January 24, 2013 Naples Sunset Rotary Meeting

The January 24, 2013 Naples Sunset Rotary Meeting was called to order by President Brady Young followed by Invocation and the Pledge of Allegiance. President Brady discussed current and upcoming events including a new speaker's schedule. Following dinner a collaborative discussion on various current and upcoming events was established by all present and visiting Rotarians. The meeting adjourned at 8pm.

January 17, 2013 Naples Sunset Rotary Meeting

The January 17, 2013 Naples Sunset Rotary meeting was called to order by President Elect Adoni Kokkinos who delivered the Invocation and led in the Pledge of Allegiance. Following dinner a collaborative discussion on various current and upcoming events was established by all present and visiting Rotarians. The meeting adjourned at 8pm.

January 10, 2013 Naples Sunset Rotary Meeting

The January 2013 Naples Sunset Rotary Meeting was called to order by President Elect Adoni Kokkinos at 6:45pm followed by Invocation and Pledge of Allegiance. Following dinner President Elect Adoni introduced our guest speaker Avi Lupo owner of VISS Technologies who discussed his latest digital safety product for protecting residential and commercial properties. With the latest algorithms and artificial intelligence their new security identification system represents the state-of-art security platform that can be acquired for a monthly fee. After question and answers the meeting was adjourned at 8:12pm.

January 3, 2013 Naples Sunset Rotary Meeting

The January 3, 2013 Naples Sunset Rotary Meeting was called to order by President Brady Young followed by the Invocation and the Pledge of Allegiance. Following dinner President Brady discussed the latest happenings and Annual Raffle Chairman Robert Bodine passed out the raffle tickets that will be sold by our members. The Naples Sunset Fund Raiser sells only 400 tickets at $50.00 each with 5 winning tickets of 1) $7,500 Grand Prize, 2) $800.00, 3) $600.00, 4) $400.00 and 5) $200.00. Some of the Raffle benefactors include: a) Project Graduation, b) Shelter for Abused Women, c) Boy Scouts of America, d) Shy Wolf Sanctuary, e) Child Protection of Collier County and f) Naples Girls Softball. Tickets are available from all Naples Sunset Rotary or you may eMail your request to info@NaplesSunsetRotary.org .

December 20, 2012 Naples Sunset Rotary Meeting

The December 20, 2012 Naples Sunset Rotary Meeting was called to order by President Brady Young followed by the Invocation and the Pledge of Allegiance. Following dinner President Brady discussed the latest happenings both local and in the District 6960 to update the members. Liegh Readdy of Rotary District 5030 gave us a presentation on his ongoing project which he is promoting for National to support. Following his presentation club members has a number of questions and adjournment at 8:00pm. There will be no Naples Sunset Rotary Club meeting on the 27th due to the holiday period with our next meeting on January 3, 2013.

December 13, 2012 Naples Sunset Rotary Meeting

December 13, 2012 Naples Sunset Rotary Meeting was called to order at 6:38PM by President Brady Young followed by Invocation and Pledge of Allegiance. Following dinner our guest speaker Mark Hamilton Quinn presented an excellent video on the major problem of poaching of elephants in Africa. Mark creates private guides of Adventure Safaris in Africa for the past many years. His presentation was excellent with many many questions about his African safaris adventures and more! Additional information about his Adventure Safaris is available by clicking here. Meeting was adjourned at 8:15 PM. President Brady also announced that a Board of Directors meeting will be next Thursday at 5:00PM.

December 7, 2012 Naples Sunset Rotary Christmas Party

The December 7, 2012 Naples Sunset Rotary Christmas Party was well attended and everyone enjoyed the singing, dancing and fine music and food! Both Rotary clubs had a very good time enjoying the Christmas spirit both in donating toys to needy children and spreading goodwill to all the Rotary members and their spouses. Of course our tradition of the Twelve Days of Christmas was led by our one of two charter members remaining George Leamon.

November 29, 2012 Naples Sunset Rotary Meeting

The November 29, 2012 Naples Sunset Rotary Meeting was called to order by President Brady Young followed by the Invocation and Pledge of Allegiance. After dinner President Brady updated us on all upcoming events and discussed the City Farm Day attendance of our members. Our next meeting will be our annual Christmas Party to be held on Friday December 7, 2012 at 6:00pm to 9:30PM at Lakewood Country Club. Meeting was adjourned at 8PM.

Happy Thanksgiving! November 22, 2012

The November 22, 2012 Naples Sunset Meeting will not meet in order that the members will celebrate Thanksgiving holiday with their families and loved one. Next regularly scheduled meeting will be Thursday November 29, 2012 at normal time and place. Happy Thanksgiving!

November 15, 2012 Naples Sunset Rotary Meeting

The November 15, 2012 Naples Sunset Rotary Meeting was called to order by President Brady Young followed by Invocation and the Pledge of Allegiance. After dinner President Brady discussed the latest local Rotary happenings as well as district Rotary District 6960 happenings and events. President Brady mentioned that the next regularly scheduled meeting (Thursday November 22) would be cancelled for the Thanksgiving Holiday and urged all members to attend the November 21st Farm City Event and to participate in the Naples Sunset Trolly and to contact member Herb buck for additional information and reservation. Meeting was adjourned at 8pm.

November 8, 2012 Naples Sunset Rotary Meeting

November 8, 2012 Naples Sunset Rotary meeting was called to order at 6:30 pm with the Invocation and Pledge of Allegiance led by President Brady Young. Our speakers were Valarie Bostic, Executive Director of the Immokalee Child Care Center and Tom Maiale, Vice Presidemt Immokalee Child Care Center Board of Directors. The Immokalee Child Care Center has been in existence for almost 50 years and has a solid, long lasting reputation in the community for continually providing quality early childhood education and child care while working cooperatively with staff and families to inspire the children they serve to reach their full potential. Additional information is available by clicking here. Afer questions and answers the Club was adjourned at 8:00pm.

The November 1, 2012 Naples Sunset Rotary Meeting was called to order at 6:30 PM. After Invocation and Pledge of Allegiance, dinner was served following a general club discussion on current happenings both local and District 6960. Meeting was adjourned at 8:00 PM.

October 25, 2012 Naples Sunset Rotary Club

October 25, 2012 Naples Sunset Rotary Club was called to order by President Brady Young at 6:30pm followed by Invocation and Pledge of Allegiance. Following dinner we inducted our newest member to the club Charles Zachary Van Meter who was sponsored by Past President Marcus Zillman. Following the induction, President Brady presented our latest fundraiser with bidding to have all members heads shaved through club members bidding. This event proved to be very exciting and raised dollars to help our upcoming November 3, 2012 fishing tournament boat entry donation. Following this our program was introduced by President Elect Adoni Kokkinos featuring John Slaby, Director of Operation of Kowiachobee Animal Preserve in Naples. John stated that the Kowiachobee Animal preserve houses over 75 animals, including a tiger, leopards, jaguar, puma, bobcat, caracal, tortoise, iguana, wallaby, skunks, birds, farm animals, domestic animals and much more. Kowiachobee is dedicated to respecting all animals. Their focus includes endangered, exotic, both domestic and farm animals and even reptiles. Additional information on the preserve is available by clicking here. After questions and answers the meeting was adjourned at 8:40pm.

October 18, 2012 Naples Sunset Rotary Meeting was called to order at 6:30pm by followed by Invocation and Pledge of Allegiance. Following dinner a visiting Rotarian Jouni Korpiranta from Helsinki, Finland discussed the latest happenings in his Rotary Club and gave his banner to our club. Meeting was adjourned at 8:00pm.

October 11, 2012 Naples Sunset Rotary Meeting was called to order by President Brady Young followed by the Invocation and Pledge of Allegiance. Our speaker was Naples Sunset Rotary President Elect Adoni Kokkinos who delivered an excellent presentation on the recent happenings in Libya with a detailed timeline of the latest events. After showing the slides the floor was opened for numerous question and answers .... a great program! The meeting was adjourned at 8:00pm.

October 4, 2012 Naples Sunset Rotary Meeting

The October 4, 2012 Naples Sunset Rotary Meeting was called to order by President Brady Young at 6:30pm followed by Invocation and the Pledge of Allegiance. After dinner including general social conversation President Brady reviewed the latest club happenings as well as happenings across the District 6960. It also was announced that our Dictionary Day was October 26, 2012 with the same two elementary schools as last year. President Brady also announced that here would be a Naples Sunset Rotary Board Meeting at 5:00pm October 11th prior to our regularly scheduled meeting. All board members are urged to come and participate! The meeting was adjourned at 8:00pm.