Attention Rotarians (and everyone else, for that matter).

First Street in Troy will be transformed with a 1970s-1980s look and be closed to traffic on Tuesday and Wednesday for yet another movie shoot. That area cuts through the downtown  campus of Russell Sage College.

In the recent past, Troy has been a shooting locale for scenes in such films as “Scent of a Woman,” “The Time Machine,” “Age of Innocence,” “Ironweed,” “The Bostonians” and so on. This week, it will be for “The Pretenders,” starring James Franco, who has been scene in the area recently.

If you’re among the few who are unfamiliar with Franco’s work, go here for some help.

The accompanying graph shows traffic to our club website during a 2 1/2 week period in October. It follows a fairly common pattern of ebb and flow seen throughout most weeks.

However, note that one huge spike on the right? That’s the day the website was featured as part of the District 7190 “Membership & PR Summit” in Clifton Park. It certainly looks as if those in attendance did some further viewing of the site after they got home.

Graphic novels, which some of us called comic books when we were kids, have been all the rage for years, now. They even are the basis for any number of TV shows and motion pictures.

The Rotarian, our monthly magazine, has joined the use of this particular school of art for its November 2016 issue. It highlights Arch Klumph and the Rotary Foundation which is in its centennial anniversary year. Klumph, as you may know, created the Foundation during his RI presidency in 1916.

The striking artwork in the 12-page graphic novel-within-a-magazine is by Josh Elder, who has been with the iconic DC Comics company for more than a decade. He also is the founder of Reading With Pictures, a nonprofit that promotes the use of comics in education.

When asked to undertake the project. Elder says, he already knew a bit about Rotary’s work. “The biggest surprise,” he says, “was learning just how much good Rotary has done in the world, the sheer breadth and depth of Rotary’s philanthropic reach. Whether it was playing a role in forming the United Nations or providing seed money for Easter Seals, if it was a net gain for humanity over the last 100 or so years, Rotary was there.”