Emmaus Rotary Trumpet November 7, 2019 (Oct 31, 2019)

We meet at 7:30 AM on Thursday mornings

at Brookside Country Club, 901 Willow Lane, Macungie, PA 18062

District 7430 Club 5427

2019-2020 President

Steve Gould

District 7430 Governor

Herb Klotz

Assistant Governor Area 1

Barb Bottitta

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Beef and Beer Scholarship Fundraiser

Apr 23, 2020 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

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Apr 02, 2020

No meeting

No Meeting

Apr 09, 2020

No Meeting

Apr 16, 2020

TBD

Apr 23, 2020

TBD

Apr 30, 2020

Joe Parks

Joe Parks Classification Talk

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President

Steve Gould

President Elect

Lexa Shallcross

First Vice President

Mike Waddell

Second Vice President

Meghan Reed

Secretary

Jim Palmquist

Treasurer

Chris Wills

Sergeant at Arms

Don Blose

Sergeant-at-Arms Emeritus

Dale Dries

Immediate Past President

Rick Zayaitz

Director

Ceil Birdsell

Director

Valerie Deneen

Director

Diamond Man Loch

Director

Sal Verrastro

International/Foundation Chair

Bill Erdman

Community Service

Nicole Steirer

Membership Chair

J. P. Raynock

Youth Exchange

Rose Galeano-Phillips

Public Relations

John Chisca

Audit

David Dunn

Fellowship

Meghan Reed

Fundraising - Beef-n-Beer

Bryce Ruggieri

Fundraising - Golf

John Zayaitz

Fundraising - Poker Run

Mark Erle

International Women's Day

Alicia Ruiz-Orbin

Social Media

Valerie Deneen

Youth

Anthony Moyer

Mike Waddell
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Food for the Needy This Week

Be sure to bring a canned good to this week's meeting for Rotarian Ralph Lewis' Food for the Needy drive!

We recently heard that 1 in 7 people in the USA is hungry every day. Here in the Lehigh Valley, Second Harvest has figured that it is 1 in 8 people. Better, but many people need our help!

Scary Halloween

President's Message

Hello Emmaus Rotary and welcome to November!!!

Time is flying this Rotary year. A lot has happened to date, and there is much more to come.

November is Rotary's Foundation Month and District 7430 is a strong supporter of District Grants. This past Saturday, November 2nd our District offered Rotary Foundation Seminar and Grant Training at Montgomery County Community College. I know Cindy Hornaman attended and I hope others did as well.

I encourage anyone intrigued by the Rotary Foundation to talk to Cindy as she has been involved in our clubs grants since I have been a member. The basis behind how it works is the funds we donate eventually come back to the District and our Club for local and international projects. The leverage is amazing and our club has created very impressive projects that have improved many lives all over the world. Ask long time members around our club about Gul Asnani's India project...it will blow your mind how impactful these grants can be.

Keep your eyes on www.rotary.org and learn more about Rotary Foundation Month.

See you Thursday

Hydrogen Cars...what will they think of next?

Posted by Mike Waddell

Mr. Nick Mittica, Commercial Manager, Hydrogen Energy Systems at Air Products and Chemicals took us on a roller coaster ride of information about the development and future of hydrogen automobiles. He first got us to understand that hydrogen cars are a type of electric cars because hydrogen (extracted from the H2O molecule) is used to power the engine and subsystems that makeup the hydrogen car. He also noted that a hydrogen car leaves no carbon footprint but currently the cost per mile is much higher than a comparably gas fueled vehicle. There are more of this type of car in California where there are hydrogen filling stations and not nearly as many elsewhere. For more of the many details about the vehicle, please watch the video of the 10.31.19 meeting.

Fellowship Thank You and More Coming!

Our next Fellowship event will be Saturday, November 30 for Small Business Saturday. We have reserved 10 tote bags with Emmaus Main Street Partners. These tote bags are filled with coupons, freebies, promotional items, etc. from our surrounding local businesses. We as a group will plan to pickup the bags Saturday morning, walk around to the local shops, and grab lunch together at an eatery downtown. Reach out to Meghan or Ashley if you're interested in participating. We will have up to 10 bags reserved, past those 10 bags, you'll have to register through the link (to come at a later time).

https://web.lehighvalleychamber.org/events/Small-Business-Saturday-in-Emmaus-837373/details

Pinned on ERC's Bulletin Board

Weekly Door Prize Donations! Shop Small. Shop Local. Make a Difference!
Would you like to sponsor a weekly door prize for the club? Now more than ever it's important to show the local businesses in our community we care. They have shown us support with raffle donations and sponsorships throughout the years. Consider purchasing a $20.00 gift card from one of the many small businesses in the East Penn Area. As we know every little bit helps. It's also a great way to start a conversation about Rotary and invite business owners and managers to a club meeting. Speak to Meghan Reed for more information about our weekly door prizes.

Pictures for ERC Website
If you have recently taken photos at community service activity or another Emmaus Rotary event/activity please share them with Meghan so they can be uploaded to the ERC website.

Upcoming Committee Meetings: Consider holding a virtual meeting to stay in touch and on task with your committee!

(Does your committee have an upcoming meeting? Let Meghan know and we will list it here)

Rotary and Beyond:

If you are participating in a fundraiser outside of Rotary and would like help spreading the word to our club members please contact Meghan Reed. It may be eligible to run in our new section in the Trumpet called "Rotary and Beyond". It will cost $2.00 (Happy Dollars) each time you'd like to run the information in the Trumpet. To have the information posted in the Trumpet you must be an active committee member or board member of the non-profit organization facilitating the activity outside of Rotary participation. The $2.00 entry may be given to Meghan at a club meeting. Contact Meghan with any questions.

MEMBER RESPONSIBILITIES

Check the list below to see if you are scheduled to serve as Greeter & Raffle, Sign-in Table, Invocation or EREY.

If you will not be at the meeting when you have an assignment, it is your responsibility to arrange for coverage of your duty.

Please note that changes may be made from previous editions of the TRUMPET. Please check before each meeting!

Thank you for taking your turn and helping Emmaus Rotary run a smooth, fun and friendly meeting.

PLEASE NOTE THAT MEMBER ASSIGNMENTS HAVE SHIFTED DATES FOR WHEN WE RETURN TO REGULAR MEETINGS.

April 2, 2020

Greeter - Collins (shaking hands is optional to avoid spreading germs)

Sign-in-table - Deneen and Dunn

Invocation - Delhagen

EREY- Brinker

April 9, 2020

Greeter - Fenstermacher (shaking hands is optional to avoid spreading germs)

Sign-in-table - Fornwalt and Epperly

Invocation - Erle

EREY- Galeano-Phillips

Service above Self.