This is one of my favorite times of year. I truly have enjoyed the fellowship had at ticket sorting events over the years and this year was no exception, listening to great Rotarian stories while snacking and drinking. Then the suspense of when the ice will melt. Fielding questions from neighbors and phone calls to the Sheriff's Office about the "elk or deer that has fallen through the ice!". The device is then recovered from the lake and two Rotarians meet to collect the clocks. I am reminded of my first time going to get the device and the manager of the Dillon Marina at the time looking me dead in the eye and telling me that I was late, and therefore he had pulled out his trusty .45 and the device was at the "bottom of the lake" (it was not, but he had me for a second there). There is the moment when we call the winners. I have had this honor twice and can't quite explain the anxiety, anticipation, excitement and relief in that moment. I am grateful to everyone involved and hope we hit our $200,000Ice Melt mark in the near future.
Don't forget Rotary Bingo THIS Monday 6pm at the Pad!!
Thank you Summit Rotary! I love you all!! Have a great weekend!!!
Rob
Our meetings are available via Zoom on Tuesdays at 7:20 Here is how to join our meeting:
Thank you to everyone that came to help sort Ice Melt tickets last Saturday! (Bee Jeanson, David Farmelo, Kim Teot, Wendy Myers, Susan Juergensmeier, Maggie Hillman & Rob Phipps)
The application for the Professional Excellence Award is now available on our website:
I am very thankful for a full slate for next year's Board:
President - Wendy Myers
President-elect nominee (PEN) - Judi LaPoint
Secretary - Andrea Browne
Past President- Rob Phipps
Treasurer - Mike Kurth
Sgt at Arms - Pat Simpson
Club Service - Marcy Woodland
Community Service - David Farmelo
Youth Service - Judy Hunt
International Service - Bob Kopp
Community Awards - Juhree Wendl
Membership - David Guignard
Fundraising - Cathryn Carlson
Marketing/PR - Scott Price
From our wonderful Youth Exchange Officer, Kim Nearpass-Pollack:
Here's a link to the page where Rotarians can get a background check in order to interact with our exchange students for Rotary sponsored/sanctioned events: https://rmrye.org/rotarians/
There is a tab on the right side of the above link to "Background checks". Or, alternatively, they can go directly to this link:
I grew up on a 160-acre farm near Belvidere, IL. I received my Bachelor of Science in pharmacy from the University of Illinois and MBA from the Keller Graduate School of Management. I married young and have a daughter living in Rockford, IL, and a son living in St. Peters, MO, with their respective families. I was a hospital pharmacy director in the 80s and early 90s until I met and married Julie Hicks, now a Summit Rotarian since 2021. From 1996 to 2007, I was a hospital chief information officer and then a pharmacy information system consultant to many national and international major hospital systems.
In 2007, we moved to the Chicago Lakefront, where I biked to and from a new position as vice president and chief pharmacy officer at University of Chicago Medicine. I developed prostate cancer in 2013, and a relapse in 2015 led to my early retirement from UCM and a major focus on exercise (ultimately, Ironman triathlons and marathons) and international travel over the next couple of years.
With the COVID lockdown in Chicago, Dave and Julie started a road trip to Colorado that concluded with our decision to move to Frisco by October. I currently volunteer on several boards and occasionally volunteer for the Rotary Plastics Recycling team. My recreational interests include hiking, biking, kayaking and Nordic and downhill skiing, often while hosting my grandchildren (ages 11-24) and Julie’s four nieces (ages 25-29).
Calling all Rotarians! Here is an easy way to raise funds for our club!
Summit County Rotary Charitable Foundation has been accepted to the Kroger Community Rewards Program. Once you link your City Market Shopper's Card to Summit County Rotary Charitable Foundation, and swipe your City Market Shopper’s Card when shopping, SCRCF will earn a reward. Must do the following steps on a PC/laptop, not your phone!
1. Create a City Market digital account -- Use this link to create a City Market digital account (if you don't already have one).
2. Link your Shoppers Card to SCRCF:
-Sign in to your digital account. Make sure you have a preferred store selected to view participating organizations.
-Look for Community Rewards on the left hand bar.
-Enter Summit County Rotary Charitable Foundation or the "NPO" number PV058
-Click “Save”.
If you need to review or revisit the selected organization, you can always do so under your Account details.
3. SCRCG organization earns.
Any transactions moving forward using the Shopper’s Card number associated with your digital account will be applied to the program, at no added cost to you. City Market donates annually to participating organizations based on your percentage of spending as it relates to the total spending associated with all participating City Market Community Rewards organizations.
To ensure that the club newsletter and other Clubrunner emails are successfully delivered to your email inbox, add the following email address and domain name to your email's contact list/safe senders/whitelist:
Email spam filters often include the ability to "whitelist" certain sender IP addresses, email addresses or domain names to protect their email from being rejected or sent to a junk mail folder.
From Wickipedia: A whitelist is (1) a list of email addresses that a mail server or email client program is configured to accept as valid, incoming mail. Also called a "safe senders list," only messages from addresses on the list are allowed, and all the rest are discarded. (2) A list of valid domain names that a mail server is configured to accept. All mail from users with that domain are allowed.
Gmail:
According to internet: Gmail offers an option to add specific addresses or domains as "safe" so they aren't automatically marked as spam, known as a "Whitelist." Your Whitelists must be managed and set by you. If you want to accept all email sent from a specific address, follow these instructions:
Log in to your Gmail
Click the gear icon in the top-right, and select Settings.
Click the Filters and Blocked Addresses tab.
Click Create at New Filter.
In the pop-up window, in the From field enterthe clubrunner email addresses listed above separated by OR. example mailservice@clubrunner.ca OR @clubrunner.email
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