Cathy Szajna was our speaker today.  Cathy took blood pressure readings for those of us brave enough to put on the cuff.  She discussed many current health issues facing our senior citizens.  Cathy is a Registered Nurse who works for "Right at Home" as a nurse supervisor.  She has been a Registered Nurse for over 30 years and has a Nursing Home Administrator's License.  She enjoys working with seniors and specializes in Alzheimer's disease. Right at Home provides in-home care for those person's needing assisted living.  Services provide are companionship/homemaking, physical assistance, hygiene, transportation assistance, wellness and medication management.  Specialized care is available for Alzheimer's & other related dementia, hypertension/stroke recovery, heart disease, cancer recovery, hospice/palliative support.  Minimum visit time is 2 hours and goes up to 24 hours, 7 days a week.  Employee caregivers are carefully screened and even given the Orion Test to check for their compassion.  Right at Home employees have workman's compensation insurance and are bonded.  There are local franchises in southern Michigan and Right at Home has about 200 franchises in the United States.  They just opened their first franchises in China, an important cultural event for China. Right at Home is private pay.  The only insurance accepted is long term care insurance and the Veterans Aid and Attendance Benefit.  Many veterans don't know they are eligible for this benefit.  Cathy said she really enjoys working for Right at Home and is very dedicated to the people she cares for.  Cathy, thanks for the blood pressure checks and a very informative presentation.  Welcome to Rotary.

Herb Doebler and Katy Szajna  

  Kathy Szajna

Still no auction results.

  We will report it as soon as it is available. 

          "We are this close"

 President Darris was back and opened the meeting at 12:21(a little late, can't get back in the grove) and led us in the Pledge of Allegiance and the singing of our National Anthem.  Present were Rotarians:  Paul, John C, Wally, Herb, Mark, Ron, Jim, and our newest Rotarian, Kathy Szajna. Wally gave the invocation with a special thanksgiving prayer for his 90th birthday.  John J., Ryan, Dan K., John G., Vince - we haven't seen you for a while. We miss you.

 President Darris put out the challenge: he will pay $5.00 for everyone who can juggle three objects for 15 seconds at the President's party.  Each of us who may not be able to meet the challenge, will have to pay $5.00, if the President is able to juggle three objects for 15 seconds!  (We know he is already out $5.00 as Dino has already shown he can meet the challenge).  But, Dino we need more help, let's make the President pay!  Practice, practice, practice!   

Herb says it's still too early to know the auction results.  

Ron handed out a copy of the texas hold-em schedule.  Our next scheduled night at Santino's is June 29 - July 2. We have the license.  He also talked about getting licenses for the next Rotary year should Snookers not reopen.

John C read a letter from the Macomb Rotary Foundation stating they had funded two of our requested projects.   Junior High Student Assistance and Turning Point were funded for a total of $3,000.00 in matching money for next years budget (2013-2014 Rotary year).  The food banks were not funded due to limited funds.

Next golf outing planning meeting is Jun 21 at John L's. The Prez stressed the golf outing and the need for hole sponsorship sales.  People need to look in the envelopes (packets) Herb gave to everyone.  In there is all you need to sell hole sponsorships and golf tickets.   Our profit is in the hole sponsorships and we need to increase the number from last year when we were down.  Try your doctors, I did and sold two so far.  Your favorite restaurant is also a good bet, if not a hole sponsor at least a gift certificate.  WE NEED THEM NOW! Charity is not just a Tuesday lunch thing we need to work at it all week.

Darris  mentioned we were invited to functions at Pontiac and Royal Oak  Rotary Clubs.

A letter of Thanks was received from Doctors without Borders thanking us for the $1,000.00 donation we sent them.

Happy bucks were received from Paul (he and Peggy celebrated their 56th wedding anniversary) and President Darris, (wife's wonderful directions to their daughter).

Sargeant Darris querried us today on our knowledge of species native to Michigan.  We got almost all of them correct!

Cathy Szajna (our newest member) with soon to be Past President, Darris Brown.

Jun 18, David Wilkie CPA, Utica-Shelby Rotary Foundation
Jun 25,  President's Party 5:30 PM Club Monte Carlo
Jul  02,               Club Assembly
Jul  09, DG Jim Gilmore    District Governor Visit
Jul 15, (Monday) Golf Outing
Jul  16, No Meeting
Jul 23 & 30 Darris and John C Responsible for Speaker
The President's party will be Jun 25, 2013.
 @ Club Monte Carlo.

Darris and John C. have the July 2013 speaker responsibilty

You guys did a great job of getting speakers
early, please continue into the next year, this
has shown to be a good attention getter and
will increase excellent membership.

Next week's presenter will be David Wilke who will talk to us about forming a Utica-Shelby Township Rotary Foundation.  Don't for get to invite a friend.

Knowing the speaker in advance doesn't do any good if you don't use it as a guide for inviting guests to the club.  

Get out there and advertise our speakers, our programs, and the GREAT work we do.

                                     Check out the Four Way Test.

The Purpose of Rotary:  Rotary is an organization of business and professional men and women united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. You will be quizzed on this next week.

Twenty(20) $100.00 weekly drawings+

One (1) Final $2,000.00 drawing

 Drawing Week        Winner                 Ticket No.

 1st   2- 5-2013      James Schultz         0356

 2nd   2-12-2013     Wally Doebler         0024

 3rd   2-19-2013      Mary Lu Laudless   0069

 4th   2-25-2013      Jo Romano             0378

 5th   3-05-2013      Gloria Landry          0417

 6th    3-12-2013      Don Riddell            0340

 7th    3-19-2013     Karen Kruscka        0177

 8th    3-26-2013     Jan Thompson        0180

 9th    4- 2-2013      Leatrice Paine         0107

10th   4-9-2013       Len Morrison           0094

11th   4-16-2013     Eric Sarenius           0392

12th   4-23-2013      Joyce Kraft             0065

13th   4-30-2013     Mary Jo Morelli        0264

14th   5-07-2013        Bill Boike              No # ?

15th   5-14-2013       John Gohl             0349

16th   5-21-2013      Judy Briney            0422

17th   5-28-2013      Mike Bender           0432

18th   6-04-2013   Gerry Greeneville      0191

19th   6-11-2013      Roy Kaminski         0066

Each week's winning ticket is returned so every ticket has a chance to win every remaining week and for the final draw.

We are nearing the final week, only 1 week to go with the final drawing for $2,000.00 also next week.

•           The BIG one is coming in just one week!!  Better odds than the lottery ticket;

                                        even if just for the final draw!! 

"one week"!   "one week"!   "one week"!   "one week"!   "one week"!  "one week"   "one week"!

               Ron won the Card and draw and drew the joker for a grand total of $9.00.

(Paul forgot to pull the second joker so he had better than usual odds) 

50/50 Raffle won by Mark Ollila.

OK, John Lembke I'm taking out your picture so we better see you at the President's Party! 

Talk to someone about Rotary this week! Then invite them to  lunch next week, Let's build on the good thing we have!  Use the speaker list to plan your guests in advance. In one week we are going to hear establishing a Rotay Club Foundation, lots of people are interested in foundations and their benefits.

           "We are this close"

Ryan Fossee stepped up and accepted the President Nominee position to lead the club in year 2014-2015. John Curell is the President Elect and will be the President next year beginning JULY 1, 2013.  Thanks Ryan for stepping up to the plate.  Rotary makes a big difference in the community and can do much more in the future with continued strong leadership.

  Utica-Shelby Township Rotary Club

(Motto and Rotary symbol)