February 23, 2017 Naples Gulf Shore Sunset Rotary Meeting

On Thursday Evening, February 23, 2017,  President-Elect, Jim Juliano, led the Club in the invocation and pledge and announced that February 23^rd, 2017 is the 112^th birthday of Rotary International.  Jim then collected happy bucks.

President-Elect, Jim, introduced guest speaker Mike Sullivan, Development and Sustainability Coordinator of Love A Child, Inc.  Mike helps support sustainable living and farming projects for Haitian families. Other activities Love a Child Inc is involved with in Haiti include; child education scholarships, mobile medical clinics, meal programs for the hungry in19 Haitian villages and 18 schools, and the largest orphanage in Haiti.Love A Child raises $35MM per year to support these projects. They partner with 85 education foundations and he reported that 80% of education and food programs in Haiti are supported and funded by non-profits like Save A Child.

Mark your calendars, unless otherwise stated, all our meetings are at Hyatt House Naples.

Wed. Morning Mar 1, 7:30 a.m.:  Club Assembly

Wed. Morning Mar 8, 7:30 a.m.:  Panira Healthcare Clinic Speaker

Thurs. Evening Mar 16, 6:00 p.m.:  CCPS- Visually Impaired Inst. and Author Speaker

Thurs. Evening Mar 23, 6:00 p.m.:  TBA

February 16, 2017 Naples Gulf Shore Sunset Rotary Meeting

On Thursday Evening, February 16, 2017, Thorpe from Vermont led the club in the invocation and pledge. Rob Samouce then gave announcements.  The Club will be purchasing 2 cases of the finest of this Season’s real Vermont maple syrup and selling it as a mini-fundraiser. The Club just donated $1,000 to Polio Plus for which we will receive Paul Harris Fellow Credits. The Paint Ball Tournament is still in the works. President Elect, Jim Juliano went to PRE-PETS last weekend and will be going to PETS in North Carolina.  We have extended our contract to have our breakfast and dinner meetings at the Hyatt House for another year!

Rob then introduced Guest Speakers, Dianne Reed, Director of Communications, and Lisa Gruenloh, Director of Development for Collier Child Care Resources, Inc. (CCCR).  CCCR helps us with volunteers every year at our annual Hallowine Walk and we donate each year to them as one of our select charities.  Dianne reminded us what CCCR does-teach children of low-income, working families up to 5 years of age at two locations in Collier as well as watch over children of high school students at Lely and Immokalee High Schools so that the students can attend class and graduate high school. Dianne and Lisa then went over some of their upcoming events wherein they can use volunteers and looking for attendees. 

The first is a “free” networking event on Tuesday, February 28, 2016 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Kitchens by Clay.  The second is “a little bit o-blarney!” on Friday, March 17, 2017 at 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. at Clive Daniel Home ($60 a ticket) and the last is “Big Impressions by Little Artists” on Friday, May 5, 2017 from 1l:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Hilton Naples ($75 a ticket).  For more information on these events go to: www.collierchildcare.org.  Hope you can attend or volunteer at one or more.  

After the CCCR Presentation, Sgt. At Arms, Robbie Selby collected the happy bucks.

Mark your calendars, unless otherwise stated, all our meetings are at Hyatt House Naples.

Thurs. Evening Feb 23, 6:00 p.m.:  Love a Child Speaker

Wed. Morning Mar 1, 7:30 a.m.:  Club Assembly

Wed. Morning Mar 8, 7:30 a.m.:  Panira Healthcare Clinic Speaker

Thurs. Evening Mar 16, 6:00 p.m.:  CCPS- Visually Impaired Speaker

Thurs. Evening Mar 23, 6:00 p.m.:  TBA

February 8, 2017 Naples Gulf Shore Sunset Rotary Meeting

On Wednesday Morning, February 8, 2017, President Rob Samouce led the club in the invocation and pledge. Sgt. At Arms, Robbie Selby, then followed with guest introductions and happy bucks. Announcements were made as to Paint Ball Tournament and District Conference in Sarasota.

Rob then introduced Guest Speaker Cynde Covington who came all the way from Jacksonville, FL (Southpoint Rotary Club) who gave a great presentation on Polio Plus and her 4 visits to India working on inoculating the poor there.  Polio has been on the Earth for about 3,000 years and  Rotary Polio Plus started in 1988 when there were over 350,000 new cases a year.  We are now down to 34 new cases last year in Afghanistan/Pakistan and 4 in Nigeria.  Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation matches every donated Rotary dollar 2 to 1 up to $35 million per year for the fight. $1.5 billion is still needed to fund the end of polio.  For every one child who gets polio another 200 have been exposed so it will be a heavy lift to get the last remaining.  The world will be polio free when we get 3 years in a row with no reported cases. You can make a personal donation online to Polio Plus at the Rotary International Website: https://map.rotary.org/en/selfservice/pages/SelectFundF.aspx?FUND=APF.  Polio Plus Donations count toward your Paul Harris Fellow.

Mark your calendars, unless otherwise stated, all our meetings are at Hyatt House Naples.

Thurs. Evening Feb 16, 6:00 p.m.:  CCCR Speaker

Thurs. Evening Feb 23, 6:00 p.m.:  Love a Child Speaker

Wed. Morning Mar 1, 7:30 a.m.:  Club Assembly

Wed. Morning Mar 8, 7:30 a.m.:  Panira Healthcare Clinic Speaker

Thurs. Evening Mar 16, 6:00 p.m.:  CCPS- Visually Impaired Speaker

February 1, 2017 Naples Gulf Shore Sunset Rotary Meeting

On Wednesday Morning, February 1, 2017, John Roeder led the club in the invocation and pledge. Sgt. At Arms, Robbie Selby, then followed with happy bucks and updated us our upcoming Social event at Wyndemere in March and the Atlanta trip in June to attend the RI convention. Activities and logistics to the convention are being planned by Robbie and Anne Towers. Please contact them if you are not signed up to go but may want to.

President Elect, Jim Juliano then introduced Guest Speaker Mark Strain, Collier County Hearing Examiner & Chairman, Collier County Planning Commission.  Mark has been on the Planning Commission since 2005 and has been Chairman for the last 12 years.  He was hired by the County as its first Hearing Examiner in 2013. As Examiner, he hears, evaluates and decides specific land use and development proposals.  Mark gave use an exceptional and detailed power point presentation showing where all the growth will be coming in Collier County on both a macro and micro scale.  Keep your seat belts on, we here in Collier County are in for a rocket growth ride over the next twenty (20) years. One kudo he pointed out is that Collier County has been ranked the happiest and healthiest place to live in the U.S.!

Mark your calendars, unless otherwise stated, all our meetings are at Hyatt House Naples.

Wed. Morning Feb 8, 7:30 a.m.:  Polio Plus Speaker

Thurs. Evening Feb 16, 6:00 p.m.:  CCCR Speaker

Thurs. Evening Feb 23, 6:00 p.m.:  Love a Child Speaker

Wed. Morning Mar 1, 7:30 a.m.:  TBA

Wed. Morning Mar 8, 7:30 a.m.:  Panira Healthcare Clinic Speaker