Watertown Rotary Club Newsletter

MAKEUPS!
Our attendance is up!! Congratulations Rotarians! But, if you miss a meeting remember to get a make up! . Not only does making up a meeting help our attendance, but it is great fellowship. If you are going on vacation or just out of town for a few days and you are going to miss our regular meeting, give Marsha a call at the office where she will be happy to look up the information on the nearest Rotary Club where you will be . Or you can check out the Rotary International Web site.

WEEKLY WORDS OF WISDOM:
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant:
if we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome. -- Anne Bradstreet

The Birthday Fund provides funding to our 6 Scholarships at JCC. If you are having a birthday, or have had one recently, do not forget to donate to the Birthday Fund. Any student awarded one of these scholarships that returns to Jefferson for a second year will automatically receive the scholarship for a second year! Do you know that as a Rotarian, if you have children or grandchildren attending JCC, they will be considered for one of the scholarships if they meet the criteria?

Thank you to Bob Schweitzer for his donation to the Birthday/JCC Scholarship Fund.

Card Game and 50/50

We are looking for the 9 of Clubs and Stan Zeccolo found it this week! A new card game will start on April 30th. We will be looking for the Nine of Hearts. The card was drawn by Carol in Don Coon's office. The blue card game raffle may only be played by our club members. Tickets are 3 for $2.00 or $1.00 each. The Red 50/50 Raffle game may be played by all.

This Week

Mike Hopkins, Assistant Coach
Syracuse University Basketball
Come and hear about the GREAT season Syracuse enjoyed this year!

Rural/Urban Luncheon
Nathan Rudgers, NYS Agricultural Commissioner

Commissioner Rudgers will be updating us on what is happening with the agricultural community in this area. The Rural/Urban Luncheon will be held at the Rutland Congregational Church on May 7th. The ladies of the Church always put on a great lunch for us of chicken and biscuits, home made pies, mashed potatoes and gravy and all of the fixings. If you have never been then you are missing a great lunch! The cost is only $8.00.We have signup sheets on the tables on the 23rd and 30th. The 30th of April is the deadline for sign up and you must be signed up to attend. If you sign up and cannot make lunch, PLEASE call the Rotary office to cancel!

Rose day is May 30th! We have 4 weeks to sell 2,500 dozen roses. Our original goal was to raise $15,000 which helps to fund projects such as the following...

Tree Planting
Dodge Pond
Polio Plus
Dairy Princess of Jefferson County
Rotary International
Scholarships
Boy and Girl Scouts
Jefferson Technical Center
Group Study Exchange

We need each member to sell a minimum of 14 dozen -- we can meet this goal!!!

President Terry is really leaning on Barb and Laurie this year, so we need to help them! It's a huge help to the committee when you sell your roses early and turn the forms in - it helps them to determine the number of roses to order, honor color requests, and sort cards and organize routes.

Help is also needed to deliver roses on Friday, May 30th. Here is your opportunity to earn another chance to win all of those fabulous prizes on June 4th and have yummy Dunkin' Donuts and drink coffee with fellow Rotarians before hitting the road and making a lot of people really happy by delivering beautiful roses! It's really a fun time and the committee is working hard to keep the routes short this year. If you have ANY questions, call Barb Park at AAA or Laurie Nortz at JCC or Marsha.

On Wednesday, May 21st, the Rotary Foundation Committee will be collecting your milk carton/cans of change you have been saving for the Annual Fund of the Rotary International Foundation. Bring them (filled with lots of $$$ of course!) to lunch with you so that we can add it to your Rotary Foundation Sustaining Membership account. If you are not a Sustaining Member and your carton/can has at least $50, the club will add to it to reach the $100 to start you as a RI Foundation Sustaining Member. Upon contributing a total of $1,000 over a ten year (or sooner) period, you will receive Paul Harris recognition. The Rotary Foundation's goal is to receive contributions to the Annual Fund of $100 annually per Rotarian by 2005. The Annual Fund supports Rotary's Humanitarian projects promoting Peace and Understanding throughout the world.

The Board of Directors has decided that the Water Wheel will only be published every other week, beginning now! For example, the Water Wheel will go to print on April 10th for the week of April 16th, there will be no Water Wheel going to print on April 17th for the week of April 23rd, and one will go to print on April 24th for the week of April 30th and so on. If you have something you would like posted on the off weeks, it can be done by posting it here on the Rotary Web Page. You can have that done by calling or e-mailing Marsha at the Rotary Office or you can e-mail Lin Fields who keeps the web page updated. If you wish to have a notice in the Water Wheel printed, remember to give us plenty of notice!

Remember your Pledge for Polio Eradication: We've reached a grand total of $36,146.00 from the two clubs. Thank you!! Pledge forms must be returned to the Rotary Office by June 30, 2003. All pledges must be paid by June 30, 2005.

May 3 has a lot going on that day! Not only are we cleaning up the roads and planting trees, but Carolyn Fitzpatrick and her committee would like to announce a fun Fellowship Event. After you are tired from cleaning and planting, bring your family to Thompson Park for a picnic. If you want a chance to show off your culinary expertise in the way of salads and desserts, you can bring a dish to pass but it's not necessary.
Beer and soda will be provided.

President Terry will be walking in this year's walk and invites you to join him. The walk will take place in the beautiful historic Town of Perth on the River Tay. The day will begin with registration at Camp Merrywood and you will have a light continental breakfast. The participants will be bussed to Perth which is a 10-15 minute drive. AT that time we will divide everyone into 3 groups depending on how fast you want to walk. Our tour guides will be able to give a brief description of historical places of interest along the way. The walk will finish at the famous Inga-va House which is the location of the last fatal duel in Canada. Our buses will pick up the participants at this time and take them back to Camp Merrywood. There will be time for everyone wishing to tour the camp prior to the buses leaving or after the walk. This is a great opportunity for anyone who has not seen the Camp to see where your fun raising money has gone. More information to follow. The cost is $32 US per participant. This covers the registration, breakfast, lunch, gift bag and bus transportation. Registration and check is payable to the Rotary Club of Perth, and must be received by May 5. If you have questions, contact Geoffrey Wickware at 613-267-2064 of email WICKWARE@RIPNET.COM Marsha has registration forms at the office along with pledge forms.

If you are coming to the Foundation Walk in Perth on May 10th, and I hope you are, here's a chance for you to have some fun and dinner on the way home if driving through Ottawa on the way home is convenient. The Rotary Club of South Nepean will be holding a Fundraising Buffet Dinner and Silent Auction
commencing at 5:30 PM on May 10th in the Richmond Room of the Nepean Sportsplex . This will be a family event with former Mayor of Ottawa, Jim Watson, acting as MC. Tickets are $30 for adults and $20 for children 12and under. For more information check South Nepean's web site, www.rcosn.ca or contact me at russnel@cyberus.ca or 613-224-3440. PDG Russ Hicks

Tree Planting 2003
By action of your Board of Directors, the Adopt a Highway program is joining forces with the Tree Planting. Please mark your calendars for May 3. This will be our day to plant trees AND clean up our 2 mile stretch of Eastern Blvd. We have 60 trees to plant! We will begin at 8 a.m. under the bridge at Case Junior. and yes, there will be coffee and donuts! Sign up sheets are on the meeting tables or you can contact Marsha or Phil Sprague!

Call for Applications

Team Leader

Group Study Exchange To District 7030

The Group Study Exchange (GSE) Committee is pleased to be accepting applications for the position of Team Leader, who must be a Rotarian, to lead a Group Study Exchange to District 7030. The specific countries for the exchange will be Trinidad,
Guadeloupe , French Guyana and Guyana.

GSE is a unique four-week cultural and vocational exchange of The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International. A GSE Team consists of four non-Rotarian members from various business or professional backgrounds and a Rotarian team leader.

Applications are being accepted for the Team Leader until May 28^th, 2003. Forms may be obtained on the Rotary website at www.rotary.org or a hard copy is available upon request.

NOTICE TO COMMITTEE CHAIRS: If your committee is having a meeting that is on a day other than at our normal meeting day and you give the office the list of attendees, then they will receive attendance credit for a make-up.

LUNCH TICKETS: Please remember to turn in your signed lunch ticket at our Wednesday meetings. This is how you receive credit for attendance. If you forget to turn in the ticket, you can call the office or mail the ticket to the offices so you can receive attendance credit.

FELLOWSHIP COMMITTEE TABLE ASSIGNMENTS:
April 30 - Jim Picunas and Cheryl Matson

April 30 - Chris Powers and Gil Pearsall
May 7 - Bob Sharlow and Lance Evans
May 14 - Bob Sharlow and Kate Fenlon
May 21 - Chris Powers and Wanda Lancaster
May 28 - Gil Pearsall and Michelle Pfaff

Please note - if you are not able to attend on the date assigned to you, please call your partner to verify his/her ability to cover the table. If neither of you can attend, please call a fellow committee member and trade dates or call Kate Fenlon and she will get a substitute. Thanks!

NEW MEMBER PROPOSED!

The following person has been proposed for membership to our club. Rev. Fred Garry, proposed by Don Klug, for the classification of Religion/Presbyterian. Rev. Garry has been approved by the committee and the Board of Directors. If there is no written objection received within 10 days, he will be eligible to be inducted into our club.

This annual event will be held on Sunday, June 1st at 1 p.m. at the Behlings Spookhill Farms in Adams Center. A preview will be held in the morning. This is a fund raiser for the two clubs for community projects. Kenny Hughes will be the auctioneer. Special "trash and treasure" sale Saturday May 31st and again on Sunday morning before the auction at the site. Food and beverage will be available. Chicken BBQ at 11 a.m. Sunday. Bring your chair - there is plenty of parking. To donate items contact HSBC Bank in Adams at 232-4501. Consignment goods accepted.

The Greater Watertown North Country Chamber of Commerce in association with the Watertown Rotary Club will hold the Armed Forces Appreciation Luncheon on Wednesday, May 13th at the Best Western during the Rotary Luncheon.. The speaker will be General Hagenbeck. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. Tickets will be on sale on the 23rd and each meeting thereafter. Please see Ginny Mojica or Marsha for tickets!

Call for Applications

Team Leader

Group Study Exchange To District 7030