The Ken 11/16 (Nov 20, 2015)

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The Ken - Janurary 18

Posted by Tim Glor

Attendance: Pat Griffin

Split Club: Tim Glor

Invocation: John Coogan

Ken Writer: Tim Glor

Finemaster: Tom Lang

1st notice of new member request: Holly Nowak, Brian Ahern and Susan Jandzinski

President Paul started our meeting at 12:26 with the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag. Barb Henry led us in singing “God Bless America”. John Coogan gave the invocation.

Tim Glor announced that Love Fest will be held March 11^th at the Pearl Street Brewery. Funds raised will be used to aid the WNY Young Adult program at Roswell Park. This program aids those young adults ages 19-39 who are battling cancer. This fundraiser is also a memorial to Kaylee Korzelius who lost her fight against cancer two years ago while she was still serving for the Young Adult Program. Tickets cost $60, $55 if bought before February 11^th. Information on Love Fest can be obtained by visiting the web sites www.gottakisscancergoodbye.org, and facebook.com/LoveFestBuffalo. You can email jackiemordaunt@roadrunner.com or call her at 716-994-1528.

Finemaster Tom Lang took confessions from: President Paul for losing the presidency of his company to his son Carl; Pat Griffin for becoming a volunteer for Junior Achievement: and Mike Austin for his trips to San Diego and Las Vegas. Gary Roberts was fined for not paying attention. In honor of Martin Luther King Tom then questioned us about the life of Martin Luther King.

Ron Levea was the big winner in today’s split club in having both of his tickets drawn. He successfully drew the Ace of Spades thus helping him celebrate his recent retirement.

President Paul introduced Mike Bean as today’s program. Mike talked about his company Bean Media Productions which was established in 2006.

Mike’s company specializes in videos for websites. They help companies large and small in search engine development, video production (from Time Warner to U Tube), and website development.

Website success depends upon the use of key words, the age of the site, how does it look on a mobile phone, and can it be found easily.

Video productions inform and educate, be there when the consumer is ready, when seen can be obtained, target the right audience, and show that the company using it is the expert.

Mike’s company can be reached by phone 716-898-8074 or email beanmedia@gmail.com.

This was a very good program giving us a lot of incite about the use of videos on websites and what makes a good website.

President Paul ended the meeting at 1:30.

The Ken November 2

Posted by Jeff Markarian on Nov 05, 2015

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 50^th 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