A second grand prize has been added to the “Unevent Raffle”! WHBC has donated a four pack of tickets plus a parking pass and a t-shirt to a Cavs game in March or April. Date is to be determined. The drawing for the Cavs tickets will happen on the final night on February 28th at the Canton Brewery!
As of today, there have been right around 100 tickets sold. There are still plenty of tickets available. At only $25 each they’re a real steal! If your ticket is drawn during the weekly drawings, your ticket goes back in for more chances to win!
First drawing takes place Friday, January 27 shortly after 12pm. We will draw at the regular Rotary meeting and post it Live on Facebook. Subsequent drawings will be February 3, 10 and 17 with the grand prize event taking place in the evening of February 28.
Tickets can be purchased by calling the Rotary office or going online at www.cantonrotary.org. They will also be on sale at the meetings. Tickets will still be able to be purchased even after drawings begin.
As president and CEO of Stark Community Foundation, Mark is responsible for leading a team that partners with donors, families, professional advisors and organizations to assist them with their charitable goals. Under his leadership, the role of the Foundation has grown from a grantmaker to a community leader seeking long-term solutions to diverse community challenges. With more than $220 million in assets, Stark Community Foundation and its family of donors respond to local needs and challenges through carefully designed funds and programs.
Mark joined the Foundation in 2010, following a 30-year career at the Timken Company. While at Timken, his career encompassed a progression of management assignments in the United States, France, Mexico and Canada, culminating as senior vice president of corporate planning and development.
He is a board member of JumpStart, Team NEO, the William McKinley Presidential Library and Museum, The Fund for Our Economic Future, Community Building Partnership of Stark County, Inc., Stark Development Board, Canton Tomorrow, the Downtown Canton Land Bank and the Youngstown Diocesan Foundation.
A native of South Bend, IN, Mark earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of Notre Dame, a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Denver and completed the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.
Below is an email from Peter Apicella M.D., District 6650 Foundation Chair regarding the recent Paul Harris Fellow Challenge:
"Thank you for supporting our Rotary Foundation through our Paul Harris Fellow Challenge. I hope that during the Centennial Celebration, you were able to see the difference that our Foundation is making, "Doing Good in the World" and at home.
I am proud to announce that our District has raised $24,408 for the Rotary Foundation through the PHF Challenge which included $3,560 towards Polio Plus and $1,550 which was raised from our Centennial wine drawings.
We Rotarians are all winners when it comes to the Rotary Foundation, but the contest winners are as follows:
Paul Harris Fellow Award: Suzette Matthews – Canton Club
Centennial Wine Winners: Sue Giambroni – E Liverpool Club Bill Trigg – Boardman Club Craig Young – Canton Club Shawn Dougherty - Canton Club Canton South Club – general donation by the club
Next month, I will be sending your President-Elect information about upcoming Local District Grant monies (DDF) available to your clubs for the 2017-18 year. Start thinking of a local project that your donations to the Rotary Foundation can help support.
Check out our website to see what we are doing both locally and around the world at www.Rotary6650.org. You can visit Tim and Anna there.
Thank you.
If you are ever interested in making a personal donation to the Rotary Foundation or finding out more about the Paul Harris Fellow Society, becoming a Major Donor, Benefactor, or want to include the Foundation in your estate planning, please contact me or your club Foundation Chair."
You are helping communities across the world through Rotary International Projects
You are helping someone learn to read through our literacy efforts.
You are providing vital medical testing to those who have no insurance or high deductibles through our health screen and wellness fair.
You are helping the less fortunate with basic needs.
You are helping to provide meals to those that otherwise would not eat.
You are providing basic medical care through the support of our sister club in the Dominican Republic.
You are helping our youth learn to become great leaders and citizens in our community through Rotary Youth Leadership Academy (RYLA).
You are helping a disabled child feel accepted and learn principles that will stay with them the rest of their lives through our Rotary Scout program.
You are helping to beautify our community and restore a neglected neighborhood through our pocket park project.
You are helping to provide emergency shelter and needs to those affected by horrific disasters through ShelterBox.
You are helping youth to better understand our communities and how businesses function in the community and through Junior Achievement classes.
You are helping to save lives through the installation of smoke detectors through our new member project.
You are helping to eradicate Polio from the world.
You are living service above self.
You are being a Rotarian.
To date, there has been $10,197 given to the Canton Rotary Charitable Fund. Thank you to everyone who already made a contribution. If you have not given yet, please consider doing so. We will wrap up the Charitable Fund campaign at the end of February to prepare the budget for the 2017 - 2018 Rotary year. Let's finish strong and make this one of the best Rotary year's our club has had.
The Rotary office received an email from Barbara Loudon, District 6650 RYLA Conference Coordinator, asking for our Club's assistance with donating items to be used in "Goody Bags", which are provided to students who attend the conference. At the RYLA conference, which stands for 'ROTARY YOUTH LEADERSHIP AWARDS', High School students from all over District 6650 come together for a weekend of leadership development activities.
At RYLA, these students really enjoy receiving goody bags with giveaways provided by District 6650 Rotary Clubs. Below is a list of ideas:
These bags are for 16-17 year olds. They like pencils (especially mechanical ones), highlighters, post-it notes, key chains, small toys, playing cards, Frisbees, fast food coupons, gum, candy bars, etc.
Please NO political giveaways. We will not use them.
Please NO CAFFEINE snacks or drinks. We cannot distribute them for safety reasons.
You will need 100 of any one item so every bag gets an item.
Since we assemble the bags before the students arrive, items must arrive before Tuesday, February 21, 2017.
Items should be delivered or mailed to: ATTENTION: Janet Keene, Lyle Printing and Publishing, 185 East State Street, Salem OH 44460
Janet’s business phone is 330.337.3419; her FAX number is 330.337.9550
Her cell phone number is 330.853-5114
Email: janwel2002@yahoo.comPlease make sure “Attention Janet Keene” is on all correspondence and mailings!
At our weekly meeting on January 13, 2017, President Elect Amanda Tietze filled in for a traveling President Craig Young. Amanda welcomed the members and the many guests to the meeting.
Rotarian Sharon Sirpilla gave the Invocation.
Secretary Suzette Matthews welcomed the following guests to the meeting: Dr. Robert Greene (guest of Jerry Ortman); Randy Williams, Tom Thompson (guests of Greg Triner); Ashleigh Abrigg (guest of John DeWees); ADG Bob Schaffner (Plain Rotarian); Nicholas Mullaly (guest of Ernie Schott); Evan Harcour and Mike Levy (guests of Sharon Sirpilla); Michael Clark, Beth Trainer, Yari Natal, and AJ Rojek (guests of Mark Rojek); James Keller (guest of Lucia Cirese); Derek Gordon (guest of Drew Pelger); Debbie Busby and Chalyce Head (guests of Suzette Matthews); Raquel Raderchak (guest of Dan Matthews).
The "Happy Bucks" was then provided by the following:
President Elect Amanda Tietze - was happy to announce Rotary International PHF Challenge Winners: President Craig Young and Shawn Dougherty both won Centennial Wine bottle and Secretary Suzette Matthews won the Paul Harris Fellow;
Ernie Schott - in celebration of his grandson, Nicholas Mullaly, attending the meeting;
PP Dan Matthews - in celebration of his wife, Suzette Matthews, winning the PHF drawing;
Bruce Schorsten - congratulations to the Cavs for the winning the World Championship;
Mark Rojek - celebrate Cavs win. He was also pleased his son, AJ (Andrew), was able to attend the meeting;
Dave Beule - congratulated the Canton Charge; He also wanted everyone to know the name of his new restaurant on 3rd Street. It is called Snorkey's;
Shawn Dougherty - was happy for the warm weather.
Vice President Michelle Mullaly then took to the podium to make an announcement about the ongoing "Unevent" Raffle. Tickets are still available for purchase for $25.00 each. (*Please see story above for additional information)
Amanda made an announcement regarding the Charitable Fund Drive. To date, $10,197.50 has been raised.
Speaker Chair Sharon Sirpilla then introduced the speaker, Len Komoroski, Chief Executive Officer of the Cleveland Cavaliers/Quicken Loans Arena.
In closing, President Elect Amanda informed everyone of next week's speaker, Mark Samolczyk from Stark Community Foundation. She also reminded the Presidential Advisory Committee of the meeting immediately following the conclusion of the Rotary meeting.
The following turned in a makeup during Friday's meeting: Tom Sinclair (North Canton); Bob Matthews ( Venice Nokomis FL); PP Curt Werren (North Canton, Louisville).
As we enter 2017, we also enter the second year of the initiative known as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. These goals, usually referred to as the SDGs, pertain to a list of 17 areas where the people of the world can come together to address our most pressing economic, political, and social challenges. It is a hugely ambitious list, and it has to be. The ultimate aim of these goals is nothing less than peace, prosperity, security, and equality for all of humanity.
How do you even begin to tackle such a project? At Rotary, our answer is simple: one step at a time. These goals are nothing new for Rotary: They're already reflected in our areas of focus. We also understand that all of these 17 goals, just like our six areas of focus, are interrelated. You can't have good health without clean water. You can't have clean water without good sanitation. Good sanitation in turn helps keep children in school, which improves education, which improves economic prosperity and health. When you are talking about the advancement of an entire planet, no one indicator, no one goal, no one country, exists in isolation. To make real and lasting progress, we must all move forward together.
The idea of sustainability is key to the SDGs – and to our service in Rotary. Sustainability simply means making progress that will endure. It means not just digging a well, but being sure that a community can maintain it. It means not just running a health camp for a week, but training local health workers. It means empowering families and communities to take charge of their own futures by giving them the tools they need to succeed.
Sustainability has always been at the heart of our thinking in Rotary. We've been around for nearly 112 years and intend to be around for many more. We've already seen the difference our work has made: in health, in education, in water and sanitation, and of course in our efforts to end polio.
Polio eradication is the ultimate in sustainable service: a project that, once completed, will benefit the world forever. And those benefits will go far beyond the eradication of a single human disease. The estimated cost savings we will see once polio is eradicated are about $1 billion per year. That is money that can be returned to public health budgets and directed to other pressing needs, carrying the good work of today forward for many healthier tomorrows.
A second grand prize has been added to the “Unevent Raffle”! WHBC has donated a four pack of tickets plus a parking pass and a t-shirt to a Cavs game in March or April. Date is to be determined. The drawing for the Cavs tickets will happen on the final night on February 28th at the Canton Brewery!
As president and CEO of Stark Community Foundation, Mark is responsible for leading a team that partners with donors, families, professional advisors and organizations to assist them with their charitable goals. Under his leadership, the role of the Foundation has grown from a grantmaker to a community leader seeking long-term solutions to diverse community challenges. With more than $220 million in assets, Stark Community Foundation and its family of donors respond to local needs and challenges through carefully designed funds and programs.
"Thank you for supporting our Rotary Foundation through our Paul Harris Fellow Challenge. I hope that during the Centennial Celebration, you were able to see the difference that our Foundation is making, "Doing Good in the World" and at home..gif)
The Rotary office received an email from Barbara Loudon, District 6650 RYLA Conference Coordinator, asking for our Club's assistance with donating items to be used in "Goody Bags", which are provided to students who attend the conference. At the RYLA conference, which stands for 'ROTARY YOUTH LEADERSHIP AWARDS', High School students from all over District 6650 come together for a weekend of leadership development activities..jpg)
At our weekly meeting on January 13, 2017, President Elect Amanda Tietze filled in for a traveling President Craig Young. Amanda welcomed the members and the many guests to the meeting..jpg)