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The Sunrise
Newsletter of the Skaneateles Sunrise Rotary Club
(Organized June 18, 2003) District 7150
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Wilfred J.
Wilkinson Marlene
Brown James
J. Gascon Marion
Krauter
RI President District
Governor Asst.
District Governor President
UPCOMING EVENTS, INFORMATION AND OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
Programs
TODAY
Curt Feldman, Skaneateles Suites
April 3 – Club Assembly
Suggestions for future programs are always welcome. Please forward your ideas to Toni at tonicurt27@aol.com.
Carrolls’
barn restoration evolves into community event
Tim
Carroll and his wife Heather never realized how their barn would come to define
them.
Tim
and his wife met in Boston and decided to move back to the area shortly before
their wedding. They were looking
for a place for their wedding and settled on Hobbit Hollow Farms Bed and
Breakfast.
At
the last minute, they decided to buy a house instead. They purchased an old farmhouse with a huge barn on Lacy
Road across from James Greenfield’s farm.
The big barn required some renovations, so Tim and Heather enlisted the
help of family and friends to stabilize the big barn.
The
day they returned from their honeymoon was 9-11. Inspired by that tragedy, Tim and Heather decided they
needed to get to know their community.
They invited everyone they could find within a three-mile radius to the
first ever Mandana Block Party to be held in their
newly restored barn. Dozens of
people showed up and the event has grown every year since.
The
following year, Tim and Heather attended the Sundance Film Festival and felt
they could host a film festival of their own, albeit on a much different
scale. They purchased used theater
seats from the Strand Theater in Old Forge, built a stage and purchased a
projector. Every spring since, the
Carrolls have hosted the Mandana
Film Festival featuring films from their collection.
The
barn has also played host to the Class of 1987’s 20th reunion and to a
group of German dignitaries visiting the region.
EarlyActers learn more about water filtration projects
The Skaneateles EarlyActers learned more
about water filtration systems last Thursday as they ponder how to spend the
money they worked so hard to raise at Winterfest.
I provided them with information about Pure Water for the World, a
Vermont organization that installs slow-sand filtration systems in Honduras and
Haiti, primarily. The company has
said that a $500 donation will pay for a filtration system to be installed in a
school classroom on an island off the southern coast of Haiti that serves up to
100 kids per day and is also available to the community when school is not in
session.
District Foundation Chair Jack Luchsinger
followed with a presentation about the water component of the district’s
current Haiti project. The
systems cost $22, are simple to use and are sufficient to serve one family with
clean water.
Finally, Gard Lorey
provided the kids with his slide presentation (which is now set to music) about
his trips to El Salvador. Dr. Lorey engaged the kids in a discussion about the importance
of fluoride as I struggled with the audio-visual equipment. He explained that they provide fluoride
tablets to the schools, which administer them to the students. The cost to provide fluoride tablets to
a student for a full year is about $2, he said.
The kids will be making their decision soon and are scheduled to
present to our group on April 24.
Club
Business &
Dates
to Remember
Call to Order; Pledge of Allegiance & Invocation
lIntroduction of
Guests/Visitarians
lHappy Dollars & Fines
District Major Events
March
31 –
Deadline for Presidential Citation application
April
5 – RLI,
BOCES Verona
April 26 – District Membership
Celebration, Harts Hill Inn, Whitesboro
May 29 – District Foundation
Celebration
June 23 – Changing of the Guard
Committee Reports
Club Administration
President
– Marion Krauter
Treasurer
– Toni Feldmann
Secretary
– John Rooney
Service Projects
Food Pantry
– Daryle Pickering
Sea Scouts
– John Paddock
Programs – Toni
Feldmann
Early Act
– Tom Seeley
Fire Equipment
– Chris Bruna
Service Committee
– John Rooney
Winterfest &
Craft Fair – Paddock/Krauter
Membership (& Retention) – All
Social Chair – Paul Torrisi
Sergeant at Arms – Daryle Pickering
Evening
Club Programs
TODAY – Tanya Hacker, Events Planner
April
3 –
Roberta Williams Membership Event
April
10 –
Jack Luchsinger Foundation
Officers
& Directors
Officers
President – Marion Krauter
President-Elect – Tom Seeley
Past President – Daryle Pickering
Treasurer – Toni Feldman
Sergeant-at-Arms –
Daryle Pickering
Secretary – John Rooney
Committee Chairs
Club Service – John Rooney
Food Pantry – Daryle Pickering
Membership – Daryle Pickering
Program Chair – Toni
Feldman
Rotary Foundation – John
Paddock
Social Chair – Paul
Torrisi
Youth Exchange/RYLA – John Paddock
Members
Sidney
Beckwith, Christopher Bruna, Dave Cutten, Robert DeWetter, Toni Feldmann, Paul
Frickey, Douglas Hill, Marion Krauter, Michael Krebs, John Paddock, Daryle
Pickering, John Rooney, Thomas Seeley, Patrick Taylor, Paul Torrisi, Michael
Wahlrab, Rhett Weiss
Exchange Students
Sarah Bierbaum (Germany), Lucas Grob (Switzerland),
Eddy Tasia (Belgium), Nico Avalle (Argentina)
Our District
Website: http://www.rotary7150.org/
Rotary
International: http://www.rotary.org/
RYLA http://www.rotaryryla.com/
Skaneateles Rotary: http://www.skaneatelesrotary.org/
e-club http://www.rotaryeclubny1.com
Thomas W. Seeley 685-2311 Fax:
685-2460 tws@mlsattorneys.com
