Newsletter - Current  Jul 22, 2010

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Rotary Club of Villa Park Newsletter

It's Never Too Late

This was the message of today's invocation as read by Lesslie Giacobbi. The article encouraged the reader to send that card, apology or reconcile with estranged family even if years have gone by because it's never too late. A great message in a time when much healing is needed in our families, community and between nations.  The Pledge of Allegiance was led by Jay Applebaum and our song today was the Marine Corp Hymn.  Bryan Nash led us in the reading of the Rotary Four Way Test.

Guests: Presented by  Greeter Teri Brooks

Lee Bowsher- Prospective Member- Jim Brodsky

Nev Roseman - GSE Team Leader for District 5320

James Scollick- Today's speaker- GSE Team Member

Peggy Stephens- guest of Pam Dunn

Fred Barrera- Orange Rotary

Secret Greeter- John Broussard

Birthdays/Anniversaries

Jill Kuli- July 19th- Celebrated with family at Lazy Dog Cafe

Greg & Andie Mills- 16th Anniversary - July 23rd

Fred Barrera- 88th birthday today- reminisced about the old days in Orange-

Nev  Roseman- birthday this Sunday

Nagi Ibrahim & wife Mary- continue to celebrate their  42nd anniversary with trips around Socal

Happy Bucks:

Bob Meyers  was happy to tell us that a $1000 donation would be made to our club in the next week- Thank you Bob

Bryan Nash- returned from a visit with his grand kids in Minnesota and was happy to see the kids.

   He also reminded us that Camp to Belong will start this weekend. 100 kids will attend and he

   thanked the club for their support.

Pam Dunn attended a Jazz Concert at the Hollywood Bowl with Mark Schmidt( who loves Jazz).

They saw Diane Reeves, Lee Ridenaur and Taj Mahal.

Nagi Ibrahim- Helped serve dinner last night at the Ronald McDonald House- they served dinner to 40 residents.

Announcements:

Steve Stern- Women's League is hosting Sunday Night Supper on August 1st at the home of Jime and Betsy Little- Dinner will feature the Basketball Kabobs that were so well received at our Harlem Ambassador's Ball Game.  Call  Betsy Little to RSVP

Also- Swing Night at the Great Park August 6th-  Entry is free- bring wine or Sangria and enjoy the wonderful music.  Join Steve & Lainie Stern for a wonderful evening of music, wine and fellowship under the stars.

Peggy Stephens- Vote for her daughters Non-Profit Charity - A Pink Heart- at http://www.refresheverything.com/apinkheart.  If she get enough votes Pepsi will give her $50,000 to provide free beauty services to the spouses of our deployed troops.  She's currently in 88th place and needs to move into the top 10 to qualify for the grant. 

Ron Accornero is still providing help to a former Villa Park resident who is down on her luck.

After asking for donations at today's meeting Ron Collected $160 and will match that providing

$320 in assistance.  Ron thanks those who contributed for their generosity.

Teri Brooks- informed the club that Amy Bartrom's cancer has recurred and she and Linda are going to Houston to seek treatment.  She asks that we put Amy in our prayers.

Greg Mills reminded us that the End Polio Now Baseball Game featuring the Angels vs the Texas Rangers is on July 31st.  A tailgate party will begin at 3:30 in the parking lot.

Also thanked Pete Moriarty and Steven Pollack for attending the monthly President's Meeting in his place .

Nev Roseman- announced that nominations are due for the Business Rotarian of the Year for our club by Sept 10th.  Nominate 1 individual from the club for the award.  The forms will be posted on-line at the District 5320 website.

Nev is also collecting books for the Rotary Books to the World Program- a 40ft container of books will be sent to schools in Africa or India.

Greg Mills showed off the RotaryClubofVillaPark.Org website and announced we will be featuring the website at upcoming meetings.

Service Chairs Minute:

Club Service- Craig Beinlich announced the new Rotary Club of Villa Park Cups with the Four Way Test and the commemorative Rotary Coin Key chains have arrived.  These will be used as gifts for our guest speakers.

He and Paul have also assessed the needs of the Tree Farm- plans are to upgrade the irrigation system in the next few weeks.

Community Service- Jill Kuli reminded us about collecting clothes for the Working Wardrobes Program. There will also be a free shredding day in September so save up your shreddibles.

International - Jane McDonald - Backpack stuffing will commence in September.

October Fundraiser- Bryan Nash met with Chanda Parrett and her co-worker Janine from St Joseph Fundraising and got some great input.  Bob Kreisberg and Pam Dunn attended as well.

Drawing- Millie Alexander drew an Ace. The pot is worth over $1000

Speaker: James Scollick

James is currently an analyst for PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP.  He grew up in Villa Park graduating VP High School in 1998. He went on to attend Brigham Young University obtaining a degree in business. 

James along with Nev Roseman, who served as team leader, attended the recent Rotary 5320 Group Service Exchange to Taiwan.  He discussed his experiences on that month long trip where he was hosted by Rotarians from Taiwan.  He visited many businesses and factories and came away quite impressed by what he saw.  We learned that the Rotary District they visited in Taiwan has 87 clubs and over 3,000 members. There are 7 districts on the island and Rotary is very successful there.

The Group Service Exchange is open to non-rotarian working men and women from 25-40yrs of age.

The Exchange gets them to see how different cultures live, work and do Rotary.  Next year's exchange group is going to Holland.

Next Week's Meeting Assignments:

Greeter- Jim Glenn

Pledge- Jeannie Hankins

Invocation- Ed Howard.