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2Pg. 1 The Toolbox: Volume 152 September 2016 Rotary International District 7190 Pg 1

[email protected] www.Rotary7190.org

From The Governors Chai

From the Governor’s Desk

I hope all of you have enjoyed our great summer weather! As we return to the activities of the fall, we have a great number of Rotary events to keep in mind. Here’s a sample. For the full list, see the calendar on the home page of our district website, rotary7190.org.

Next Generation Summit, Saturday morning September 24: A district-wide gathering to hear the latest research on young professional’s attitudes about Rotary and community service, and discussions of ways to attract younger members. This event is for all Rotarians interested in expanding membership to young professionals. Register on our website.

Membership/Public Relations Summit, Saturday morning October 29, location Clifton Park Library. This is an opportunity for Rotarians to come together for presentations on membership and public relations by our great district committees. Registration will be open soon on our website.

Rotary UN Day, Saturday November 12. An email concerning registration will be coming out shortly. This event sells out almost immediately, so if you want to go, act quickly when you get the email.

Rotary Foundation Centennial Dinner: Thursday evening November 17, Saratoga National Golf Club. Come and celebrate 100 years of the Rotary Foundation and Saratoga Springs. This is our major Foundation event during this centennial year so please save the date. Registration information will be available soon.

Lastly, with the help of Dawn Vavala from Twin Bridges Rotary, we are selling Rotary Serving

Humanity T-shirts. I will be bringing samples to clubs at my DG visits. The T-shirts cost $20 and come in both women’s and men’s sizes. Everyone who purchases a T-shirt will have a $10 donation credited to their Paul Harris accounts. We hope to sell 400 t-shirts and make a $4000 donation to the Foundation. Our thanks go out to Dawn for bringing this idea to us and for providing the T-shirts to us at her cost.

Have a great September! DG John Mucha

DISTRICT EVENTS AT A GLANCE

• September 21: Gift of Life Golf Tournament pp 2, 8

• September 24: Rotary Next Generation Summit pp 2, 9

• October 24: Zumba to End Polio Sponsored by Shenendehowa Rotary pp 3, 10

• October 29: Membership/Public Relations Summit p 1

• November 12: Rotary UN Day p 1 • November 17: Rotary Foundation

Centennial Dinner p 1

CLUB EVENTS AT A GLANCE

• September 4: Patriot’s Day Antique/ Classic Car Show Sponsored by Schenectady East Rotary pp 2, 7

• September 11: Curtis Lumber Car Show Sponsored by Ballston Spa Rotary p 2

• September 24: Chicken Barbeque Sponsored by Racing City Rotary p 2

• October 22: Halloween Outhouse Races Sponsored by Shenendehowa Rotary p 3

September 2016 Barb Wyllie ~ Editor

Distribution 1,141 Please send submissions to Barb at: [email protected] Deadline: 20th of the month

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ROTARY DISTRICT 7190 Schenectady East Rotary presents their

11th Annual Patriot’s Day

Antique / Classic Car Show Sunday ~ September 4th

10am – 3pm Mabee Farm

Route 5S Rotterdam Junction, NY (Just west of NYS Thruway exit 26.)

Detailed flyer and registration form on page 7.

~ ~ ~ Ballston Spa Rotary Club will be one of the

featured food vendors at the Curtis Lumber Car Show

September 11, 2016 at their Ballston Spa Store

on Rt. 67 in Ballston Spa Hundreds of beautiful show cars and

trucks will be in attendance. Plus, enjoy stunning, handmade wood awards and trophies, door prizes, raffles, music, food and more! Own a Jeep? Bring it to the show and enjoy their Logs n' Rocks n' Lumber Crunchies Jeep Playground run by the great folks at Upstate NY Jeeps and Off-Road Up-Fitters! For more info, go to… http://www.curtislumbercarshow.com/view-event-flyer.html

~ ~ ~ Gift of Life 7190

Presents its 17th Annual

Golf & Bocce Tournament Wednesday September 21st Mohawk River Country Club 847 Riverview Road Rexford, NY

See FULL DETAILS on page 8.

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Racing City Rotary & POST 420 Men’s Auxiliary present their

5th Annual Autumn Leaves

Chicken Barbeque Saturday ~ September 24th

2:00 PM – 6:00 PM $10.00 per person, Take-out OR Eat-in

VFW Post 420 Pavilion 190 Excelsior Avenue

Saratoga Springs NY 12866

MENU: ½ Chicken, Baked Potato, Corn on the Cob, Roll, Coleslaw, Dessert

CASH BAR

For Tickets or Information: Contact Tom or Linda at 584-8211.

All Proceeds to Benefit Community and Veterans Projects of the Racing City Rotary

Club & VFW Post 420 Men’s Auxiliary.

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Rotary 7190 Next Generation Summit

Saturday ~ September 24th Registration (in advance) $10

Skidmore College Palamountain Hall Register at WWW.Rotary7190.org

Rotary is on a ride towards the future. Current Rotarians must make room for the Next generation. What does this mean? How will YOU lead? What needs to happen now?

Questions? Contact Fred Daniels at [email protected].

See flyer on page 9.

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https://www.facebook.com/Upstate-NY-Jeeps-609606799049490/?fref=ts

https://www.facebook.com/Off-Road-Up-Fitters-LLC-820337708019007/?fref=ts

https://www.facebook.com/Off-Road-Up-Fitters-LLC-820337708019007/?fref=ts

http://www.curtislumbercarshow.com/view-event-flyer.html

http://www.curtislumbercarshow.com/view-event-flyer.html

http://www.rotary7190.org/


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Shenendehowa Rotary announces its Inaugural

Halloween Outhouse* Races

Saturday October 22nd Powers Pub

130 Meyer Road, Clifton Park. The event is FREE to the public and should be quite a spectacle.

Registration begins at 12:00 PM and the races begin at 2:00 PM.

PRIZES: The grand prize of $1,000 will

be awarded to the first place team. Second place receives $500. Third place and fan favorite receive $250. The deadline for entry is October 15, 2016.

Race sponsorships are available at

various levels from $25 to $1000. Complete information, rules and entry forms can be found at www.shenrotary.org. Proceeds from the event will benefit CAPTAIN Youth and Family Services. *Each Outhouse Race Team includes 5 members. One person rides and the remaining team members push, pull or drag the decorated outhouses around the racetrack. Each race consists of two teams racing against each other with the winner advancing to the next level. Team themes and costumes are encouraged.

For more information about this event, please contact either Ray Anthony at [email protected] 804-317-7215 or Ritch Anthony [email protected] 518-391-0149.

Shenendehowa Rotary meets every Thursday morning at 7:15m for breakfast at Coburg Village near the intersection of Grooms and Vischer Ferry Roads in Clifton Park.

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Shenendehowa Rotary presents Zumba to End Polio

October 24th 6-8pm

Donation: $20 (minimum) $1 for Purple Pinky

Southern Saratoga YMCA 1 Wall St Clifton Park, NY 12065

See flyer on page 10 for details or visit

www.shenrotary.org.

~ ~ ~ DG John Mucha with

Granville Rotary


http://www.shenrotary.org/



http://www.shenrotary.org/

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ROBERT VAN ALSTINE NAMED COHOES ROTARIAN OF THE YEAR

The Rotary Club of Cohoes named Robert W.

Van Alstine their 2016 Rotarian of the year. Bob served as Assistant Governor for District 7190

from 2013-2016, working closely with the District Governors to help Rotary clubs become more

effective. Currently Bob is the Leader of the District IT Assistance Group, a position he has held since

2015, where he works with clubs on the use of Rotary information and technology resources.

On the club level, Bob served as President of the Cohoes Rotary from 2012-2013, Secretary in 2008-9 and 2010—11, and currently serves on the Cohoes Rotary Board of Directors. As club President Bob led the Cohoes Board of Directors through a SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) to determine club goals and subsequently establish a realistic action plan. Under his leadership the Cohoes Rotary published its first Annual Report.

Now retired, Bob spent his 30-year professional career working for the Office of the New York State Comptroller: Division of Local Government Services (formerly Municipal Affairs). He served as Division Strategic Planning Coordinator, Director and Assistant Director of MIS, as well as served as project manager and working in application development.

Bob is the author of four books: Steadfast, a biography of Reverend Nicholas Van Alstine (1814-

1900); The Dorr and Van Alstine Families in Little Falls; The Dorr Family in the Shaping of America; The Comtois Family in the Shaping of America. Active in the Catholic Church, Bob was commissioned as a Lay Minister by Bishop Edward Scharfenberger in June 2016. He serves as Group Leader for St. Mary’s Men’s Group and Program Leader for St. Mary’s Adult Education Program.

Bob and his wife Karen have three children: Scott (wife Julie and son Colin), Katie and Matt.

The Rotary Club of Cohoes is a branch of Rotary International, an organization of service clubs located all over the world. It is a secular organization open to all persons regardless of race, color or creed. There are more than 32,000 clubs and over 1.2 million members world-wide. The purpose of the organization is to bring together business and professional leaders to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build good will and peace in the world. The members of the Cohoes Rotary Club consist of local business owners, community organization leaders, city employees and community volunteers. Members enjoy a sense of comradery and pride working together to make the City of Cohoes a better place to live, work, and play.

For further information, go to http://rotaryclubofcohoes.org and http://rotary.org.

~ ~ ~ DG John Mucha with Racing City Rotary

on Saratoga Day


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SRC’S ANNUAL SCHOOL SUPPLIES DRIVE A SUCCESS AGAIN

The Southern Rensselaer County Rotary Club’s

2nd annual “School Supplies Drive” resulted in a multitude of items being collected for children in the Rensselaer City School District.

Initially, SRC members and their families donated a wide range of items ranging from backpacks to notebooks, pens, pencils, scientific calculators, 3-ring binders, dictionaries, flash drives, spiral subject notebooks and much more in July and early August, even though that is a typically difficult period to undertake projects because of the heavy vacation schedule.

Then, project coordinator Bill Dowd asked members to think about adding a “kids helping kids” component. Club member John Sawchuk, principal at Columbia High School in East Greenbush, stepped up to marshal a group of his students who enthusiastically pitched in.

By the close of the drive, more than 500 items were collected overall for high school and lower-elementary level students in the Rensselaer City School District where more than one-third of families live below the federal poverty level. Donations are packaged for individual students and distributed by the family service agency Circles of Mercy, with which the Southern Rensselaer County club frequently collaborates.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, please contact Bill Dowd at [email protected] or at 238-1950.

At left: Students from Columbia High School pose with some of their donations.

Some of the donated items individually packed for students are pictured above.

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The New RYLA Year is Almost upon Us!

Rotary Youth Leadership Award (RYLA) is designed to grow leadership skills in students who have untapped

leadership potential. Specifically, we are focusing on juniors in high school. Our program is not for the student who is already utilizing strong leadership skills or students who have no desire to develop such skills. It is for that student who you know would be a great leader if they had a little extra training.

Our program is still unique in the world. We meet one Saturday a month from September to March. Each

session is filled with a little lecture and a lot of activities. Our students are encouraged to try out their new found skills and report back what they’ve experienced. There’s nothing like it.

We need your help. Our first session starts on Saturday, September 17th. We’re looking for students and

sponsorships. The Program Guide and application can be found on our District Website or send a request to Nick George ([email protected]). Sponsorships cost $375 per student and we’re always looking for your help. Make checks to “Rotary District 7190 RYLA” and send to Nick at 416 Dean Road, Hudson Falls, NY 12839.

2015-16 RYLA Graduation Class

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Gift of Life Golf Tournament / September 21


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DG John Mucha at Work for District 7190

DG John addressing Middleburg Rotary (left) and visiting with Wilton Rotary members (right)

18 Mohawk Trail Queensbury, NY 12804


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