Holyoke Rotary Club, Inc.Club #6533, District #7890
P.O. Box 1396 • Holyoke, MA 01041-1396
THE TURBINE1915/16 2014/1
“Our Ninety Ninth Year”
OFFICERSJON LUMBRA, President
HELENE FLORIO, Vice President/President Elect, Second Vice
President
STEVE KAPLAN, TreasurerBRITTNEY KELLEHER/BOB WOODILL,
Secretary
DANIELLE LORD, Past PresidentDIRECTORS
BILL ROGALSKI, Class of 2015JAN SOJA, Class of 2015
JOHN TORRONE, Class of 2015ROBERT DESNOYERS, Class of 2016
REBECCA MacGREGOR, Class of 2016JACOB PERKINS, Class of
2016DAVID GRIFFIN, Class of 2017
EDWARD McCARRON, Class of 2017KATHY VIENS, Class of 2017
The club meets Tuesdays, 12:15 p.m.at The Delaney House, north
on Rte. 5, Holyoke
MAKE UP LOCATIONSMONDAY Northampton 12:00 noon Blue Bonnet Diner
Chicopee 12:15 pm Hu-Ke Lau Restaurant, Rte. 33 Westfield 12:00
p.m. Genesis Spiritual Life & Conference CenterTUESDAY West
Springfield 12:15 pm Storrowtown Tavern Easthampton 6:10 pm Amy’s
Place Broad Brook, CT 6:30 pm Sky DinerWEDNESDAY Ludlow 12:00 pm
Villa Rose, 1428 Center Street Agawam 12:15 pm Storrowtown Tavern
Enfield 12:15 pm Holiday Inn-BrightmeadowPlaza Franklin
Cnty/Grnfield 6:00 pm Greenfield Grill Southwick 6:15 pm Roma’s
Restaurant Wilbraham 6:15 pm Wilbraham Country ClubTHURSDAY Amherst
12:15 pm Amherst Brewing Company East Longmeadow 12:15 pm Twin
Hills Country ClubFRIDAY Springfield 12:15 pm Max’s Tavern,
Basketball Hall of Fame
Your #1 Community Hospital of choice.
Holyoke Medical Center
(413) 534-2500 • www.holyokehealth.com
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Why wait? Contact Brittney Kelleher Commercial Loan O�cer at
413-572-4278
or [email protected]
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Specializing in Short-term
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282 Cabot Street, Holyoke, MA 01040(413) 538-7470
www.holyokehealthcare.com
Maureen Ross O’Connell, President150 Lower Westfield oad,
Holyoke, MA 01040
www.rossinsurance.com • 413-536-8380
Gill WoodsMulti-Million Dollar
Sales Associate413.531.9090
PARTICIPANTS THIS MONTH
DATE: August 5, 2014INVOCATION: Danielle LordPROGRAM SPEAKER:
Kathy Anderson, Executive Director of the Holyoke Chamber, will
provide a look back on the previous year and a look forward on what
is to come!
DATE: August 12, 2014INVOCATION: Peggy WoodsPROGRAM CHAIR: Jacob
PerkinsPROGRAM SPEAKER:
NOT AVAILABLE AT TIME OF PRINT
DATE: August 19, 2014INVOCATION: Marie SheedyPROGRAM CHAIR:
Doris RansfordPROGRAM SPEAKER: Helen Arnold, Community Benefit
Director of Holyoke Medical Center, will speak about things you
never knew about Holyoke Medical Center.
DATE: August 26, 2014INVOCATION: Karen BlanchardPROGRAM CHAIR:
William RadnerPROGRAM SPEAKER: Peter Borrello, Senior VP of UBS
Financial Services in Springfield will talk about investing in the
stock market in today’s complex marketplace
************************************************With Sincere
RegretThe board of directors has accepted the resignation of Tom
Accommando as the Vice President of the club. Tom will remain a
member of the club with a medical leave of absence for 12 months.
We all wish Tom a healthy and quick recovery.Helene Florio will
move up into the First Vice President
position.************************************************Centennial
Preparations!2015 will be the Centennial year for Holyoke Rotary.
What a strong club we are! Helene Florio and Carl Eger, Jr. will be
co-chairing a Centennial Celebration Committee. What is it you
would like to see incorporated into a Centennial Year? Please take
a moment to forward your ideas to Helene. If you have a particular
skill that you think would be useful, let us know - - - or we may
just come and get you! You can reach Helene through Club Runner, or
at [email protected], or leave a message at 413-536-0490. She’ll
try to respond to
all.************************************************Club RunnerIf
you have not logged in to Club Runner, your default username will
be your first initial, last name and 6933 with no spaces and lower
case. Example: Jane Smith would be jsmith6933. Your password will
be your first initial and last name with no spaces and lower case,
i.e. jsmith. You can change this once you have logged in.
************************************************Member
BirthdaysHoey, Lasca Aug 08 Fitzpatrick, William Aug 15 Robinson,
Venus Aug 15 Rigali, Clare Aug 18 Parker, Suzanne Aug 26 Lyons,
William Aug 27 Oldershaw, Louis Aug 30 Soja, Janet Aug 30Spouse
BirthdaysBuckley, Mike (Buckley, Deborah) Aug 15 Glica, Ed (Glica,
Cappie) Aug 21 Lumbra, Pattie (Lumbra, Jon) Aug
27AnniversariesVacon, Linda Aug 18 (1 year) Rigali, Clare &
Rigali, Lou Aug 22 (81 years!) Fowler, Bob & Fowler, Susana Aug
25 (13 years!)Join DateBrennan, Pat 1 Year Lumbra, Jon 4
years************************************************Member
DirectoryRebecca MacGregor will be creating an updated member
directory - not as fancy (or costly) as the ones we previously
provided, but a handy printable of all the members. She will use
the contact information from Club Runner, but is requesting member
pictures. If you have a picture or yourself or Rotary friends,
please email to [email protected] or text it to 508-579-6427.
Rebecca can also take a quick picture of you at an upcoming
meeting.
***********************************************2014 Positively
Holyoke Summer Concert Series
Concerts run from 6pm to 8pmRotary Grill opens at 5:30 p.m.
Beer Garden opens at 5:30 pm on Dwight Street The last concert
will be:
8/6 Trailer TrashRain date is the following day and if it rains
that
day also the concert is cancelled.Thank you to all of this
year’s sponsors:
Ross Insurance Agency, Inc.Holyoke Gas & Electric
Holyoke Parks & RecreationGoss & McLain Insurance
Agency, Inc.
The O’Connell CompaniesO’Connell Care at Home
Beer Garden sponsored by Brennan’s PlaceRotary Grill sponsored
by Sláinte
************************************************Do Good in the
World while you shop! The amazonsmile ( http://smile.amazon.com) is
a program where Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your eligible
amazonsmile purchases to the charitable organization of your
choice. The Rotary Foundation is one of the charitable
organizations that can be chosen in their menu of options.
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“Friendship... the craving for which brought Rotary into
existence is the thing that will keep Rotary a living, vital force
in the world for all
time, the very foundation of our organization.” - Albert S.
Adams Address to 1920 Rotary
Convention, Atlantic City, NJ
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