Attendance:  22 Members 4 Guests

Annoucements: Bay 5K - Be sure you have October 2nd on your calendar.  Everyone will be needed to help that morning.  2) The club has chosen to clean up Camp Petosega as our Day of Caring Project on Sept 14th.  Please sign up to help if you can, if not plan to join us for a social hour at 5:00.  3) Pedal for Polio will take place Sunday afternoon Sept 12th; 3 ways to participate - bike, pledge or help transport.

This fun Run/Walk event takes place on Saturday, October 2nd on the historic grounds of the Bay View Association in Petoskey, MI.  Each year the event gets bigger and last year over 120 runners and walkers helped raise over $5,000 for local charities.  Come join the fun for a great cause!

At the December "Anniversary Breakfast" the Rotary-Sunrise club presented checks totaling $7,000 to seven local charities.

The Object of Rotary: The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:

• FIRST. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;
  
• SECOND. High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society;
  
• THIRD. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life;
  
• FOURTH. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.