Interact students will join us this Saturday morning in the Quarterly Street Clean-up. Meet Charli Lucier at the Falls Church Community Center, 223 Little Falls Street at 10:30 AM. We will also hand out our Club tri-folds to nearby businesses and other participants to encourage membership recruiting. We will have safety vests as well as plastic bags and gloves. Wear hard-soled shoes; a hat or sun screen is suggested.Since this is also the city-wide Spring Clean-up, the city will provide coffee from 10 AM on, as well as a free picnic lunch which follows at noon.
Directions: Take Rte. 7 East exit from the Beltway towards Falls Church (Rt 7 becomes Broad St. in Falls Church). Turn left at Little Falls St. The Community Center is two blocks up on the left.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Call to Order Pres. Charli Lucier
Opening Song/Pledge/GraceDr. John Karickhoff
Dinner
Essay Contest Award Presentations
Club Business Pres. Charli Lucier
Program Eric Latham
Adjournment Pres. Charli Lucier
Eric Latham, will speak on the “Walk Across America for Cancer Research.”
Congratulations to our April celebrants! Here’s wishing you all the best.
Lincoln Tucker- April 4
Earl Brown-April 21
“While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die –whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.”
-Gilda Radner
62 tickets were sold for last Sunday’s Family of Rotary Ballgame at NationalsPark, including 20 by our Interact Club and 42 by our club, which netted about $350 for the Falls Church Rotary Foundation. The new stadium was fine, but it felt like football-game weather watching the game from the windy upper deck, while the Nationals broke a nine-game losing streak to beat the Atlanta Braves 5-4. Some fans retreated to warmer lower deck seats during the game.
Joe Straub and Pat Malone spoke about local youth baseball, specifically the Falls Church-Annandale Babe Ruth League and the Alexandria Aces, respectively. Joe presented president Charli Lucier with a plaque in appreciation of the club’s past support of our local Babe Ruth League for teenagers. Pat Malone is leading a group of Alexandria business leaders in organizing the Alexandria Aces,the newly-formed local team in the Cal Ripkin, Sr. Collegiate Summer League, which will play some 16 home games beginning June 6 at Alexandria's Four Mile Run Park, near Potomoac Yards on Commonwealth Blvd. off Glebe Rd. & Jefferson Davis Highway, former home of the minor-league Class "A" Alexandria Dukes, now in Woodbridge as the Potomac Nationals. Pat is also seeking host families to house the promising young college players for the summer season from early June until early August. If you want to be a host family, contact Catherine Roper at 703-966-7202 or via e-mail at .
April 19* – Community Clean Up & Membership Drive – 10:30 AM
April 24* – FallsChurchHigh School Career Counseling 8 – 10 AM
April 24 – VirginiaHospital Brigade
April 24 – Club Board Meeting 8 PM
May 1 – Dr. Robert Cosby, DC Dept. of Health
May 8 – Dr. Charles Errico, George Mason Univ.
May 10* – District (Assembly) Leadership Training,Stafford,VA8:30am
May 26* – Memorial Day Beverage Sale 10 AM
We are still looking for more new members, in as many categories as possible, to continue the great work of Rotary International. Share Rotary with someone new this week…Rotary Shares.
The Falls Church High School’s AnnualCareer Fair is scheduled forThursday morning, April 24, from 8 am to10 am. The objective of Career Day is to expose students to as many careers as posible,andto help relatethe school curriculum tothe students’ potential future careers.It is important to share with students the skills, training, and job-readiness opportunities that are available to them in the community. The goal is to have representatives from different career fields, as well as individuals representing training schools/sources, speak tothe students. The target group is Junior and Senior Class members - approximately 500 students ofthetotal 1500 student body. Each presenter will have a table to set up material and students will be allowed to browse around and listen to your presentation and ask questions.” Contact Joe Scheibeler at 202-268-5089 to volunteer.