8-1-2024 Club Meeting

Posted by Jan Harvey on Aug 01, 2024

Greeter- Cory Walker

50/50- Yumiko Akiba
Invocation- Bill Boland
COGS- Jan Harvey
Photographer- Bill Boland

Video from Meeting: 00:15 - Welcome/ Service ➖ 01:09 - Happy Birthday - Ted ➖ 01:37 - Guests ➖ 02:09 - Presentation to the Food Pantry ➖ 02:50 - The Greenhouse ➖ 06:05 - Rotary Foundation Giving ➖ 06:56 - Announcements ➖ 13:06 - Rotarians of Long Service ➖ 14:47 - Club Survey ➖ 16:34 - The Biography Contest ➖ 17:21 - Offsite Events ➖ 18:07 - The Life You Change May Be Your Own - Gretta Tomb ➖ 40:56 - And the winner is ….?

Happy Birthdays to our August Rotarians -- none of whom were present. So we sang Happy Birthday to John Wahlig who actually has a March birthday.

Welcome to our guests and visiting Rotarians:

Ted Marks, former Corning Rotarian and now a member of the Watkins Glen - Montour Falls club
Barb Richter, Retired CPP teacher and future Rotarian
Mary Caruso, director of the Corning Community Food Pantry

Special Presentation:

Past President Stu Sammis presented "The Big Check" to Mary Caruso and the Corning Community Food Pantry for building and outfitting the 12x24 foot greenhouse at the Food Pantry. These monies were from our District Grant for the 2024-2025 year. They will be used to furnish the greenhouse with planting beds and accoutrements that will extend the growing season for fresh produce to 9-11 months!

Announcements:

Camp Star Night, Monday, August 12^th
City of Corning- comprehensive plan update; please provide your feedback here.
Club Survey will be available on-line for the input of all members. Paper copies will be available to those not capable of completing an on-line version. Completion date is August 15th!

Special Thank you and Recognition:

Cathy Buck for her work with Camp Star
Andy Rochester for his dedicated efforts in producing COGS every week.
John Wahlig, thank you for being the longest serving member of the Corning Rotary Club at 55 years.

Good News:

Gail Hostuttler is celebrating her 11th anniversary of coming to Corning for her job as Executive Director at the YMCA.
Rick Davis is celebrating his 57th anniversary with his wife, Pat.
Rugmani Kutty celebrated her good luck in not having anything horrible happen to her when her phone was hacked. She passed on a warning to all of us to be vigilant!

Rotary Biography challenge

Goal: Have at least one Rotary Biography challenge a month
Please make a submission to Ernie
Each biography will be published in the COGS

Today's Speaker:

Gretta Tomb spoke about her adventures with HELPS International on her trip to Guatemala. Two of her sons went with her. While there, Gretta performed 45 dental procedures while the doctors in the group treated 1047 people and performed 428 surgeries. Special greener stoves were installed in 60 homes and 1 school. (Our club donated the cost of 2 stoves.) The HELPS people became known as the people with the kind hands. Take the time to watch the video of her talk. It is truly worth the watching.