Today’s greeters included our own Ben Loznak, Gregory Luyt and Adam Maas along with Anne Runschke, wife of District 6290 Governor Gernot Runschke. She was very personable and a treat to meet.
President Mike Meindertsma started the meeting by thanking Dale Chilcote for filling in for him last week in his absence. It became suspicious when Mikedrew the winning ticket in thisweek’s 50-50 and Dale won. Rev. Gary Hogue gave the invocation. He was followed by Marlene Bevan who led us in song with two old time favorites. The first was Happy Days Are Here Again and the second was This Land Is My Land, This Land Is Your Land. She said both were tied to politics at one point. Why ruin two great songs by making them political? John Noonan introduced one visiting Rotarian. There were no guests.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Please sign-up with Lisa to help THE SUNRISE CLUB with their annual Back-Pack project. Volunteers are needed to pack the Back-Packs.
Next Monday, August 8, is the ROTARY GOLF OUTING at The Traverse City Golf and Country Club. It will be a 12:30 p.m. shotgun start. It's a qualifier for the Cherry Cup. Anyone preferring to play Pickleball, it will start at 3:00 p.m. Please contact Mark Eckhoff @929-2955 with any questions.
SAVE THE DATE: Monday, September 19, 2016 at 5:30 p.m. will be the 13th Annual Gourmet Dinner at the Traverse City Golf and Country Club.
'BOATING' Social gathering on Power Island Monday, August 22. FOR ROTARIANS! Sign-up now with Susan. It'll start at Clinch Park at 6:00 p.m. The intent is to stay on the island about one hour. It's BYO and bring a snack to pass if you would like. More details will follow.
Our speaker was introduced by President Mike Meindertsma. We were fortunate to hear from District 6290 Governor Gernot Runschke. Gernot married his wife, Anne, 45 years ago. They live on the eastern shores of Lake Michigan in Grand Haven. They have two adult children. Gernot got his degree in Architecture while in Germany. He has been practicing architecture for the past 48 years. He has spent a great deal of his spare time mentoring youth in both the Boy Scouts and with his church. He joined Rotary in Grand Haven 26 years ago. Over this period of time he has been very active in fundraising to support local and international serviced projects. He is a member of the District Foundation Committee, the District Grants Review Board, and has served for the past 12 years as the District Peace Fellowship Chair. His Rotary experience is vast and far reaching.
District Governor Runschke is a strong believer in the Rotary Foundation. He encourages all Rotarians to donate each and every year. It's the engine that drives Rotary. He also feels Rotary needs to strongly support the local community. This is especially true where children are concerned. He feels out-reach programs involving children will certainly help Rotary Clubs grow in the future. Anything we can do to help with youth education is a priority. He said we currently have three Global scholars in our District.
District Governor Runschke said his District Conference will be held at Crystal Mountain Resort next year. He invited everyone to come. He said the International Convention will be held in Atlanta from June 10-14, 2017. He concluded by saying the Rotary Foundation is celebrating its 100 year anniversary at this time, and it has raised over $3 billion. We should all feel a great deal of pride with what the Foundation has accomplished.
We are pleased to announce that we have a new Facebook page for Friends of the Boardman. We encourage you to LIKE our page. We will be posting news and information regarding Friends of the Boardman on this page, please feel free to share with your friends. Please click on https://www.facebook.com/friendsoftheboardman/ to LIKE our new page.
Tickets are available for the Gourmet Dinner and can be purchased online via our new ticketing website. Please visit: http://www.friendsoftheboardman.com/ to purchase tickets and learn more about the dinner, including: Dinner Menu, History of Event, Driving Directions, and the evening’s agenda.
Dale Chilcote is wrapping up the committee assignments for the 2016-17 Rotary year. If you have not confirmed your committee assignments with Dale, Wendy or Nikki, please call him at 231-846-0096, or email him
at dale@orchardcreektc.com with the committees on which you serve. Even if you have been on a committee for several years, please confirm with Dale so that the Directors and Chairs of the committees have an updated list of those members committed to serve on the committee.
The Rotary Fund at the Community Foundation provides a $ to $ match for gifts made by Rotary members to eligible nonprofit organizations - Annually up to $250.00
So if you give $250 to your chosen local charity they could end up with $500.00 thru the match.
This works with club committee donations too Examples ~ Tag Day Fundraiser & Christmas Baskets
USE this amazing opportunity please! Click here for form, or get one at the next club meeting.
Our speaker was introduced by President Mike Meindertsma. We were fortunate to hear from District 6290 Governor Gernot Runschke. Gernot married his wife, Anne, 45 years ago. They live on the eastern shores of Lake Michigan in Grand Haven. They have two adult children. Gernot got his degree in Architecture while in Germany. He has been practicing architecture for the past 48 years. He has spent a great deal of his spare time mentoring youth in both the Boy Scouts and with his church. He joined Rotary in Grand Haven 26 years ago. Over this period of time he has been very active in fundraising to support local and international serviced projects. He is a member of the District Foundation Committee, the District Grants Review Board, and has served for the past 12 years as the District Peace Fellowship Chair. His Rotary experience is vast and far reaching. 
Dale Chilcote is wrapping up the committee assignments for the 2016-17 Rotary year. If you have not confirmed your committee assignments with Dale, Wendy or Nikki, please call him at 
So if you give $250 to your chosen local charity they could end up with $500.00 thru the match.
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