The Southern Rensselaer County Rotary Club is returning to Moscatiello’s Italian Family Restaurant on Thursday, September 14, 2023 at 6:00pm. The agenda for this meeting is a general club assembly where we will be working on scheduling presentations for the remainder of the Rotary Calendar Year. The menu this week includes a choice of Chicken Rustica Salad, Portobello Ravioli with red sauce, and Lasagna.

Peter Brown, Debbie Brown, Jim Leyhane, Roberto Martinez Kevin Leyhane, Dick Drumm, Charlie Foot, Pat Bailey, Murray Forth and Debbie Rodriguez met for dinner at Moscatiello’s Italian Restaurant this evening.

There will be no regular meeting on September 7th.

Our first official meeting of the fall will be held on Thursday, September 14th with dinner at 6:00 pm at Moscatiello’s Italian Family Restaurant, Route 4, North Greenbush. Also, you can join the by Zoom using the link on our website calendar page. Please let Jim Leyhane or Roberto Martinez know if you plan to join the weekly meeting via Zoom.

The menu will be a choice of Chicken Rustica Salid, Portobello Ravioli with Red Sauce and Lasagna.

Meeting Business

• Theme for the Year: “Building Community.”
•  We are still looking for speakers. Please let Becky Raymond, Kevin Leyhane or Peter Brown know if you have a guest speaker.
• The technical information for our speakers can be found at https://srcrotary.org/tech-data-for-speakers/. Please let Roberto Martinez or Jim Leyhane know what technical assistance the speaker will need.
• Robert Martiniano will speak on September 21 on “Building Community and the Value of Social Capitol.”
• Our District Governor, Whitney Pangburn, will speak on October 12th.
• The Calendar page will be updated.
• You can still use the Remind App. Text to the number 81010.

We look forward to seeing everyone at Moscatiello’s on September 14th.

Our Last Summer Social Event Came to a close last night as Pat Bailey and Mary Alice hosted the club to pizza and Pie at Pat’s house. With the event being well attended by both members and guests, all enjoyed family, friends, and the fellowship of Rotary. Please feel free to look at the pictures of the event below. This event marks the end of the Summer Social Events and we would like to take a moment to thank all of our gracious hosts for their support in hosting these events over the summer. Next Thursday, August 31, 2023 the Southern Rensselaer County Rotary Club will be returning to Moscatiello’s at 6:00pm. The menu will be a choice of Chicken Caesar salad, spaghetti and meatballs, or chicken marsala. We look forward to seeing everyone at Moscatiello’s next week.

On Monday, August 21, 2023 members of the Southern Rensselaer County Rotary Club delivered much needed school supplies to Circles of Mercy in Rensselaer as our school supply drive came to an end. The staff of Circles of Mercy were overwhelmed by the generosity of the club.

SRC Rotary President Peter Brown announced that he has arranged for Robert Martiniano to speak to the club on September 21, 2023 on the topic of social capital. This marks the first scheduled presenter for the upcoming Rotary Calendar Year. This serves as a reminder to start think about and scheduling presenters for the upcoming year.

There will be no regular meeting September 7, 2023 due to the Labor Day Holiday that week.

Last night several Southern Rensselaer County Rotary Club members, family, friends, and guests enjoyed dinner at La Bella’s in Valatie followed by the show “Jersey Boys” at the MacHayden Theater. Everyone enjoyed dining on fine Italian food, followed by the enjoyable music of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. A special thank you to Debbie and Peter Brown for arranging the evening.

Circles of Mercy School Supply Drive is winding down, if you haven’t donated supplies to Roberto, Jim, or Kevin please make arrangements to do so this weekend. All supplies will be dropped off on Monday, August 21, 2023.

Our next Summer Social Event is scheduled for Thursday, August 24, 2023 at 6:00pm at Pat Bailey’s house. Club hosts Pat and Mary Alice will be providing pizza and salad for all of those attending. Appetizers are optional, and as always we ask for a donation of $20 per member or $25 per family. Please RSVP to Pat no later than Wednesday, August 23, 2023 at pbailey7@nycapp.rr.com or (518)755-5324.

On Thursday, August 10, 2023 several members of the Southern Rensselaer County Rotary Club met at Moscatiello’s Restaurant as a summer social event.

Meeting Business:

• The Materials for the Viking Gym are in NJ awaiting transport to Schodack
• Circles of Mercy School Supply Collection is still taking place. Supplies are due by August 21, 2023. Supplies may be brought to any summer social event of dropped off with Kevin, Jim or Roberto
• The club received a check for $1500 from the District foe the 2022-2023 grant.
• Two possible new members have been identified by members of the club.
• Thank you to Dick and Mary Drumm for hosting last week’s social event which made the club $200 for projects.

Looking ahead:

Next week’s summer social event is a trip to the MacHayden Theater to see a presentation of Jersey Boys. Details regarding dinner before will be sent out next week.

August 24, 2023 – Pizza Party at Pat Bailey’s

August 29, 2023 – Dinner at Roosevelt Room has been canceled due to it is the staff’s day off.

Movie Night in the Park:

August 11, 2023 : Nothing this Friday

August 18, 2023: Looking for takers

Thank you to Filli’s Deli for brokering more fillets for the club.

This week’s tour of the USS Slater has been canceled this week due to several conflicts. Instead the club will be meeting at our regular scheduled time of 6:00 at Moscatiello’s. Michael has agreed to give us our normal room at the normal price. The menu for this week is: Chicken Ceasar Salad, Spaghetti with meatballs, and chicken marsala. School supplies can be brought to this event for donation for Circles of Mercy. Please see the list below.

Last evening, several members of the Southern Rensselaer County Rotary Club along with family and friends gathered at the Drumm Farm to enjoy friendship and fellowship. Members enjoyed a delicious catered dinner hosted by Mary and Dick Drumm.

We are continuing to collect school supplies for the Circles of Mercy Back to School program and donations may be brought to any of the upcoming Summer Social Events. If you are unable to attend one of the events contact Kevin, Roberto, of Jim to arrange a separate drop off. The last day for collections is August 21, 2023.

We continue our summer casual events this week with dinner on the Drumm Farm hosted by Mary and Dick Drumm this Thursday at 6:00 pm. As usual we are asking for a fee of $20 per member and $25 per family with donations being accepted.

Looking ahead, next week’s summer social event features a tour of the USS Slater with dinner at Moscatiello’s to follow for those interested. The tour is scheduled for Thursday, August 10th at 5:30 pm at 141 Broadway, Albany, NY 12202. The tour is about an hour in length with price of admission is $5 per child and $7 for an adult. Anyone interested in the tour and dinner to follow, please let Roberto and/or Jim know by this Friday at noon so they can make the appropriate reservations.

Once again we are choosing to support Circles of Mercy’s Back to School Program. With the economy being what it is today, the need to support the children of our community is greater than ever. Below you will find a list of school supplies that we will be collecting throughout the summer at our summer casual events. If you are unable to attend an event, and would like to arrange a separate pick-up or drop-off, contact Kevin Leyhane at KRL1873@aol.com. Donated supplies will be collected until August 21, 2023. The requested supplies are as follows:

• Pencils (regular lead #2, colored, and mechanical
• Pencil sharpener
• Erasers for pencila
• Pens (blue and black)
• Markers (dry erase, sharpies, and assorted colors)
• Pocket folders (assorted colors)
• Glue Sticks
• Scissors
• Protractor and compass
• 3 ring binders (1 1/2″, 2″, and 3″ sizes)
• loose leaf paper (college ruled)
• graph paper
• subject dividers
• highlighters (yellow)
• rulers (regular with metric)
• tissues
• hand sanitizer (small bottles)
• post-it notes
• backpacks (no rollers/wheels)
• hole reinforcement labels
• combination lock
• scientific calculators (TI-84 +graphing)
• spiral subject notebooks (1,2,and 5 subject, college ruled)
• plastic zipper pencil cases
• 3″ x 5″ index cards

On Friday July 28, 2023 member of the Danes Rotaract Club joined with members of the Southern Rensselaer County Rotary Club joined for a happy hour at Wolff’s Biergarten as a fund raiser. A good time was had by all and the event raised over $125 for school supplies.