Please be sure to share this flyer via email, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc., or simply print out copies and get them posted anywhere potential bowlers might see them. We have only 9 days left until this very important fundraiser, so speed if of the essence.
Tickets are on sale now for the Rotary District 7190 Centennial Foundation Event, scheduled for Thursday, November 17, at the Saratoga National Golf Club, 458 Union Avenue, Saratoga Springs.
In addition to dinner from Mazzone Hospitality, the region’s premier dining organization, there will be entertainment and a silent auction of gift baskets contributed by various clubs.
Tickets are $100 for an individual and $175 for a couple. The deadline for purchase is November 10. Go here to do it online.
Rotary is such a multi-faceted organization it often is difficult to explain it succinctly to anyone who is not a member.
That’s why we have put together a new website page called “Want to Join Us?” (That’s the page logo over there.)
It contains a simple explanation of the scope of Rotary, what we do locally and how to contact us, links to information concerning RI and District 7190, plus a pair of videos.
The videos are called “What Is Rotary?”and”Why Rotary Now?” and are particularly geared toward recruiting Millenials and Gen Xers.
We hope you will share this information with people you think might make good Rotarians. Just tell them to go online to SRCrotary.org and click on “Want to Join Us?” We think they’ll be glad you did.
Three members of the Southern Rensselaer County Rotary Club participated in today’s Rotary Leadership Institute (RLI), held at Siena College in Loudonville.
Club President Debbie Rodriguez and Past President Bill Dowd were among a group of 11 Rotarians from a variety of local clubs who graduated and received diplomas for completing three years of training workshops. In addition to being able to use their skills honed in the workshops for local and district Rotary undertakings, they now are eligible for training as members of the RLI facilitator faculty for the Northeast.
And, President-elect Roberto Martinez participated in the Level 1 introductory workshop as the first step in his climb through the levels.
RLI is a facilitated discussion-style program consisting of three levels plus Graduate classes for those who have completed all those levels. It is intended to train Rotarians deemed by their clubs to have leadership interests and abilities.
One of the key components to making our annual “Bowling for Vets” fundraiser a success is obtaining lane sponsorships.
Sponsorship rights for the Sunday, November 6, event at the East Greenbush Bowling Center are a bargain $100, for which individuals and/or organizations get their names emblazoned on signs above the lanes, and they then are listed for a year on the “Our Sponsors” of our club website.
If you or someone or some group you know is interested, simply send a check payable to “SRC Rotary” to Southern Rensselaer County Rotary Club, P.O. Box 71, East Greenbush, NY 12061, in time for arrival no later than Monday, October 31.
Your contribution will help us help military veterans and military families organizations in the Capital Region.
Please share this flyer — on Facebook, on Twitter, at business and organizational bulletin sites … anywhere you can think of that might find a receptive audience. We’re already on numerous Facebook pages, several websites, on the East Greenbush Public Library and Greenbush YMCA bulletin boards, etc. Plus. we’re still looking for lane sponsors, so contact Murray Forth for details.
WHAT: A “World Polio Day” live-streaming event from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, featuring an address by CDC Director Tom Frieden, various celebrities and experts who will share progress on the road to polio eradication.
WHO: Rotarians, students and faculty of the University at Albany School of Public Health, and interested members of the public and the media are invited to attend.
WHEN: Monday October 24, 2016, from 5:30 to 7 p.m., with the live streaming beginning at 6 p.m.
WHERE: UAlbany School of Public Health (room 110A) on the SUNY Health Sciences Campus, 1 University Place, just off Columbia Turnpike in Rensselaer.
• This Thursday at 6:15 p.m. at Quigley’s Food & Drink, we’ll hold our weekly dinner meeting, with Chicken Marsala as the menu centerpiece, accompanied by pasta, veggies, salad, bread, dessert and beverages. As always, Contact Debbie Brown by Tuesday if you plan to attend.
Russ Myer, founder of the Capital Region Nordic Alliance organization that deals with year-round adaptive sports for all, will speak.
• That same morning, our monthly “Third Thursday” breakfast meeting will be held at 7 a.m. at the Greenbush Area YMCA. Contact Terry Brewer or Shannon Romanowski by Wednesday if you plan to attend.
John Sawchuk and students from Columbia High School will present information on their student service projects, and Shannon will share information on community projects for Rotary’s participation.
The UAlbany East Campus recently was rebranded, and now goes under the name UAlbany Health Sciences Campus.
Why? Get the behind-the-scenes details of the change, and what it may mean for the future of the Rensselaer complex when Laura Schweitzer is our after-dinner speaker this Thursday at Quigley’s.
Speaking of dinner, we’re having a bit of a change in menu this week, with a vegetarian cheese lasagna as the centerpiece. Dinner coordinator Debbie Brown says, “I will appreciate your feedback, as we are looking for some vegetarian options for entrees.”
Debbie also would like your feedback (via email to mdbrown@nycap.rr.com) no later than Tuesday evening on whether you plan to attend this week and, if so, whether you are bringing a guest. That information is necessary to give the Quigley’s kitchen an accurate headcount.
Here’s who is coming so far. Please join them by RSVPing to Debbie:
Southern Rensselaer County Rotary Club 