May 1st, 2025 (May 01, 2025)

May 02, 2025 7:25 AM

Chief Jack Graves

Off Site at Firehouse #1

May 09, 2025 7:25 AM

Jimmy Kenyon

NASA

May 16, 2025 7:25 AM

Bob DiBiasio

Cleveland Guardians

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Food Bank Friday

This is Food Bank Friday.

Queen of Hearts

Joyce Reed's table won the drawing. They are responsible for setting up next week. There are 37 cards left and the queen is worth $427.

Volunteers

Safety Town on May 10th. Check the bottom of this email if you are already signed up.

Meeting Recap

Dan Cricks led the invocation and pledge.

Students

Members of the Strongsville High School Student Council visited, including the president, senior class president, secretary, and other board members.

Foundation Elections

The Foundation held elections for their board. Elected to the board for the upcoming year were:

President: Brian Kiplinger

Vice-president: David Reed

Secretary: Brian Chaye

Treasurer: Dick Kiplinger

Trustee: Dan Sage

Membership

After our off-site visit tomorrow we have a great line up of speakers the rest of May. Check the email from earlier in the week, and invite and prospective members to see the speakers they may be most interested in (or all three).

Safety Town Cleanup May 10
Safety Town
May 10, 2025 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Strongsville Rotary Foundation Board Meeting
Senior Center
May 15, 2025 7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.

Kids Fest and Duck Race 2025
Metroparks Chalet
Jun. 07, 2025 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

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Birthdays

We celebrated our April birthdays: Sarah Wingler, Gene Mark, Dave Reed, Hunter James, Bruce Keenen, Barry Kuzmickas, Dale Piper, Jim Kaminski, with Jim winning the wheel.

We also celebrated Rotary anniversaries: Gerald Balint (47 years), Dick Kiplinger (47), Jennifer Milbrandt (20), Dave Reed (8), Hunter James (4), Sean Kilbane (3), Sean Grandage (3), TJ Gigliotti (3), Jim Southworth (2).

Speaker

Ashley Gay helped us celebrate the 47th anniversary of the club sharing some of the stories and history of the club. We still have two charter members of the club active in the club, even though one of them was almost kicked out for poor attendance.

If you have any stories or videos you think should be incorporated in future celebrations please feel free to share with John Turnbull or Ashley Gay to add to our selections for upcoming years.