The Rotator - Archive  Mar 21, 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, Mary Black, Shirley Conway, Ann Margaret Ferrate, Sal Frontiero, Julie Geary, Dave Kenney, Julie LaFontaine, Kevin McAveeney, Bruce Nicholls, David Olson, Ruth Pino, Marc Sandler, Michael Sarraf, Tom Siemers, Don Sudbay Jr. , and Becky Sumner.   Today's attendance is 36 present with 0 makeups out of 53 members for an average of 68%.

     Meeting Report: Gloucester Rotary Club                                           March 25, 2006

Visiting Rotarians

    Chase Kierse from the Rockport Club and  Brian McCook from the East Longmeadow Club.  Brian will be joining our club shortly.  Welcome Brian!

Guests of Rotarians

    No guests of Rotarians were reported today. 

Interact Club

    Interact members were not present today .

Makeups

    No makeups were reported today.

 Birthdays & Anniversaries

    David Slade and Charlie Foster both celebrated their birthdays today. 

Vacations

    Charlie Foster spent a quick 6 weeks fishing and sunning himself at Florida's Marco Island. Jim Marr went to Bangor, Maine.  Matt Langis went to Palm Springs, Carole Sharoff went to Annapolis and Rick Doucette went to Las Vegas.

Happy Thoughts

     Jon Morse and John Dugger  were both  happy for the GHS Hockey Team's win.  Todd Tanger was happy to be able to broadcast the game on his station.  Steve Kaity was happy the GHS Drama Club  went to the semi-finals with their own original production.  The drama club did not win, but is having their play copyrighted.   Steve was also happy that National Grid donated a $1000 to the Stage Fort Park Project.  Greg Bover was happy for an old fashioned birthday song, alla Herb Goodick.  Greg was also happy to have been visiting Lexington, Virginia where there are two Rotary Clubs with a combined membership of 120 members.

    Fines

      President Jim gave out the traditional seat belt fine, and the same stubborn Rotarians paid up yet again.  Calendar, haircut,  and pin fines were also issued.  Pat Thorpe was fined for giving unsolicited advice to today's Life Reflection speaker, Mark Grenier.

     Club News

      April 1st  Fools Wanted! Our  first Spaghetti Supper fundraiser will be held on Saturday, April 1st (April Fool's Day) at 4 P.M. at the Rose Baker Senior Center.  Please save the date!  Help is needed to serve and help with the cleanup.  Please show up at 3:30 pm to help out with the setup Check with Ruth Pino and Cheryl Collins to sign up. 

     The Shop'til You Drop fundraiser is off and running.  Please plan on working the Rotary table at Shaw's Eastern Avenue or Railroad Avenue.  Supplies are kept on location, just take a minute to sign up with Steve Kaity or Leo Bergeron,  or just drop by, check with the store manager,  and start selling whenever you have some free time.  The drawing date is April 30, and the drawing location will be the Gloucester Pride Stride event at Good Harbor Beach.  The shopping spree will be on May 13 at the Eastern Avenue Shaw's at 6:30 in the morning, yes 6:30 am.  The fundraiser is one of our largest, we need participation from all members.  The Stage Fort Park Playground Re-Construction Project will benefit from the money raised. 

      May 6 (Saturday) is the date for us to assemble to maintain the band stand at Stage Fort Park.   This "sprucing up the bandstand" is a yearly event.  The job involves scraping paint, painting, and landscape work.  Members can come for an hour, early or late, just plan on helping out, please! The work is done in the morning and is completed by noon.

      May 6th is also the date for the Rotary Track Meet being held at Beverly High School.  The meet is usually held in Gloucester, but the GHS field is wet so the meet is  going to be held in Beverly.   Rotarians are needed to help out with running the event.  Please see George Roark, who is coordinating the event. 

Winners and Losers...  Mark Grenier gave a Life Refection today. Mat Langis won the money, and Bruce Bain won the flowers.  No winners today in the card raffle.

Speakers....  Today, our head server Ellen Tasker of Classic Cooks  pitched in and gave an impromptu " Classification Speech."  Thank you Ellen for telling us a little bit about yourself.