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Club Officers:
Presidents
Diane Reeder
President Elect
Richard Cattabiani
Vice-President
Errol Boreland
Secretary
Barbara Cohen
Treasurer
Carol Urban
Directors
Skit Rabbino
Melissa Terpening
Sargaent-At-Arms
Jim Mahoney
Immediate Past Presidents
Paul Benkert &
Jeanine Lindhorst
Club Members
Paul Benkert
Barbara Blass
Errol Boreland
Richard Cattabiani
Hayes Clement
Barbara Cohen
Susan Colchamiro
Wayne Johnson
Daniel Lack*
Jeanine Lindhorst
CynthiaLowe
Andrea Lurie
James Mahoney
Gwen McCann
Colleen Mountford
Nina Postupak
Skit Rabbino
Peter Rakov
Sarah Rakov-DiCaprio
Diane Reeder
Bonnie Roll
Jack Ruddick
Melissa Terpening
Carol Urban
Lauren Yanks
* Rotarian of the Year
Four Way Test:
Is it the TRUTH?
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOOD WILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
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September is New Generations Month
Program Chairs:
Sue (9/1), Jeanine (9/8), Cynthia (9/15), Andrea (9/22) & Jim (9/29)
Door Duty:
September 1 - Brian Shapiro, Ulster County SPCA
If you can, bring some cat or dog food (wet or dry), rolls of paper towel or old cotton towels for the shelter.
September 3 - Rotary Serves at the Queens Galley
Volunteers meet at the Queens Galley dining room at 10:15 am for orientation and duty assignments. Lunch service starts at 11:30 am.
September 6 - KSR Board Meeting 7:30 AM
September 8 - Club Assembly
September 15 -
Happy Birthday, Nina (9/21!)
September 22 - Rotary and the Eradication of Polio (guest speaker TBA)
September 29 - Michael Berg, CEO Family of Woodstock
A sweet New Year to all celebrating Rosh Hashanah!
October 23 - World Polio Day
Some of us are old enough to remember the iron lung, the fearsome image of the US polio epidemics of the 1940's and 1950's. Some of us had school friends who wore metal braces on their legs as a result of polio. Our hope is that, one day soon, polio will be eradicated completely, and that no chlld will die or be crippled by this vicious virus. If you haven't yet donated to Rotary's Polio Plus effort, and you would like to do so, contact Andrea.
International Service
A thought about our "Every Rotarian, Every Year" donations: "The Rotary Foundation enables clubs all over the world to develop and accomplish self-sustaining projects that change lives and change the world for the better. When you support The Rotary Foundation's Every Rotarian, Every Year initiative, you personally help fund one of those life-changing projects. Support your Rotary Foundation! Advance world understanding and peace...it's a role you were born to play!" - Past District Governor Mike Montgomery, District 5030.
Club Service
Thank you to Carol, Diane, Sue, Jeanine, Skit, Peter, Errol, Paul and Andrea for helping out at the Hudson Valley RibFest. For each hour we worked, our club will get a cut of the proceeds from the event. Please let Andrea know if you worked, but didn't get credited here.
Richard has volunteered to represent our club at the Farmer's Market in Uptown Kingston, once a month on Saturday. Any other volunteers for this task?
Community Service
Thanks to Susan, Jack, Errol and Paul for doing the August leg of Rotary Serves at the Queens Galley. Our September slot is filled by Skit, Peter and Carol. Andrea, Jeanine and Colleen are the October crew. Paul has volunteered to cover November with family and friends. Volunteers needed for December! Thanks as always to Jack for coordinating the whole shebang.
In the wake of Hurricane Irene, our club, the Phoenicia Rotary and the Pine Hills/Fleishmanns Rotary collaborated with the Belleayre Conservatory to transform the planned Bela Fleck and the Flecktones concert of September 3d into a benefit for flood relief. Donations collected will be split equally between SHARP and MARK, two local housing and emergency relief organizations that operate in the Margaretville, Andes, Roxbury, Shandaken, New Kingston areas. We also collected $101 dollars for flood relief in our September 1st "joy bowl."
At our September 1st meeting, club members also brought pet food and other supplies to donate to the Ulster County SPCA.
Club Impact
- Purchase of AED (Automatic External Defibrillator for UPAC
- Creation of garden at Rondout Visitor Center
- Donation of new video equipment to Boys & Girls Club
- Purchase of new front doors at the Rondout Neighborhood Center
- Annual "Service Above Self" awards for local high school graduating seniors involved in community service
- Assist in the maintenance of the Kingston Peace Park
- Annual gifts for residents of Academy Green residence
- Ongoing distribution of books to children at Family Inn shelter, domestic violence shelter, teen shelter, Family Court and Queens Galley
- Major donor for renovation of the Forsyth Nature Center
- Creation of a library at the Children's Home of Kingston and contributed to their dormitory capital campaign
- Provided complimentary meal cards for families of patients in critical care units at Kingston and Benedictine Hospitals
- Monetary donations to Kingston Land Trust, Rehr Baker Restoration Project, Jewish Family Services, The Queens Galley, Food Bank of the Hudson Valley and Ulster County Community Foundation
- Donations for Hurricane Katrina relief, 2006 Livingston Manor, NY flooding, 2008 flooding in Iowa
- Donation to Families of the Wounded Inc. aiding families of hospitalized severely wounded veterans
- Donations to PolioPlus campaign to eradicate polio globally
- Donations to build a hospital in Africa and provide water to villages in Kenya, Thailand and El Salvador
- Participation in Rotary Youth Exchange and GSE (Group Study Exchange) programs
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