President David Eardley opened the virtual meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance, then we recited the Four Way Test. Lunch was served.

Shirley Gofrank gave the invocation to our club today.

15th HANDSHAKE

President David announced to the club Ernie Schaefer. Congratulations Ernie! 

HAPPY BUCKS

Our club had so much to be happy about this week:

John Gaber was excited for the Mayor’s annual half birthday party.

Ernie Schaefer was happy that Par Pharmaceuticals donated $1,000 to the club. 

ROTARIAN OF THE WEEK

David Walker bestowed the Rotarian of the Week Award to Maggie Bobitz. Congratulations Maggie!

ANNOUNCEMENTS

October 23, 2021 is the park clean up for Rotary Park. Make sure to sign up to ensure your assistance.

Steve Oehler announced the kick off of the Poinsettia sales. Let’s make it the biggest year in poinsettia sales yet!

The Shred It For Polio Event will be held October 18th between 9 and 12 in the Bordine’s parking lot. Please sign up if you would like to volunteer on the pickup service. Don’t forget to share this event with all of your contacts. You’ve received an email that is easily forwarded and there is also an opportunity to share the event on Facebook. Let’s make this our best Polio event yet!

BIRTHDAYS AND CLUB ANNIVERSARIES

We had 4 member anniversaries this week, Vito Planello 1 year, Russ Shelton 28 years, Steve Cooper 46 years, and Frank Rewold 30 years.  Thank you Rotarians!!!

SHERIFF'S REPORT

The sheriff fined us raising money for our charities.  In case you forgot to pay your fines (or wish to give more), please click anywhere on this text and scroll to the bottom of the page, or type in the following link into any browser: 

https://www.rochesterrotaryclub.org/page/covid-19

PROGRAM 

Jade McLellan provided our weekly presentation on entrepreneurship.  Jade runs a business  

called Baking by Jade (afffectionately known as Jadiecakes by her family), which provides custom baked goods for any occasion.  She gave many glorious examples of scrumptious creations, the entire room was craving sugar goods by the end of her presentation.  She shared her journey, her hard work ethic and dedication, and her future plans.  Very inspiring story from a young adult within our community.

https://www.oakgov.com/covid/dashboard.html

https://rotarymasks.weebly.com/

Yes, this is a challenging time.  But, we are Rotarians, we will rise to the challenge, and our resilience and power of adaptation will prevail over this.  Thanks everyone, have a great week.