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Bocce Night - Another great night of social gathering and community service.  Along with enjoying a delicious steak roast, we packed 200 school pouches for Irondequoit's Back To School Bash that we are donating….and we even played some bocce ball!!  Kudos to Lou and Fran DiPrima for leading the effort of many club members who pitched in to help!  Lou reports that the event came in under budget due to several folks making donations.   See more photos HERE.

Back to School Bash- held last Friday…we handed out over 100 pouches of schools supplies.  Thanks to all who helped hand out the pouches!

Pasta Dinner Committee -  Dan Dwyer will take over chairman.  Thanks for stepping up Dan!  Bob Spatola has locked in Nov. 1st as the date with BK administration.

Sunshine Committee - We will make a donation to plant 5 trees in memory of Jason Miller's dad who recently passed away.

District Governor's Visit - the district is looking to create several multi-club events that the DG can attend and make the annual DG Presentation instead of visiting all the clubs separately.  President Steve has already suggested they should limit the number of clubs per session and make any costs reasonable.  Other suggestions from the floor that Prez Steve will forward to the district:  cluster clubs based on the day of their regular meeting; make sure to include a location where the presentation is not hampered by noise and other disturbances if socializing is also a goal.

Polar Plunge & Shire- Joey Pierleoni met the owners of Sessler Wrecking and arranged for them to provide a gift basket that can be raffled at the Polar Plunge. Thanks Joey!  He also will follow up with Shire on the garden box project which was delayed.

Interact Club at Irondequoit High School - Lynn is taking over as coordinator for Interact.  She will work with the school advisor to recruit 12 members as that is the number needed for being officially chartered.  She plans to hace a table at an upcoming school tabling event to improve awareness of Interact with parents.  Once 12 members are recruited, she will do the paperwork needed to create the club.  Thanks Lynn!

Camp Haccamo's 70th Anniversary party - see camp Haccamo’s website to register.

Dr. Ghislaine Radegonde-Eison is President and CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Rochester(BBBSR).  Their mission is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth. They do this so all children achieve success in life.  Their values are safety, integrity, accountability, caring, teamwork and quality.  BBBSR ignites the power and promise of youth through one-on-one mentoring and serves Monroe, Wayne, Ontario, and Yates counties.  Their focus is on equity, resilience, and long-term success.

Safety of children is first priority so all mentors go through a thorough background check.  A mentor does not need to know all the answers the child asks, just that they are there to listen and believe. Longtime mentoring has been shown to have a strong influence on success.  Just being there is what's important to show that someone cares.

Volunteers needed:  You can become a mentor, a brand ambassador, promote social media, be a photographer, bring any skill you have to support their program.  They ask what you love to do and they will set it up for you on how to help.  Career days are available where you can come and share your experience with the kids to let them know they can do it if they try.  Supplies are also needed for their mentoring center/resource room.  They have several fundraisers during the year that also need volunteers.  

BBBSR is a small team of 10 that serves over 240 kids.  A Food Pantry was recently started and they are trying to find a balance of when they are open so will need volunteers.   Children aged 8-16 can join program and they can stay until 21.  There is currently a backlog of over 130 kids from black community as the families have requested mentors from that community.

For more info see PRESENTATION.

Many contributions for speaker, hoping forFran DiPrima's quick recovery from glaucoma operation, and the success of bocce night.

John Mendick for trip with family.

Dave Shaheen for weekend in Toronto with Ed Sheeran and for progess made on new home.

Tom Kosanke for a cousin get-together.

Ray Holla for another neighbor passing away.

Tom Kosanke, Jim Kozlowski, Dave Shaheen, Doug Decker and Terri Bastuk for being previous mentors in the BBBS program.

Kenn Van Dieren for visiting with Norb Rappl at Norb's Memorial bench and collecting 76 cents.

Dick Butler for grandson presenting doctoral thesis in astrophysics and a 1000 Islands trip.

Lou DiPrima for everyone's help at Bocce night and for a stay at a party hotel that kept him up all night.