Kiwanis Club of Sand Lake, NY

President Gerald Tysiak                                                                                                       Secretary Peg Weiss

President-Elect Mikki McSherry                                                                             Treasurer Robert S. Pasquarelli

Vice President Gary Meislin                                                                                  Immediate Past Pres Joe Behson

Sandpiper Editor Jo Moccia                                                                                             Photographer Jim Rogers

Webmaster David E. Booker   

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Scott Paul, Ray Turner, William Whipple

Bryce E. Cutler, Skip Patton, James E. Rogers

John C. Brownrigg, James M. Colabelli, Eve M. Ward

Club Bulletin Committee

Jo Moccia, Chair

Jim Colabelli            Pat Lane

                        MEETING OF JANUARY 26, 2009

PRESIDENT Gerald Tysiak presiding

GREETINGS & INVOCATION by Fred Wurtemberger

GUESTS:  Returning for his 3^rd visit as a Prospective Member John Mulligan. And our speaker from Community Hospice Steve Maney (shown on right with Pat Lane the weekly Program Chair.) 

WELCOME BACK: Joe Cybulski, Frank Breselor, Ken James and Jim Stacy.

                                 Frank Breselor and Jim Stacy 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

• Please sing up to buy some Girl Scout cookies from troop 1095 from Miller Hill/Sand Lake school. They only have 7 girls in their troop and are having trouble selling enough.  Leader Terri Shupp and 3 of the scouts were pleased to be present to accept the orders.

• Jerry announced that there was an article in the paper about Kiwanis turning 94 years of age on Jan. 21. T he first club was chartered in Detroit, MI on Jan. 21, 1921

·         Miller Young will serve “ Club Designee for Member at Large” between N Y District Foundation, President Sal Anelli and SLKC> Miller Young will serve as the conduit for all communication/correspondence between the Foundation and our Club.

·         Mikki Mc sherry submitted her resignation effective Jan. 12, 2009

·         With Mikki's resignation we have openings for a Vice President and a Community Services Chair please call or email Barbara Fiorvanti 766-5578 if you are interested in any of these positions.

·         Jim Rogers: reminder of interclubs: tomorrow, 1/27/09 at 7:30 am in Troy going with Jim Rogers will be Dave Booker, Nancy W. Davis and Bob Loveridge. And an interclub on Feb. 5 at the Rensselaer Ambulance Garage at 6 pm. Going are Nancy W. Davis, Eve Ward, Jim Rogers, Dave Booker, Pat Lane  and Bob Loveridge.

·         Doors of Hope were done on Jan 20 by Dave Booker, Bob Pasquarelli, Jim Parslow, Joe Behson and Jerry Tysiak.  Next Doors of Hope will be Feb. 6 please come along and help if you can.

·         John Brownrigg reminded us about the Veteran's Night on Jan. 28 to be held at the Walter Adams American Legion Hall. This is a county wide event please come and show your support. Please bring new or used playing card for the troops in Afganistan.

PERFECT ATTENDANCE AWARDS  to Skip Patton – 2 years, Jim Rogers – 10 years, Barbara Fiorvanti – 15 years, Bob Pasquarelli – 27 years, Gary Meislin – 29 years and Fred Wurtemberger – 36 years (shown left to right below with President Jerry.)  

PRESENTATION: Ken James returned and presented Dudley Dorr and the club with a beautiful hand crafted mahogany badge box that he had made just for us; a place for our current name tags to rest between uses. Thank you Ken, it is a piece of beauty straight from your heart to us

PROGRAM : Steve Maney from The Community Hospice  spoke about all the various programs that Hospice provides.  There are six Community Hospice groups in the area and the Rensselaer County is the largest with over 600 individuals being served.  Care covers every aspect of care either at home or in the hospital for the terminally ill and their care givers.  The "Soupervisior" presented Steve with a certificate and the club's appreciation for his presentation.

HAPPY DOLLARS

$       Dave Booker for having just returned from a training session for the North American Governors Elect held at the Annual Service Leadership Program (read sponsored organizations) Administrators in Baltimore.

$        Barb Fiorvanti for the care that Hospice gave her Mom and also for the “good news” about a pilot (Capt. Sullenberger of US Airways flight 1545 and the landing in the Hudson River) for a change!

$       Jim Rogers , his back is much better and he went out for a 3 mile walk today.

$       Eve Ward for Hospice

$       Nancy W. Davis for a friend's successful bypass heart surgery.

$       Peg.Weiss for the care that her husband received from hospice.

$       Pat Lane – she was not able to sleep last night which was a “good thing” as she was able to hear the furnace break down and thus was able to call the repair man.

DOOR PRIZE was won by Barbara Fiorvanti, she received an iou from Pat Lane.

50/50 for $ 21.00 was won by Jim Rogers who then pulled his own number for the progressive 50/50

MEGA 50/50 worth $88.00 with 47 cards was not won by Jim when he drew the 5 of clubs.

NEXT WEEK         PROGRAM: Bill Whipple – Senior Services Committee Update

                                                Board of Directors Meeting follows regular meeting

                             GREETER/INVOCATOR/CERTIFICATE:  Kevin Sarsfield

 FEBRUARY 9        PROGRAM CHAIR: Joe Behson

PROGRAM: Lisa Giruzzi - an approach to SLKC strategic planning

                             GREETER/INVOCATOR/CERTIFICATE: Angelo Patti

FEBRUARY 16        PROGRAM CHAIR: Chet Melius

                             GREETER/INVOCATOR/CERTIFICATE: Joe Grillo

FEBRUARY 23       PROGRAM CHAIR:  Angelo Patti

                             GREETER/INVOCATOR/CERTIFICATE: Botsy Rosenberger

SPIRITUAL THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: Tell me and I will forget, Show me and I may remember, Involve me and I'll understand.      Author unknown

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