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May 6, 2008 - At our meeting today we distributed
checks from the "Score a Goal Against Hunger"
project cash donations to Sister Ann Marie Cauley
of the Saint Vincent De Paul Soup Kitchen, Major
Bea Connell of the Scranton Corps, Captain Patty
Richwine of the Wilkes-Barre Corps and our own
Captain Sheryl Hershey of the West Pittston Corps.
Doc Bishop also presented Sister Mc Cauley with
a personal donation. Our speaker for today was
Assistant Governor John Glaser from Cluster 6.
AG John spoke to us about the Polio Rose program
for raising money for the Polio eradication effort.
John explained that the final push to eradicate
Polio, which is still endemic in four countries.
Bill and Melinda Gates have made a challenge grant
of $100 million to Rotary for the next two Rotary
years. They will match every dollar Rotarians
pledge to Polio Plus up to the $100 million. The
intent is to not tax Rotarians with the burden
of donating the entire amount, but, have the community
help. This is where the Polio Roses come in, we
sell them to the public and the profits go to
Polio Plus. We will be selling the boxes of chocolate
roses made by Gertrude Hawk Candy for $2.00 less
than they are in the retail stores.
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May 5, 2008 - Doc, Marty and Ken Darby made the
final food delivery from the "Score a Goal
Against Hunger" project to the Wilkes-Barre
Salvation Army Corps today. Captain Patty Richwine
was on hand to receive the donation.
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February 5, 2008 - PDG Melanie Tek-Visgilio presented
the club with a banner to acknowledge the clubs
successful participation in the "Every Rotarian
Every Year" $100 per member and 100% participation
for last year. The club has had 100% participation
for the last five years or longer .
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January 2, 2008 - members Doc Bishop, Marty,
Dan Bishop, Ken Darby and former member Leo Davison
met for lunch at Bo Brothers in Forty Fort. There
was much reminiscing and frivolity including a
picture or two with Marty's dreadlocks that he
just couldn't leave St.
Thomas without.
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August 14 - Our speaker was Tom Grace, "Voice
of the Penguins". Tom brought along Nicole
Krutz, Manager of Ticket sales for the Penguins.
Tom's talk about the Penguins and his job was
very interesting and we found out he loves job.
No surprise there because it shows as it always
does when someone loves what they do. We also
had as our guest Sister Anne Marie McCauley from
the St. Vincent de Paul Soup Kitchen. We presented
Sister our check for $1,000 from our "Score
a Goal Against Hunger" project and another
$1,000 from Doc. Sister was very grateful to the
Rotary Club of Pittston, Doc and the Penguin organization.
We are also grateful to the Penguin organization
because without them the Score a Goal Against
Hunger project wouldn't be possible. Nicole helps
us with the ticket availability and the Penguin
organization really goes all out to help us make
the project a huge success each year. This coming
April 5th will be our fourth year with the project
and every year it gets better and better from
the standpoint of food collected, tickets sold
and money collected at the door.
Also President Marty reported to the club that
Barbara arrived home safe and sound.
Thursday is set up night for the Pittston Tomato
Festival "Bingo". We will be operating
the Bingo Friday, Saturday and Sunday and hope
for another successful fund raiser this year.
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August 7 - Today
was our District Governor's Official Visit to our
club. We also inducted our newest member, Captain
Tracy Keats. Tracy is the Commanding Officer of
the West Pittston Salvation Army Corps. The District
Governor performed the induction, Doc Bishop pinned
the Rotary wheel on Tracy and President Marty gave
Tracy her black marble and presented her with her
"Enthusiasm" plaque. Tracy stated she
was glad to be a member of the Pittston club because
we were a fun bunch. I wonder where she heard that!
During "Happy Thoughts" Doc told us he
would be glad when next week rolls around. When
quizzed about why, he said Bob Shaw would be back
and he wouldn't have to be Minister anymore and
Dan would be back and he wouldn't have to lead the
singing which he claims he isn't very good at. We
know how good Dan is though and we will be happy
to see him. Doc didn't say but I wonder how good
a Minister he is? Dan will be back for a few weeks
and then back to the old grindstone he goes.
The District Governor's talk centered around this
years theme of "Rotary Shares". He received
a hearty round of applause following his well prepared
speech. After the infamous "Presidents Minute"
we all headed for the barn until next Tuesday.
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July 31 - Today was Barbara's last meeting with
the club. She will return to Belo Horizonte, Minas
Gras,l Brazil on Monday August 6th. We had a nice
cake for Barbara with Bon Voyage in Portuguese
on it. There were a lot of sad faces and a few
tears as well, we will certainly miss her! President
Marty presented her with a Rotary International
banner from Salt Lake City to give to her Dad
who is now a Rotarian. He told us during his visit
it is because of us that he decided to join Rotary.
As if we needed any further reward for hosting
Barbara! She was a reward herself. A special thanks
to Grace Planck, Bob Shaw, the Costello's and
Passarella's for the outstanding jobs they did
as host families. Maybe Barbara made such a good
impression on the Costello's and Passarella's
that they too will become Rotarians. Well we can
hope!
August 6 - Today President Marty and our new
Sheriff (sergeant at arms) Jim Lewis had the pleasure
of bidding Barbara adieu at the airport. We thought
we would be putting her on a plane but the plane
was delayed and a limo service took her to JFK
so she wouldn't miss her connection in Miami.
Marty received an e-mail from Barbara informing
him of her safe arrival in Belo Horizonte, however,
when she got to JFK there were more delays and
they put her on a direct flight to Sao Paulo from
JFK. She arrived home on the flight she was supposed
to catch but by a circuitous route. The important
thing is she arrived home safe and sound! .
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On June 29, 2007 our
Installation Dinner was held at East Mountain Inn.
It was a small group of Pittston Rotarians in attendance
but we all had a good time. Past District Governor's
Tom and Melanie Tek-Visgilio were in attendance
as well as District Governor Elect Paul Muczynski,
Assistant Governor Art Peoples and his wife Sandy
who is our District Public Image Chair. We almost
had more visitors than us.
PDG Melanie installed the officers and president
Marty for his fourth time as president.
President Marty presented Doc Bishop with his pin
for the seventh Paul Harris Fellow award.
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On June 15th thru
the 21st president Marty and Lee attended the Rotary
International Convention in Salt Lake City. The
convention was held in the Salt Palace. The events
were nothing short of spectacular. There was great
entertainment Saturday night.
On Sunday morning we went to our third Northland
breakfast and afterwards attended a stellar performance
of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, a highlight of the
trip for sure.
On Monday evening we attended a Host Hospitality
Night at Heber Valley. Heber Valley is in the mountains
about an hours bus ride from the Salt Palace. There
were many events to keep us occupied, such as a
stage coach ride, knife and tomahawk throwing, Olympic
shooting and a few other things that I can't remember.
One thing I do remember is the tomahawk throwing
since I got a bulls eye on the first attempt. After
that I decided I couldn't do anything to better
that and relinquished the tomahawk to the next Rotarian.
After all the fun we had a barbeque which was just
delicious. Steak on the grille and all the rest
that goes with the steak or hot dogs and hamburgers
if you wanted them. Also on the same Host Hospitality
trip was Ivan Vianna from Brazil. Ivan is our Barbara's
Brazilian counselor. Ivan had his daughter-in-law
Claudia with him. Ivan's son is attending college
here in the states and Claudia is here with his
son. We all had a great time. We exchanged banners
with the Rotary Club of Heber Valley.
Tuesday took us to the Great Salt Lake and the Kennecott
Copper Mine. The Kennecott Copper Mine is the largest
excavation by man on earth. It is one of only two
man made objects visible from outer space. The other
of course being the Great Wall of China.
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Wednesday was the closing of the convention and
Lee and I went shopping.
Thursday we were journeying home and all went pretty
well until we landed at Avoca and one of our bags
didn't make it with us. Wouldn't you know that was
the one with my shaving kit! I was all prepared
for one of those blade shaves the next morning when
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Our Tuesday June 5th
meeting was very special. Barbara's Mother and Father
paid us a visit from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gras,
Brazil. As special as it was the meeting was made
even more special when Barbara's Dad informed us
he had become a Rotarian. He claims, according to
Barbara's interpretation anyway, it is my fault.
I have been blamed for a lot of things in my life
and most if not all were things didn't want to be
blamed for. This is something I am proud to take
the blame for! Somehow I don't think it was all
my blame, the club is just as much at fault, if
not more than I. I am sure her host parents, Grace
and Bob Shaw have much more to take blame for than
me. Anyway it made my day and as a matter of fact
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On Sunday, June 10th Barbara and her parents will
be going to the NASCAR race at Pocono with me. I
hope they like our kind of racing! I will give an
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Our May 15, 2007 meeting
was a special birthday celebration for our Barbara
who turned 18 on the following day. In addition
to a nicely decorated table complete with party
hats and noisemakers we had a game of Pin the Tail
on the Donkey which was enjoyed by all, including
our waitress Kristine. The decorations and cake
was thanks to Grace who did a masterful job, thank
you Grace! No one accurately pinned the tail on,
Bob Shaw was the closest and the birthday girl Barbara
and president Marty were the farthest away. It was
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Our speaker for the day was Mark Santayana from
PA One Call who did a great job of explaining the
procedure to follow when digging to prevent hitting
utility lines.
Because of all our tom foolery with the donkey tail
pinning there was no Presidents Minute today, which
was a disappointment to all. Mark Santayana left
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On April 10, 2007 Meeting Today we were visited
by Antosia, a Rotary New Generations Exchange
Student and is a member of the Rotaract Club in
her district (District 2230). Antosia is from
Lublin, Poland and visited North Eastern PA for
one month. She is 23 years old and studying to
be an attorney in Poland. She was hosted by the
Rotary Club of Plains. President Marty and Antosia
exchanged banners and Marty presented Antosia
with a 110% pin. She is definitely a 110% person!
Marty also presented her with an Anthracite Coal
souvenir.
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On April 12, 2007
Marty treated Antosia and Barbara to dinner at
Outback and then to the Shrine Circus. Antosia
had never been to a circus before and was like
a 5 year old (her own words). Both ladies had
cotton candy and a front row center seat. The
elephants almost touched Barbara who almost turned
herself inside out to get back in her seat. After
the circus it was off for a Reese's Peanut Butter
Cup at Sheets, then to Dairy Queen for a Blizzard.
These ladies are "High Maintenance"
for sure. But sweet high maintenance!
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On April 21, 2007
DGN/AG/President Paul Muczynski and Marty took
Antosia to the Philadelphia Airport to begin her
journey home. We have no pictures of the two doting
fathers making sure this very confidant and intelligent
23 year old didn't miss anything. We did her luggage
tags, both inside and out, made sure she got to
the correct concourse and security checkpoint
and then watched until she was out of sight. She
tolerated all this and probably thought we were
a little too concerned. She would be right since
she is more than capable of taking care of herself.
She certainly has left footprints on our hearts
which will last forever. We will miss her!
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April 24, 2007 - Today our speaker was to be our own
Grace Planck. Her Vocational Talk was interrupted by
of all things her vocation. She was called to Ohio by
the powers that be. Grace will be re-scheduled at a
later date. And Doc thought he would finally find out
what Grace does. Well Doc you will have to wait a little
longer.
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On March
27, 2007 the club met at the Ipanema Grille in Scranton.
This meeting was our Brazilian Experience hosted
by our Rotary Youth Exchange Student Barbara Elisa
de Oliveira, who is from Brazil of course. We enjoyed
the Brazilian food and decided it wasn't too very
different from our own and that if we were stranded
in Brazil we would be able to subsist and survive
very well!
Doc advised us that we were doing well with the
Score a Goal Against Hunger ticket sales and that
we only had 26 more to sell. Doc brought the tickets
in his briefcase which is setting on the table.
He said his office is on an austerity program and
that is all he had in the budget for his briefcase.
He must be watching too much of the Survivor series!
Marty advised the club that on April 10th we would
have a special visitor and would tailor the meeting
around her visit. The special visitor is Antonina
(Antosia) Zawadzka from Poland. Antosia is a New
Generations Exchange student from Lublin, Poland.
Antosia will be leaving us and returning home on
April 14th. We will miss her!
The informal meeting of the great Rotary Club of
Pittston closed as the good doctor rang the glass.
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"On
Wednesday March 21 DGN/President Paul Muczynski
and President Marty took Rotary Exchange Student
Antonina (Antosia) Zawadzka from Lublin, Poland
to Philadelphia for the day. Antosia is here on
a New Generations exchange and will be here for
one month. Antosia is a Rotaract member in Poland.
Our first stop in Philadelphia was the Grand Lodge
of Pennsylvania for a tour of the building. After
Grand Lodge we visited City Hall and took a Tower
Tour to the observation deck just below William
Penn's feet. All of the morning's excitement made
us hungry for a Philadelphia Cheese steak and where
is the best place to get one of these scrumptious
sandwiches but the originator of the Philly Cheese
steak, Pat's Steaks. Antosia had one Cheezewiz sandwich
"wit" and she is now an aficionado of
the Philly Cheese steak! From Pat's we ventured
to Liberty Center where we toured the Liberty Bell,
Pennsylvania State House and Independence Hall.
After all of this brain numbing information it was
time for a Starbucks and a session of "shooting
the bull" for a half hour. We then informed
Antosia that a surprise was arranged for her, we
would take her to the King Tut exhibit which by
a stroke of luck was in Philadelphia. After a circuitous
tour of the area around Franklin Institute to locate
a parking lot we found one, however the attendant
spoke some language none of us had ever heard and
we couldn't understand one word he spoke. Antosia
and Marty decided that it was the chauffeur's responsibility
to park the car according to the attendant's direction.
It took Paul a little while to determine he was
telling him to park in any empty space and give
the last four characters of his license plate. Paul
parked in an empty space but apparently the wrong
empty space because our attendant asked him to move
to another empty space which was more to the attendant's
liking. After the King Tut exhibit we had all had
enough oh Philly for one day and tried to find our
way out of Philadelphia. Eventually our chauffer
did find the way out and it was off to Allentown
for dinner. (A late dinner) A dinner and some wonderful
conversation led us to the conclusion that it was
getting late and we had to get Cinderella home before
she turned into a pumpkin. We accomplished this
goal and today Cinderella has turned back into Antosia."
Whew!! That's all Doc!
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February
13, 2007 - Today's meeting centered on our third
"Score a Goal Against Hunger" project.
The project will take place on April 7, 2007 at
the Wachovia Arena. The Penguins will play the Phantoms
in what will undoubtedly be a slugfest. Tickets
are available from any Pittston Rotarian at a cost
of $15.50. Profits from the ticket sales will be
donated to the St. Vincent De Paul Soup Kitchen.
Fans are asked to bring canned goods and other non-perishables
to the game. We will distribute these food donations
to the Salvation Army Food Banks of Wilkes-Barre,
Scranton and West Pittston. The game time is 7:05
pm on April 7, 2007.
The picture to the left is of our penguin and friends...
From left to right is: President Marty Snyder, Youth
Exchange Student Barbara Oliveira, Cory Mercer and
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club meeting was held at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery
where President Ted handed the reins of the club over
to new President Marty. A motion was made by Bob Shaw
to raise the meal cost to $10 per meeting, which was seconded
by Rich Colwell and carried by the body. Another major
decision was made today to move our meeting place from
Victoria Inns to Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 304
Route 315, Pittston, PA effective February 13, 2007. Barbara
turned in two applications for host families. A committee
of Bob Shaw, Rich Colwell and Marty Snyder will investigate
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club was visited by the Brazilian Youth Exchange Officer
from District 4760, Ivan Vianna. District 4760 is where
Barbara comes from. We had more visitors than members
with PDG Paul Kerr, PDG Krisanda from New Jersey and their
exchange student who is also from Brazil. There were several
other guests as well. President Ted announced his resignation
as president which was accepted by the club. Marty agreed
to fill the remainder of Ted's term. Ted's resignation
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On November 18, 2006,
Bob Shaw, Our Barbara and Marty rang the bell for
the Salvation Army at K-Mart in Pittston Commons.
The two old bucks and a doe are pictured in the
photo. All in all we had a great couple of
hours of collection. Everyone seemed to enjoy our
adornment or they may have been trying to humor
us. In any event they were generous with the
donations. We thank them all for their generosity
and their comments and the fact that no one decided
to take an early shot before deer season started.
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On November 16, Barbara
and I (Marty) made a visit to Philadelphia. We visited
the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania for a tour of the
Masonic Temple. Next we visited Philadelphia City
Hall where we ascended to the tower just below William
Penn's feet for a great view of the city.
Next we made a stop at Pat's King of Steaks where
the Philadelphia Cheese steak sandwich originated.
We each had a delicious Philadelphia Cheese steak,
one wit, one wit out. The biggest challenge
of the day was holding everything in place and still
eating our sandwiches. The wind was pretty
gusty but we were fortunate that we had not one
drop of rain. In fact we had not much in the
way of rain, except a few nuisance drops whilst
at Liberty Center and Independence Hall. After
enjoying our cheese steaks we headed to Independence
Center for a trip to view the Liberty Bell and tour
Independence Hall. After a brief visit to
the Gift Shop we headed to visit Barbara's friend
Archana and family for dinner. When we exited
the parking garage at Liberty Center we were welcomed
by a deluge. It was raining cats and dogs.
We set the navigation system to Archana's address
and put our trust in the lady in the dash.
She got us there eventually but the traffic was
horrendous. What should have taken thirty
minutes or so took us an hour and a half or more.
We were happy to get a respite from the miserable
conditions outside and visit with Archana and her
parents. Archana's father is also a Rotarian.
After dinner and nice conversation we started for
home. Again we were glad to have our lady in the
dash get us out of there. On the way home
Grace called us and informed us that there had been
extensive flooding in the area and her apartment
was without power. We made a stop at Grace's
for Barbara's change of clothes and Barbara stayed
the night at our home. All in all it was a
long day and we were happy to be home and in a warm
dry bed.
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On October 11 Doc,
Rich, Barbara and Marty went to the Penn State-Temple
game in Doc's motor home. It started out balmy and
beautiful and we strolled to the Creamery for a
Peachy Paterno, two Strawberry and one Cookie Dough
ice cream cones. Mmmmm-good! After we returned to
the motor home it started to rain, in fact it poured
cats and dogs. By the time we were to head for our
seats the rain had stopped and we thought we dodged
a bullet, however as soon as we got to our seats
it poured and for most of the game that was the
story. Occasionally it stopped and we put our poncho
hoods down and a few minutes later we were putting
them back up. The hoods gave us an idea what it
would be like to have tunnel vision, not a good
thing!
Saturday was a lot of firsts for "Our Barbara",
First time in a motor home, first college football
game, first American hot dog, first Sloppy Joe (Wimpy)
and the very important Penn State ice cream from
the Creamery. There may have been other firsts but
we had such a great time they are forgotten. We
enjoyed Barbara's company so much the time just
flew by.
On Sunday morning another first for Barbara, a homemade
waffle served American style with butter (Well "I
can't believe it's not butter" anyway) and
syrup. I knew I forgot something, I didn't get a
picture. Probably because I was to busy eating one
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On October
27 through the 29th some of us went to the District
Conference held at Genetti's in Williamsport. There
are pictures from conference and the party Saturday
and Darth (Marty) Vader.
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On October 17th and 18th we completed
our fourth year "Dictionary Project". On
the 17th Ted, Rich, Barbara and Marty visited
the Martin Mattei Middle School where we distributed
dictionaries to nine (9) third grade classrooms. After
Martin Mattei we attended our regularly scheduled
weekly meeting at Victoria Inns. After our
meeting we distributed the dictionaries to St.
Mary Assumption Parochial School.
On October 18th Rich and Marty distributed the
dictionaries at Sacred Heart in Dupont and then
Holy Rosary in Duryea." When we got
the kids all wound up we gave them back to the
teachers for them to try to calm them down. It
probably took the rest of the day after Rich got
done jacking them up. A great time was had
by all with this worthwhile project, all of us
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This weekend is our District Conference at Genetti's
in Williamsport. Join us for a day if you
can't make the whole weekend. Saturday evening
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On Columbus Day Barbara
and I took an excursion from Scranton to Moscow.
The steam locomotive pulling the train was approximately
1920's vintage. The leaves were just starting to
turn so we didn't see a lot of Fall Flaming Foliage
but it was a good experience. Click the picture
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October 17th & 18th are Dictionary
Project distribution days. On the 17th at
9:00 am we will start distribution to the third
graders at Martin Mattei Middle School. Our
meeting follows at noon and then we will distribute
dictionaries at St. Mary Assumption. On the
18th at 9:30 am we will be at sacred Heart in Dupont
and at 10:30 am Holy Rosary in Duryea. We
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On September 21st
The Rotary Club of Pittston received District Governor
Dick Wagener of Rotary District 7410 for his Official
Visit to the club at their Past President's Dinner
at the East Mountain Inn. District Governor Dick
thanked the club for the International and Community
involvement they have been part of for the last
eighty six years. The more recent activities with
fewer members particularly impressed DG Dick. He
also informed the club about activities at the international
level of Rotary and those regarding the district
level. The governor also recognized the international
work done by the club with matching grants, Youth
Exchange and the Group Study Exchange, two club
members being Rotary Foundation Alumni. Amy Colwell
as a Team Member to Korea and Marty Snyder as Team
Leader to Norway in 2004. Also recognized was our
Rotary Youth Exchange Student, Barbara Elisa Oliveira
from Belo Horizonte, Brazil who was present at the
dinner.
Club President Ted Horn thanked all the past president's
present for their contributions of service to the
club. Past Presidents in attendance were
Marty Snyder, Bob Shaw, Mike Insalaco, Amy Colwell
and Rich Colwell.
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Bingo a Big Success
Once again the Tomato Festival has come and gone
and we have managed to make it through another
year of Bingo. Marty, Jim, Doc, Dan and Marty's
grandson Stephen all put in IRONMAN hours at the
bingo this year and deserve special thanks. This
year we saw a 53% increase in net revenue over
last year, so we are definality going in the right
direction.
Special thanks to Stephanie Degillio
(Miss Teen Pa) who came out and spent her free
time acting as guest caller for the club. She
is a sweetheart and a good sport, and we enjoyed
seeing her again before she departs to Penn State.
Good luck in school this Fall!
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Our Youth Exchange
Student is Here!
On Tuesday Aug 22nd we all got to meet Barbara Elisa De
Oliveira for the first time. Barbara is our exchange student
from Brasil and she just arrived in the USA on Sunday.
Barbara will be staying with Grace Planck for the first
leg of her trip, and then will be staying with Bob and
Karen Shaw starting this winter. Barbara speaks and understands
english very well, and the club enjoyed getting to know
her a little bit. We all should make an effort over the
next month or 2 to take Barbara out and show her the area
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Peter Lello Speaks to CLub about LCCC
On Tuesday August 22nd Peter Lello from LCCC (Luzerne
County Community College) joined us for lunch. Peter
is a long time friend of Bob Shaw, and is the Major
Gift/Planned Giving Specialist for the College. Peter
spoke about the many issues facing the college in the
future, and about the major contributions the college
makes to our way of life in northeastern Pa. We all
enjoyed getting to know Peter and hope he becomes a
regular visitor at the club.
If you can help the college in some way, feel free
to contact Peter at his e-mail - plello@luzerne.edu
or visit the LCCC website at www.luzerne.edu
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Jim Lewis elected
Chairman of Fundraising
At the prodding (and nomination) of Dan, we elected Jim
Lewis to be in charge of fundraising for the club. Over
the course of the bingo, we all got to exchange ideas
about fundraising for the club with Jim, and it was fairly
clear he has some fresh ideas - and very clear he has
the most experience. The club looks forward to hearing
what Jim has in mind. Jim's ideas may take a bit of time
and effort to get off the ground, but once we have things
set up and in place, the load will lighten and the revenues
will increase. Just keep in mind the long term goals of
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Dan's Last Meeting
on 8/22
Our August 22nd meeting was a sad day for me personally,
as i attended my last meeting until December when I return
for Christmas break. I am grateful for the good wishes
and support of the club as I travel to Grand Cayman Island.
For the past 2+ years it has been my pleasure and priviledge
to get to know all the club members and work side by side
to make our little corner of the world a bit better. You've
all become my mentors and friends, and I look forward
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Corn Roast a Great Day
On 8/12 we held our annual Corn Roast at Doc's
house - And this year were joined by the Harding
Church of Christ for the party. The day also served
as a going away party for Dan who will be flying
off to veterinary school on 8/25. The weather
was beautiful and everyone enjoyed the fellowship
and food. The rumor is that Doc managed to get
the best sweet corn in the state. Dan wants to
extend his thanks to all that attended and shared
the day with him - And to say how much he will
miss all his friends in Rotary and the church.
The day was also a special day
- As we inducted a new member into the family
of Rotary. Grace Planck was inducted into Rotary
at the picnic. Grace visited the club a few weeks
ago - and we managed not to scare her away. We
are very pleased that Grace has decided to join
us, and look forward to many years of getting
to know her. We also need to thank Grace for saving
our bacon - She will be taking our exchange student
for the first few months. For those of you that
have yet to meet Grace, she will be attending
the Bingo, so come out and get to know her.
Gallery of Pictures from the Picnic added to
the Photo Page - Click
Here to see all the FUN we had!
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Kent Tompkins Speaks
to Club
On 8/08 we were joined by Ted's friend Kent Tompkins from
Homesteaders Life Company to speak to us about the pre-planning
of funerals. Kent gave us a lot of useful information
about the advantages of pre-planning and pre-payment.
As Kent put it, their job is to try and make a family's
worst day a bit easier. We all enjoyed Kent visiting with
us and hope he joins us for lunch again in the future.
You can visit their website at www.homesteaderslife.com
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Blood Screening
Date Set
The blood screening date has been set - We will be running
it at the Wyoming Area High School from 6 am to 10 am
on Oct 21st. We will need a few people to arrive that
morning at 5 am to help set up the room and the refreshments
for the people that come to be tested. This is a great
event that really helps the elderly members of our community
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Robin Williams
speaks to Club
On 8/01 we were joined for lunch by Robin Williams, owner
of a lifestyle management company called Time-Masters.
Robin visited with us through lunch, and then spoke to
us about the errand, personal assistant and property management
services her company provides. Robin had a lot of interesting
things to say and we all enjoyed her company. You can
visit her website at www.timemastersnepa.com
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Exchange Student
Arriving on 8/21
Marty informs us that our exchange student from Brazil
will be arriving in the USA on 8/20. She will be staying
her first night with another exchange student, and Marty
will be picking her up on Monday. From there he will be
taking her to Grace Planck's home for her firwst 1/3rd
of her stay. After that Bob and Karen will be keeping
her. We still need at least one more host family, so keep
your eye out for qualified hosts. |
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Sister Ann
McCawley Visits Club
On July 25th, we were joined by Sister Ann McCawley
of the St Vincent DePaul Soup Kitchen. We presented
Ann with a check from the 'Score a Goal' project
from this spring. Sister Ann expressed her gratitude
for the help, and briefly spoke about the soup kitchen
looking into expanding their help and adding an
evening meal. It's always a pleasure to have Sister
Ann join us and we look forward to helping as often
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Pittston Rotary
Loses Another Member
It is with a sad heart that I must report the news that
Leo Davison has resigned from the club and that we have
accepted his resignation. Leo has been an active and hard
working member - and a good friend -- for many years.
He and Barbara will certainly be missed personally and
professionally by the club. Each one of us extends their
best wishes for Leo and Barbara in the future and hope
that someday they can return to the family of Rotary.
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Halloween Party
Date Change
After talking with Wyoming, the date of the Halloween
Party has been changed from 10/19 to 10/26. Please make
sure to mark your calendars and come out for an evening
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Rotary Raffle Fundraiser
We will again be running our raffle of Penn State Tickets.
The date of the game is Oct 14th and could be the Big
10 game of the year -- Penn State vs. Michigan. It is
a nationally televised evening game so the stadium should
be wild. Plan on selling as many tickets as we can to
friends and visitors at the Bingo. |
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Wyoming Rotary
Web site
The Wyoming Rotary Web site is almost complete and is
up and running on the server. Take a few minutes to visit
their site - www.wyomingrotary.org |
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Rotary Shopping
Page
Don't forget to make your online purchases through the
Pittston Rotary Shopping Page. It will mean money for
the club. |
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Important Upcoming Dates for the District and
Other Clubs
District Conference Part II is scheduled for
October 27-29th this year and will be in Williamsport
The GSE team from our district will be visiting Pakistan
in 2007 - And they are already sending out feelers for
team members.
Press releases for the district newsletter must now
be received by Dave Carey and Deb Sobeck by the 5th
of each month.
District blood drive is happening - so go and donate
if you can .. Or take some friends to donate
Wyoming Rotary will hold it's Cattledrive One Pound
Steak Dinner on Oct 14th at the Checkerboard Pavilion.
If you want a BIG meal, plan on supporting their project.
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Calendar Page Updated
8/23
The Calendar
Page has been updated with new speakers and
events. Please plan to attend and show your support for
our guests and projects. |
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News Archive Page
Updated
Take a peek at our recent speakers, guests and events!
Click Here to visit
the News Archive. -- Updated 8/23/06
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