South Miami Rotary Newsletter

Wendy Lapidus – happy and proud for daughter Jen Lapidus, who is featured on page 80 of the September issue of Food and Wine Magazine

Diana Philips – happy to close out the financial year for the 2010 art festival

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Our exchange student arrived on Tuesday evening after the meeting. Doreen Reitnauer and Britt Steinhardt met Sebastian at the airport. Please see the nice picture below with Britt.

· Wendy Lapidus reminded us that we will raise $3300.00 if all of us sell our Football Mania tickets – keep on selling!

· Diana Phillips reported that the final figures from the 2010 Art Show are in and our contribution to the Foundation is $24,333.93!!!

· Golf Ball Drop tickets are now available from Doreen – and the donation goes toward your Paul Harris

· The jackpot is growing in our weekly raffle – no one won the prize of $423.00 this week, so the prize money continues to grow!

NEXT SHOW

Saturday & Sunday, February 26 – 27, 2011

www.southmiamiartfest.com

Save copies of The Rotarian for Wendy for the next show!

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DID YOU MISS A MEETING ‘BECAUSE YOU WERE AWAY? Our club goal is 100% Attendance! If you miss a meeting, it can be made-up within 2 weeks, before or after, of the missed meeting date. For online make-ups: Visit www.ri6990.org to find a club to make up an absence. Attendance credit for a 30-minute interactive club Web site activity offers an alternative to making up a meeting at another club. To earn this credit, Rotarians log on to the site, read up on a range of subjects, post comments, & submit a form to the club secretary. How to do a Make-Up On-Line via Rotary eClub One? Perfect attendance is now possible for every Rotarian with computer access. Rotary’s eClub One is a full-service online charted Rotary Club. Meetings operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week. What an easy way to make up for a meeting that you have missed! During the last Rotary year, Rotary eClub One welcomed more than 120,000 visitors from 161 countries. Of these, about 800 per week participated in one of eClub One’s meeting programs and applied for make-up credit. Here’s what you have to do to earn make up credit. Go to http://www.rotary.org/RIdocuments/en_pdf/eclub_list.pdf It is mandatory that you spend at least 30 minutes on the website for qualify for a make-up credit. (Remember Rotarians are guided by the principles of the 4 Way Test). For make-ups anywhere around the world when traveling internationally: http://rotary.org/support/clubs/index.html

NOTIFY Brett Trembly, RCSM Secretary

of ALL make-ups: b.trembly@gmail.com

Doreen Reitnauer, Raquel Hickey, Pansy Graham, Brett Trembly, Fabio Fernandez – Foundation Treasurer, Diana Phillips, Linda Kaplan, Charles Ruiz de Castillan

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