The Rotator - Archive  Mar 9, 2004

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		Officers & Directors		2003-2004
		President		Greg Bover
		President Elect		Joe Ciolino
		Treasurer		Jon Morse, CPA
		Secretary		Samuel J. Miceli
		Asst.Secretary		Carole Sharoff
		Directors	Jim Marr- Club Service	Bruce Horne-Vocational Service
			DonSudbayJr.-CommunityService	Steve Dexter-At Large Mary Black -At Large
			Sinikka Nogelo -International Service	Joe Ciolino-Pres. Elect
The Rotary Club of Gloucester, MA, U.S.A.		District 7930 Governor Paul E. Nader Sr.
Chartered 1923	"Where Route 128 Begins"	District Website: wwww.Rotary7930.org

Missed and Missing... Steve Curcuru, Steve Dexter, Bill Mantz, Dave McArdle, Jim McKenna, Sinikka Nogelo, Bob O'Maley, Ruth Pino, Marc Sandler, John Scuccimarra, Pat Thorp, and Sue Todd.  Today's attendance is 43 present with 0 makeups out of 54 members for an average of 82%.

Meeting Report: Gloucester Rotary Club                             March 9, 2004

Visiting Rotarians

      Alan Brown, John Thompson, and Jay Smith were visiting from the Rockport Club.

Guests of Rotarians

      Donna Morris had Erica Hansen, President of the Cape Ann Business Incubator & our guest speaker today, as her guest.

       Jim Marr had Marine Chief Warrant Officer Murth, and ROTC  Marine Second Lieutenant Angela Griffin as his guests today.

Interact Club

     Interact members present today are: Nicole Thompson, Christine O'Brien, Justine Miller, and Second Lieutenant Angela Griffin.  Nicole spoke about her school activities and future college plans.

Makeups

      No makeups were reported today.

Happy Thoughts

      Brad Pierce told the story about his drill team days when he put his bayonet thru his foot during a drill team practice, ending his career on the drill team.  Brad - was alcohol involved?

      Steve Kaity was happy that the club applied for a $20,000 federal grant to help build the handicap accessibility to our Centennial Project.  Steve thanked Josh Arnold for helping to sort out and file the grant on time.  On the same note, Joe Paris and team completed the club/city application to go before the Conservation Commission to get permission to start pruning and cutting trees.  The pieces are starting to fall in place!

     Josh Arnold was happy that his father is celebrating his 86th birthday.  Josh is also happy that his daughter's team won their division championship.

     John Dugger was happy to have the opportunity last Sunday to walk Good Harbor Beach (voted Best Public Beach North of Boston by Boston Magazine!) in the beautiful Ward 1 of Gloucester.

      Don Sudbay also shared Good Harbor Beach with his two daughters last Sunday also.

      David Slade was happy to have participated the bowling for food at the Cape Ann Bowling center, a fund raiser put on by the Interact Club.

      David Stotzer was happy to have helped in raising 178 pounds of food at the Interact bowling event.

      Julie Sidon was happy that maple sugaring has started up at the farm.  Julie was sad that she will not be at the farm for the sugaring.

     Anniversaries & Birthdays

       No anniversaries or birthdays were reported today.

Fines

       President Greg gave out a pin fine.

       Cheryl Collins paid an advertising fine.

       Late fines were assessed today.

       David McKechnie fessed up to forgetting his stint at Shaw's last week, leaving Mary Black solo to sell tickets.

Vacations

     Joe Parisi went to Florida last week and managed to make the Red Sox and Yankee preseason game at spring  camp.

A Rotary Moment

    The next Rotary Moment will be given by Don Sudbay Jr., followed by Becky Sumner and Pat Thorpe.

Club News

    Jim Marr presented a check to Marine Chief Warrant Officer Murth, and ROTC  Marine Second Lieutenant Angela Griffin to help send the the Gloucester ROTC Drill Team to National Competitions later this year. Good luck to the team.

     The club will assemble on May 8th at the Stage Fort Park Band Stand for the annual fixer-upper.  Please sign up with Joe Parisi.

     April 28th is the District Conference.  Officers of the club are asked to attend.  The conference is in Danvers and starts at 3:15 pm.  Don Sudbay is putting together a van for a car pool. Please contact Joe Ciolino to sign up.  The Club will pay all expenses for attendees.

     Remember that the next meeting on Tuesday, March 16, will be at C. B. Fisk on Kondelin Road in Magnolia. Please allow a good 15 minutes travel time to get there.  President Greg will be hosting the day's events, which will feature cranking up his latest organ before it gets shipped.  Greg has promised to serve up something green in honor of St. Patty Day!

Winners and Losers... No won the beverage of choice, Mary Black won the money, and John Dugger won the flowers.  No winners today in the card raffle.

Speakers....  Donna Morris had Erica Hansen, President of the Cape Ann Business Incubator, as our guest speaker today. Erica spoke about how Federal laws apply between employer and employee.

Lunch Rating...   Meals will be rated by 5 stars, with 5 stars being the best. Today we dined on chicken parm sandwich and french fries.  The dinners at my table gave the food 5 stars.  When asked what would improve the meal the dinners suggested it was fine.

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