Newsletter 10-9-12

Posted by Jim Brown 
on Oct 09, 2012
 
 

**Rotary Club of Needham**
October 9, 2012
Location: Needham Sheraton

President Charles led us in the Pledge of Allegiance; we sang God Bless America, with Dan Tibma leading us, and the invocation was delivered by Rev. Darrell.

 

Announcements:  

  • Pancake Breakfast date is set for November 3 at the Needham High School. Be there! Tickets and flyers next week.
  • Darrell will be in China enjoying Chinese Pancakes when our Pancake Breakfast will be held. He is trying to get things put in place now, promising his wife’s best breakfast buns if you contact him and become part of the committee! Bribery, works all the time! Last year we served 103 dinners at the Masonic Hall and delivered 100 meals to individual homes. Looking for volunteers!
  • Ken Bill Rosenthal and Charles visited the student leaders group (called ‘Be The Change’)  at NHS to explain Rotary. The students wanted to know more about the UN Day  held at the UN by Rotary; there was interest in establishing an Interact Club; and a female senior is going to Kenya next year and wants to know of Rotary possibilities over there. Very successful meeting! Two of the students had been to the RYLA program through Needham Rotary. This will lead to NHS seniors coming to visit Rotary on a regular basis.
  • Bill Paulson is arranging to put name plates in the dictionaries next week for each 3rd grade student. We pass these out at all the elementary schools, with a name plate for each student inside.
  • Bob Cocks and Charles attended the RLI information meeting last Saturday in Boxboro. I trust they both smarter about Rotary!

Guests:  

  • Mark Rosen, Framingham Rotarian and Past District Treasurer
  • John Perry and Ashley from Needham Hometown Weekly, our guest speakers. 

 

Induction: We were delighted to welcome Brenda Diaz to our club. Brenda works for Deb's Team at Wingate here in Needham. She is not entirely new to Rotaru as she used to work at Boston Foundation for Sight, and was the 'Business Travel Sales Manager' for the Needham Sheraton.She and her two sons live in Framingham.

she was inducted by Pres. Charles and her sponsor, Bob Cocks.

She was described in a Happy Dollar tribute as "The forever 'Upbeat' Brenda Diaz. What a special time to be able to welcome her to Rotary. Welcme Brenda!

Happy $$$:  Ted for a great weekend away with all of his siblings; Ken Davis for a great NHS Presentation on Rotary; Many for a great Harvest fair; Bill Paulson for a great weekend visiting daughter Katei in college in Maine; Eric Roseen for his girl friends birthday; Many for Brenda Diaz who turned in her ‘visitor’ badge for a ‘member’ badge this week;

 

Upcoming Events:

10/16 Phil Sandler talking about Rotary’s Polio Plus program

10/23 Becca Manning from ‘Needham Patch’

10/26 BID Needham Hospital Gala event

10/30 MC Brown, Parent Talk

11/3  Our Pancake Breakfast at NHS. All hands on deck!

11/17 Needham YMCA fund raiser dinner in the Powers Hall at Needham Town Hall

11/20 Dinner with Wellesley Rotary at the Sheraton to celebrate the football rivalry

11/22 We serve Thanksgiving Day dinner at the Mason’s hall.

 

50/50: Dan Tibma had the winning number, 731, but not the winning card. Pot stands at $ 265.

 

Joke of the day: Tom Savino told a joke which will not be repeated here!

 

Guest Speaker. : Josh Perry, Editor of Needham Home Town weekly discussed how the ‘Home Town Weekly’ newspapers include 6 towns: Needham, Westwood, Dover/Sherborn, Medfield and Walpole. They attempt to gather and publish news that might otherwise fall between the cracks at other newspapers.

 

Hometown Weekly has been in business for 15 years, and it has been publishing a Needham edition for 7 years.

 

Josh has been an editor or several of these newspapers, and lives in Attleboro. He graduated from RI College in 2001 and the Conn. School of Broadcasting in 2004.

 

They have been very accommodating with the Rotary Club about publishing information pertinent to Rotary. These newspapers are all delivered every Thursday into every home. They do not mail them, hoping to get more readership that way.

 

Learn more about them at www.hometownweekly.net.