On Wednesday Morning, June 7, 2017, Sgt. At Arms, Robbie Selby led the Club in an inspiring invocation and the pledge. Robbie then collected happy bucks. Mel Drury gave us a wrap up of the Paintball Tournament where we netted over $4K for our Foundation charities. Fun was had by all-the Roofcrafter’s team came from behind to win the paintball tourney and the team of Kim Davidson/Jon Kukk won the corn hole tourney. President, Rob Samouce and Robbie mentioned the Rotary International Convention in Atlanta coming up starting Saturday wherein we have about 14 club related folks going and Rob and President-Elect Jim Juliano went over the changing of the guard dinner on Thursday evening, June 22nd at Coopers Hawk. Please e-mail Jim ASAP and let him know if you will be at the dinner and who will be joining you: jdud99@yahoo.com.
Rob Samouce then introduced our speaker; Paula DiGrigoli, Executive Director of the NCH Safe & Healthy Children’s Coalition. (Coalition) The Coalition is a group of over 50 local organizations and businesses working together tackle three issues adversely impacting Collier County youth: obesity, drowning and unsafe sleep (SIDS). Drowning is the leading cause of death of children age one to four and suffocation (sleep related death) is the leading cause of death for children less than 1 year of age in Collier County. The Coalition distributes the life jackets at the beach parks, conducts swim lesson and water smart (Stewie the Duck and Josh the Otter) classes throughout the County and put together the largest swim class in the world (over 1,300 participants-Guinness Book of World Records at the County water park). For more info go to: safehealthychildren.org
Mark your calendars, unless otherwise stated, all our meetings are at Hyatt House Naples.
Sat. June 10 thru Thurs June. 15: Rotary Convention-Atlanta
Wed. Morning June 14, 7:30 a.m.: Club Assembly
Thurs. Evening June 22, 6:00 p.m.: Changing of the Guard Dinner- Coopers Hawk
Thurs. Evening June 29, 6:00 p.m.: Tanzanian Water Project
