Highland Fling Weekly Publication of Highland Rotary Club Tuesday, DECEMBER 23, 2008— Vol. 56, No. 27

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Meeting each TUESDAY at Michael's Restaurant, 415 Broadway - 12:00 noon
NEXT MEETING - TUESDAY, December 23 at Michael's Restaurant located at 415 Broadway in Highland at 12 noon.

INTRO
The meeting was opened with the Pledge of Allegiance. President Bill Sullivan started the meeting; Adrian Rogier led us in prayer.

GUESTS
Speaker Lynette Schuepbach with the Highland Arts Council, Mitch Ivey (a fellow technology geek to James Kemper).

ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Carrie Adolph did a wonderful job putting the Adopt-A-Family together. With all the generous donations received from the membership, Carrie was able to purchase not only the gifts for the two families (13 people), but also for half of a family that someone else adopted but didn't turn in the gifts. Thanks for the wonderful support from those of you that were able to give!

- Bill announced that we have a new format for the newsletter. If for some reason you typically receive the Fling by email and did not last week, please let Bill know so he can update the email list in the new system. It is more professional looking and easier to read along with some other bells and whistles. If you forward it to friends or past Rotarians, they have the option to add themselves to the distribution list.

- Wayne Steiner announced that he will be wiring the funds today for the water well project.


COMMUNITY SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES - Jan Brinker
Be sure and let Jan know all the service hours you put in...remember we have a goal of 10,000 hours. To find out more info on any of the above areas to volunteer email Jan Brinker at jan_korte_brinker @yahoo.com

UPCOMING PROGRAMS - Holli Martin
12/30/08 Randy Schorfheide - St. Joseph's Hospital
01/06/09 Darin Girdler - Trails West Boy Scout Council
01/13/09 Holli Martin - What not to DARE (do with your marketing)
01/20/09 Antonia Iberra - Youth Exchange Student
01/27/09 NEW MEMBER INDUCTION
02/03/09 Carrie Adolph - Pregnancy Care Center
02/10/09 Evening Valentine Dinner - Location TBD
20/17/09 Dr. Randy Pausch - "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"

If you have any suggestions or would like to sponsor a program, please email Holli at holli@hype-creative.com

SONGS
No singing this week. Maybe next week Adrian and Tom can sneak in a few Christmas carols!

SECRETARY’S REPORT - Wayne Steiner

MISSING: A wet, cold, icy day near a Christmas Holiday produced quite a few missing: Carrie Adoph, Dick Aten, Jan Brinker, Rich Clayton, David Daiber, Tiemen Dalhuisen, Larry Deiters, Robert Engelmann, Angela Fears, Rich Federer, Ed Ferguson, Dan Fieker, Laura Foerster, Mike Gould, Jon Greve, Phil Hardas, Roland Harris, Tom Hill, Virgil Holdeman, Wil Holzinger, Linda Jakel, Don Johannes, George Jones, Angela Kim, Terry Lammers, Mark Latham, Holli Martin, Glenn Meffert, Jim Meridith, Greg Miranda, Robert Nagel, David Peters, Jim Plocher, Jim Rankin, Rick Ringwald, Howard Robertson, Eunice Rogier, Floyd Rogier, Ron Schneider, Art Schuetz, Gordon Smith, Bob Spengel, Cyril Spengel, Michael Sutton, Marvin Warner, Tom Wehrle, Jennifer Whitten, Buzz Widmer

BIRTHDAYS: Ron Hesson - Dec. 24th

ANNIVERSARIES: Billy and Connie Blackmon on Dec. 23rd, Skip and Suzanne Butler on Dec. 19th, Rich and Marge Clayton on Dec. 26th, Henry and Elza Metzger on Dec. 21st.

MAKE-UPS: Dave Rehkemper at O'Fallon.

And a special Thanks to Tom Wehrle for "rearranging" our badges box.

DRAWING/FINES/HAPPY BUCKS - Terry Lammers
Substituing for Terry as Finemaster this week - Rich Knebel.

POT OF GOLD DRAWING: $269.00 in the pot this week with Kevin Dewaehle's table holding the winning ticket with guest Mitch Ivey pulling the 4 of hearts......the cheers from the other tables made him feel so welcome!

FINES:
"Merry Christmas" early - no fines this week.

HAPPY BUCKS:
Lots of people happy since fines were waived . . . bad day to take notes!
Rich Knebel for son being named MVP
Bill Sullivan for talking Rich out of fining today
Jack Klaus for not getting fined
Billy Blackmon for being married to Connie....happy anniversary!
Connie Blackmon (3 times) for being married to Billy and finding out after her surgery that everything looks good.
Ron Hesson for daughter receiving masters and for his birthday.
Cliff Couch for having all his children home tonight.
Kevin Dewaehle for his daughter graduating U of I.
James Kemper for daughter making Marine's student of the week.

PROGRAM
Art in the Park

Lynette Schuepbach spoke about Highland's Art in the Park. She explained that it is a wonderful way to give the community an opportunity to experience Art without having to travel or spend money. Something new they added this year was having all the vendors donate a piece of art to be on display and allowing the children to walk through and purchase a piece for $5. They weren't sure how many of the vendors would go along with the plan, so they also had Peppermint Preschoolers make some drawings which were then framed by Frames by 3 and also made available for sale. The children ended up purchasing a 135 items, so the addition was considered a success and will be back next year. Something new for 2009 possibly will involve bringing Sauce Magazine here to display dueling desserts.

CLOSING
None

MAKE-UP OPPORTUNITIES
The following is a list of nearby clubs providing make-up opportunities:
Monday
Wood River St. John’s UCC 12:00
O’Fallon Community Center 12:00
Alton-Godfrey Moonlight Restaurant, Alton 6:00
Tuesday
Benld Toni’s 12:00
Collinsville Porter’s 12:00
Fairview Heights Ramada Inn 12:00
Granite City Niedringhaus United Meth. Church 12:00
Belleville Fischer’s Restaurant 12:10
Wednesday
O’Fallon Sunrise First United Methodist Church 6:45 AM
Litchfield Maverick Steak House 7:00 AM
Land of Goshen Lewis & Clark Com.College, LeClaire Room
600 Troy Road, Edwardsville 12:00
St. Clair Co West Shrine of Lady of Snows 12:00
Lebanon Lebanon Visitors Center 6:00
Bethalto Villa Rose Retirement Community 6:30
Thursday
Mascoutah Skooters 11:45
East Alton Keasler Recreation Complex 12:00
Edwardsville First Christian Church 12:00
Carlyle Governor’s Run 12:00
Springfield South BSA (5231 S. 6th St. Rd.) 12:00

For other opportunities, go to www.rotary.org and click on club locator.

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