Meeting Minutes - March 13, 2014

Attended: Laurie, Danny, Bill, Margarita, Andrea, Ron, Miriam, Dayna, Jennifer, Shannon, Sonja, Gina
  - 12 members

Guests Pat Cassidy

New Member: Brandon Watson

Discussion about the Northern Assemby on April 12. District conference from May 15-17.

Social moved from March 20 to Friday, March 21st.  PLEASE RSVP TO CHRIS CASPER AT CHRISTINE.E.CASPER@GMAIL.COM OR TEXT TO 801.550.7706.

Service at Sunnyvale still need coverage for March 21 and April 4. Babysitting has been a little challenging and need to plan ahead if you are signed up.

Gina brought her new daugher for an introduction,

Looking into a social and service at Deer Valley for skiing at the end of the year.

Miriam reported that we have sent the money to Cambodia for the water treatment project.

Margarita did a presentation about her work, life, and travels to Botswana.

Rotary Club of Millcreek Meeting Minutes - March 6, 2014

Attendees:  Chris Casper, Danny Schoenfeld, Susan Marks, Dayna Revetti, Laurie Sumers, Ron Stevens, Chaz Boynton, Bill Kille, Shannon Tille, Margereta Hjorth-Vlasic, Ladd Tanner, Sonia Woodbury, Stephanie Chard, Judy Zone, John Zone, Marlin Clark, Jenny Ferguson - 17 members

• Four Way Test
• Update on Sunnyvale and babysitting service
• Sunnyvale kids are selling girl scout cookies - see Judy Zone e-mail for details 
• Member committee encouraged all of us to invite friends to meetings and socials.  Margereta Vlasic is our highlighted member on March 13 and will be speaking about her life and her recent return visit to Botswana
• Member highlights:
• Stephanie Chard
• Ron Stevens
• Both of these members are outstanding individuals and shared great stories about their lives.  We look forward to getting to know them better
• NEXT MEETING - MARCH 13 - CAFE MADRID
• NEXT SOCIAL - FRIDAY, MARCH 21 AT CHRIS CASPER'S HOUSE - 1060 VISTA VIEW DRIVE.  RSVP TO CHRIS BY MARCH 17 SO SHE CAN ASSIGN FOOD ITEMS.  MORE DETAILS TO COME

A big thank you to Sunnyvale Center babysitters!

Here is a shout out to our club members who have volunteered to babysit at Sunnyvale Welcome Center for the kids of refugee moms and dads taking a financial literacy course on Friday nights!

We still need volunteers for Friday March 21 and Friday April 4. Please contact Frank Lilly, our Community Service Chair, if you can help! francis.lilly@gmail.com

Friday February 21, Charles Boynton, Shannon Tilly and Shannon's mother-in-law babysat!
Friday, February 28: Mustafa Celebi, and Hannah Barkey (one of our Rotaracters) babysat!
Friday March 7: Dayna and Joe Revetti are helping
Friday March 14: Two of our Rotaracters: Hannah Barkey and Rachel Robertson are babysitting!
FRIDAY MARCH 21 - We still need helpers!
Friday March 28: Club President Laurie Summers-Pisani and President Elect Frank Lilly are on!
FRIDAY APRIL 4: We still need helpers!
Friday April 11: Miriam and Steve Barth are sitting!

We have a great partnership with Sunnyvale Center! Thank you members and Rotaracters for your support!

ROTARY CLUB OF MILLCREEK - MEETING NOTES - FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Attendees: Dayna, Frank, Liz, Charles, Laurie, Bill, Frank, Jennifer,Shannon, Danny, Ladd, Ron, Sonja, Andrea, Susan, Miriam - 16 attendees

• A Century of Service the is a book of Rotary. It was recommended that we read a chapter each month and report back to the club in a short report.
• For new service ideas the board has asked that we write them up and send them ahead of time for their review.
• Gina thanked the club for the $110 in Happy Bucks. 
• We are still looking for volunteers for the Sunnyvale 5:30 to 7:00 for the next several Fridays.
• Ladd talked about a possible ski social for the club. Details will be forthcoming.
• There is still an interest in a possible international trip. The club is still discussing a location and time. 
• Charles and Andrea gave a Rotary highlight about the professional and personal lives. 

PROJECTS, FUN SOCIALS AND MEMBER HIGHLIGHTS

MEETING AT CAFE MADRID - 5:30-6:30PM

ATTENDEES:  CHRIS CASPER, STEPHANIE CHARD, CHAS BOYNTON, LINDA BOOK, DANNY SCHOENFELD, LADD TANNER, LAURIE SUMMERS, DAYNA REVETTI, SUSAN MARKS, BILL KILLE, LIZ SHERLOCK, JENNIE FERGUSON, RON STEVENS, MARGARETA VLASIC, JUDY ZONE, MARLIN CLARK, MIRIAM BARTH - 17 MEMBERS

GUEST:  REGAN SUTALO 

CHRIS CASPER AND BILL KILLE GAVE OVERVIEWS OF THEMSELVES AND THEIR CAREERS - It is alway fun to learn about our members.

Group agreed social meetings will be coordinated with volunteer events.  A sign up sheet went around to volunteer to host dinner at your house.  

PLEASE MARK THE FOLLOWING DATES:

FEBRUARY 28 NOTE THIS IS A FRIDAY NIGHT- LADD TANNER'S HOUSE - 7935 DANISH RIDGE WAY, SLC.  BRING  a $10 donation for refugee socks and boots

MARCH 20 -   CHRIS CASPERS HOUSE - 1060 VISTA VIEW DRIVE, SLC - POTLUCK AND PIZZA.  Bring a kid's incentive to share with the kids at Sunnyvale.  Judy Zone will be sending a list of projects and the list of needed incentive items is in this document

We also reviewed other projects for Sunnyvale - watch for an e-mail from Judy Zone

OUR HAPPY BUCKS FOR THIS MEETING WENT TO MEMBER - GINA COLEMAN, TO ASSIST WITH HER TRIP TO INDIA IN 7 DAYS TO ADOPT A BABY GIRL.  WE COLLECTED $190 - ALL THE BEST AND SAFE TRAVELS GINA.  WE ARE VERY HAPPY FOR YOU!!! 

All RCMC members left with smiles - another fun night of friends, food and facilitating improving the lives of refugee youth in our Millcreek community.

Worthwhile projects from Sunnyvale Welcome Center for our club to consider

Ellie Goldberg and staff from the Sunnyvale Welcome Center has given us this list of worthwhile and much needed service projects for our club to consider. Excited to talk about these projects at our next business meeting!

To contact Ellie directly: EllieG@aau-slc.org or 801-590-9746

1.       Projects that need funding:

a.       We are in need of an Interpreting Fund. Although English is the official language of the center as we help build the language capacities of our students and families, we need funding to pay interpreters.  Activities in which we need interpreters and translators include our bi-monthly partnership with the Mobile Health Clinic, home visits with families, parent engagement nights, tobacco prevention activities, and outreach for all new and existing programs.  Interpreters and translators cost $25/hour. 

We calculate that for the Mobile Health Clinic interpreting, we will need 2-3 interpreters for 6 hours in February, April, June, August, October, and December totaling between $1800-$2700.  Is assisting families receiving free basic health care something the club would want to support?

2.       Item drives:

a.       A lot of our kids need shoes and boots appropriate for the winter. We currently have lots of kids wearing flip flops and sandals in the cold weather. I connected with a girl who works at a shoe store who could measure the kids and then Rotary could do a drive for the shoes.

b.      We are in need of a new whiteboard in the back classroom. We were so pleased to receive the wet erase board from your club (through U of U surplus), however, over the past year, it has literally ‘eaten’ every marker we’ve used on it. We would really benefit from having a dry erase board (used or new) instead of a wet erase that tends to be not-user friendly.

c.       We are always using our school supplies and could use a drive for crayons, pencils, erasers, markers, glue, kid scissors, rulers, flashcards, workbooks/coloring books, educational movies, construction paper, notebooks, binders, etc.

d.      Youth incentives:  each day, we give the youth incentives for good behavior, good grades, helping each other and the teachers, etc. We could use things like small gift cards ($5), chapstick, lotion, earbuds (they have them at the dollar store!), small toys, baseball caps, colored pens, etc.

3.       Hands-on service:

a.       Schedule a project a month till the end of 2014: The third Thursday of the month would be good for us. We can come up with ideas monthly, based on whether or not you are also doing a drive or what your needs are for the month. 

b.      We do need babysitters for our upcoming Financial Literacy class with the Somali Community. Starting February 21, we will need babysitters every Friday from 6-7pm (for 8 weeks). We provide materials, snacks, supplies, toys, etc.  We would need the babysitters to fill out a volunteer application/background check if they haven’t done this already.

c.        We need people to drive families to Parent Teacher Conferences at Roosevelt, Granite Park Jr. High, and Cottonwood High School the week of February 10^th. (Days TBA, times from 4-7pm). We require that drivers provide us with their driver’s license, car insurance so we can make a copy for the file and waive liability. 

d.      We love to take the kids on field trips and could use assistance getting the kids to Jazz Games, U of U sports activities, and other recreational activities that your club could sponsor.

ROTARY CLUB OF MILLCREEK - OFF TO A GREAT 2014

Meeting notes:  January 16, 2014

Attendees:  Chris Casper
Sam Casper - guest
Miriam Barth
Kris Sardaky - guest
Bill Kille
Chas Boynton
Ladd Tanner
Judy Zone
Frank Lily
Danny Schoenfeld
Christine Helfrich - guest
Marty Gelman
Laurie Summers
Margereta Vlasic
Gina Coleman
Susan Marks
Jenny Ferguson
Marlin Clark
Sonia Woodbury
Stephanie Chard
Ellie Goldebry - guest

19 members attended with three guests

Three Topics:

SAM CASPER gave a readout and presentation on his humanitarian trip to Guatemala.  Great presentation and photos.  Our club helped sponsor his trip and should be proud of helping to create a lifelong humanitarian

MARLIN CLARK gave an awesome read out on who he is, what he does, and shared some funny stories about being African-American in Utah.  He shared photos of his very loved family, information about his career as Dean of Students at SLCC, and other insight into his personality and inters test.  Nice update.  We can't wait to have a social at his southern plantation

ELLIE GOLDBERG gave updates on Sunnyvale Community Center and what RCMC has done to help as well as shared opportunities to volunteer.  We are very proud of this project and our success to date.

JENNY FERGUSON MADE US AWARE OF OUR SOCIAL MEETING FOR JANUARY..

JOIN US FOR DINNER AND DRINKS ON JANUARY 30 AT STELLA'S ON 900 EAST AND 4291 SOUTH

FINALLY, DUES ARE DUE - PLEASE PAY NOW!!!