July 18th Meeting Recap

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David Pope St. Simons Land Trust

David Pope joined the St. Simons Land Trust in October 2016 as its Executive Director. A graduate of University of

Florida and receiving his law degree from UNC School of Law,

David practiced environmental law for over 40 years in Atlanta. His practice spanned the Southeast and Midwest in cases involving air, water and land pollution and protection of our natural resources. His wife, Vicki, is a retired Delta Flight Attendant. They have 2 adult sons and 3 grandchildren. He will update us on the recent accomplishments of the Land Trust.

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At the Podium

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Buddy Carter

U S Rep Ga. Congressman

August 8

Rich Seban

United Way

August 15

Leslie Mattingly

Public Image & Visibility

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Janis Lamattina, one of our own, gave us an interesting program about her trip to Mongolia last year. She reminded us

of the history of the land of Genghis Khan and gave us an extensive background of

this country and how it relates to where it is today. Mongolia is a place that we rarely hear about, much less know someone who has been there.

Her talk enlightened the Club about its physical, political and social place in

the world today.

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Other Meeting Notes Fun at Bennie’s Red Barn Meeting

We enjoyed a little change as we went to Bennie’s Red Barn for our meeting last week. A little change in location

is always refreshing and here are a few photos from that lunch. We thank Bennie’s

for accommodating us at the last minute!

…it’s the same ol’ song… Did you notice that we have changed the patriotic

song? There are many verses to several patriotic songs that we have sung over the years and we should know

more about them. Watch the screen each week for the words so we can explore these wonderful verses.

Other Club Announcements

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Rotary Cares We welcomed back Martin Turbidy after several weeks of being away due to health issues. Updating Directory Don’t forget we are trying to update our Directory so be sure your info is up to date. Tell Susan Imhoff if there should be any changes. Board Meeting Board will meet Tuesday at 11:15 in the Green Room. Picture will be taken so

wear your “go to meetin” clothes! Rotabucks Winner - Rem Johnson - $34

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Birthdays

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7/28 Fred Freyer 7/29 Bob French

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Greeters

July 25 Casey Harris Michael Harris August 1 Gus Hernandez Steve Hires August 8 John Hoffman Drew Holland If you are unable to greet, PLEASE get a substitute. It is your responsibility to have someone here to greet visitors.

Local Area Rotary Clubs Brunswick Brunswick Rotary Club Thurs., 12:30 pm Golden Isles Brunswick Hospital Wed., 7:30 am Jekyll Isl. Jekyll Isl. Hotel Wed., 7:30 am St. Simons Sea Palms Tues., 12:30 pm

Jennifer Broadus shared the great news that we are well ahead of our last year’s totals for dollar goals with over $24,000 committed by our sponsors for this year’s event including Nalley at $10,000, Marshes Edge at $5,000, Iguana’s at $2500 and several others pledging $1000 each. We have Mike Murphy to thank for rounding up a number of those sponsors. Last year we raised over $18,000 and this year’s goal of $30,000 is very likely to be realized thanks to the hard work from Jennifer Broadus and her team. ..speaking of hard work… Beth Smith is diligently working to collect items for the Silent Auction at the Meet the Pros. Please read what she is suggesting if you would like to donate or have someone donate a silent auction item or items. Wanted: your donations of rare, special, collectible finds that will bring interest and high bids to our Meet the Pros silent auction. We are hoping to procure items that we can preview in our ads and social media. For example, last year we had signed letters from the Apollo 11 flight. We discovered they were selling for $3000 on EBay two nights before the auction. The donor took the mike at the event to explain the importance of the letters which increased the number of bids. We need to get that word out of the significance of the items well before the auction. If you are not sure of your item’s worth or interest, check Ebay or a simple web search may shed some light. Please see Beth Smith with your ideas

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MENU

LET’S NOT FORGET THE

CART BUCKETS. IT DOESN’T TAKE MUCH EACH WEEK TO

PUT YOUR CHANGE OR DOLLARS INTO THE BUCKET. A LITTLE HERE AND A LITTLE THERE BUILDS UP OVER TIME. YOUR PARTICIPATION MATTERS.

AND REMEMBER…THE MIND YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN!

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The Four Way Test Is it the TRUTH?

Is it FAIR to all concerned? Will it build GOODWILL & better

FRIENDSHIPS? Is it BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

Rotary Club of St. Simons Island

Founded in 1950 www.ssirotary.org P. O. Box 21887

St. Simons Island, GA 31522 District: www.rotarydistrict6920.net

Spanish Salad with Chili

Lime Vinaigrette Enchiladas Fresh Refried Beans Spanish Rice Cookies

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Prospective Member David Meskell - Wally

Forsythe/Ralph Bush

Club Guests Betsy Friedman

Wife of Mark Friedman

Lauren Faircloth Previous Scholarship Recipient

If you have news or announcements or even pictures to publish in the Spray, please send the information to Ann Nermoe at thesprayssi@gmail.com. It must be submitted by the Saturday before the next Tuesday meeting in order to be included in that week’s Spray as it is usually emailed to members on Sunday.

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Out of great respect for each of you and your time, I want to let you know that I am seriously committed to ensuring that we honor that time with our weekly meetings. Consequently, effective immediately, we are going to institute the following procedures:

• As usual, our meeting will begin promptly at 1:00 pm and we will have the Pledge, Patriotic Song, Invocation and a moment of Humor. Our Sergeant-at-Arms will then handle Rotary Cares, Birthdays and Happy Dollars.

• Our President-Nominee will welcome our Guests. • We will forego Announcements, which will be published in the Spray. I know that your time is

valuable and that you will support our efforts by ensuring that you read those announcements and keep us from feeling the need to share them again in the meeting. If you forget to get your announcement in the Spray the current week, there is always the next issue.

• We will ensure that the Speaker is able to take the floor at no later than 1:20 pm. Speakers have until 1:45 pm and then 5 minutes for questions and answers. Our Program Chair will give the Speaker a 5-minute warning (at 1:40) and I will resume leadership of the meeting at 1:45 pm. The procedure will be shared politely with each speaker before the meeting.

• Finally, we will conclude the business of the Club at 1:50 pm with the 4 Way Test, which will leave us 10 minutes to greet one another and be on our way no later than 2:00 pm.

I understand that as the President and the one who presides at the meetings that a large part of making this work falls on my shoulders but you can help as well. And this is how:

• Be sure you keep up with the current news and announcements in the Spray, which comes to your home every week.

• When you have an announcement to share with the Club, please submit for publication in the Spray no later than the Saturday before the meeting. You can submit it to: thesprayssi@gmail.com. If you do not want to actually write the announcement, just give Ann, our Editor, the facts and she will do an outstanding job of getting it into the Spray.

• Be respectful of our time crunch when you are sharing Happy Dollar news. There is another way you can help us with this effort. Please do all you can to stay in the meeting at least until the speaker is finished at 1:45 pm but preferable until the 4 Way Test at 1:50 pm. We certainly understand all of you who need to be back at your work as close to 2:00 pm as possible and we hope this will help to keep you from having to leave during the speaker’s presentation. We also understand that, occasionally, you will have an appointment that makes it necessary for you to leave early but if it is at all possible, we hope that you will respect our speakers and stay through their presentations. I am committed to making this work; our Program Chair is committed to making it work; our speakers are committed to making it work; I am confident that our Board will be committed to making it work; and I sincerely hope that you will be committed to making it work as well. With sincere appreciation for each of you and your invaluable contribution to the SSI Rotary Club, I remain Respectfully yours, Bob Brown, President