President Sofie Ameloot welcomed everyone to the Centerville Rotary Club and led reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance. PDG Harvey Smith provided the prayer.
Brad Thorp led singing of God Bless America.
Quote of the day (provided by Don Overly): "To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funnybone." Reba McEntire
Today’s Announcements:
- Happy Birthday to the February Birthdays:
- Socks Bowersocks Feb 1
- Brian Hayes Feb 9
- Vas Appalaneni Feb 9
- David Herman Feb 14
- Ernie Havens Feb 15
- Ram Nunna Feb 22
- Wayne Davis Feb 27
- Thanks to today’s greeters Mark Febus & Chuck King
- Welcome to guests, Mark Kottman & Julie Eversole
PDG Harvey Smith inducted Deanna Murphy, our first Non-Profit status member. Kelly McDonald is her mentor.
Deanna Murphy shared she is a lifelong Miami Valley resident. She currently lives in Miamisburg with her husband and they have three kids. She is the director of Hannah’s Treasure Chest (HTC). She said she is grateful for Rotary’s support through the Operation Warm program. Deanna said she is the daughter of two addicts and had to advocate for herself. She knows what it’s like for the families they serve. She is so excited about this partnership to make more families safer and healthier.
Additional announcements:
- Rotary Board approved a $1,250 sponsorship for the Friends of WC Public Library fundraiser “Out of the Pocket” with Kirk Herbstreit on April 26. Our sponsorship includes 10 seats at the table so let her know if you want to attend.
- We are still looking for a host family for Enzyme for her last quarter here. Please ask your friends and neighbors.
- We had a good service day at Yankee Trace on Monday, making blankets for foster children and stapling booklets for Crayons to Classrooms. Join us on Saturday to make more blankets.
- Our next social will be tonight, February 6, at Zinks Meats & Fine Wine, 4:30 - 7:30 pm. We will provide wine & finger foods.
Kelly McDonald announced In honor of the great work Deanna has done to help others, she was presented with a Paul Harris Fellow. Congrats and thank you, Deanna!
Happy Bucks this quarter will go for Rotary District 5300 Fire Relief (LA area).
Pat Beckel was our Sergeant at Arms with help from Brian Hayes.
Pat announced the Membership Committee sent letters out to people they thought might be interested in Rotary and they are getting a good response already.
Happy Bucks were generously given for:
- Pat B for the new member, Deanna and all she has accomplished in her life. Welcome!
- Gina S for the new members & her husband visiting today.
- Arnie B for new members
- Jeff S hopes everyone comes to Zinks tonight - Rotarians and non-Rotarians
- Dan J for new members
- Carol K announced the next honoree at the Centerville-Washington Foundation’s Founders Event is Dale Berry! Mark your calendar for May 28 luncheon at Yankee Trace.
- Bob D for the Rotary Peace Scholarship
- Jackie D for new member, Deanna
- Kelly M for our newest members
- Sofie for the new members & announced she will be in Belgium the next 4 weeks
- Harvey S for our new member
- Elda GG for our new member, Deanna & congrats to Dale
- Mark welcomed Deanna
- Brad H for new member, Deanna & Pat’s outfit today
- Amy H for the new members, and is grateful for the Park District programs - it’s the middle of winter and there are still lots of programs to attend
- Chuck K for new members and guests
- Ron H welcome Deanna, and noted it was a pleasure to sit next to Pat
- Rand O said it was good to be back this week, and he’ll be back again in April
- Jim H for Dale and new members
- Socks was happy because Lee has a farm report this week
- Lee was excited the Past-RI president last week was favorable on farm reports. This week’s report: the US Department of Agriculture is using AI to learn how to reduce cow gas emissions. The conclusion is that feeding seaweed pellets to cows helps reduce gas.
- Brad T was speechless after that farm report
- Dale B for new members
- Mark K gave thanks to Chuck for inviting him to the club
- Deanna M gave thanks for the warm welcome and it’s great we have Venmo
Our speaker today was Kelly McDonald to kick off our 5th Annual Golf Outing.
Kelly brought attention to the Save the Date flyers on the tables - please post around town.
Please note:
- Registration will be opening by Valentine’s Day
- Start time pushed back to 8:30 am to give more time for practice balls, breakfast, and socializing
- Happy Bucks moved up to Q2 to get coats to HTC earlier. There are multiple patterns, multiple colors, and they not recognizable as a donated coat.
- The collaboration with HTC gives a powerful story to tell with this year’s Outing.
Kelly shared feedback from last year’s outing:
- Sponsors - find ways for them to interact in new and different ways
- Grow to 100 players
- Improve our publicity and outreach to grow sponsors & golfers.
- Change volunteer schedule so not as much down time
Our overall goal is to increase our net revenue to increase our GOOD in the community
- Fundraising & Events are the shared responsibility of the club
- Need everyone’s help with sponsors and raffle prizes (Sofie will be gone for 4 weeks)
- Fine dining, experience-based events that can be included in the raffle/silent auction
- Target purchased media; share and comment to spread info in your circles
Sponsorship flyer was also on the table and will be available on the website. Successful fundraising includes a visit or phone call, with email follow up, and then, if necessary, follow up with another phone call or visit.
Kelly shared a sign-up sheet where you can list those businesses you have a relationship with and can contact or committee will contact. Specifically, we are looking for:
- 4 rounds of golf
- Restaurants
- Service businesses
- Alcohol
- Sports & Golf merch
- Businesses you partner/collaborate with
- Community supporters
- BIG FISH - to be a Title Sponsor, need an established relationship to approach them
There was a question about where the new 501(c)(3) for the club stands. Kelly said they are still working on the legal requirements but he expects it to be in place by the Golf Outing. In regards to non-profit status, once the paperwork is filed, we can say “pending.”
Have a long list of prior sponsors, but need updated Rotary contacts. And we should add new companies to this list. The list will be shared with the Club via a follow-up email.
Rand asked if we need to order more picture frames and then offered to order them.
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