The following amounts were remitted to the clubs below. A letter was included which reads:

 Dear Fellow Rotarians:

The Hobart Rotary Club of Hobart, New York has been able to raise funds for Sandy Relief and is pleased to enclose a check for $250 for your continued work on recovery and rebuilding efforts.

When Irene and Lee hit the Catskills in 2011, we were inundated with outpouring from all areas. As we like to say, downstate helped upstate. Now it is our turn in a small way to repay the kindness.

Please accept our contribution on behalf of the many in this community and others who share the Rotary spirit of service before self.

$250 to:

Rotary  District  7640

Bank of  America Bld. 2nd  Fl

470  North  Delsea Drive

Vineland , NJ    08360

$250 to:

Rotary Hurricane Relief For Staten Island

148 New Dorp Lane
Staten Island, New York 10306

$250 to:

Walter D. Head Foundation of Rotary District 7490

c/o Calisto Bertin,

Bertin Engineering,

66 Glen Avenue

Glen Rock, NJ 07452

$250 to:

The Forked River Rotary Club Foundation

c/o Joan Vas, DG

10 Edgewater Dr.

Matawan, NJ 07747

The golf tournament for the 2013 Multi-District Conference will be held on Friday, May 31, at the premier golf course of the Turning Stone Resort & Casino, the Shenandoah Golf Course.  Proceeds from the golf tournament will be used to support both local and global Rotary service projects.

The tournament is open to everyone and we are especially looking for participation from our fellow Rotarians in Districts 7170 and 7190.  The cost for a four-person team (Captain-and Crew format) is $460; this includes greens fees, carts, a box lunch, and prizes. 

Tee sponsorships are available for $50.  We are asking each club to either sponsor a tee or obtain one or more tee sponsorships from businesses within your community.  Attached are golf team sign-up forms and tee sponsor forms.

It should be a great day of golf at one of the finest golf courses in the Northeast.

 Feel free to contact any of the tournament committee members with any questions.

Thank you for your support,

Dale Flinn, Governor, District 7170

Melissa Ward, Governor, District 7190

Golf Tournament Committee

David Derr                        607-967-8756                          davidjudyderr@frontiernet.net

Sam Koury                        607-432-0354                          koury82@verizon.net

Frank Pecoraro                  518-365-1003                          FrankP@PecoraroCompanies.com

Scott Russell                     607-257-2831                          srussell11@twcny.rr.com

“Litter has always bugged me. Maybe I take after Lady Bird Johnson,” she says, referring to the conservationist (and wife of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson) who, like Marcus, was a Texas native.

When the Rotary Club of Providence celebrated its centennial in 2011, Marcus and other members of the club’s environmental committee persuaded 100 Rotarians to join a campaign to reduce litter. In the now-annual month long event, culminating on Earth Day, 22 April, Rotarians recruit friends and family members to pick up trash – in their neighborhood, at their children’s soccer games, wherever they can – for 100 minutes each.

Like Lady Bird Johnson, Marcus also believes in beautification through planting. In 2012, she planted trees in Providence – her club donated eight London Plane trees to the city, and high school students helped plant them in a park across from City Hall.

Wendy’s efforts can be duplicated throughout District 7170! And don’t forget to wear a Rotary shirt – so your community knows that Rotary is present and cares!

Just a reminder! There are 5 weeks left to contribute to Rotary's Annual Fund for 2012-13 Rotary year. Your donation enables The Rotary Foundation to accomplish its mission of advancing world understanding, goodwill and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education and the alleviaton of poverty. Thank you for your generosity.

It is always good to build excitement about the GSE and this year we have both an inbound and outbound team. We have begun recruiting for clubs to be anchors for the inbound team and have filled approximately 1/2 of the slots with commitments from Stamford, Oneonta, Cooperstown and Endwell.  Brian Buttner and I are Co-Chairs this year and although there is still much to do, we are excited about being involved in the Group Study Exchange. 

GSE Co-Chair Brian Buttner (Center), Dryden Rotary, Kathleen Schofield Team Leader and Kenneth Snowden, Alternate Team Leader

Groton Rotary President Jen Christiansen and Ken Thompson, Groton Rotary, provide our early Saturday morning breakfast.  GSE Team Members, Kathleen Schofield, Team Leader; Kenneth Snowden, Alternate Team Leader and GSE Co-Chair Terry Donlick, Groton Rotary

District Governor Dale Flinn and Team Leader Kathleen Schofield with GSE Team Members

DG Dale Flinn teaching an early morning session for Team Brazil.  Team Members and Kathleen Schofield, Team Leader and GSE Co-Chair Terry Donlick, Groton Rotary

Presenters for the three day orientation: DG Dale Flinn, PDG Lana Rouff, PDG Bob Ross, PDG Orville Wright, PDG Peter Brellochs, YEP Chair Zoren Bullock, Shelly Bullock, and Heidi Goldstein.

Cortland Noon and Dryden Rotary provided lunch and Groton and Dryden Rotary provided breakfast.

Lisa Buttner was the hostess throughout the weekend and did a great job making sure meals were served on schedule and greeting everyone, while Brian and I were busy training the team. 

Thanks for all you do,

Terry Donlick

GSE Co Chair

607 592 8661

Often I am asked, why attend the district conference? What’s in it for me? What is a district conference all about? The annual district conference is a chance to celebrate. We share our successes of the Rotary year. Successful projects, exceptional Rotarians and clubs all receive recognition. We get to learn new things – plenary and breakout sessions offer opportunities to learn new things Rotary and non-Rotary alike. We celebrate our youth and Youth Exchange Program with the Procession of the Flags, the candlelight ceremony, and the Youth Exchange Talent Show (worth the price of admission alone!). We conclude by celebrating the lives of Rotarians we have lost with our Memorial Service on Sunday.

When all is said and done, however, for me it comes down to the fellowship. The district conference is the greatest opportunity for Rotarians from around the district to come together to renew old friendships, create new friendships, network, and to catch up with old friends. Please join us, share with us, and celebrate with us!

See you at Turning Stone!

Yours in Rotary Service,

Dale and Gayle Flinn

So much going on, it’s hard to know where to begin. Since most of my club visits are done I haven’t done as much traveling as in prior months, though there have been plenty of meetings to attend plus Membership and Foundation seminars. A few more observations from the road:

3 – Number of restaurants in the District called New York Pizza. None are related as far as I can tell. Marathon, New Berlin, and I forgot where the third one is.

3 – Number of officially designated, fully marked dips in the road – two on Route 81 and one on 88. The two on 81 have been filled/repaired at this point, but I haven’t been on that part of 88 for a while, so I’m not sure if it’s still there.

First ever – Closed Chinese restaurant. The China Taste in Marathon is closed and the space is for rent. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Chinese restaurant actually go out of business and I can’t remember ever driving through Marathon without seeing the China Taste restaurant there and I’ve been driving or riding through Marathon for a long time.

DISTRICT 7170 HISTORY TO BE STORED AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY       

Cornell University’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections will be housing documents, records, photographs and other materials relating to the history of Rotary District 7170. This new initiative will ensure that the work of Rotarians on behalf of the District will be organized and preserved for use by researchers and scholars. Such documents provide unique testimony to the achievements of the District. Under the care of professional archivists, such records include District rosters, minutes of meetings, conference proceedings, programs, grants, budgets, surveys, awards, publicity and any other records which reflect the work of District leadership. These documents will provide accurate and informative records of the work of the District on behalf of clubs in Rotary District 7170.

Cornell University is also the home of the archives of the Ithaca Rotary Club and the Ithaca Sunrise Club.