A group of SRC members and friends whipped up breakfast on Saturday morning for the guests at Ronald McDonald House in Albany. Terry Brewer coordinated the event again this year.
The three-building facility provides lodging and volunteer-created meals for families with youngsters undergoing treatment at the nearby Albany Medical Center. SRC will be cooking and serving dinner there on Wednesday, May 31.
Here’s a look at the breakfast cooks:
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The annual “Easter Baskets for Cate’s Kids” in which the SRC Club is a major player this year outdid all prior efforts.
With the combined efforts of SRC members, Columbia High School students and staff, and Len Leonidas’s Tiger Scouts, plus a few other local groups conducting their own efforts, hundreds of Easter baskets for needy children in the community were created and delivered to the family services organization Circles of Mercy.
According to Richard Zazycki, Circles’ executive director, the outpouring far exceeded his organization’s needs, so the overflow was shared with the Rensselaer Boys & Girls Club and Rensselaer Head Start.
Bill Dowd, SRC’s coordinator of the project, expressed gratitude for the club’s effort.
“The unending generosity of our club members, plus the volunteer work of students and Scouts engaged in a kids-helping-kids effort, have made the basket initiative a huge success again this year.”
It’s Spring, finally! And, to mark the occasion, our own Debbie Brown will present an after-dinner talk adapted from a program she helped develop and present to the Fort Orange Garden Club: “What’s the Buzz About Bees?”
It will provide a bit of history, a bit about their life cycle, some environmental ramifications, and some suggestions about supporting these important pollinators in our gardens.
The dinner menu is roast pork, chef’s selection of sides, salad, bread, dessert and beverages.
As always, Tuesday is the deadline for sending your RSVPs to Debbie at mdbrown@nycap.rr.com and please remember to let her know if you plan to bring a guest.
The following members have submitted reservations:
Monika Annis
Ron Annis
Pat Bailey
Terry Brewer
Debbie Brown
Peter Brown
April Dowd
Bill Dowd
Dick Drumm
Murray Forth
Ray Hannan
Phil Kellerman
Jim Leyhane
Roberto Martinez
Carol Orvis
Becky Raymond
Debbie Rodriguez
Quigley’s famous Chicken Parm will headline the menu for this Thursday’s 6:15 p.m. dinner meeting, accompanied by salad, chef’s selection of sides, bread, dessert and beverages.
After dinner, Chris Smith, a detective with the Colonie Police Department, will speak on a very timely and important topic — internet safety, “How To Catch a Predator.”
As always, we need an accurate headcount, so if you would like to attend (guests always welcome) but have not yet let dinner coordinator Debbie Brown know of your plans, please email her at mdbrown@nycap.rr.com no later than Tuesday.
Those already signed up:
Monika Annis
Ron Annis
Terry Brewer
Debbie Brown
Peter Brown
April Dowd
Bill Dowd
Dick Drumm
Murray Forth
Ray Hannan
Phil Kellerman
Roberto Martinez
Debbie Rodriguez
Chris Smith (speaker)
If you would like to hear someone speak about a nearly $40 million local project, we have just the person lined up for our Thursday dinner meeting at Quigley’s.
Jeff Simons, superintendent of the East Greenbush Central School District, will be outlining the district’s $39.7 million capital budget proposal that will go before the voters on May 16.
The menu for the evening’s meal will be turkey and all the fixin’s, including salad, sides, bread, dessert and beverages. And, as always, the cash bar is available before, during and after the meeting.
If you haven’t yet let dinner coordinator Debbie Brown know you’re planning to attend — and whether you’re bringing a guest — please be sure to email her at mdbrown@nycap.rr.com no later than Tuesday evening. (P.S., if you have reserved a seat for a dinner recently but did not attend, please be sure to submit payment for that event to Murray Forth anyway. Even if you don’t show up, once we give Quigley’s the headcount we have to pay for it.)
The following people already have indicated their intention to attend:
Monika Annis
Ron Annis
Pat Bailey
Terry Brewer
Debbie Brown
Peter Brown
Bill Dowd
Dick Drumm
Murray Forth
Julius Frankel
Ray Hannan
Phil Kellerman
Jim Leyhane
Roberto Martinez
Bonnie Nasca
Phil Nasca
Debbie Rodriguez
Jeff Simons (speaker)
You can stay abreast with the schedule of events for our club and our district by checking the “EVENTS” listing on our Facebook page. Here’s a look at the ever-changing lineup.
Although our Thursday after-dinner speaker will be talking about Vietnam, there will be no pho or mung beans on the menu. We will instead be dining on a very American entree of beef tips and mushroom gravy over noodles, plus chef’s selection of sides, salad, bread, dessert and beverages. And, as always, the cash bar is available.
Then, we will hear a presentation on the “YMCA Global Immersion Program Vietnam” from Josephine Reeder, YMCA Director of Health and Wellness.
We already have a good reservation lineup, but if you haven’t yet signed up to save a seat (including for any guests you may want to bring), please be sure to email dinner coordinator Debbie Brown no later than Tuesday. Friends and family always welcome.
Here’s who has signed up so far:
Monika Annis
Ron Annis
Pat Bailey
Terry Brewer
Debbie Brown
Bill Dowd
Dick Drumm
Murray Forth
Julius Frankel
Ray Hannan
Phil Kellerman
Jim Leyhane
Roberto Martinez
Debbie Rodriguez
Josephine Reeder (speaker)
The SRC Indoor Simulator Golf Tournament went off as planned on Saturday at the Burden Lake Country Club. Then event was a fundraiser for Ronald McDonald House and our club’s other community service projects and scholarships.
Murray Forth and Terry Brewer, as usual, organized the effort and were aided on event day by Ray Hannan, Debbie Brown, Peter Brown, Pat Bailey and others. Thanks to all.
Some other images from the day:
Videotaping began this week on the polio educational video being created as a joint effort by the Southern Rensselaer County Rotary Club, CASDA, District 7190, and the UAbany School of Public Heath.
The aim is to have the video, which is being underwritten by CASDA, completed in time for a debut showing at the District Conference in Lake George in May.
It is expected that the final product will be available in three different lengths to accommodate different needs.
District Governor John Mucha is narrating the video, which includes Jim Leyhane interviewing Dr. Martha Lepow, an early pioneer in polio research and the Director of Excellence In Pediatric and Adolescent Care at Albany Medical Center. In addition to CASDA providing the technical crew at no cost to the club, members of SRC, the District and the School of Public Heath are volunteering their time.
Southern Rensselaer County Rotary Club 