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At the July 27, 2018, meeting, President Michelle Mullaly welcomed the 57 members and 13 guests to the meeting. Rotarian Paula Mastroianni gave the Invocation. Rotarian Stephanie Werren provided the Rotafact.
Club Secretary Suzette Matthews welcomed the following guests to the meeting: Guy Ruda and Doug Froelich (speakers); Judy Froelich (guest of speaker); Jesse Roper II (guest of Lynn Hamilton); Harry Heuman (R-St. Petersburg Sunrise); Sherri Mosnet and Barb Schloneger (HOF Festival Queen Chairs); Imani Bush (HOF Festival Queen; Emerson Cowles, Maria Newlon, Makenna Remenaric, Yasmine Agyekum, and Reilly Dittemore (HOF Festival Royal Ambassadors).
The "Happy News" was then provided by the following:
- Dave Beule - to announce and invite all to the Thursday, August 2, 2018, Hall of Fame Brewfest and pig roast in the Downtown green space;
- Dave Schrade - to celebrate his daughter, Erika, coming home from Rome, Italy after 5 weeks of studying abroad;
- Bill Maddox - to thank all for supporting Rotaplast Fundraiser. We exceeded our goal by 19% and can provide funds for 3 children to have cleft palate surgery. Thank you Rotarians!
- Bruce Schorsten - to announce and invite all to support the Rotary Golf Outing on Friday, August 17, 2018. Corporate Sponsorships are still available...please consider being a corporate golf outing sponsor today!
- James Boggs - to remind all of the Military Family Center event on Friday, August 3, 2018 and to sign up/volunteer to help. It's going to be a great event and attract many people..be part of it!
- Becky Clark - to thank Bill Maddox for leading our Rotaplast effort;
- - to ask for prayers for patience and endurance as she spends the weekend with her 3 year old grandson;
- Jerry Ortman - to celebrate his son and grandson being in town from Texas and to rejoice in good news about his health from his doctor.
- PP Rick Taylor - to invite all next Friday, August 3, 2018, to the downtown Massillon concert event featuring La Flavour on the main stage--come one, come all!
- Suzette Matthews - to congratulate Rotarian Bruce Schorsten on the success of the Annual Schorsten Memorial Junior Golf Tournament last week. The event was also highlighted in the Canton Repository in the Thursday, July 26, 2018 edition.
The following announcements were made from the podium:
- Suzette Matthews -welcomed visiting Rotarian Harry Hueman who was visiting from St. Petersburg Sunrise Rotary in Florida. Harry had brought his Club's banner and presented it to Club President Michelle Mullaly who presented Harry with the Rotary Club of Canton's banner;
- PP Rick Taylor - announced the upcoming Oktoberfest and the need for Rotarian participation in the area of sponsorship. As everyone knows the Oktoberfest replaced the longtime fundraiser "Pancake Day". For the pancake fundraiser, Rotarians were asked to pay $100 to receive tickets for the pancake event. The Oktoberfest is designed to raise money from outside the Club, but needs sponsor support to continue grow.
- Bill Liber - Golf committee chairman informed everyone there was only 3 more weeks left before the outing. If you or your company is interested in sponsoring as a $500 Gold Sponsor or as a $100 Hole Sponsor please contact the Rotary office and inform them. Signage information will need to be provided to Dr. Wraps no later than August 3rd. Also, anyone interested in golfing, please fill out your form with your foursome information and provide to Lauri or Barb. Individual golfers will be placed with other golfers to make up a foursome. There will also be a brief golf outing meeting at the conclusion of the Rotary meeting.
- President Michelle announced perfect attendance for the 2017-2018 Rotary year. She asked the following individuals to please stand and be recognized: Jack Barkan, Mark Clendenin, Tom Clevenger, Dave Ewing, Paul Feaser, Steve Fettman, Frank Fleischer, Dan Fuline, Bruce Hale, Lynn Hamilton, Dale Holwick, Phil Lattavo, Bill Maddox, Dan Matthews, Robert Matthews, Suzette Matthews, Michelle Mullaly, Virginia Neutzling, Jerry Ortman, Bob Pattison, Drew Pelger, Don Peterson, Tony Pierce, Larry Pitts, Mark Rojek, Bruce Schorsten, Ernie Schott, Dave Schrade, Tom Sinclair, Rick Taylor, Amanda Tietze, Paul White and Craig Young.
July Speaker Chair Vice President Drew Pelger introduced the speakers for the meeting, Hall of Fame General Chair Guy Ruda and General Vice-Chair Doug Froelich. Also in attendance was the 2018 Hall of Fame Queen and her Court.
President Michelle concluded the meeting by letting the speakers know the Rotary Club of Canton would be donating a book to the Stark County Library in their name. She also relayed the following announcements:
- next week's speaker will be Gregg Ficery speaking on the early professional football rivalry between Canton and Massillon;
- next week's meeting will be held in the back room of the Event Center;
- there were committee meetings for the Golf Outing and the Military Family Center Festival following the meeting.
The winner of this week's 50/50 drawing worth $53.00 was PP Paul White.
The following Rotarians turned in a makeup during Friday's meeting: Dave Schrade (Jackson); Paula Mastroianni (Perry).
The following Golf committee members will receive a makeup for attending the meeting on Friday, July 27, 2018: Bill Liber Suzette Matthews, Dave Ewing, Bruce Schorsten, Paul White, Drew Pelger, Kurt Goodenberger, Dave Schrade and Rick Taylor.
The following will receive a makeup for attending the New Member committee meeting on Friday, July 27, 2018 meeting: Rich Dever, Michelle Mullaly, Virginia Neutzling, Dan Fuline, Tony Pierce, James Boggs, Dan Matthews, Craig Young, Theresa Blocher, Jim Molnar, Mark Clendenin, Paul Hervey and Dave Ewing.