7-22-21 Zoom Club Meeting [recording]
The Board of Directors is still working with the Radisson on in person meetings.- Bill Boland is planning to run again for the position of Corning City Mayor.
- Bill Boland announced that the Corning Civic Center Plaza will host an arts program on Labor Day weekend
- Ray Defendorf announced that the International Committee will change its meeting time to Aug 3rd at 6 pm.
- Bill Boland announced that the Cherry Blossom Trail Review Group will receive a final design tomorrow. They will make comments and make the final tweaks. Aug 2nd is the delivery date.
- Jim Webb announced that there has been a resignation of a board member on the Corning Painted Post School Board. The board will appoint a replacement and is currently soliciting letters of interest from members of the community intere
sted in serving .
- The next one currently scheduled will be at the Salvation Army -- details to follow.
President Jeff Ugoretz played a TED talk by Simon Sinek entitled Start with Why. This is one of the 5 most watched TED talks of all time. The purpose of the presentation was to help us determine how the principles discussed in the talk can help us be more successful as a club? See the presentation here.
After the presentation Jeff first asked us to fill in the blank in the following statement;
“Rotary exists by __________ the way fire exists by burning.”
Responses were; Serving, Caring, Volunteering, Doing good for the community, Giving, Helping, Collaborating, Listening, and Creating a vision
Jeff then asked:
"Why do we give up our personal time to do these things?"
Responses included; we want to make a difference, we want to achieve a positive difference, and helping people matters to us.
To hear more of the discussion select the link at right: Meeting recording.
Invocation: Ray Defendorf- Photographer: Bill Boland [more photos ]
- Story: Ernie Danforth