North Ridgeville Rotary - Newsletter - Current (Jan 27, 2012)

President.: Adam Sonnhalter | Pres. Elect: Paul Graupmann | Secretary : Traci Purdum | Treasurer.: Bob Bunsey |
Sgt.-At-Arms: Kim Cromwell

Club No. 3496 | PO Box 39014 | North Ridgeville, OH 44039 | Chartered April 10, 1981

Newsletter Editor: Mario Cipriano | mario@tmtechsolutions.com | 440.328.7420

In This Issue

President's Message - A message from Adam
Secretary's Message - A message from Traci
Rotary International - Information on Rotary from around the World

I was getting my car fixed the other day. The owner of the business has been a supporter of our club for years by donating silent auction items to our Spring Fling. He is also a former Rotarian from the Westshore Club, but had to give it up when he started his business about 5 years ago because he couldn't get away for lunch. So my friend Pat is very aware of Rotary.

In any case, he asked me how Rotary was going. I informed him that I had the good fortune of being President of the club again this year. He smiled and talked for 5 minutes straight about all the great memories he had of his Rotary experience. He reflected on memories of the people, the activities, and the impact they made.

He told me that the thing he liked best about Rotary was that it enabled someone like him in Fairview Park, Ohio to have an impact on his city, his region, and the world. I thought that was a pretty cool way to look at it! I shared with him our club’s visits earlier this month from our former Exchange Student Rodriego and his wife as well as our former GSE visitor from Taiwan. Those visits happened the same day we honored some of our local youth, our high school Students of the Month for January.

In our role as business coaches, we work with all different kinds of owners of small businesses. One of the things we have the owners do from day one is present what they are doing in 6 key areas of their business. The reason we do that is because opportunities are often right under our noses, we just don't recognize them. I had one of those moments recently with Rotary.

Over the holidays I grabbed a box out of our Rotary closet at the Senior Center and took it home with me. That box is filled with badges from our Rotary Club's Alumni. I've seen this box at least a hundred times, but it just recently dawned on me that there might be an opportunity literally right under my nose!

January is Rotary Awareness month. Let's honor that theme by reaching out and making some of our Alumni aware that we are still thinking about them and let them know what we are up to as a club. Please pick at least one person from our Alumni list below to reach out and touch in some way this week. Pick up the phone, shoot them an email or text, look them up on Facebook or LinkedIn or YouTube or Google+ or Twitter. Heck, you could even try sending them a handwritten note or stop by their home or place of business. Just let them know you were thinking about them!

1. Paul Cruz

2. Kyle Walker

3. Carl Commons

4. Jason Doerschuk

5. Regis Holland

6. Mary Dulik

7. Patrick Woodside

8. Jason Van Douser

9. Jose Matias

10. Hyacinth Williams

11. Shawn Phillips

12. Rita Price

13. Bill Ferguson

14. Abed Darwish

15. Terri Eckenfels

16. Ron Schwachenwald

17. Dick Bowdler, Jr.

18. Pete Esposito

19. Michael Tefs

20. John Stamatis

21. Liz Frazier

22. Scott Ross

23. Lou Saloom

24. Glenn Zimbelman

25. Lisa Zuk

26. Judith Tisserand

27. Paul Balog

28. Jim Rothgery

29. Craig Conaway

30. Frank Gill

31. Carrie Hartman

32. Jennifer Toth

33. Wade Hammond

34. Greg Cromwell

35. Rita Campbell

36. Barb Mamrak

37. Lou Diehl

38. Vivian Skladan

39. Joyce Prunty

40. Mary Dulic

41. Gloria Simon

42. Chris McCully

43. Gerry Knox

44. Bob Knopf

45. Tom Barnes

46. Gerry Hammond

47. Jeff Hopkins

48. Paulette Lilly

49. Grady Campbell

50. Art Gibbs

51. Tom Surovy

52. Phil Smith

53. Sherry Drummond

54. Dennis Conlan

55. Frank Vacha

56. Mark Zuk

57. Erik Breunig

58. Larry O'Hearn

59. Jim Levero

60. Melissa Taylor

61. Rege Ebner, Jr.

62. Craig Phillips

63. Bill Shomo

64. Joe Cover

65. Kurt Breunig

66. Joe Martin

67. Chuck Kennamer

68. Warren Knox

69. Sharon Yearley

70. Gloria Simon

71. Nicole Holmes

72. Ellen Palmer Marsey

73. Pili Mendoza

74. George Frazier

75. Paulette Lilly

76. Larry Bowersox

77. Brad Ewing

78. Larry Bolgar

79. Nancy Fate

80. David Livingston

81. David Ryan

82. Vivian Skladan

83. Bill Ferguson

84. Greg Willey

85. Ken Armstrong

86. Dick Noll

87. Denny Johnson

88. Brian Ramser

89. Kathy LeRoy's

There's good news and bad news on the membership front. First the bad: Paul Cruz has resigned from our club. Here is his note that we received in early January:

"I feel that I have cheated you guys a bit, especially over the past few weeks. This past year I found myself really stretched for time and need to focus more this new year on my family first and then my business. I still want to be a part of the club but not as an active member. I would still like to attend/sponsor the events and keep in touch with everyone that I have made relationships with over the past three years. This was a tough decision that I thought long and hard about. Again, please keep me posted on events and activities going forward."

I sure hope to see him at future events – he and I joined the club at around the same time and the "newbie" status made us fast friends. If you see or speak with Paul, remind him about Spring Fling (April 21st)

Now the good news: Laura Eddy had her first reading at the January 20th meeting. Laura is from the Northridge Health Center. If all goes well, she will be inducted into our club Feb. 3. This will bring our membership back up to 40!

In other news, Paul Graupmann and I will be attending our first Presidents-Elect Training Seminar Saturday, January 28, at the Hilton East, Beachwood. The board decided to send both the President Elect and Secretary to PETs training to ensure we have an immediate president at the ready in case the current president cannot fulfill their duties. I'm looking forward to learning more about Rotary!

For those of you who may not already know we have a club Facebook Page. Here you will find pictures, news and more. You have the opportunity to interact with the fans of our Rotary Club! Please visit our Facebook Page and click the Like button!

You are also invited to visit our YouTube Channel to see current and archived video's that have been taken by our Club Videographer (It's Traci!) visit today YouTube

Today will be our monthly Business Meeting to update members and guests on upcoming projects and events.

We are sponsoring a day-long fundraiser at Fiesta Jalapenos on Thursday February 16, 2012. Anyone with a flier can present it with their bill and 20% of the total bill will be credited to our Rotary Club.

We are also setting up a Cluster meeting for that evening which will go from 6pm - 8pm. We hope you and your friends can make it to Fiesta Jalapenos that day for a great meal and to support a great cause!

Today we will be hearing from Carol Klimas, President of Lake Ridge Academy in North Ridgeville.

Please visit our website calendar to see the complete calendar of events! This gives you the opportunity to plan ahead to so you can be sure to attend as many events as possible.

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