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MEETER / GREETER Chris Zahrt INVOCATION Alan Alpert THIS MEETING’S MENU Rosemary Chicken with roasted redskins and fresh vegetable, garden salad bar, cookies, coffee and tea NEXT WEEK’S BIRTHDAYS Marty Rosenfeld Oct 3 Dick Carlson Oct 4 Cindy Larsen Oct 6
PROGRAMS / EVENTS 10/03 Legal Aid of West Michigan & Rotary Park Groundbreaking 10/10 Landon Fortenberry 10/17 Baker Health Science Center
10/24 Finalized Club Strategic Plan 10/31 Club Selected News Maker 11/07 District Governor Jim White 11/14 Muskegon Hts Academy Supt
11/21 State Reps Colleen Lamonte & Marcia Hovey-Wright 11/28 Thanksgiving (no meeting)
12/05 Chamber Silent Observer 12/12 Mission for Area People
12/19 Annual Holiday Luncheon
12/26 Christmas (no meeting) ______________________________________
After our meeting (1:45pm)
Groundbreaking at Rotary Park
Everyone: Come Celebrate
This Week on Stage For more than 40 years, Legal Services Corporation funded agencies in Western Michigan have provided free legal assistance to low income persons and seniors in non-criminal, non-fee generating matters. Legal Aid of Western Michigan currently serves people in 17 counties. Come to Club and hear more of the story. – THEN – We’re all invited to Heritage Landing to enjoy “The Ground-breaking at Rotary Park.” Festivities are set to begin at 1:45pm and, due to the expected crowd, please park in YMCA’s parking lot.
In all of its trademark elegance, the Lake House Waterfront Grille provides treats galore here for guests of this year’s Grape Escape on Wednesday. But there were plenty of other sumptuous offerings, not to mention a wide variety of delectable wines and micro-brews. A big thanks to all who took part. For one
last peek at this outstanding event, we’ve photos on PP 2-3, followed by our report on Thursday’s regular meeting.
RIM Correspondents Dan Barnum-Steggerda [email protected] Chris Burnaw [email protected] Lee Coggin [email protected] Marty Ferriby [email protected] Bill Johanson [email protected] Frank Marczak [email protected] Kathy Moore [email protected] Jerry Morlock [email protected] Garry Olson [email protected] Cindy Timmerman [email protected] Mike Walsh [email protected]
This publication, Muskegon Rotary in Motion (RIM), is
intended for the private use of our members and friends
Don Crandall, President Brianna Scott, President-Elect Susan Cloutier-Myers, Pres Nominee Larry Larsen, Secretary Kathy Byma, Treasurer Jay Wallace, Jr, Past President
Muskegon Rotary Club Club 216 (2809) – District 6290, Chartered May 1, 1916
October 3, 2013 12:10pm The Lake House Waterfront Grille
http://www.muskegonrotary.org
Pam Babbitt, Director Cathy Brubaker-Clarke, Director
Dave Sipka, Director Josh Wallace, Director
Garry Olson, RIM Reporter Bill Johanson, RIM Editor
THE FOUR WAY TEST THAT ROTARIANS USE IN MAKING ETHICAL DECISIONS: Is it the truth? Is it fair to all concerned? Will it build goodwill and better friendships? Will it be beneficial to all concerned?
Program: Dan Bonner “Legal Aid of Western Michigan”
Grape Escape 2013
Last Week’s Program
Paul Harris Recognition by Garry Olson Presented by Josh Wallace, our
program focused on Paul Harris
Fellowships. Josh related that there
currently are over one million
Fellows worldwide. Our Club has
137, with 62 as active members.
We also have five members with
two or more fellowships. You can
learn more about
the Paul Harris
Fellowship here:
http://www.rotar
yd9710.org.au/fo
undation/paul-
harris-
fellows/paul-
harris-fellow-
meaning.html
Following
Josh’s spiffy intro, the Club
awarded five new Paul Harris
Fellowships:
Susan Meston awarded a Paul
Harris Fellowship to John
Swanson, above, of Ravenna.
A Little More Grape
Nancy Crandall awarded a Paul
Harris Fellowship to Mike
Youngdahl, above right, of our
Club.
Gary Ostrom awarded a Paul
Harris Fellowship to Chris Zahrt ,
above left,of our Club.
Jack Briggs awarded a Paul
Harris Fellowship to his wife
Janice Briggs, middle column
lower left.
Bill Loxterman awarded a Paul
Harris Fellowship to Joan Schmitt,
middle clolumn lower right, of our
Club.
Josh finished the program by
recognizing all the Paul Harris
Fellows in attendance and quoting
an article about what it means and
how it benefits the Rotary
Foundation. Over $80,000,000 a
year is raised in Paul Harris
Fellowships for the work of the
Rotary Foundation worldwide.
We congratulate all of our new
honorees.
‘Round Rotary’s RIM
Last week’s meeting was called to
order by President Don. The
invocation was given by Gary
Ostrom. Jim Fisher provided us
with a Rotary Moment. He
encouraged each of us to attend a
Rotary information session. These
are held monthly. Jim said much of
what we don’t know about >>>
>>> Rotary can be learned there.
He went on to relate Rotary’s areas
of focus:
Promoting Peace
Fighting Disease
Providing Clean Water - one
third of our raffle money goes to
this effort
Saving Mothers and Children
Supporting Education - This
year’s Grape Escape money made
a significant contribution ($10,000)
to Read Muskegon
Growing Local Economies
Service above Self - in our Club,
vocations, community, and
worldwide
Announcements: Judy Johnson , left, appealed for
volunteers for
the STRIVE
Program. This
program is in
serious danger
of stopping if
we cannot make
our
commitment for
mentors.
Please contact
Judy if you can help or for more
information.
We are all encouraged to join
the Litehouse Challenge. Purchase
a box of the salad dressings for $15
and the money goes for additional
water filters. We are currently at
$465 of our goal of $2,000. You
can sign up to purchase salad
dressings at a weekly meeting, or
contact Darlene Collet, above.
Steve Westphal, above left, presented Dan Barnum-Steggerda as a new Rotarian. Dan is an ordained pastor. He originally trained as an accountant but had the call to ministry in 1983. He received his M.Div degree from Bethany Seminary. Dan is married to Lucinda and they have two sons, Eric and Joel. He makes his home in Norton Shores and enjoys woodworking and creating copper sculptures.
Visiting Rotarians and Guests
were: Community mover and
shaker Dr Susan Meston (Linda
Juarez), Muskegon County
Sustainability Coordinator and
prospective member Sara Damm
(Jim Fisher), Muskegon Hearing
and Speech Executive Director and
prospective member Becky Jansma
(Lynette Griffith), community
activist and Rotary spouse Kay
Ostrom (Gary Ostrom), noted
author and Marty Ferriby’s
spouse Roger Rapoport (Steve
Westphal), Downtown Muskegoon
Promotions & Events Coordinator
and prospective member Ellen
Berends (Jim Fisher), and Rotary
spouse and Paul Harris Fellow
Grace Mathews (Don Mathews).
Student guests from Mona Shores
High School, introduced by
Assistant Principal Walt
Gawkowski, were Mandy Versalle
and Sam Kling. Student guests this
week will hail from Montague.
President’s Announcements: President Don recognized the
Grape Escape Committee and all
the volunteers that made
Muskegon Rotary Board
Don Crandall [email protected]
Brianna Scott [email protected] Susan Cloutier-Myers [email protected] Larry Larsen [email protected] Kathy Byma [email protected] Jay Wallace, Jr [email protected] Pam Babbitt [email protected] Cathy Brubaker-Clarke [email protected] Dave Sipka [email protected] Josh Wallace [email protected]
Wednesday night a great success.
This year, all but three tickets sold
(397/400) and we enjoyed a record
number of sponsorships.
Over $7,000 in pledges were
made last month toward Rotary
Park. There is still time for you to
donate.
All committee chairs are asked
to review their members’ names in
ClubRunner this week and make
any changes so committees can be
finalized next week.
Rotary International awarded
$500,000 to the World Health
Organization for continuing work
to eradicate polio.
In last week’s raffle, Bill Ashley
was the big winner of $20. Marty
Ferriby won $10 and Darlene
Collet won $5. Speaking of
Darlene, she requested a RIM
retraction, and here ‘tiz: The 9th
Annual Mission for Area
Fundraiser will be held on
Monday, October 14, 6:30-
9:00pm at Trillium Banquet
Facility in Spring Lake.
In the previous week’s “10
Brave Rotarians” competition,
Jane Clingman-Scott was cast off
the island to wild applause.
See you Thursday