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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
Red Rooster Inn, Tom Benedict
April 24 – Early Act Presentation
May 1 – Club Assembly
Suggestions for future programs are always welcome. Please forward your ideas to Toni at tonicurt27@aol.com.
Dave Cutten Classification
Rotary and Central New York have
always been a part of Dave Cutten’s life.
Dave’s father was a Rotarian in Pennsylvania, where he grew up, and also
Nova Scotia.
His earliest memories include
the dinner put on for Rotarians by the church women at
the Methodist Church in Wyoming, Pa.
and coming up to visit Hamilton, NY, where his
grandfather served as president of Colgate University.
Dave has been a member of
several Rotary clubs since he came of age, most recently the Auburn club before
ours. However travel required by
his career made the Auburn lunch meeting difficult to attend so he transferred
to our club where he has remained as active as ever.
Dave works for Syracuse Forest
Products, which sells high-end wood furniture for use in custom wood products
such as cabinetry. He sells to
customers all over Upstate New York including many Amish and Menonite shops
primarily to the south and west of here. Dave has 22 customers alone in one Menonite
community. He discussed the
resourcefulness of many of the Amish and Menonite customers. He described one shop that relies
exclusively on water to generate the electricity to run the machinery and
another that has a complex belt system to run each piece of equipment.
Syracuse Forest Products is the
only Forestry Stewardship Council certified ship in Central New York. The wood
products they sell are all produced in North America with the exception of one
line of bamboo products that come from China. His company recently made the decision not to sell any other
products from China due to poor quality.
What Rotary clubs should
know about clean water projects
Carolyn
Crowley Meub, executive committee member for the Water and Sanitation Rotarian
Action Group, past governor of District 7870 (Vermont and New Hampshire, USA),
and executive director for Pure Water for the World, responds:
“First,
know the importance of this work. The basis of good health is access to clean,
safe drinking water. Experts say that unsanitary water is responsible for about
80 percent of all diseases in developing countries. For most of the world,
clean water is medicine.
“Rotary
clubs of all sizes can get involved in a water project, but developing a
project takes planning, and these projects can be expensive. Most clubs aren’t
equipped to run a project on their own and often don’t know how to get started.
By uniting several clubs together and/or partnering with a reputable
organization, a single Rotary club can make a bigger impact. Pick your partners
well.
“When
getting involved, look for projects that are sustainable. Poorly planned and
built shallow wells won’t work two years after construction.
“The
most important thing to remember is that the project doesn’t belong to the
Rotary club or district — it belongs to the people it serves. Water
projects must begin and end with the local community. To ensure that the
project provides the intended benefits long after the donor has left, make sure
the local community has ownership from the beginning. As Rotarians dedicated to
the communities we serve, we wouldn’t want to do it any other way.
By Joseph Derr, Rotary International News - 21 March
2008, Reprinted from http://www.rotary.org/en/MediaAndNews/News/Pages/080321_news_watermeub.aspx
Club
Business &
Dates
to Remember
Call to Order; Pledge of Allegiance & Invocation
lIntroduction of
Guests/Visitarians
lHappy Dollars & Fines
District Major Events
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 – Susan
Wolstenholme (AAUW) – Lost Boys of the Sudan
April 24 – Kokosa - Club Assembly; Classification Talks
May 1 – Ruhlman and Gorgette Hoskins – CSIET
Global Award Ceremony
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
