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Jeff Markarian
Upcoming Events
Regular Meeting - March 27 - Wendle Companies
Jovi's
Mar 28, 2016
12:15 PM – 1:30 PM
 
Gift Gathering Party for our Wine Tasting Event
Markarians'
Apr 23, 2016
6:00 PM – 11:00 PM
 
Wine Tasting and Basket Auction
May 11, 2016
6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
 
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Stories
The Ken - March 14
 
 
Attendance: Bill Brucker
Split Club: Mike Ford
Invocation: Gary Roberts
Ken Writer: Jeff Markarian
Finemaster: Ed Markarian
 
The Ken 3/14
We started the meeting on time with the Pledge followed by Bryden, who led us in singing “America”. Gary gave the invocation. Jere Northrop was our only visitor.
Announcements were first from Bryden. Kenmore Rotary Charities needs requests for money in by the end of the month in order for contributions to be considered. After that, they will be considered for next year. Eddie thanked Susan Jandzinski for getting Kenmore Mercy Hospital as our first sponsor for the Wine tasting Party. Ed mentioned we are behind last year in sponsors. Mike Austin gave the sad news that retired KenTon Superintendent Mark Mondanaro is in a medically induced coma due to complications from head trauma from a fall.  At this point the prognosis is unclear, and all remain hopeful for a full recovery.
Ed Markarian was the fine master today. Confessions were from Tim Glor who reported that Tim and Jacquie and Rick and Joanie Graham had a great time at Roswell’s Love Fest event for young adults suffering with cancer. Jim Prichard was proud of his Kenmore Easts success as the States champions in Hockey. Paul confessed to playing 36 holes of golf this week end. Mike confessed to 11 holes. Ed asked what 3 Rotarians were gymnasts. No one got the answer that it was John Coogan, me and Rene Rebmann.
Jim Prichard was the lucky winner of the split club and the try at the Ace of Spades. He did not draw it so the pot is starting to grow again.
At this time Paul introduced Jere Northrup, PhD. Jere is the CEO of Timberfish Technologies. Jim was born in Jamestown, grew up in Chautauqua County, loved science, physics and bio physics. TimberFish Technologies presents technological solutions for many of our most pressing problems in food and feed production, waste and wastewater treatment, and renewable energy generation. It does this with an integrated approach that incorporates basic ecological and scientific principles with business and economic realities. The result is a series of opportunities to improve both our personal quality of life and the ecological health of the planet. Please visit his website www.timberfishtech.com for more details. Honestly Rotarians, this program was better than any TED talk lectures I have ever listened to.
Another great program.
Meeting adjourned.
The Ken November 2
Attendance: Ron Levea
Split Club: Shari Mcdonough
Invocation: Gary Roberts
Ken Writer: Jeff Markarian
Finemaster: Jim Prichard
 
The Ken - November 2
 
  It was nice of Paul to wait for Larry to get here before starting the meeting at 12:45. I was just glad to see there was food left. Pork tenderloin and green beans that were cooked to perfection. Of course we gave our Pledge and sang “God Bless America” started off by Bryden.
  Gary gave our invocation with special prayers for my dad who entered into Hospice that morning. Dad passed away Wednesday. He suffered with Alzheimer’s and is now at peace.
  Our guest today was Dick Earne from Grand Island. Dick told us that we were instrumental in Grand Island getting a Rotary Club.
  Bryden announced he would like to have a quick charities committee meeting after today’s meeting. Scott also wanted to meet with his team to finalize Shred-It.
  Jim Prichard was our fine master today. Jim proceeded to confess that he was quoted in the paper that the Riviera sold out Rocky Picture Horror Show in 1 hour. Ted confessed to celebrating his 50th birthday with Janel in Toronto at the Paul McCartney concert, Joe Starck was a bachelor for 2 weeks. He announced that Carol lost her credit card in Singapore but didn’t report it because the guy who stole it spent less than Carol. Larry confessed that it was great to have his friend Dick Earne here. They always pale around while at RI functions.
  Jim tested us on our trivia of firsts. I forgot the significance of why firsts, but there was one.
We had fun and raised some doe rae me.
  Our program today was Jim Prichard and myself. We want to kick start our representation on social media. I pledged to Jim that if he was putting his expertise and knowledge attracting people to our website, that I would make sure they landed on an updated, interesting site. RI has lots of media I can choose from to let the public know what they are up to. Jim suggest we all download the Flickr ap to our devices to show the public what we are up to locally. Flickr allows anyone in our club to upload images directly to our site. So visitors will see a slide show of Cradle Beach, operation Santa, sailing outings, golf events…you get the picture. Our username is Kenmorerotary@yahoo.com and Password is Chisolm1926. But stay tuned on that because I wasn’t able to log in. However we will get to the bottom of it.
  Audrey suggest that we download the Clubrunner app from the app store. You use the same Clubrunner username and password to get on. I did, and it’s wonderful. It is like having the old roster in your pocket. I think we will be benefit with these implementations.
Thank you.
Jeff
 
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