East Palestine Rotary News 9/8/08

JOKE OF THE WEEK

These classifieds actually ran in newspapers - a smile for your day...

FREE YORKSHIRE TERRIER.
8-years old. Hateful little bastard. Bites!

FREE PUPPIES:
1/2 Cocker Spaniel, 1/2 sneaky neighbor's dog.

FREE PUPPIES..
Mother, AKC German Shepherd.
Father, Super Dog...able to leap tall fences in a single bound.

FOUND DIRTY WHITE DOG.
Looks like a rat. Been out a while.
Better be a big reward.

COWS, CALVES: NEVER BRED.
Also 1 gay bull for sale.

NORDIC TRACK
$300 Hardly used, call Chubby.

GEORGIA PEACHES
California grown - 89 cents/lb.

JOINING NUDIST COLONY!
Must sell washer and dryer $300.

WEDDING DRESS FOR SALE .
Worn once by mistake. Call Stephanie.

And the best one?:

FOR SALE BY OWNER:
Complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica, 45 volumes. Excellent condition. $1,000 or best offer. No longer needed,
Got married last month. Wife knows everything.

CLUB NEWS - 9/8/08

Attendance: Gary, Brad, Diana, Laura, Sondra, Bonnie, Sandy, Cliff, Kerri, Bob, Doug, Traci, Julie, Dave, Shirley, MaryAnn, Vicki, Mark.

Guests: Diego and Dave Martin who is the new Centenary Methodist Church minister.

Happy Bucks: Sondra for her birthday, her anniversary and grandparents day. Gary for finding a dime heads up in the parking lot, discovering free parking at the Steelers Game, finding a quarter in the parking lot, good score for the Steelers.

Sad Buck: Doug for spending a weekend at a water resort and never seeing water.

Sandy reminded members to bring yard sale donations to the Community Yard Sale on September 20th.

Cross Country: We made $233.19 profit from the food trailer, $813.00 profit from the t-shirts. Total profit was $571.19 after paying for the trophies. Next year suggested buying 175 t-shirts.

Yard Sale: Cliff put up 2 large signs on State Route 14 and entrance to the park. Sondra wanted to know if Rotary is having a table - the first year we did, the second year we did not. Chairman Mark Taylor suggested just doing the Chinese Auction and not having a table to sell items.

Benches: Cliff brought in a form he picked up two (2) years ago at the International Convention. He said there is a funeral company that will make the benches for half the price.

Cliff put a grant in for $2,500.00.

Cliff has speaker ideas if you need them: 1) Boy Scouts, 2) YSU, and 3) Friendly Trapper (envelopes and business cards are in Cliff's possession)

PROGRAM

Doug had the program today and he spoke about his amazing adventure at Sandusky for his Governor's training and Zone Meeting. Doug said this past week gave him a new appreciation for Rotary. He passed around the books and literature he received at the meeting. He said they worked 10 hours per day. He learned of some easy fundraisers, i.e. getting Interact Club to get people to put change in a container outside of an event (no cost and Interact gets involved with this). Membership: need new members and need to retain the members we have. Focus on keeping members, diversity and having good programs. Mentoring - each club should have a mentor to assist in new members. He said "get you ask in gear". He got to know two (2) people from Evanston, Illinois, which he plans on using in the future. RI is introducing a new pilot program - 100 Club Pilot Program which he didn't like because RI would tell us how to spend our money - District funds would go to major projects. There is a PR Grant available for billboards, radio, television, etc. Doug said he was very inspired from all of this and he thanked our Club for our support and help.