Rotary Club of Traverse City - October 10, 2017, #bestrotaryclubintheworld
Artfully presented and slightly embellished by Ramona Pleva
#ramonagetscreative #hopefullyyouwillfinditfunny #wearecallingithashtagtuesday
President John Racine opened the meeting with God Bless America. #allpresidentsshouldbethisclassy
Nikki Sobkowski offered up the invocation. #amennikki
Cindy Ruzak helped us embrace our inner Christopher Columbus for Columbus Day with two songs. #cindyrockscolumbusalternatereality #howdoesonefollowthat
Mark Eckhoff introduced visiting Rotarians and guests. #whenindoubtdojazzhands
Autumn Soltysiak introduced Jordynn Crossley as our Student of the Week. Jordynn represents the Allied Health program at TBAISD and is actively involved in many extracurricular activities. Jordynn has her sights set on becoming a pediatrician. “Dr. Jordynn”..... It has a nice ring to it! #drjordynncrossley
Time to break out that ugly Christmas sweater! (I know, you were hoping to not see that sweater again!) Susan Kraus is already planning for the holidays and asked us to mark Dec. 5 on our calendars for our annual Holiday Party at the Traverse City Yacht Club. If one party is good, two are better!! Susan is also planning another Rotary event for early November.
#rotaryuglychristmassweaterparty #weliketohaveparties #partydecemberfifth #allthecoolkidsaregoing
Al Bonney and his wife Joan will be taking part in National Immunization Day and are asking for donations to help provide bed nets to keep the mosquitos out of the bedroom in countries with high malaria rates. Seriously, people, them mosquitoes are annoying. For $5 you can help a friend out! For $50 you can help a bunch of friends out!
#bednetsequalnomalaria #mosquitosareannoying #fivedollarssolvestheproblem
Get your bike shorts out because Al Bonney is teaming up with Vern Gauthier for another indoor polio bike ride Nov. 13 - 18. Come down to Fit For You, Vern will lend to a stationary bike to ride to raise awareness and money to End Polio Now. There will be a group spinning class on Saturday, Nov. 18 for anyone who wants to join the fun. Heck, you can just show up and sit on the bike if you don’t want to actually exercise (however, we cannot be responsible for the jeers you will get from your peers.) #albonneywillbewearingbikeshorts #showupandrideforpolio #vernatfitforyouisawesome
Paul LaPorte asked for some“podium time” (oh geez……. ) Well, it turns out that our Ben Whiting, one of the 25 Most Interesting, Intriguing, Fascinating People in TC (according to the Northern Express) had a little “incident” recently. As we all know, Ben is a world-class, uber talented Magician, Entertainer, Motivational Speaker with the voice of God and Rotary Girl Dancer. Any magician who has mastered the “slight of hand” wizardry skills knows their hands are to be protected at all times! Well, Ben was lovingly cooking his amazing wife dinner one evening and accidentally burned one of his magic hands. That would have been fine, but Ben felt compelled to announce to the world (via all social media outlets known to man) of his little snafu. Nothing goes unnoticed with this group (people, remember this before posting!) and Paul felt it appropriate to bestow on Ben the highly-not-so-coveted Smart Pills - cleverly presented in a “magic” Crown Royal bag. #putthisonthecoverofthenorthernexpress #dontletpaulcatchyoudoingdumbstuff
A whopping $44 in the 50/50 went to Mike Meindertsma. #pastpresidenttakesthepot
Ben Whiting getting 'Smart Pills'