Please join us this week at Moscatiello’s on Thursday at 6:00pm to hear Dr. John Morley speak about “The Rising Costs of Health Care”. As usual if you can’t join us in person you can attend remotely to hear the presentation using the Zoom link on the calendar page.
Menu options for this week include Antipasto Salad, Portobello Ravioli, or Spaghetti with Meatballs or Sausage.
Please join us this Thursday night at 6:00 pm at Moscatiello’s Family Italian Restaurant to listen to Carole Heaney’s presentation “Tackling the Taboo: Let’s Talk about Death”. Carole who has joined our club before speaking about Hospice care, says the conversation regarding death starts with, “What matters most to me through the end of life is……”
As usual if you are unable to join us in person, you may do so virtually using the link posted on the calendar page. Looking forward to seeing everyone there.
Menu choices: Chicken Caesar salad, Chicken Florentine, or Cheese Ravioli
Join us this week at Moscatiello’s on Thursday at 6:00 to hear District Membership Chair Raymond Anthony and Herb Klutz speak about attracting new members to our club and retaining the members that we already have. As usual if you can’t join us in person you may do so remotely using the link posted on our calendar page. Looking forward to seeing everyone this Thursday.
Dinner choices this week include: Rustica Salad with Chicken, Lasagna, or Penne alla Vodka
At this weeks meeting will be recognizing the Southern Rensselaer County Rotary Club’s scholarship award winners. Scholarship award winners from Columbia High School, Maple Hill High School, and Rensselaer High School along with guests will be in attendance. As usual if you are unable to attend in person you may join us remotely using the link located on our calendar page.
Menu choices this week include: Chicken Caesar salad, Spaghetti with Meatballs or Sausage, or Baked Zitti
Join us this week at Moscatiello’s on Thursday night at 6:00pm to hear Jim Bonesteel, Executive Director of the Rensselaer Plateau Alliance. The Rensselaer Plateau is one of the largest and most ecologically intact native habitats in New York State. The preservation of this landscape for future generations is the vision of the Rensselaer Plateau Alliance.
The Plateau covers about 118,000 acres in the towns of Berlin, Brunswick, Grafton, Hoosick, Nassau, Petersburgh, Pittstown, Poestenkill, Sand Lake, Stephentown and the Village of East Nassau.
The RPA has recently begun steps to merge with the Rensselaer Land Trust.
As always, if you can’t join us in person, you may do so using the Zoom link located on our calendar page.
Menu choices this week include Antipasto Salad, Chicken Marsala, or Cheese Ravioli
Rotary Meeting (Moscatello’s) 5/25/23 Minutes
Menu: Rustica Salad with Chicken/Chicken Florentine/Portabella Ravioli
Members in attendance: Jim Lehayne, Peter Brown, Deb Brown, Pat Bailey, Andy Leyhane, Roberto Martinez, Phil Kellerman, Dick Drumm, and via Zoom, Becky Raymond, Ray Hannan and Charlie Foote
Guests: Joan Bishop
Guest speaker: Ed Kellerman: The Beauty of Public Speaking
Next week: Jim Bonesteel from Rennselaer Plateau Alliance
Old Business:
Gift of Life Annual Golf Tournament – the upcoming week is the drawing for the Barrel of Booze fund-raiser for Gift of Life.
Town of Schodack Music and Movie Nights.
Pat and Phil reported they attended the first movie night at the Town Park and sold out of 25 boxes of popcorn at $3 dollars a box, and also sold some drinks for a gross net of $100 to the club. The attendance was fair but both thought the event for Rotary was quite successful.
Pete and Deb agreed to attend and have a table at the June 6th music in the park. Phil suggested that popcorn be sold at the music events. Becky agreed to join Deb Rodriguez for the August 1st music night. Phil agreed to attend the Friday, August 18 movie night and Ray and Pat agreed to join him.
Phil asked those volunteering to be in touch with him prior to their attendance so he could make arrangements to pick up popcorn.
Dues: Members were reminded to pay dues by June first. Roberto and Jim said that they would follow up with those who have not paid.
Check update: Phil said that there was no word from Christine Fowler on the initial check presented to the South Sudan Water Project. Murray was not in attendance to provide an update.
Membership update: Danny from Casey’s wants to join and Mary Alice Caldes has paid to be a member.
New Business:
Becky discussed the Freedom from Fistula foundation and the lack of pre-natal care in Africa causing fistula. She asked that the club make a donation and Roberto followed up by suggesting that the club match a donation by Rotaract of up to $200. Members approved the motion.
Speaker: Phil introduced his brother, Dr. Ed Kellerman, who spoke about “The Beauty of Public Speaking.” Dr. Kellerman addressed what makes a good public speaker and what makes one person more persuasive than another speaker. He discussed how important it was for speakers to stick to no more that three main points during any talk, and that research was critical to boosting any talk. Sticking to a time limit, proper eye contact and language, and fluency help make for good public speaking.
Joining us at Moscatiello’s via Zoom for this week’s meeting is SRC’s Phill Kellerman’s brother Ed Kellerman as our guest presenter. Ed who visited our club a few weeks ago will be speaking on “The Beauty of Public Speaking”. Looking forward to seeing everyone this Thursday. Once again if you are unable to attend in person, you can join us via Zoom using the link on the calendar page.
Rotary Meeting (Moscatiello’s) 5/18/23 Agenda
Menu: Chicken Ceasar Salad, Linguini with Baby Clams in white wine sauce
Penne alla Vodka
Members in attendance: Debbie and Peter Brown, Phil Kellerman, Dick Drumm, Pat Bailey, Ray Hannan, Murray Forth, Jim Leyhane, Andy Leyhane, Kevin Leyhane, Roberto Martinez. Zoom: Becky Raymond, Carol Orvis and Charlie Foot. 14 members
Guests in attendance: Dr. Kathy Platoni
Opening
The Pledge
The Blessing
Theme for the Year: “Growing Fellowship and Service Locally and Globally”
As discussed at the board meeting we are looking for service projects and guest speakers should relate to this theme.
Proxy Votes: If unable to attend proxy votes can be submitted to a board member who will be in attendance. Proxy vote may also be submitted using the Remind App text notification.
Remind App: Allows group texting for quicker sharing of information in the case of rescheduling, proxy voting, and may serve as a quick reminder for events. Limited to 150 characters. To join group:
Send a text to the number: 81010
Text this message: @srcrot
Guest Speaker: Dr. Kathy Platoni, Phil introduction, joining us via Zoom to speak on PTSD at 6:50p
Phil introduced his longtime friend whom he met in college in Miami. She has an extensive portfolio and many honors. She’s retired Military and a clinical psychologist.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder represents a brain injury from an acute external event. It became defined in 1982. It is an injury and not a disease. The new thoughts are that it can be modified in a positive way by acute psychological intervention by a team of therapists. Now it is not considered a psychotical event, but a structural change in the brain that can be seen on PET Scans. The traditional response of exercise therapy and therapy animals has some beneficial effects. Patients often avoid driving, have flash backs, have negative thoughts about themselves, and can’t experience joys they once had. Treatment is individualized and there are no medicines that are clearly effective.
NEXT Weeks Speaker: Tentative Dan Fumarola from Casey’s.
Gift Of Life 25th Annual Golf Tournament: Thursday September 14, 2023. Brochure and link to register is on the website. Thanks to those who bought tickets to support GOL.
Grant update, Jim and Roberto: Distict Grant 23-34 has been submitted. Thanks for everyone supporting the effort. Awaiting awardees for this year’s grant, 22-23, from Maple Hill and Rensselaer. Thanks to Terry Brewer for tracking.
Event & Summer Nights in the park Pat & Phil: Schedule for summer events posted and sign up for Summer nights it the park. Continue to sign up and work out details with popcorn pick up. We have committed to the Friday Movie Nights, so those nights are a priority. Hoping to fill the Music in the Park Tuesdays. June 6th is one of the early unfilled nights. Kevin will post updates to the website so folks can continue to fill in slots. Phil has the sodas and we will sell for $2 and the water is $1.50. He will pick up the popcorn and we will sell for $3. Phill will pick up popcorn as it is needed.
Maple Hill Check update, Phil? We got a thank you from Maple Hill for the $1044. No word yet on the getting back the previous $500 check.
Viking Gym update, Ron / Jim: Viking gym has been ordered and should arrive the end of June and will be assembled by the Schodack employees. Waiting for more information from Ron or Dan Annis.
Membership update, Roberto & Kevin: Hopefully Dan from Casey’s can talk to the group and become a new member in July. Same Will Potts from Chick Fillet. Kevin will get Will the application. Phill Kellerman is actively recruiting his old boss to become a member and he will ask her to attend a meeting to reintroduce her.
Dues, Murray, update: Due June 1st to Murray. Murray has NOT received many dues payments. Two weeks left.
New Business:
Rotaract Update: Becky Raymond gave an update on Rotaract. The Board met with Becky, John Justino and Debbie Rodriquez . They went over what was going well and what was not. They enjoyed being involved with community activities such as the Bowling Event. They are trying to increase their social media presence. What has diminished has been in person attendance. Because the school is a computer school, many attend via zoom. They are trying to get alumni involved and will meet again in June. They did award a scholarship of $200 to one of the members.
This is an opportunity to learn about the district and the international websites. No charge but it is in person and on one of our Rotary nights. Many of us already attended a session tailored for our club. Thanks to Sue Austin, Whitney Pangburn and Denise Denoto.
Please join the District Training Team on May 25 for an in-person training to help you become more proficient with the tools you use to help manage your club and membership.
What: ClubRunner/MyRotary Training
When: May 25, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Where: Glenville Senior Citizens Center, 32 Worden Rd, Glenville, NY 12302
Who: All incoming club officers are encouraged to attend, but the training is open to everyone!
Epilepsy Local Chapter: Ray Hannan gave a talk about epilepsy and how it affects many including himself. The Club had a motion and voted to give the local chapter $200. If members want to personally give more, please contact Ray.
This week we return to Moscatiello’s where guest presenter Dr. Kathy Plactoni will be joining us remotely and she will be speaking on the topic of post traumatic stress disorder. The meeting will begin at 6:00pm and as usually if you can not join us in person you can do so remotely using the link posted on our calendar page.
Dinner choices will include Chicken Ceasar Salad, Linguini with Baby Clams in White Wine Sauce, or Penne all Vodka. Looking forward to seeing everyone this Thursday.
SRC Rotary Minutes 5/11/2023 Moscatiellos
Members in Attendance: Pat Bailey, Peter Brown, Debbie Brown Dick Drumm, Murray Forth, Ray Hannan, Phil Kellerman, Andy Leyhane, Kevin Leyhane;
By Zoom: Charlie Foote, Jim Leyhane, Roberto Martinez
Proxy: Carol Orvis, Becky Raymond
Guests: Ed Kellerman and wife, Sarge: Will Potts
Old Business:
MH check for Iron Giraffe Project: Phil reports no news, and Murray will check to determine if the check has been cashed.
Scholarship: Columbia has reported their selection; still waiting to hear from Maple Hill and Rensselaer HS. Principals from those schools need to sign the grant application to ensure participation in the next round
Slate of Officers 2023-24: Six specific Board positions are required to apply for Rotary Grants. Murray Forth moved to accept the following slate, the motion was seconded by Kevin Leyhane, and passed unanimously.
President, Peter Brown; President Elect, Roberto Martinez; Vice President, Jim Leyhane; Secretary, Pat Bailey; Treasurer, Murray Forth; Foundation Chair, Jim Leyhane; Membership, Terry Brewer; Public Relations, Kevin Leyhane
District Grant Updates: Letters of participation needed from the schools; Slate of Officers posted on Club Runner; and Goals from 2023-24 submitted. All is in order for the submission deadline.
Gift of Life: Barrow of Booze drawing is May 26th and tonight is the deadline for purchasing tickets ($20 or 2 for $30). The Gift of Life Tournament is scheduled for September 14th. Details to follow.
Summer Nights in the Park: Sign up sheets were circulated for both Music in the Park on Tuesdays, and Movie Nights on selected Fridays. Phil K and Pat B are negotiating with “What’s Popping” to provide popcorn to be sold at all events.
Summer Calendar Program Update: With the addition of a visit to the USS Slater, the only date still unfilled is August 31st. The Slater and Jersey Boys at MacHayden will require advanced sign up.
Presidential Changeover: July 6, 2023 at the Browns
Reminder: Dues are due by June 1st, $175, or 2 installments
New Business:
Membership update: Kevin introduced Will Potts, Manager of the soon to be open Chick-fil-A on Rt 4 who will be joining our club. The new owner of Casey’s Restaurant has expressed interest in becoming a member as well.
Next Week’s Speaker: Dr. Kathy Platoni, speaking on PTSD, hosted by Phil Kellerman
Purchase of a new banner for display at events: The current banner for our club is too big to easily hand on a table or from a canopy. Pat Bailey moved the club purchase a smaller one and would make those arrangements. Andy Leyhane seconded the motion, which was approved unanimously.
Club Assembly:
Will Potts is from the South, the son of a Baptist Minister. During college he worked at the local Chick-fil-A and was given the training and experience to “move up the ladder” One of his mentors was a Rotary member and encouraged Will to consider connecting with Rotary clubs as he moved locations. Most recently he opened a Buffalo site as interim manager and 5 weeks ago relocated with his wife to this area to open the Chick-fil-A on Route 4 in East Greenbush. Welcome, Will!!
Phil introduced his older brother Ed and his wife Sarge who live in Gainsville, Florida. Ed has recently retired as a Professor at the University of Gainsville, and gave an overview of life as a Floridian as well as that of Phil’s older brother
Southern Rensselaer County Rotary Club 