Thursday’s meeting at Quigley’s will be a “club assembly” working session for all SRC Rotarians.

After a chicken marsala dinner, we will working together to refine, reorganize, and make plans to realize many of our goals for this coming year, as outlined at a recent Board retreat.

Even if you don’t normally attend the dinner meetings, we urge you to attend this one. It will be an important step forward in our efforts to continually improve our club, its impact on society, and its enjoyment by its members. We’d like to get everyone involved in this effort.

As always, we need email responses to dinner coordinator Debbie Brown (mdbrown@nycap.rr.com) no later than Tuesday evening if you haven’t already reserved, so we have enough food and seats at the table(s) for you.

Here’s who has signed up so far:

Bailey, Pat
Brewer, Terry
Brown, Debbie
Brown, Peter
Dowd, April
Dowd, Bill
Drumm, Dick
Forth, Murray
Frankel, Julius
Hannan, Ray
Kellerman, Phil
Leyhane, Jim
Leyhane, Kevin
Martinez, Roberto
Nasca, Bonnie
Nasca, Phil
Rodriguez, Debbie

Iceland is a land of unusual customs and contours, scenic wonders, and fascinating people. Dean Calamaras, one of our more traveled members, will provide a look at the island nation as our speaker at this Thursday’s 6:15 dinner meeting at Quigley’s.

One of Iceland’s iconic dishes is something called hákarl. “Hákarl” is the local word for shark, but as a food item it refers to a putrified, preserved shark meat dish.

Luckily, we are not having Icelandic food on our dinner menu this week. Instead, we are having eggplant Parmesan, antipasto salad, chef’s choice of sides, bread, dessert, and beverages,

As always, unless you already have signed up, dinner coordinator Debbie Brown needs to be emailed at mdbrown@nycap.rr.com no later than Tuesday if you plan to attend. Please be sure to let her know if you are bringing a guest.

Here’s who has signed up so far:

Pat Bailey
Terry Brewer
Debbie Brown
Peter Brown
Dean Calamaras
Bill Dowd
Dick Drumm
Charlie Foote
Murray Forth
Julius Frankel
Ray Hannan
Phil Kellerman
Jim Leyhane
Kevin Leyhane
Roberto Martinez
Carol Orvis
Debbie Rodriguez

This week we’ll be marking “Peter Brown Thursday,” with our very own PB scheduled to be the speaker at both our 7 a.m. breakfast meeting at the Greenbush YMCA and at the 6:15 p.m. dinner meeting at Quigley’s.

His breakfast topic: “Reducing School Violence.”

His dinner topic: The book “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters In the End,” by Dr. Atul Gawande.

Our dinner menu will feature roast pork, chef’s choice of sides, antipasto salad, rolls, dessert, and beverages. And, of course, the cash bar is available.

As always, we need to know no later than Tuesday if you plan to attend either or both  meetings, and whether you’re bringing guests. Please email Jim Butterworth (jbutterworth@albany.edu) to reserve a breakfast seat, and Debbie Brown (mdbrown@nycap.rr.com) for a dinner seat.

The following members already have made RSVPs for the dinner:

Pat Bailey
Terry Brewer
Debbie Brown
Peter Brown
Bill Dowd
Dick Drumm
Murray Forth
Ray Hannan
Phil Kellerman
Jim Leyhane
Kevin Leyhane
Roberto Martinez
Debbie Rodriguez

SRC’s third “Recycling & Shredding Day” went off well on Saturday, with a steady stream of people dropping off documents, outmoded TV sets, electronics, and even some big appliances for recycling. Many of them expressed hope we will hold another such session in the spring.

We had a good group of volunteers working on several shifts, and stalwarts Murray Forth, Terry Brewer, Roberto Martinez, and Jim Leyhane working the entire 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. event with Murray also making residential pickups. Thanks to them along with Dean Calamaras, Kevin  Leyhane, Andy Leyhane, Dick Drumm, Josh Wainman, Geoff Brewer, Charlie Foote, and Julius Frankel for their outside work, and to Pat Bailey, Bill Dowd, Phil Kellerman, Becky Raymond, and Ray Hannan who staffed the payment-table shifts. Once again, thanks to Josh for making the Wainschaf Associates facility available to the club.

Here some scenes from the day:

We will be having a “neighbor” as our guest speaker at this Tursday’s 6:15p.m. dinner meeting at Quigley’s.

Deborah Ciprioni, owner of Comprehensive Physical Therapy Solutions, has her offices in the former Community Care building where Ron and Monika Annis operate their Top Form practice.

The dinner menu will include beef tips with mushroom gravy, salad, chef’s choice of sides, bread, dessert, and beverages. And, as always, the cash bar is available.

And, speaking of availability, please be sure you have reserved a seat for you and any guests with dinner coordinator Debbie Brown at mdbrown@nycap.rr.com no later than Tuesday evening so we have sufficient food and seating.

Here’s who has signed up so far:

Pat Bailey
Terry Brewer
Jim Butterworth
Deborah Ciprioni (guest speaker)
April Dowd
Bill Dowd
Dick Drumm
Jennifer Felts
Murray Forth
Jim Leyhane
Kevin Leyhane
Becky Raymond
Debbie Rodriguez