ROTARY WEEK VOL 2 NO 9

FROM THE MEMBERS OF THE

MAQUOKETA ROTARY CLUB

ROTARY CHRISTMAS WEEK 2013

ALL THE MEMBERS OF
THE  MAQUOKETA ROTARY CLUB
WISH YOU A

MERRY CHRISTMAS

CHRISTMAS 2013

ROTARY WEEK

NO SILENT AUCTION THIS WEEK

ROTARY CHRISTMAS MEETING THIS

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18TH AT NOON.

ROTARY WILL "RING THE SALVATION

ARMY BELL" THIS FRIDAY AT FAREWAY STORE.

  

NO ROTARY MEETING DEC 25TH AND JAN 1

MAQUOKETA ROTARIAN AL TUBBS PROUD

OF HIS SON ABE WHO LAST WEEK WAS

APPOINTED TO A 3-YEAR TERM ON THE

FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF CHICAGO.

AL SERVED TWO TERMS ON THAT

BOARD 1998-2004.

LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON!

DECEMBER 18TH REGULAR MEETING

WITH GIFT EXCHANGE

WHITE ELEPHANT GIFTS

MARK SHEETS WAS IN CHARGE OF THE GIFT EXCHANGE.   FIRST, HE HELD
THE DRAWING OF NUMBERS, TO DETERMINE WHO STARTED AND WHO WAS NEXT TO DRAW A GIFT FROM THE PILE ON THE FLOOR.

TOM BLEY TOOK THE BIGGEST BOX AND THERE WERE TWO SMALLER BOXES INSIDE HE HAD TO UNWRAP TO GET TO HIS GIFT.

JACK WILLEY HELD UP HIS GIFT.

DEB IS RETIRING AND THIS WAS  HER LAST ROTARY MEETING TO HEAD-UP THE COOKING FOR DINNER.   SHE HAS BEEN DOING THIS FOR MANY YEARS
AND THE CLUB GAVE HER A "STANDING OVATION" AND AN ENVELOPE WITH
HER CASH GIFT FROM THE MEMBERS.    SHE ALSO RECEIVED THE CHRISTMAS CAP SHE IS WEARING.   SHE WILL BE MISSED, BUT SAID SHE
WOULD VISIT THE CLUB NOW AND THEN.

THE OTHER ENVELOPE CONTAINS THE CASH CHRISTMAS  GIFT FOR ALL THE SERVERS THIS PAST YEAR.  AT LEAST ONE WAS MISSING TODAY. 

LONGTIME MEMBER TED MAZE TOOK HOME THE VERY WORST

GIFT IN THE EXCHANGE.     BEING THE GOOD HEARTED GUY HE IS, HE OPENED THE GIFT HE TOOK FROM THE PILE (A GONE ONE) AND IMMEDIATELY  DEMANDED THE MASSAGER, SO KIM HUCKSTADT WOULDN'T HAVE TO TAKE  HOME THE BAD GIFT.     IN THE WHITE ELEPHANT GAME, TAKING A BETTER GIFT FROM SOMEONE IS ALLOWED.  IT MAKES FOR A LOT OF LAUGHS.    WHAT A SANTA TED WAS TODAY.

                            MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE

        MAQUOKETA ROTARY CLUB

Cold Cold ROTARY WEEK

   ROTARIANS....REMEMBER....

   TWO MORE MEETINGS THIS YEAR.
   WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11TH
   WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18TH (CHRISTMAS PARTY AT MEETING)
   WEDNESDAY DECEMBER  25TH....NO MEETING
   WEDNESDAY  JANUARY 1ST..........NO MEETING

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20TH WE RING THE SALVATION ARMY BELL AT THE FAREWAY STORE


        NO SILENT AUCTION THIS WEEK

  DECEMBER 11TH MEETING 

 

LYNN DISNEY GAVE THE PROGRAM ON HIS SUMMER TRIP TO

IRELAND, SCOTLAND AND ENGLAND.     THE SWEATER HE IS 

WEARING WAS PURCHASED ON THE TRIP.    HE WAS WITH A

TOUR GROUP AND HAD A GOOD TIME.   LYNN IS RETIRED

MIDDLE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL IN MAQUOKETA.

FROM ROTARIAN DR. KIM HUCKSTADT (HIS  HOME ABOVE ON S. 5TH ST) AND
ALL THE OTHER MEMBERS OF MAQUOKETA ROTARY....
                                                     MERRY CHRISTMAS



















                                   

ROTARY WEEK VOL 2 NO 5

     NO SILENT AUCTION THIS WEEK

     DECEMBER 4TH ROTARY MEETING
THE GUEST SPEAKER WAS FELLOW ROTARIAN DWAIN TRENKAMP WHO IS CO-CHAIRING THE  "CHRISTMAS STAR PROGRAM" AGAIN THIS YEAR.
THIS PROGRAM STARTED IN MAQUOKETA IN 1987 AND SO THIS IS THE 27TH
YEAR FOR DWAIN AND HIS CO-CHAIR BARB MILLER.   THE CHRISTMAS TREES (USED FOR REACHING FOR A STAR) ARE AT THEIR BANKS, MAQUOKETA STATE BANK AND US BANK, BOTH DOWNTOWN.   THE KID'S TREE HAS 444 STARS ON IT AND THE SENIOR TREE, 180.   FOR BOTH,  THE FIGURE IS SLIGHTLY HIGHER THIS YEAR THAN LAST.    FAMILIES TO BE SERVED THIS
YEAR, 242.     STOP IN, PICK A STAR....GO SHOPPING FOR A $25 GIFT....AND
RETURN IT BEFORE DECEMBER 20TH.    THE SENIOR GIFTS WILL BE 
GIVEN OUT DECEMBER 20TH AND THE KID'S THE NEXT DAY.    THE GIFTS (A TOY OR CLOTHING) WILL BE GIVEN TO THOSE WHO SIGNED-UP FROM 
MAQUOKETA AND 10 SURRONDING COMMUNITIES.


AGAIN THIS YEAR, THE MAQUOKETA  ROTARY CLUB WILL "RING THE BELL" FOR THE SALVATION ARMY.    ROTARY DAY AT THE FAREWAY STORE WILL BE
FRIDAY, 20TH.   A MEMBER TAKES A
ONE-HOUR SHIFT AT RINGING THE BELL.

IT'S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME
OF THE YEAR!     IT IS EVEN MORE         WONDERFUL WHEN YOU ARE A MEMBER OF ROTARY.     JOIN TODAY AND COME TO OUR CHRISTMAS PARTY.   JUST TALK TO SCOTT AT THE
MAQUOKETA YMCA.