Tupper Lake Rotary Club

TUPPER ROTARY CLUB MEETING/ April 21, 2010

Tupper Lake Rotary
April 21, 2010
at the Aaron Maddox Hall
rotaryallstars.com

Opening: Our song was led by Greg Gachowski and Dave Reed gave the blessing today.

Announcements: Dave Reed announced that he and Nick Cervelin attended the Rotary Club in Malone last week to lay the groundwork for the May 6 Allstar pitch for ads.

Gail passed around a sign up sheet for reading to the LP Quinn students.

Gail announced a May 13th 4 club meeting at the Nonifina in Saranac Lake. 7pm.

Today' Program AllStar Update : Mark provided the update including committee structure. Mark Moeller reviewed the advertisers lists and members signed up for those advertisers they will be responsible for. Further work on this next week. Dick Meisburger completed his ad work prior to his surgery. Monies are in. Great job Dick.

Nick called for a short board meeting to discuss membership issues.

Anniversity: Fred and Rene Schuller, April 22
Members present today: 11 of 21 plus one prospective
Today's 50/50-Happy Dollars Winner: ?

Coming Programs

April 28- Eric Sears
May 5- Dick Meisburger

Note: Please check the calendar at the website to see when you are scheduled to provide the weekly program.

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TUPPER ROTARY CLUB MEETING/ March 31, 2010

Tupper Lake Rotary
                      March 31, 2010
                       at the Arron Maddox hall
                                  rotaryallstars.com

Announcements: All luncheons meetings will be held at the Arron Maddox Hall at this time.
Dave Reed announced that Dick Meisburger had developed pnumonia while having heart surgery and was flown to Albany Medical Center. At last information Dick is now recovering at home. Dan King has agreed to be a "Rotary helper" with the Washington Street Rotary Tin Man station this year.
AllStar Update : Nick, Bengt and Dave will be visiting other area Rotary Clubs to get them involved in supporting and selling ads for the AllStar Game. Ricky Dattola suggested that the trio also take a coach with them to speak with the other Rotary groups.
They hope to get the Saranac Lake coach to go to some of the clubs with them and to have the Massena coach accompany them to the Malone and Massena Rotary meetings.
Lind Provo announced that she will bring with her next week the master advertising list to get each member assigned to places to go to get ads.
As Club President Eric Sears discussed at today's meeting, last years programs were too dark. We will try to get copies of the 2008 and 2007 programs for members to have on hand to show prospective advertisers what the ads look like. Eric plans to be physically present this year at the printing to assure that the photos and print in the programs are clear and easy to read.
This year the East Pizza party and chalk talk will be at the VFW in Plattsburg and the West event will be at the K of C in Canton.
All Rotary members are invited to attend. Look for information coming soon or talk to Nick, Bengt or Dave.

Menu for Wednesday April 7: Roast Pork Dinner

Members present today:  8 of 21
Meeting info: Meetings at Arron Maddox Hall (adjacent to the Adult Center downtown.)
                        Coming Programs

April 7-Nick Cervelin
April 14-Karen Pioli
April 21-Bengt Ohman
April 28- Eric Sears
May 5- Dick Meisburger

Note: Please check the calendar at the website to see when you are scheduled to provide the weekly program.

TUPPER ROTARY CLUB MEETING/ March 17, 2010

Tupper Lake Rotary
                     March 17, 2010
                         at the Pine Grove
                              www.rotaryallstars.com

Opening: Rick Wilburn gave the blessing today.

Announcements: Dave Reed will be contacting Dick and Shirley Meisburger to see how he is doing. His hospital stay has taken longer than he had hoped. We are all looking forward to having Dick back with us soon.
Steve Wilson announced that Greg Gachowski is a grandfather again. Congratulations to Greg and Barbara !
AllStar Update : Linda Provo announced that we will need to contact the coaches by the end of this month to determine who will be playing in the game in July. Dave Reed said that he and Nick Cervelin are looking for a past Allstar player to accompany them to the "Chalk Talk" Seminars with the players to help explain and answer questions about the Allstar Games. All rotarians are also encooraged to go and participate in these fun discussion sessions with the ball players. More information soon on when and where !

Guests Today: Town Supervisor Roger Amell, Enza Poeleth, Phyllis Thompson
Today' Program:   Guest Speakers today were Town Assessor and Code Enforcement Officer Paul O'Leary, KLW Municipal Services Company Representatives Robert Koszarck and Gary Schwaibold,   and New York State Office of Real Properties Property Analyst Cynthia King.
Club President Eric Dears introduced Mr. O'Leary to those assembled. Mr. O'Leary explained that the new town real property evaluation is being done on all town properties to replace the 2007 evaluation.The new assessments will be based on property values as of July 1, 2010. The new values will be used to determine county, town and school taxes beginning with the town/county taxes due in September 2011.
    Mr. O'Leary introduced Cynthia King, and Mr. Koszarck and Mr. Schwaibold. The gentlemen work for the own's contractor, KLW , which is the company that will be looking at each property and determining the value for the town's property data base. Mr. Schwaibold is the lead data collector.
   Mr. Koszarck explained that he was happy to be present to "Explain the Process" of property re-evaluation and assessment. He said that 75 to 80 % of the data has already been collected. He said that they have started from "scratch" and are looking at every building, shed, deck , etc on every property. Their goal is to determine a "fair and equitable " value for every property. They will be looking at numerous values including size, quality and character of each property.
     Some members present said that they were concerned that because there have been so few sales of local real properties in the past few years, since the market high when the last valuation was done , that there would be difficulty determining fair values. Mr. Koszarck explained that they would go to other similiar Adirondack communites if necessary to get comparable values.
    During questions Mr. Koszarck explained that his company has previously valued property on Lake Ontario and at a community in the Catskills. He said that the sales used to determine your property value will be disclosed to you. While many members appeared to believe that market values have decreased significantly since 2007, the State Real Property Representative explained that she believes that some property values, including some in Tupper Lake, may have actually increased.
    Every property owner will have an opportunity to meet with a representative of KLW after receiving their new assessment disclosure notice on March 1, 2011. Besides stating the new assessed  value, this document will also  state what your taxes would have been during the previous year at the new assessed value.   Anyone can call Town Assessor Paul O'Leary(359-3580) at any time to get information on the assessed value for you or other properties.
Members present today:  10 of 21
Today's 50/50-Happy Dollars Winner: Guest, Phyllis Thompson

Meeting info: The March 31 meeting is tentatively scheduled to be at the T.L. Adult Center/Arron Maddox Hall

                        Coming Programs

March 24-Steve Wilson
March 31- Dave Reed or Eric Sears-Roof Top Hiway or Civil War re-enactor
April 7-Nick Cervelin
April 14-Karen Pioli
April 21-Bengt Ohman
April 28- Eric Sears
May 5- Dick Meisburger

Note: Please check the calendar at the website to see when you are scheduled to provide the weekly program.

TUPPER ROTARY CLUB MEETING/ March 10, 2010

Tupper Lake Rotary
                     March 10, 2010
                         at the Pine Grove
                              www.rotaryallstars.com

Opening: Song Master Greg Gachowski led the club in song today. Rick Wilburn gave the blessing.

Announcements: President Eric Sears announced that the Pine Grove will be closed on May 26, June 2 and June 9. Marti Mozdzier is in charge of seeking another location or locations. nick Cervelin suggested that we try to attend at the TL Senior Center on at least one of the ocassions as it is a fund raiser for them.
   Gail Auclair announced that she has arranged with Eileen Hayes at the LP Quinn school for us to read to the students there in May. More details and sign up information will be forth coming.
   Bengt Ohman announced that he will be away until March 22. In the mean time as the advertising committee chair for "Allstars" he would like us to do the following:
1. Print or make arrangements for the printing of the game tickets.
Eric said that he would contact the Free Press as they did this last year.
2. Each of us should look at last year's program and approach those advertisers that we contacted and got ads from last year. If we can get most of them signed up now, we will have that out of the way. The Rotary Allstar ad copy guidelines should be at our web site. Eric and other members have copies if you need some. Just give any one a call. The former advertisers shouldn't have to do anything except "pay" if they want to run the same ad.
The rates are the same-$70 for business card size,$135 1/4 page, $250 1/2 page, $400 full page, $500 for inside front or back cover.
3. As members we can by our own ad wishing "good luck to the Allstars or any other appropriate greeting to them , Rotary, etc.
   Nick Cervelin announced that he and Mark Moeller will be at TLHS next Thursday, March 18, at 7 pm to speak to interested student and parents about the outbound Rotary Youth Exchange program. Interested students must be able to return to complete at least their senior year at home.

Today's Speaker: Dave Reed introduced Jason Clark Chair of the "Northern Corridor Transportation Group". Mr. Clark, who is also Director of Development for the Village of Massena explained that the proposed "interstate 98 is a highway to connect I-81 near Watertown with I-87 between Roses Point and Plattsburgh. Currently the project has support in the form of resolutins from 110 local and county governments including all 5 countys that it  would transit. No studies have been done to show how the project might affect commerce in the central Adirondack communities.
More information is available from Mr. Clark at 315-769-8484 or jc@massenaworks.com

Today' Program:  Members present today:  11 of 21
No 50/50-Happy Dollars today

                        Coming Programs

March 17-Sandi Strader -Speaker on T.L Real Property Assessment Revaluation
March 24-Steve Wilson
March 31- Eric Sears- Civil War re-enactor
April 7-Nick Cervelin
April 14-Karen Pioli
April 21-Bengt Ohman
April 28- Eric Sears
May 5- Dick Meisburger

Note: Please check the calendar at the website to see when you are scheduled to provide the weekly program.

TUPPER ROTARY CLUB MEETING/ March 3, 2010

Tupper Lake Rotary
                     March 3, 2010
                         at the Pine Grove
                              www.rotaryallstars.com

Opening: Song Master Greg Gachowski led the club in song today. Rick Wilburn gave the blessing.

Announcements: President Eric Sears announced that a request for training tuition of approximately $150. for a TLHS student to attend a seminar has been received. Eric suggested that the request be considered at the next Board meeting. Eric also announced that he has taken down last year's Rotary allstar game information from the web site to prepare it for this year's information.
Nick Cervelin announced that a Youth Exchange Program presentation was recntly done at the High School. Nick asked members to inquire and then inform him of any prospective high school students who may be good candidates to spend a year abroad.   This would be for a 2011 departure to a foreign country to spend a year of studies.
   Dave Reed announced that he will be heading up the Washington Ave Timan Aid Station again this year. Dave thanked Sandi Strader for running the station last year. Dave will be looking for individuals to spend a couple of hours this summer at the station on the day of the run.
Today' Program:   Marty Mozdzier's guest from the Dept. of Labor was unable to appear at our meeting today so Marti spoke about the program which deals with large employer closures like the Jarden plant closure in Tupper lake last year.
Marty also spoke about how the Adirondack Park Agency Visitor centers benefit tourism. There is concern that the Agency will
close them this year as part of the state's austerity/ cost cutting program as it is in the Agency's decision making authority to decide where its cuts will be.
    There is also concern about the nomination of boat builder Peter Hornbeck as the next APA board member. While he supports the use of the waterways for his premier very light kayaks and asserts that he is an Adirondack businessman, he has publicly announced that he does not support any development such as the ACR project and appears not support other uses of or other access methods or uses of the Adirondacks.
    A "steering committee" has been set up by Andy Flynn , Adirondack author, to try to save the Visitor Information Centers. For more info please contact the Tuppaer Lake Chamber. Thaer will be an Open House at the Chamber on March 12 to feature Microsoft 7.

Other news- Rick Wilburn is back from the Vancouver, B.C. Olympics and will tell us all about it soon !

Members present today:  15 of 21
Today's 50/50-Happy Dollars Winner: Bengt Ohman

                        Coming Programs

March 17-Sandi Strader -Speaker on T.L Real Property Assessment Revaluation
March 24-Steve Wilson
March 31- Dave Reed or Eric Sears-Roof Top Hiway or Civil War re-enactor
April 7-Nick Cervelin
April 14-Karen Pioli
April 21-Bengt Ohman
April 28- Eric Sears
May 5- Dick Meisburger

Note: Please check the calendar at the website to see when you are scheduled to provide the weekly program.

Tupper Lake Rotary
                     March 3, 2010
                         at the Pine Grove
                              www.rotaryallstars.com

Correction/ Addendum:

There is a meeting today March 10 at the Pine Grove at noon.

Last week Marti discussed Andy Flynn's efforts to keep the VIC s open.
The group/steering committee trying to save / or find a way to operate the
Visitor Information Centers (at Paul Smiths and Newcomb which are presently operated by the Adirondack Park Agency) is comprised of the DEC, the AECD, the Natuaral history Museum of the Adirondacks, the ANCA, the API, the NCCC, Audubon NY and Boces.

Also- Please note-The Tupper Lake Chamber of Commerce will have its open House beginning at 4:30 pm this Friday, March 12.

TUPPER ROTARY CLUB MEETING/ February 24, 2010

Tupper Lake Rotary
                     February 24, 2010
                         at the Pine Grove
                              www.rotaryallstars.com

Opening: Song Master Greg Gachowski led the club in song today. Rick Wilburn gave the blessing.


Today' Program:  Today's program was discussion about the Allstar Football "Programs" which will be sold at the Allstar Game in July. The "Programs" feature the   advertising that is sold by the membership to various businesses and they also include the player information.

Club President Eric Sears began by explaining that he will have the Sunmount Printing Department print the programs again this year. There was discussion about the programs and especially the printed ads and the photos in the ads being "too dark" and the player jersey numbers and names not being available in last years "Programs." Eric said that he planned to be physically present at this year's printing
to assure that the "Programs" will not be "too dark "

The membership discussed apparent difficulties that have occured with knowing what the player jersey numbers were going to be at the time of the printing of the "Programs" This information was not available in last years program and some members of the public complained.

It was proposed that if the jersey numbers can not be known prior to the printing of the "Programs" that we can "stuff" them with a sheet of paper with the player name and number information after they are printed and before the game.

It was, however, also discussed by the club president, that the programs could be published a few days before the game and that therefore advertising could be accepted up to the last minute if necessary. Nevertheless we will be giving advertisers a date certain well in advance of our final possible printing date.

Beng Ohman is looking for an up to date listing of last year's game related activities to determine where we can get advertising dollars. Bengt would like to have more information from the coaches and booster clubs. We also need help from other Rotary Clubs to sell ads and we want to get other service clubs involved and split ad money with them on the ads that they get. Bengt needs three other people to help him with this.

Mark Moeller and others suggested that we also try to print and sell tickets early and before the game to maximumize income from ticket sales as some folks that purchase tickets may eventually not get to the game.   We hope that some ticket sales could be done through the booster club and discussion about an incentive for the booster clubs occured.

Bengt Ohman will be distributing a listing of advertisers for each club member to contact.
Members present today:  10 of 21
Today's 50/50-Happy Dollars Winner: No Happy Dollars Today
                        Coming Programs

Next week-March 3-Sandi Strader
March Regular Program-to be announced-no evening assembly
March 17-Marti Mozdzier
March 24-Steve Wilson
March 31- no assignment
April 7-Nick Cervelin
April 14-Karen Pioli
April 21-Bengt Ohman
April 28- Eric Sears
May 5- Dick Meisburger

Note: Please check the calendar at the website to see when you are scheduled to provide the weekly program.

TUPPER ROTARY CLUB MEETING/ February 17, 2010

Tupper Lake Rotary
                     February 17, 2010
                         at the Pine Grove
                              www.rotaryallstars.com

Opening: Song Master Greg Gachowski led the club in song today. Rick Wilburn gave the blessing.

Announcements: Club President Sears said that the club had received a thank you card from the family of Win Benoit. including Kitty, Tom, Kim, Joe and Marie. They expressed how much Win had enjoyed being a Rotarian and his participation in Tupper Lake Rotary. Rick Wilburn mentioned to the club that he had invited Win's oldest son, who comes to Tupper Lake occassionally, to
come to any of our meetings.
Marti Mozdzier announced that the Annual T.L. Chamber of Commerce Awards Dinner is Saturday, February 20 and that tickets are available at the Chamber Office for $35. each.
Bengt Ohman said that, if there is time  next week, he would like to discuss advertising for the AllStar Program. Although Doug Wright is scheduled to provide the program for February 24, Eric said that he would arrange for Doug to provide the program on another date so that we could devote the program on the 24th to Bengt's discussion of the AllStar Game Program Ads.

Today' Program:  Pam Martin filled in for the scheduled speaker who was TLHS teacher Cathy Eldridge. Cathy was unavailable today due to a family illness. Pam explained that Cathy is mentoring a "Green Team" within the High School. The "Green Team is a group of students who are working on issues of climate change.
They have been working with the Wild Center and have obtained materials from authors and reserchers to promote and discover environmentally friendly ideas that can be used to created a cleaner world. The group was developed out of the climate change seminars that occured last year at the Museum.
    Pam explained that her presentation is a "teaser" for the future program later this year to be presented to us by Cathy and another teacher and five of the students.

Members present today:  13 of 21
Today's 50/50-Happy Dollars Winner: Mark Moeller
Anniversary: Brad Parker and Eileen Stott, February 14

                        Coming Programs

Next week-February 24-Bengt Ohman-AllStar Advertising
March 3-Sandi Strader
March 10-6:00 pm Assembly-speaker to be announced
March 17-Marti Mozdzier
March 24-Steve Wilson
March 31- no assignment
April 7-Nick Cervelin
April 14-Karen Pioli
April 21-Bengt Ohman
April 28- Eric Sears
May 5- Dick Meisburger

Note: Please check the calendar at the website to see when you are scheduled to provide the weekly program.

TUPPER ROTARY CLUB MEETING/ February 10, 2010

Tupper Lake Rotary
                    February 10, 2010
                         at the Pine Grove
                             www.rotaryallstars.com

Opening: Song Master Greg Gachowski led the club in song today. Rick Wilburn gave the blessing.

Announcements: Club President Eric sears announced that a thank you note had been received from ARISE and that the club web site has been updated.
Sandy Strader announced that in coordination with Town Assessor, Paul O'Leary, plans are being made to have a representative of the contractor doing the real property evaluations speak at our March 17 meeting. Sandy suggested that we invite the general public to attend.
   District Governor Nominee Mr. Bill Gray will be the District Governor in 2011. Mr. Gray was introduced and spoke briefly to the club.  He has been to 57 clubs in the District. He discussed the "power of invitation" and the "possibility of yes" in getting individuals involved in Rotary activities.
Mr. Gray said that the upcoming Rotary International Convention in Montreal is a great opportunity to meet people from all over the world and to make life long friendships. Information is available through www.rotary.org

Paul Roalsvig annonced that the All Star Press release has gone out. The press release and related stories have already benn published in some local papers !

Today' Program: Betsy Lowe was introduced by Paul Roalsvig. Betsy, who was last a guest speaker a couple of years ago, is the individual behind the creation of the "Wild Center" Museum and is currently the Director of the NYS Dept. of Conservation District 5.
Betsy explained that so far the Museum has seen over 100,000 visitors. Betsy is on multiple boards including the Museum's , AP and ORDA and was on the Quadracentenila board for the Lake Champlain 400 year discovery anniversary.
Ms. Lowe discussed declining staff numbers in her department and some of the issues facing her department today. These included the affect of highway road salt, power lines needed to support wind turbine developments, and invasive species concerns. Betsy said that our area is a good place to conduct climate change studies.
Ms. Lowe explained that her department is involved with everything from the rebuilding of the Crown Point Lake Chaplain Bridge to the construction of the Malta computer
chip plant.

Guests Today:  Rene-Paul Forier , Rotary Assistant District Governorl and Bill Gray, District Governorl Nominee

Allstar news: Linda Provo announced that 11 of the   17
scholls contacted ( including 7 west and 4 east ) have returned packets that include a total of 81 seniors so far.

Members present today:  12 of 21 members
Today's 50/50-Happy Dollars Winner: Dave Reed

Reminder: Annual Dues are $150.00 payable in July. However they may be paid in two installments of $75.00. If you are or would like to pay dues semi-annually you can pay half now, in January! See Club Treasurer Sandy Strader at the next meeting. She is always willing to take your money which is what keeps our club able to serve the community!

                        Coming Programs

Note: Please check the calendar at the website to see when you are scheduled to provide the weekly program.

TUPPER ROTARY CLUB MEETING/ February 3, 2010

                      Tupper Lake Rotary
                   February 3, 2010
                         at the Pine Grove
                          www.rotaryallstars.com

Opening: Song Master Greg Gachowski led the club in song today while Rick Wilburn gave the blessing.

Announcements:  Club President Eric Sears announced that the club received " thank yous" from Family Champions for our $500. donation and from K-Ellen Cleary of the Imbassi Orphanage and from our sponsored student Ingabaire Claudia for our club's educational tuition support. The Orphanage is in Ruwanda . It was support by our club abnd other Rotary clubs. As the orphans are now growing up, last year we decided to support one of them for their education.
Today' Program:  Gail Auclair spoke today about her attendance, on behalf of the club, to the local club Presidents meeting held last week in Ausable Forks.
Rerpresentatives of the three tri-lakes clubs and the Ausable Club attended this meeting with Assistant District Director
Rene-Paul Forier. gail explained that Rene-Paul would like all four local clubs to meet once each year. To encourage such an event for this year, Rene-Paul has proposed to give $400 to the club with the best percentage of attendance at a get together event to be held this spring.

There will be other awards as well.The key is to have the best attendance possible. He and others are looking for a venue in the area that will accomodate about 100 people.
The Ausable Club will be holding a Foundation walk on May 2.
No Guests Today:

Allstar news: Linda Provo announced that player packets have been received back from 9 of the 17 scholls including recent responses from Plattsburgh, Massena and St. Lawrence Central High Schools.

Family Champions: Karen Pioli would like everyone to know that Family Champions is now open Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 9am to 1 pm and is open on Saturday 1 to 3pm. Further information is available by calling 359-9110

Members present today:  12 of 25
Today's 50/50-Happy Dollars Winner: Dave Reed

Reminder: Annual Dues are $150.00 payable in July. However they may be paid in two installments of $75.00. If you are or would like to pay dues semi-annually you can pay half now, in January! See Club Treasurer Sandy Strader at the next meeting. She is always willing to take your money which is what keeps our club able to serve the community!

                        Coming Programs

Next week-February 10-Paul Roalsvig
February 17-Pam Martin
February 24-Doug White
March 3-Sandy Strader
March 10 - Evening Assembly
March 17- Marti Modzier
March 24- Steve Wilson
Note: Please check the calendar at the website to see when you are scheduled to provide the weekly program.

TUPPER ROTARY CLUB MEETING/ January 27, 2010

Tupper Lake Rotary
                   January 27, 2010
                       at the Pine Grove
                          www.rotaryallstars.com

Opening: Song Master Greg Gachowski led the club in song today. Rick Wilburn gave the blessing.

Announcements: Club President Sears announced the passing of Winn Benoit. Winn was a Rotarian for many years. In many ways, Win gave great service to the Club and to our community. We will all miss Winn greatly and we mourn for his wife, Catherine, and his family.
The Club will meet at the Fortune ,Stuart, Keogh Funeral Home at about 5:45 to 6 pm this Friday, January 29 to participate in the funeral Service for Winn. Dave Reed will email the membership with any updates or time changes for this gathering.

Today' Program:  Club Member Nick Cervelin discussed the Poilo prevention program. Nick has traveled to Ghana, India Tanzinia and Nigeria to help fight Poio and Malaria. Nick explained that Polio still exists in Nigeria and India. It has been isolated to one state in each of these countries. The major worldwide Polio eradication initiative which has also been a major intrnational Rotary program began in the 1985 to 1988 period and was supposed to eliminate Polio worldwide within 20 years. Polio is a virus which takes residence in fecal mater
in polluted drinking water and can therefore be transmitted through lack of sanitation systems and poor personal sanitation habits. It can be prevented by a vacine which costs only pennies per dose and is admistered orally. With poor sanitation and without the vacine a child can become crippled for life, can be required to live inside an iron lung or can die.
Nick showed the film "The Final Inch." The film portrayed the challenges of getting to the young children and dealing with the political and religius objections that some parnets may have to the vacine which will save the lives of their children.
Polio eradication was further described in the film as the largest non military human effort in history. It has involved over 20 million individuals volunteering to reach the world's children. Polio can creap back into a society from only a handful of children who do not receive the vacine. Therefore it is paramount to reach and vacinate all children.

Guests Today:  Today we were visited by Jim Tinney from Welsley Island who was a guest of Sandy Strader. Accompanying Dave Reed today were Jay (also known as Dan ) and Jennifer King of the Hammersong Ornamental Iron metlas fabricating, welding and blacksmithing business in the Junction ( at the old Wheel Inn and in the rear of Larkin's Gulf )

Allstar news: Linda Provo announced that player packets are being sent out to 21 interested players from Franklin Academy
(Malone)

Family Champions: Karen Pioli would like everyone to know that Family Champions is now open Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 9am to 1 pm and is open on Saturday 1 to 3pm. Further information is available by calling 359-9110

Members present today:  13 of 25
Today's 50/50-Happy Dollars Winner: Linda Provo

Reminder: Annual Dues are $150.00 payable in July. However they may be paid in two installments of $75.00. If you are or would like to pay dues semi-annually you can pay half now, in January! See Club Treasurer Sandy Strader at the next meeting. She is always willing to take your money which is what keeps our club able to serve the community!

                        Coming Programs

February 3-Gail Auclair
February 10-Paul Roalsvig

Note: Please check the calendar at the website to see when you are scheduled to provide the weekly program.