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https://uprotary.org/13839/Page/Show?ClassCode=Page&Slug=golf-outing-2024

Please join us for the meeting. If you cannot attend but have questions, please send to Cathy Fitzgerald and she will share.

cathylfitzgerald@gmail.com

Link for draft of bylaws for review and discussion: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17FNx1d7Mg2iKV03lhOQdQj_Qo_ukHBPd/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112204960140745391633&rtpof=true&sd=true 

Bob McCarty is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Board By-Laws Meeting
Time: May 29, 2024 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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This meeting has been changed to a Zoom Meeting. Please see the details and link below.

While we will have some regular business to cover, we need to discuss the 4th of July, the revised By-Laws and our Changeover meeting (which is our 2nd June meeting).

Bob McCarty is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: June First Wednesday UP Rotary Meeting
Time: Jun 5, 2024 06:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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ShelterBox has been postponed until August first Friday

SHIFTS:  

4:30 PM-5:30 PM Set up (need two volunteers)

5:30 PM-6:30 PM Work booth (need two volunteers)

6:30 PM-7:30 PM Work Booth (need two volunteers)

7:30 PM-8:30 PM Work booth/break down (need two volunteers)

Exact setup location is unknown and will be announced shortly, will be in East Greenville as usual.

"There's a big connection between our overall wellness and our ability to set and maintain healthy boundaries. But that's often easier said than done."

Rotary Club of Upper Perk is sponsoring this event presented by Access Services

Please join us for our Annual Changeover Meeting. Since we do not have much to changeover, this will be more of an informal changeover and will also be a business meeting. We hope to vote on the revised by-laws to have them in effect before the next Rotary Year starts. This is our last business meeting until July 31st.

This is a Potluck Meeting, please look for the Punchbowl invitation that Tina sent out on Monday and reply accordingly.

Look for a sign-up from Bob for help the day before with set-up and ice cream scooping!

Hello Fellow Rotarians!

Please mark your calendars and come help us with our club's biggest fundraiser. The more help we have, the less work for everyone else.

We are looking to make some big changes this year with the schedule, to the extent it may free up some time to relax in the early afternoon unless we find more events to run. Moving forward, we hope to fill this time with other events however, that is all based on the amount of help we have.

Couple changes so far for this year: Car Show moving from afternoon to morning, foodtruck times will change (which may lessen the need for as much kitchen help), Pennsburg UCC doing carnival games again but also moving from afternoon to morning, etc.. I will keep people posted as we confirm more stuff. As always, if you have any ideas and how to implement them, please do not hesitate to reach out to me so we can look into it.

Confirmed Schedule of Events so far:

· 7am - Park Opens

· Donations Accepted for Parking

· Vendors Welcome 9am - 1pm

· 8am - 10am - Baked Breakfast Items with Doughlicious

· 9am - Fireman’s Water Battle

· 9am - 1pm - Car/Truck/Bike Independence Cruise-In Show with the Poor Bastards Car Club - Best of Show 1st, 2nd & 3rd Place and Rotarian Choice Plaques Awarded

     (Free to Enter, donations accepted) (Cars are welcome to stay past 1pm)

· 9am - 1pm Kid’s Carnival Games Courtesy of Pennsburg UCC

· 9am - Face Painter Lady Katie

· 10am - 1pm & 5pm - 9pm - The HAWG HOUSE Food Truck

· 10am - Pet Contest with Logan’s Heroes - Enter your pet (costumes encouraged) for a chance to win 1 of 3 $25 Walmart Gift Cards. Judging at 11am

     ($2 Donation to Logan’s Heroes to Enter)     

· 10am-1pm – Moon Bounce for Kids – $1 for 3 minutes

· 11am - 1pm & 4pm - 8pm Funnel Cakes by Upper Perk Rotary

· 12:30pm (TENTATIVE) - Bike Decorating Contest hosted by Bike & Sol - Kids 12 & under come out with your already decorated bike (Parents welcome to help).

· ALL kids MUST wear a helmet when riding. NO riding around Show Cars.

     (TENTATIVE) Judging at 1pm. 1st, 2nd & 3rd Place receive Gift Cards to Bike & Sol.

· 3:30pm-5:30pm - The Swing Shift Band (Music from 20’s - 50’s)

· 7pm-8:55pm - The Red Hill Band in the Band Shell

· 9pm - Annual Celebration Fireworks Display

· DJ/Music in Band Shell 8am-1pm

*Times are subject to change

Please join us for our Annual Youth Night. We hope to have representatives from Scout Troop 108, our Scholarship recipient, Camp Neidig Students and STEM YEA students.

We will present the Scouts with the donation for helping on the 4th of July and hope to hear some plans and experiences from the rest of the mentioned youth.

We are looking for volunteers for the 1st Friday. Bill Tuszynski, the Rotary District Shelter Box representative, will be setting up and showcasing a Shelter Box display.  Please consider signing up for a shift to help promote Rotary and Shelter Box to the community. Bill will need assistance as well as he cannot spend too much time on his feet.

Feel free to signup for more than one slot if you'd like. There will be food trucks and beverage vendors along with many other vendors in the area. 

SHIFTS:  

4:30 PM-6:30 PM Up to 4 volunteers to help setup and work table

6:30 PM-8:30 PM Up to 4 volunteers to help work table and breakdown 

Exact setup location is unknown and will be announced shortly, will be in East Greenville as usual.

Please plan to join us for our Annual Rotary Fun Fellowship Night at the IronPigs. We are having this event in lieu of our 1st August Meeting. The cost this year is $35 per person with a minimum of 30 people. This includes a free 2.5 hour buffet and soft drinks in a climate controlled room with TV's showing the game while you eat. As always, our seats will be in the section behind home plate towards the 1st base dugout. More tickets are available if needed.

Please remember, this is not just limited to members of our club. Members can bring family, friends, potential Rotarians and we will also invite Rotarians from surrounding clubs as always.

If you are interested, please contact Bob McCarty and payments will go directly to the Rotary Club of Upper Perk this year.

Join UP Rotarians and local Chamber members for the Happy Hour!

We'll be participating in Community Day again this year. If you've not done this before, I can tell you that it is a fun day with lots of opportunities to meet and greet folks in the community.  Please consider signing up for an hour or two. Any questions can be directed to Michele Hohlfeld.  Thank you!  

DATE AND TIME:  Sat., September 7, 2024, 10 AM - 3 PM

RAIN DATE:  The same time on the following day

LOCATION:  We'll be set up near 114 Main St. in East Greenville.  Thanks, Tina Thomas, for offering to allow us to park in your lot behind your business, Perkiomen Valley Printing.   

WHAT:  We'll be handing out free bottled waters and will have a fun fall craft for kids to do.  

District Governor Katie Farrell will be visiting with our club for this meeting. More details to follow.

District Governor Katie Farrell will be visiting with our club for this meeting. Please attend and show your support!

PLEASE NOTE: Meetings will now be at Pizza Como and PC Pub

COST: $25/per person

INCLUDES: Dinner and Soda/Water. Cash Bar

RSVP No later than 8AM on FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13. If you RSVP yes, please be aware that you will be responsible for payment if you do not attend. 

As we move into the busier time of year, we would like to start revisiting Strategic Planning along with Public Image and Recruiting of New Members as well as engaging our existing membership more.

Please join us and help provide input on this moving forward as we look to grow our club in the future.

We will also cover any business that may be needed.

We will be in the room closest to the bar stage for this meeting.

Please consider joining us for the last 1st Friday of the year as we are joined by Bill Tuszynski from the Perkasie Club as he is also the District's ShelterBox Representitive. Not only will be be displaying and advertising ShelterBox, we will also be promoting our Annual Halloween Decorating Contest as well as handing out some candy to kids.

The event runs from 5pm-7:30pm, setup to start no later than 4:30 and breakdown will be finished up by 8pm. Bill is disabled and assistance with setup and breakdown would be greatly appreciated. If you have not been out to 1st Friday yet, this would be a great time to come check it out and all it has to offer. It is a fun evening filled with many members and businesses from our community.

Please sign up if you can help!

Look for District emails to participate in race or to help

In lieu of a regular business meeting, we will be hosting local Dr. Priscilla Benner to speak about the MAMA Project and possible collaboration.

Visit https://mamaproject.org/ to find out information before the event.

Please note: The deadline for registration is 8am Wednesday, October 9. If you're plans change before the deadline, please be sure to change your RSVP. 

Meet at the Kistler-Bitting Park and the Pavilion to plant tulips!

Bring yourself and any kids/additional people that want to help plant! If you have any gardening tools for planting, feel free to bring, but some will be available.

Join us for our fall highway cleanup. Please put on your calendar with Sunday November 3 as the raindate.

Meet at St. Philip Neri Church to park and start to clean-up

Please remember to register by Wednesday 10/30/2024. If you cannot attend, please select to Decline so we know the invitation was received.

We hope to have as many members as possible attend this meeting, input from all members from charter members to new members and all those in between is important for the future of our club. If you can attend, please come up with some ideas for the 5 points below, you can either come prepared with your ideas or send them to Cathy before the meeting so she can start working on putting stuff together. Even if it is something you think may be fitting for the club or something you would like to see the club do but, do not know how much interest there would be, still bring it up for discussion. The only bad ideas are no ideas.

This meeting (and possibly the next) we will be continuing with Cathy's 10/2 Meeting conversation of: 

Reflect on the prior year:

1) things that you want more of

2) less of

3) things to start

4) things to stop

5) things to keep

As it does in all service clubs, membership has changed over the past few years as well as our member's personal/professional lives/commitments and we need to see what directions work best for the Club and our members.

This will also help us start Strategic Planning again while focusing on how to get our existing members more involved, member retention as well as how we can attract new members to our club.

We will also start discussing elections for the next Rotary year (25/26) and start discussing a succession plan beyond that year. The positions available for 25/26 will be Treasurer & Secretary. While the Vice President position will not be available until the 26/27 year, it is important to have a succession plan, if you think you may be interested in an executive position, please let Bob or Cathy know. The 26/27 Vice President would not have their first President term until the 2029/2030 Rotary Year.

The food for this meeting will be the buffet style apps.

We hope to see you there,

Bob