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Invocation: Given by Roy Harriger Guests: Sonny
Kanieski News at 7:02: The dow was down 45, the S&P down 4.45 and Nasdaq down
0.14, jobless claims are highest since April 2002, US troops attacked the
Baghdad Airport, Bagda goes dark as the coalition moves in, Rumsfeld says it is
too late for exile for Saddam, President Bush comforts the families of fallen
Marines at Camp Lejuene, Father of rescued POW Jessica Lynch says she was not
stabbed or shot, House workforce sub committee approved legislation to allow
paid time off to replace overtime, W.H.O. experts trying to find the origins of
SARS, fishermen caught a rare colossal squid in Antartic waters that weighted
330 lbs and was 16 feet long-only one other has ever been caught.
Sergeant @ Arms: Hall Cary
served as our substitute Sgt @ Arms and collected dollars for: our new member
Ellen, Dayne’s trip with his children, the nice day, the troops, Darrell’s
picture in the paper, the new members being inducted, the Medina Achievement
Center sending Care Packages to the troops, missed meetings, goodd weather for
opening day (wishful thinking), GO TRIBE, Steve’s first round of golf for the
season (score 63 told by a “friend”), a quick end to the war, great
attendance, Hall being so nice, fine weather, general purposes, 232 days until
Michigan, Karen’s trip to FL to visit family, Ralph’s picture in the paper,
the exchange students trip to DC and Gettysburg which is coming up on April
10-13, the Exchange students currently in FL for Spring Break, Melanie’s dogs
in the paper, Melanie’s son who is still stateside, Cinzia’s daughter Emma
who is rolling everywhere now, for the substitute Sgt @ Arms, the speaker,
Bob’s medical ghost writer, Rod’s cousin (who is the speaker), Rod’s
daughter being at grandma’s for 2 nights, Bijay visiting Tom Block, the
urologist’s office asking “Can you hold?”, our Harold Friedt memorial
dinner this evening, GSE team from Egypt next month, the Cavs, the ability to
tell Brian and Brad apart, Bob B’s joke, a make-up meeting, Carol Ferron’s
knowing the difference between Brian and Brad. District
Governor nomination: Our
club nominated John Sobotincic New
Members Inducted:
Tonight we inducted 2 new members: Ellen
Magdafau sponsored by Dayne Wendling and David Ruebensaal sponsored by Ron Quine.
Upcoming
programs:
April
10th – Founder’s Night/Citizen of the Year Award.
April 17th – No Meeting.
GOOD
FRIDAY BREAKFAST ON APRIL 18TH @7:00 A.M. AT RUSTIC HILLS
April 24th – New Member Speeches
May 1st – Exchange Student Speech – Vincent Philippart Board
Meeting: There will be a board meeting on April 10th at
5:30. District
Conference: Our May 8th meeting will be held at the District
Conference at Quail Hollow Highway
Clean-up: Our
first Highway clean-up of the season will be on April 12th.
The first one is always the messiest so please plan on helping out.
Breakfast will be at 7:00 a.m. at the Medina Diner.
Service Opportunity:
On May 17th, we will be having
a “Clean-up the Square Day" and clean-up at Camp Paradise.
Sign-up sheets will be circulating at the meetings.
Program: Tonight’s speaker was Dan
Sveda from the Akron-Canton Regional Food Bank
The food bank servies 8 counties: Medina, Summit, Portage, Wayne, Stark,
Holmes, Tuscarawas and Carroll. Currently
367 organizations from the 8 counties use the Foodbank.
The 3 types of Charitable Organizations that use the Foodbank are Food
Pantries, Hot Meal Sites and other programs (such as shelters and disaster
relief). The
hungry are mostly made up of 39% children, 11% elderly and 28% with families
that have someone working. In 1996
5.4 milllion lbs of food were distributed whereas in the last 2 years 9.5
million lbs of food has been distributed each year.
The food sources come from local donors (31%), USDA (32%), State of Ohio
(8%), America’s Second Harvest (10%), other Foodbanks (8%), Food Drives (5%),
and Purchase Program (6%). In the
past year 144 food drives brought in 344,078 lbs of food.
The Foodbank employs 20 full-time and 6 part-time employees.
Volunteers doanted 12,539 hours in 2002 which is equivalent to almost 6
full-time workers.
For more information visit their website at www.akroncantonfoodbank.org THE FOUR WAY TEST “Of the things we think, say or do: First - Is it the Truth? Second - Is it Fair to all
Concerned? Third - Will it build Goodwill and Better Friendships? Fourth - Will it be
Benefitical to all Concerned
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