The Rotator - Archive  Jan 10, 2006

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	Officers
	Jim Marr Don Sudbay Jr. Jon Morse, CPA Cheryl Collins Rick Doucette Bruce Nicholls Carole Sharoff Joe Ciolino	------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------	President President Elect Treasurer Sergeants At Arms Secretary     Rotator Editor and      Internet Officer

District 7930 Governor - David Fionda

District Web site: www.Rotary7930.org

Missed and Missing... Josh Arnold, Greg Bover, Charlene Glynn, David Denney, Matt Langis, Mike Linquata, Rudy Macchi, Marc Sandler, and Sue Todd.  Today's attendance is 48 present with 1 makeup out of 55 members for an average of 88%.

     Meeting Report: Gloucester Rotary Club                                          January 10, 2006

Visiting Rotarians

    Brian McCook  was visiting from the East Longmeadow Club.

Guests of Rotarians

    David Olsen had Jody Gerstner and Dawn Caraway, our guest speakers today, as his guests.  Julie Geary had her sister Linda Geary as her guest, and Joe Ciolino had Don Smith as his guest.

Interact Club

    Interact members were not present today.

Makeups

    Kevin McAveeney made up at the Rockport Club. 

 Birthdays & Anniversaries

    Don Sudbay Jr. celebrated his birthday today.  No anniversaries were reported today. 

Vacations

     Scott Chernov had kind of a vacation, being home sick from work. Tony Corrao vacationed in Santa Bell Island, Florida.  Tony experienced the first frost in the area since 1970 while visiting!Sinikka Nogelo was happy to have both of her daughters living in Massachusett, and happy for a quick trip to New York with her daughters.  Steve Kaity was happy to have the Building Center donate another $1000 to  the club's Centennial Project.   Thank You Joe Parisi!  Steve was also happy with the expectation of $25,000 worth of playground equipment to be delivered in April.  Howard Frisch was happy to be featured in the January 29th Sunday Boston Globe.  The paper is planning a spread on Howard's clock collection. Congrats Howard!  Cheryl Collins is happy that her co-worker will be back to work after a 3 week sick leave.  Now Cheryl is free to "roam around the country".  Cheryl was also happy that her family enjoyed a performance of Blue Man Group.  Cheryl, did Steve and Dawn Dexter recommend the performance? They enjoyed it so much when the club went as as an outing.  (Or maybe not.....)

Happy Thoughts

     Dave Stotzer was happy he went to Wisconsin to help his father transfer  from one nursing home to another more comfortable one.  David McKechnie was happy his father's surgery went well.  Julie LaFontane was happy her hens are laying eggs again.  I guess there was a dry spell (for the rooster?) in the hen house for a while. 

    Fines

      Don Sudbay Jr., contributed to the new cars from Sudbay fine several time today.  Business must be good.  Don, talk to President Jim for a volume discount on those fines!  Tony Corrao was fined for having an employee drive a company truck without an inspection sticker.  President Jim gave out his weekly seatbelt fine. 

     Club News

     WE ARE UPDATING our Rotary Website. If you have not updated your bio, please take a few moments and do so.  Rotarians who have not had their mug shot taken for the website bio, please let me know. I am putting together a list for Fran Mondello to take the photo before our weekly meeting soon. New members for the last 6 months will all need to have their photos taken.  Please remember - only club members have access to the personal bios part of the website. 

Thanks, Joe    

Winners and Losers...  No one  gave a Life Refection today.  Bob Ryan won the money, and Tom Siemers won the flowers.  No winners today in the card raffle.

Speakers....  Dave Olson introduced our guest speakers, Jody Giestner, and Dawn Carraway.  Dawn and Jody spoke about the Get Connected Safe Homes for Gloucester, a program of parents  helping parents keeping children safe.