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Dictionary Project

Here is current schedule of dictionary distributions per Ray Holla:  

West Irondequoit 3^rd Grade Rotary Club Visit/Dictionary Distribution

Monday, December 15^th (S Day)

*Presentation is 20 minutes (Combined Grade Levels)

*Allow 15-20 minutes for travel time

Christmas Tree Lighting Event at the Town Hall

Date is Sunday, Dec-7 at Town Hall from 4-7pm.  Need volunteers to man the Rotary table.  See Brandon if you can attend.

Holiday Basket Party

Date: Wednesday Dec-17th.  We will be serving a lite dinner- pizza and water.  Feel free to bring your own adult/alternative beverages. We will have ice!!  We will eat around 6pm and then assemble the baskets.  We will need four people to help unload the food from Herremas at 4:30 PM.  We also need help transporting the baskets to ICC after assembly. If interested in helping before or after the event, please let Terri Bastuk know.  Our caterer can't accommodate any special dietary requests.  The cost per person is $5. Please let Terri know if you and yours will be attending by Monday, December 15th at noon.

Shop with a Cop

Date is Saturday, Dec-6 at Target.  Two times:  12-1:30 and 2-3:30.  

Pasta Dinner

Please get all remaining $$ in to Lynn Wozniak so we can close the books!

Calendar: Next week's meeting is at 5th Frame Brewing for a social event!

Samantha Standing is the Development Director for The Children's Agenda (TCA).  TCA's mission:  improve the health, education, and success of children by advocating for effective, equitable policies, especially for families most impacted by poverty, racism, health inequities, and trauma.  They do not provide direct services for the most part, but provide independent, nonpartisan ADVOCACY focused on children based on evidence based research from prenatal to young adulthood.  The group works across New York state to create policies and laws that will impact local communities.  The group is 22 years old and staff of 13 mostly policy and research experts as well as operational personnel.  Simply stated, they try to fix the “system” that will help other agencies do their jobs more efficiently and have more impact.  They focus on preventable problems in the area of economic mobility (ending child poverty), health (universal child care), education (early childhood support) and mental health of children.  They have programs that organize parents to become advocacy leaders in their community.  Lobbying in Albany is also a large effort by this organization.  No funding comes from the government; most funding is from foundations.  Their endowment is not large enough to be self-sustaining.  For more info, see POWERPOINT.

Many contributions for our Speaker, Thanksgiving, and our pre-Thanksgiving dinner at Nick's Sea Breeze last week.

Doug Decker for supporting Latin Rotary club's Thanksgiving dinner and for osu (apparently a college football team of some sort).

Dave Shaheen for prayers for brother Ray having health issues.

Ray Holla for a broken picture window allegedly from a very strong bird.