Attention Canton ROTARIANS….We need your help to raise $1,500 to fill 1,000 Backpacks with food for Canton City School Kids who are in severe poverty and are food insecure.
To help get this NEW opportunity rrrrrunning, fellow Rotarians, Suzette Matthews and Denny Fuhlmer, are dedicating their Canton, Ohio Pro Football Hall of Fame Half Marathon (13.1 miles each) Runs on Sunday, April 30, 2017, to help gain your support to feed the kids. This is our 2017 RUN, RUN-RAISER to raise funds for a worthy cause in Canton, Ohio, and Suzette and Dennis are doing the running for us!
As you may remember last spring, our Canton Rotary 2016 RUN, RUN-RAISER raised and donated $1,300 to the RED CROSS to help purchase and install 95 SMOKE ALARMS to save lives in our community. Thank you Rotarians, your support made all the difference to those less fortunate who now have smoke alarms in their homes. It was made possible because of your kindness and donations and the dedicated efforts of our local RED CROSS, a BIG thank you to all who participated!
With this year’s NEW Canton Rotary Feed The Kids BACKPACK PROGRAM, backpacks will be filled with non-perishable items and given to kids to take home over the weekend (when they aren’t in school) so they don’t go hungry.
Here’s how your money works to feed our local kids in need:
$50 fills 33 backpacks for 33 kids for a weekend’s worth of food
$20 fills 13 backpacks for 13 kids for a weekend’s worth of food
$10 fills 6+ backpacks for 6 kids for a weekend’s worth of food
There are so, so, so many kids who are food insecure and need our support. Please know how much we appreciate all donations of any amount.
Here’s the “scoop” on how you can be part of this great worthwhile cause:
Simply bring your cash donation to the Canton Rotary meeting on Friday, April 28, 2017 and our BACKPACK PROGRAM SCOOPERS will “scoop it up” in our yellow Canton Rotary scoops! It’s that easy.
If you are unable to make the meeting, you can drop off your donation to the Rotary office or give it to a fellow Rotarian to bring to the meeting for you.
Thank you ROTARIANS for your compassion and your generosity to help us meet our GOAL of raising $1,500 to FILL 1,000 BACKPACKS for Canton City School Kids in need! We appreciate your support and donations and look forward to seeing you Friday, April 28, 2017.
Our meeting this Friday May 5th will be our annual 'Appreciation Luncheon', where you are encouraged to bring your spouse or partner, and where our club will be hosting the spouses of deceased Rotarians.
If you plan on attending this meeting, especially if you will be bringing any guests, we ask that you contact the Rotary office TODAY and provide them with this information. We are trying to determine if we need to move this meeting into the larger room at Meyer's Lake Ballroom based on attendance.
There has been several requests to publish the poem which was read during Friday's meeting by Rotarian Rob Roland. Rob has asked the Rotary office to publish "An American Tattoo" by Belmont Rubens.
An American Tattoo I left my home just ahead of a slamming door To chase the cold yellow moon. I thought I'd never make my train, 'cause the river's rising soon. Oh, there's a color on the wind tonight, Hold tight to your ink and pin. And don't believe in anything that's not written on your skin. I beg my soul to sing a cotton-field hymn, That soars high above white clouds. Beyond the prickly tide of yesterday that made our parents proud. A blood black river's rising, while echoes of Thelonious Float on waves of liquid sin. Injected dreams and destinies are written on his skin. If you happen upon a Carnival of colored lights, Of chance, and marvels to win, There you will meet Johnny Rebs with their catechisms written on their skin. Searching for an answer among the numbers Etched in my arm and my head Our principles have gone up in smoke with the innocent dead. I stagger, bewildered among my abandoned aspirations. Pale limbs on the battle field. Drunken priests and weeping prostitutes-society's wounds revealed. All along the crumbling wall they still wail a warrior's oath: "Praise to God... please let us win." Their master piece is the epitaph that is written on their skin. -Belmont Rubens
The Rotary Club of Canton will once again hold its semi-annual Health Screen & Wellness Fair on Saturday, April 29, 2017. This event will be held at Mercy Medical Center, Mercy Hall Auditorium, 1320 Mercy Drive N.W., Canton 44708.
A 12-hour fast is recommended for those being tested to achieve more accurate results. In addition to the blood screenings, Mercy Medical Center service lines will be offering additional free health screenings and educational materials.
Registration for this event is available on the Rotary Club of Canton's home page or by clicking this LINK. You may also contact the Rotary office for assistance with Registration. Please click on thisLINKto view the flyer and the descriptions of available tests.
At our weekly meeting on April 21, 2017, President Craig Young welcomed our 66 members and 5 guests to the meeting.
Rotarian Rob Roland gave the Invocation.
President Craig then announced there was ice cream being passed out compliments of Rotarian Tom Sinclair who is celebrating his birthday on April 23rd
Secretary Suzette Matthews welcomed the following guests to the meeting: Dale Klick (speaker); Tom Schmidt (Progressive Chevrolet); Ashley McCann, Alicia McCracken and Susie Berstler (guests of Suzette Matthews).
Suzette Matthews and PP Denny Fulmer then took to the podium to let everyone know about the Run, Run, Raiser which will help provide food to Canton City School students.(*Please see story above for further details on this event); Here’s how your money works to feed our local kids in need:
$50 fills 33 backpacks for 33 kids for a weekend’s worth of food
$20 fills 13 backpacks for 13 kids for a weekend’s worth of food
$10 fills 6+ backpacks for 6 kids for a weekend’s worth of food
The "Happy Bucks" news was then provided by the following:
$1: PDG/PP Bob Pattison - to celebrate being back in Canton and to be sitting next to Mark Clendenin;
$1: President Elect Amanda Tietze - to announce the Canton BBB Shred Day on Saturday, April 22, 2017 at Central Catholic High School;
$2: David Schrade - to celebrate tax season ending and also to celebrate Rotarian Theresa Blocher's birthday this day;
$1: Bruce Schorsten - to celebrate a come from behind win by the Cleveland Cavaliers. Go Cavs!;
$2: PP Rick Taylor - to give a shout out to the Cleveland Indians. Go Tribe!;
$1: PP Virginia Neutzling - to celebrate Dr. Sinclair's birthday and thank you for the ice cream;
$20: PP Dan Matthews - to start $20 donations for the new Rotary "Feed the Kids" Backpack Program and the Run, Run, Raiser.
Sergeant-at-Arms Bob Matthews then reminded everyone about the upcoming Health Screen and Wellness Fair at Mercy Medical Auditorium on Saturday, April 29, 2017 from 7 am - 11 am.
Speaker Chair Nick Perini then introduced the speaker for the meeting, Dale Klick, President of the Board of Directors of the Stark County Agricultural Society and Progressive Stark County Fair.
President Craig concluded the meeting by thanking Mr. Klick for his time he provided to the Canton Rotary. He then informed the members about next week's speakers Tommy Sancic and Kris Young, founders of Olde Wood.
The following will receive a makeup for attending the Executive Board meeting on April 18, 2017: President Craig Young, President Elect Amanda Tietze, Vice President Michelle Mullaly, Secretary Suzette Matthews, Treasurer Tom Clevenger, and Rotarian Mark Rojek.
The following will receive a makeup for attending the Board meeting on April 18,2017: President Craig Young, President Elect Amanda Tietze, Vice President Michelle Mullaly, Secretary Suzette Matthews, Treasurer Tom Clevenger, Sergeant-at-Arms Bob Matthews. Trustees attending were: Dean Wallace, Steve Fettman, Kurt Goodenberger, Rebecca Marchino, Bruce Schorsten, Mark Clendenin, Bruce Hale, Drew Pelger, Parliamentarian Bob Pattison, Asst. Parliamentarian Dave Ewing, PP Paul White. Also attending was Rotarian Mark Rojek.
The following Rotarians turned in a makeup during Friday's meeting: Mark Clendenin (Jackson, Perry); Bill Maddox (Perry); Dennis Dent (Plain); Bob Matthews (2-Venice Nokomis, FL; 1-Venice Sunrise, FL).
Attention Canton ROTARIANS….We need your help to raise $1,500 to fill 1,000 Backpacks with food for Canton City School Kids who are in severe poverty and are food insecure.
Our meeting this Friday May 5th will be our annual 'Appreciation Luncheon', where you are encouraged to bring your spouse or partner, and where our club will be hosting the spouses of deceased Rotarians.
The Rotary Club of Canton will once again hold its semi-annual Health Screen & Wellness Fair on Saturday, April 29, 2017. This event will be held at Mercy Medical Center, Mercy Hall Auditorium, 1320 Mercy Drive N.W., Canton 44708. .jpg)
At our weekly meeting on April 21, 2017, President Craig Young welcomed our 66 members and 5 guests to the meeting.
