SPOKE FOR March 2, 2023 (Feb 23, 2023)

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The weekly newsletter of the

Rotary Club of Norristown,

P.O. Box 119, Oaks, PA 19456 - (484) 994-2349

March 2, 2023 - No. 27013

Program This Week

03/02/2023

in person

Kathi Evans

Touching Lives in Kenya

at Hyatt House

noon

Induction of new members

Christopher Dormer and

Dr. Yolanda Williams

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Mar 02, 2023

Kathi Evans

Touching Lives in Kenya

Apr 20, 2023

Heather LaRocca

Anti-trafficking Dir- Salvation Army

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Club Meeting Information

Thursdays at 12:00 PM

HYATT HOUSE (1st & 3rd Thurs)

501 E Germantown Pike
East Norriton, PA 19401
United States of America

Phone:

(484) 994-2349

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NOTE: The club meets at the Hyatt in person the 1st & 3rd Thursdays 12 noon and virtually on Zoom at noon on the 2nd & 4th Thursdays. Link below. For more in contact rotaryofnorristown@gmail.com or leave a message at at (484) 994-2349

Member Birthdays

Doug Shank

February 12

Since 1921

Garden Workday

Apr 22, 2023 8:00 AM

Bike Collection

May 20, 2023 2:00 PM

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* ANNOUNCEMENTS

Rotary Foundation Spring Fling -

Your help needed by Thursday !

The club will donate a wine basket in support of the Spring Fling for the Foundation fundraiser, those wishing to donate....please bring a bottle of your favorite red or white wine to the next in person meeting on March 2nd.

Please Help the Ronald McDonald House

The Board has decided to ask our members to collect aluminum can zip tabs or 'pop tabs'. These can be found on not only soda cans but all sorts of canned drinks. The local chapter of the Ronald McDonald House still collects them to turn in for recycling and proceeds go to help local families by paying family expenses to stay will their child is in the hospital. Start a jar, they add up.

According to the RMHC: "We collect tabs instead of entire aluminum cans because it’s easier and more hygienic to store the tabs than cans. There is also a higher concentration of aluminum in the tab itself, so those little tabs can really add up!" Tabs bring on average about .75 per pound. and they have collected more than 350 tons of them. At the end of the year we will accumulate our collections and donate them to the Ronald McDonald House. Please see Vanessa Cossari for more information

Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser:

The Board has elected to postpone the normal Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser normally held in the Spring and instead to hold it in the Spring of 2024 since there was one held Oct 29th, 2022.

* NEWS

Club News This Week

LAST WEEK

The club discussed the recent communication regarding leveling club workload. The suggestion was made to look for specific tasks which can be assigned to spread the work involved.

Registration of Camp Neidig students was given as an example. The goal will be to identify tasks which can be split up of chunked off independently.

President Sunanda is encouraging all club members to get out and participate on Sat April 22nd, (the first Garden Work Day). Additionally, Diane Helm has contacted the Girl Scouts who also indicated interest in helping this Spring at some of the other workdays.

The club is researching use of credit card for electronic payment of dues etc. Any transaction fees will be added to the payment. Look for a future recommendation to the Board as the Board will need to approve this addition. There are details to be worked out such as crediting the proper member for dues payments.

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DISTRICT 7430 NEWS

Coming District Events

Foundation Spring Fling

March 18, 2023 5:30pm-9:00pm Cindy Hornaman

March 25, 2023 - 7:30AM - 1PM

Desalles University * Be sure to register.

District Training Assembly

April 22, 2023

Details TBA

District Conference - See Below

Report from the District Image Committee (Part 1)

District Image Committee News (Part 1)

The following is Part 1 of a 2 part update on what the District Image Committee has been doing. Following the written request just last week from Rotary President Jennifer Jones, we confirmed that we have reviewed our club publications for conformity to current Rotary Branding Standards including logos and use of colors. The newest branding standards were actually adopted by Rotary nearly ten years ago but communication and adoption didn't reach all clubs for quite a while. Also, some things such as plaques bearing logos and some signs, name badges and Rotary pins are not easy to update and some will continue to carry the old standards. Our club has replaced our name badges with smaller badges and with the newer logo.

Rotary uses very specific branding and even provides acceptable Rotary logos, fonts and required color schemes.

Where Rotary formerly used the yellowish gold gear logo with a blue circle like this.

Obsolete Logo

The newer logos are the 'Mark of Excellence' and the 'Masterbrand Signature'. The 'Masterbrand Signature' may be displayed by itself. But the 'Mark of Excellence' should always be accompanied by the 'Masterbrand Signature' also. Here is the 'Masterbrand Signature' and 'Masterbrand Signature Simplified'.

The 'Masterbrand Signature' may be displayed alone. The simplified version is intended for digital use where logo size does not provide enough detail. Notice the word 'ROTARY" always distinguishes the logo.

Here is the second logo, the 'Mark of Excellence' which should be displayed (larger) and always with and near the 'Masterbrand Signature' at all times.

Finally, below is the official club logo for our Club generated using the Rotary logo tool in the brand center It uses very specific size, colors and fonts..

Stay tuned for more updates and image information.

EACH ONE, BRING ONE Member Campaign Underway

EACH ONE, BRING ONE

President Sunanda has officially kicked off the 'Each One, Bring One' member campaign.

Rotary Clubs need to continue to grow in order to enhance our ability to dedicate resources to solving a community or global issue.

This year, President Sunanda is asking every Club member to bring a visitor, spouse, family, friend or acquaintance to our meeting and introduce them to Rotary.

If everyone brought a guest it would double our meeting size, and if half of the visitors discovered Rotary and became a member, the club would grow by 50%.

Please think about it this week and identify someone you would like to introduce to Rotary. Bring them to a meeting and tell them why you joined.

Who will you bring ?

* COMMUNITY EVENTS & SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES

C O M M U N I T Y

What's happening in the community?
Looking for a chance to volunteer?
Why not attend a fundraiser and help those who help others?

PLEASE - Help spread the word

4-28 Expressive Path Spring Fling

Expressive Path Spring Fling

The 70's

Greatest music, whether you're a brother or, whether you're a lover.

Ah, Ha, Ha, Ha... Stayin' Alive

Visit their website www.ExpressivePath.org

Rotary District 7430 Conference May 5-7, 2023

Plan to attend the Casino Royale

Rotary Annual District 7430 Conference

at the Tropicana in Atlantic City, May 5-7, 2023

Registration is Open Now

Watch the Video below, Click on the image

Thank You GL Sayre

Thank you, G.L. Sayre, for your support of Rotary

Your kindness and dedication to community service is exemplary.

Without your support, our Pedals for Progress global bicycle recycling program would not be possible.

G.L. Sayre has generously supported our numerous community programs during the pandemic as well

as well as our charity fundraiser year after year..

We thank you! - Rotary Club of Norristown

Thank You Meyers & Givnish

THANK YOU

Thank you Meyers & Givnish Funeral Homes

For helping sponsor our annual charity fund raiser year after year

Visit their website ==> Here

Thank You Valerio Coffee Roasters

A Special Thanks to VALERIO COFFEE ROASTERS in Audubon

Year after year Valerio's has donated coffee services to our annual fund raiser to help the community.

They not only have excellent coffee, they are terrific community supporters.

THANK YOU !!!

https://www.valeriocoffee.com

* AND FURTHER MORE...

Member Resources

- USEFUL TIPS -

Technical Tip: Add a simple Club Calendar view to your Phone

Technical Tip: Add the Club's calendar to your phone

It's easy to add this calendar view to your phone and access a simple calendar list view with one tap.

The calendar resides at this URL address, if you tap on the link below on your phone, you'll see the calendar.

https://sites.google.com/site/norristownrotarymobile/home/calendar

You can then add it to your phone's Home screen.

(On the iPhone select the SHARE symbol [see red arrow], then scroll down and select 'Add to Home Screen')

Technical Tip: Keep my gmail out of promotions

But, It's NOT Spam.

Is some of your expected gmail missing from the Inbox?

Aside from regular spam filtering, sometimes Google also takes a guess at your incoming gmail and pre-categorizes it in order to cut down on spam. The Tabs 'Social' and 'Promotions' capture some of your email instead.
Well, Google doesn't always get it right.

Fortunately, even though that is the default setting, you can change the setting and control your pre-categorization completely and get all your mail back in the old inbox.
YOU can select select the problem email in 'Promotions' and drag it to the inbox, OR....
A more reliable way is to control your own categories or simply have none at all. If you uncheck the 'Social" and 'Promotions' categories in settings, your future email will not appear in those virtual folders but rather in your old inbox as expected.

Here's what you do to fix it.
Go to your inbox settings link. https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#settings/inbox
Uncheck the boxes 'Social' and 'Promotions', AND CLICK SAVE
From now on it will appear in the old inbox as expected.

Technical Tip: Easily Unmute Zoom

President

Sunanda Charles

President Elect

Mary Onama

Treasurer

Judy Bucko

Secretary

David Shoemaker

Program Chair/2nd VP

Ruth Hagglund

Past President

R Scott Wright

Board Director (#1) 2022-25

James Nutt

Board Director (#2) 2022-25

Mark Call

Board Director (#3) 2020-23

Denise R. Ashe

Board Director (#4) 2020-23

Frederick Hagglund

Board Director (#5) 2021-24

Timothy Meyers

Foundation Chair

James Nutt

Membership Co Chair 1

Mark Call

Membership Co-Chair 2

R Scott Wright

Membership Co-Chair 3

David Shoemaker

Finance Chair

Timothy Meyers

Grant Chair

James Nutt

Webmaster

David Shoemaker

Public Image

Mark Call

Service Projects Coordinator

Mark Call