And, if you haven't paid your sheriff's fines yet (or wish to donate more to continue our local charitable work), please do so at the bottom of the following link:
President Wayne Hodges opened the virtual meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance, then we recited the modified Four Way Test. The invocation was given by David Eardley, thanking God for this beautiful day, and lifting up all members of our community that are currently battling this pandemic. Virtual lunch was served.
ATTENDANCE
There were 44 Rotarians present, and one guest: Kelly Messing-Mirabito.
15th HANDSHAKE
President Wayne announced to the club that Kelly Messing-Mirabito earned the 15th logon (handshake) this week, enjoy the week without fines Kelly!
HAPPY BUCKS
There were many virtual happy bucks given during the meeting, please take a look at the recorded Zoom meeting to see! A few...
From Wayne Hodges to Everyone: 12:07 PM
I love this good weather.
From Ron The Dude to Everyone: 12:07 PM
I'm glad my company is back to work finally
From Vince to Everyone: 12:07 PM
Happy that we can share this time together
From Tim to Everyone: 12:07 PM
I'm happy to see everyone, and happy for this beautiful weather.
From Ray Doerr to Everyone: 12:07 PM
Happy bucks for the great weather
ROTARIAN OF THE WEEK
Bill Ebinger gave the bejeweled trophy to John Somerville, for going above and beyond by (virtually) allowing us to continue to get together. Congrats John!
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Tim Crawford is asking for help selling out our last 30 some-odd tickets for the Master's Golf Outing Raffle.
Wayne introduced Kathy Losinski to discuss the support that Rochester Rotary recently gave to Neighborhood House, showing images of the quantity of food this donation purchased. They are consistently going through about $10,000 of food per week, and are still looking for help.
BIRTHDAYS AND CLUB ANNIVERSARIES
We had one birthday this week, Ron Lichtle on April 29th.
We also had three anniversaries, Annette Werner April 28th, 5 years, Tim Duncan April 29th, 6 years, and Marty McClure April 29th, 35 years.
City of Rochester's Sheriff, Steve Schettenhelm, spoke to the group about how the Rochester Police Department is adapting to the pandemic. Specifically, he spoke about new procedures regarding protective equipment, station cleaning, dealing with executive orders, and overall trying to provide as normal of an appearance and service as possible.
If you are interested in viewing Steve's presentation, and the entire meeting, please click the following link:
Yes, this is a challenging time. But, we are Rotarians, we will rise to the challenge, and our resilience and power of adaptation will prevail over this. Thanks everyone, have a great week.
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