Byesville Rotary Christmas

We celebrated Christmas early this Tuesday morning. It was “Bring a gift for Secret Santa” Day. We had a huge stack of gifts for the kids.

Business:
We inducted a new member: Becky Armbruster, Assistant Manager at Wal-Mart. Congrats, Becky. If you missed the meeting, be sure to welcome her when you see her.

Bob finalized our plans for completing the annual Christmas Food Basket service project. Members will pack boxes this Friday, November 19, beginning at 7:00am at the Methodist Activity Hall. We have 225 baskets to pack and will be working until we finish. We need all hands to show up.
The baskets will be distributed Saturday, November 20, 7:00-11:00am, to those who have signed up for baskets. Bob needs some of us to be at the Activity Hall at 6:30 since people will begin coming that early. Some of us will need to plan to stay until 12N.

This project is successful because of the support Byesville Rotary gets from the community. Thanks to the students in the Rolling Hills School District, the Mid-East Career and Technology Center--Buffalo Campus for their efforts to collect and donate canned goods to this project. We also appreciate T&J Market, Andrews Produce, the Byesville VFW, Cambridge Packaging, and the many local organizations and individuals that supported this project with their donations.

As part of Rotary International’s literacy initiative, the Byesville club purchases dictionaries for all local third graders. Dan Navicky reported that club members distributed dictionaries last week to 135 students at Brook Elementary, Byesville Elementary, and Secrest Elementary.

The meeting concluded with drawings for some Christmas gifts for the club members. Thanks to Nellie Bichard and Marty Patchen for organizing the gift giving and Christmas cards.

Meeting Notes for Dec. 16

We celebrated Christmas early this year. Today was "Bring a gift for Secret SantaDay." We had a big stack of gifts for the kids.

Business of the day:

We inducted a new member: Becky Armbruster, Assistant Manger at Wal-Mart, is now our newest member. Congrats. If you missed the meeting, be sure to welcome her when you see her.

Bob outlines our plans for completing our annual Christmas Food Basket service project. Members will pack boxes this week on Friday, November 19. Please plan to start work at the Methodist Activity Hall at 7:00 am. We will be there until we finish and we have about 225 baskets to pack. We need all hands to show up.

The baskets will be distributed Saturday, November 20, to those who have signed up for baskets. Bob would like a few of us to show up at 6:30. Distribution is scheduled to be from 7:00am-11:00am but it is likely someone will need to be at the Activity Hall until 12N.

The club members send thanks to all the schools in the Rolling Hills School District, the Mid-East Career and Technology Center--Buffalo Campus for their efforts to collect and donate canned goods to this project. We also thank T&J Market, Andrews Produce, the Byesville VFW, Cambridge Packaging, and the many local organizations and individuals that supported this project with their donations.
Dan Navicky reported that club members distributed dictionaries last week to 135 students at Brook Elementary, Byesville Elementary, and Secrest Elementary.
The meeting concluded with drawings for some Christmas gifts for the club members. Thanks to Nellie Bichard and Marty Patchen for organizing the gift giving and Christmas cards.

Christmas project: Food baskets

Bob reports that the food basket fund raising is going well. The only thing in question is how well the students at our local schools are doing on collecting canned goods. Ryan reports that the Interact Club and the high school students are doing a good job of collecting canned goods.

Food basket packing will be at the Methodist Activity Hall on Friday, December 19, 9:00am till we are finished.
Food baskets will be passed out from the Methodist Activity Hall on Saturday, December 20, 7:00am-11:00am. See everyone there to pack and to pass out (I hope not literally from all the hard work).

Thanks for the party and the great food!

We had a great party on Saturday even though it snowed. The food was great. Everyone brought something for the party. We had lots of different soups, great appetizers provided by Richard, and lots of desserts. Thanks to everyone who provided cooking expertise and thanks to Grizz and his wife for opening their home.

Next Project--Christmas Food Baskets

Wednesday (October 29), we will start to work on registering families for food baskets. After that we will be ringing bells with the Salvation Army to raise money for the baskets.
Next meeting is also National Election Day. At Byesville Rotary it is also "Don't Forget to Bring Your Meat Day." Bring canned meat or $3.00. Homework assignment is to read two articles in the newest issue of Rotarian: "Let the Sun Shine In" and "Very Moving Pictures." We will also induct new members at this meeting.
There will be a Board meeting on Thursday at 12N at Pizza Plus.

Spaghetti Supper Kick Off for Christmas Food Baskets

The Spaghetti Supper fundraiser went well. Thanks to all the members of the community that donated to this event. We had more donated before we even began cooking the pasta than we had donated during the supper. We also had great support from Rotary members and from the Interact group.

hand companionship were fabulous. check out the contented smiles of the people in the picture.

Last Chicken BBQ of 2008

The final chicken BBQ for 2008 went well. We had lots of support from Interact and the weather stayed nice. We sold most of the chickens. Sorry--no pictures of all the workers dealing with the chickens.

Meeting--Tuesday, September 23, 2009

Lots of activities coming up:

1. October 4: Rotary Bar-B-Que--more workers may be needed.
2. October 11: Spagettit Dinner--donations for Christmas food baskets accepted as "ticket" for dinner--cash is always accepted but food items will also "buy" a dinner. Bob will be asking for volunteers to help on the 11th. He does not need any more pasta or lemonade.
3. December: Bell Ringing to support the Salvation Army as part of our effort to provide Christmas food baskets.

Questions from the Master of Arms will be from the newsletter. The questions are :

1. What is the meaning of the "Make Dreams" symbol?
2. What is the name of at least 1 rotary District 6690 club mentioned in the newsletter and what was their accomplishment?
3. What large item was featured in the Byesville Rotary picture and who are the three people in the picture?
4. How many clubs are in rotary District 6690 and how many are hosting exchange students?

Byesville Rotary Picnic--Sept. 21, 2008

We had a great picnic on Sunday. About half of the group showed up to take the 1:00 Byesville Scenic Railway tour. The volnteers at the Railway have extended the line about 2 miles. They hope to get all the way to Cumberland and the Wilds in a couple of years.

We had good food and good conversation at the picnic and more desserts than we could eat. Thanks to all the cooks and to Bob for arranging the beef and chicken. See the Slideshow (on the right) for some pictures of the activity.

Second Test Post

This month's Rotarian is encouraging 40% of Rotary clubs which do not have a web site to establish a site. The five reasons they give and the corresponding site providing the example are below. And now you can see what the editors of Rotarian are talking about without having to type in all those addresses. Just click on the live links.

1. Visiting Rotarians can find you: Rotary Club of LA


2. It gets the news out (this one is in Spanish): rotarynuevomilenio.wordpress.com (by the way--this one is a blog).


3. Every member can become a PR expert: Princeton Rotary


4. It allows for creative recruiting: Rotary New Jersey


5. Members can network effectively: Rotary Club of Bakersfield