd Tanner, Andrea White, Linda Book, Bill Kille, Jennie Ferguson, Patrick Casaday (visitor), Susan Marks, Sonia Woodbury, Margareta Hjorth-Vlasic (16 members)

Shannon brought 2 guests, long-time friends from Los Angeles, Patricia and Elisa Lansdowne, who helped her with her Rotary Moment, an amazing song to help us remember the 4-Way Test!

Socials

We had a great response from those who went to see Memphis last week.

Saturday, June 21: Stephanie is hosting our June social at her home, starting at 6:30pm.  Please BYOB and email her with what appetizer/side/dessert you'll be bringing.

Saturday, July 12: Installation Late Brunch/Brinner will be held at the Dodo at 2:00.

Saturday, August 9: Lawn and Swim Party at Linda's!  Party will start at 6pm. Please let Linda know if you have any lawn games to bring. More details to come.

Service

Friday, June 14: Drive for Diabetes golf outing.  Email Danny if you are interested: dnnschoenf@aol.com

RYLA

Sonia discussed the two candidates from City Academy, who we will help sponsor for RYLA this year. They sound like amazing students, and we discussed various ways that we can help support them participating in RYLA.

Membership

We discussed the possibility of extending membership invitations with reduced fees to current Rotaractors.  A formal proposal will be discussed next meeting.

There will NOT be a meeting on July 3.

June service project: Purge the Spurge

Hi Millcreek Rotarians:

 

For those of you that expressed interest in some habitat restoration in the Dry Creek area this Sunday, June 8, here are the details:

We will meet between 8 and 8:30 am just above the JCC parking lot (N Medical Drive). Frank is bringing coffee to get us jump-started!

Please be sure to bring gloves and wear long sleeves to protect yourself. You should also bring a digging implement (successful plant removal requires getting 4 inches of root). I will bring bags for plant disposal. 

At 8:30, we will hike up Dry Creek (not to the top) and work our way back down. We plan to finish by 10:30 am. If you have questions or have trouble finding us, please give me a call at 801 573-5387. Look forward to seeing you!

Best,

Andrea White

For more information go to http://www.purgeyourspurge.org/html/aboutUs.html