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The Sherwood Inn

26 W. Genesee St
Skaneateles, NY 13152
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Lessons in stewardship

Environmental steward Peter Clark speaks to Rotary and SLA

Nationally recognized hero of a decades-long successful effort to restore Tampa Bay returns home to share his story
The beautiful clean waters of Skaneateles Lake and the stewardship of local people inspired Peter A. Clark to grow up to become a hero of the decades-long effort to restore Tampa Bay.

He returned home to see his mother, Phyllis Clark of Skaneateles, and to share the remarkable story of how he started and led a successful environmental stewardship program that has used thousands of volunteers to bring Tampa Bay back to life

As a guest of the Skaneateles Rotary Club Thursday, 3/14/19, Clark spoke to an audience that also included fans of Skaneateles Lake. Significantly, the audience included young Rachael DeWitt, the director of the Skaneateles Lake Association which is leading the charge to protect Skaneateles Lake.

5th Annual International Women's Day Celebration, a Resounding Success!

Linda Larsen had the audience in stitches as she gave tips on the power of positive thinking in a comedic performance at the Lodge for the Skaneateles Rotary Club’s fifth annual International Women’s Day celebration Thursday.

She titled her talk “Staying right side up when everything is upside down,” but said it’s really about knowing how to “recover more quickly” when things are upside down.

“What I’ve learned in life is that there is What I Planned … and What Actually Happens,” she said.

“We’re wired to look for what’s wrong,” she said, noting that people have 40,000 thoughts a day “and 90 percent are negative.” She talked about how make change with positive thoughts. “You are in charge of your thoughts,” she said. “What you name that thing, it tends to become.”

Loren Barrigar and Robin Munn provided entertainment as the evening kicked off with food stations and a room full of vendors who focused on all aspects of wellness: physical, emotional, intellectual, occupational, social, and spiritual.

Partner sponsors 4M Precision Industries, Inc. and Tessy Plastics Corporation were also joined by WHMB Law P.C., The Sherwood Inn, The Patisserie, Smiles of Skaneateles, CNY Healing Arts Wellness center & Spa, Achilles Heel Training, Delmonico Insurance Agency, and Fleur- de- Lis Florist. ...... by Lori Ruhlman

Our kudos go out to Amy and her dedicated team of Rotarians to planned and organize the fabulous IWD event.

CLICK HERE to view the photos of the event.

Cider & Donuts for Trick or Treaters

Skaneateles Rotary Club had a great event at the Skaneateles High School last Halloween night during their annual Haunted Hallways. Our club provided and served 12 dozen doughnuts (576 doughnut quarters) and 12 gallons of apple cider donated by Beak & Skiff Apple Orchards.
The decorations looked great as Karen Price’s Interact kids did a super job. We had 11 volunteers from our club for setup, serving, and cleanup. A good time was had by all. Fun, treats and goblins aplenty for young and young at heart.
A big thank-you to all participants. .... Brad

Youth Exchange Students Welcomed at Annual Picnic

Gard Lorey SRC YE chair, extended a huge welcome to our 2018-19 exchange students and host families during our Annual Club picnic. Tymon is from Poland and Han is from South Korea. Both Tymon and Han expressed their gratitude and happiness as exchange students. Gard talked about the exchange program and how it hinges on the availability of host families. Current host families were thanked and Gard asked that people spread the word about the need for host families.

PolioStoppers Topped $16,000

The PolioStopper project just topped out at $16,000 raised for the eradication of Polio. Past RI President (2016-17), John Germ contacted Ward, this past week, for 30 PolioStoppers for which he is making a $3,000 contribution to PolioPlus. The PolioStoppers are a mix of the 2016-17 Theme pin, 4 Way Test and End Polio Now inserts, which will be completed and shipped by month end.

Prosthetic Hands - Dr. Dayaprusad Kulkarni, center, told the Skaneateles Rotary Club members how their donations have helped give prosthetic hands to young people. “It costs $250 to change a life,” said Kulkami, who creates and prints 3D prosthetic hands. Skaneateles Rotarian Umesh Patil knew of Kulkami’s work (he had spoken before at Rotary and Rotarians had funded him) and so when he met a young girl without a hand, he immediately knew to connect her family to Kulkami.

Dr. Dayaprasad kulkarni, center, with the Rotary club president Bill Conole, left, and board member Umesh Patil who donated $250 for a prosthetic hand.
by... Lori Ruhlman

Skaneateles Bookleggers on tho Job

Seven Skaneateles Bookleggers met at the Jordan Fall Festival to glean 18 cartons of children books Sunday. Fun had by all. Included were; Bill, Mary, Ward Cheryl, Chuck, Brian and Carolyn Legg behind the camera. This completes another pallet of books from Skaneateles to children of the world. Rotarians and friends at work for their World Community.

EXCHANGE STUDENTS ARRIVED

Last week, Gard introduced us to our two incoming YE Students; Tymon from Poland and Han from S. Korea. Tymon presented Pres. Bill with a banner from his sponsoring RD, Jelenla Gora, Poland. Members will be able to meet and greet them at our picnic on Oct. 4th.. This banner along with many more can be viewed on our website's Photo Album or by Clicking Here. Photo by Alice (L-R Tymon, Bill, Han & Grad) .... Ward

Skantarian Bookleggers at Work ... by Ward

For the 9th straight year, Skaneteles Rotarians (BookLeggers) completed a very successful book staging, gleaning & packing Sunday afternoon at the Skaneateles Library book sale. WHAT A TEAM!

Three full pallets of excellent; children, reference, history and fiction books were packed and staged for pickup. That's 72 cartons or about 3 ton of books to be sent to developing countries. A banner year and a great to kick off a new Rotary year.

A special thanks go to the Skaneateles Friends of the Skaneateles Library who help make this all possible.

IT'S ABOUT SO MUCH MORE THAN PANCAKES!

The Skaneateles Rotary Club’s Father’s Day Pancake Breakfast shines a spotlight on our community. Stars of the show are often our Rotary Youth Exchange Students: those who are here from other countries and those who are going abroad from Skaneateles. This year’s inbound students, Kashyap Lalwala and Eduarda (Duda) H. de Freitas, will be serving coffee and juice this year and helping the Interact Club give away free balloons in honor of the 50th anniversary. Here they are in their Rotary jackets. Rotary students all over the world have jackets that they decorate with mementos from their year abroad. These two have had a wonderful year and wish to thank their great host families!

PICNIC TABLES FOR CLEAR PATH VETERANS

On Tues, June 5th, seven Skaneateles Rotarians made their way to Clear Path for Veterans, in Chittenango, NY to cut and assemble two 8 foot picnic tables to be used on the Clear Path grounds. They were met by Matt Foster, CP grounds maintenance manager and a volunteer, who supplied the equipment and direction for the project. The materials and labor were supplied by Skaneateles Rotarians; Mary, Robin, Roy, David, Danny, Marv & Ward. The day was successful, enjoyable and an eye opener of the Clear Path has, and is, accomplishing for our veterans. CLICK HERE to view Photo Album of the event. To learn more of the Clear Path for Veterans project, facility and their mission, visit their website at: http://www.clearpath4vets.com

IWD EVENT PROCEEDS PRESENTED:

4/5/18 - Amy Tormey presented generous check to Me Melina Carncicelli of the 1st Amendment 1st Vote Organization. The check Amy presented represented a portion of the proceeds from our very successful Women’s Day Dinner. Melina will be making a presentation on the 1st Amendment, 1st Vote program on May 24th. Pictured are Melina Carncicelli (2nd from left) and with Amy are some of her IWD committee members; Mary Giroux, Cathy Powell & Suzanne Hutchinson.

Skaneateles Rotary Club Celebrating International Women's Day

Rotary members, friends, guests and students were all at the Lodge on Thursday evening to celebrate International Women's Day. Dr Sally Roesch Wagner gave an inspirational talk followed by two of the Ambassadors from the Matilda Joselyn Gage Foundation's program which focuses on empowering and inspiring young women to become agents of change. Many thanks to Amy Tormey and everyone else that worked on the fourth annual IWD Celebration making this event a great success.

Pictured with Rotarian Kathy Crelot (center) are key note speakers; Vanessa Johnson (left) and at right is Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner (right)

Lean more about the event by CLICKING HERE to following the story on Spectrum News Central NY, and CLICK HERE to read Lori Ruhlman's news release of the event.

SHELTER BOXES - Oct 23, 2017

The two Skaneateles Rotary Club's funded two Shelter Boxes through a District 7150 Grant this year. These Shelter Boxes contain shelters and other necessary materials to house a family in regions of our world who have lost everything due to natural disasters and conflicts. As a part of the project, the clubs arranged with the SSD and a ShelterBox USA Rotarian representative, Tom Deuson, to set up and display a Shelter Box in the High School commons. The Interact club supplied much of the setup labor, and are planning to raise funds during the school to donate to ShelterBox USA. Rotarians and Interactors working together to meet a great need in our world. To learn more about the ShelterBox organization, visit www.sheterboxusa.org

Skaneateles Bookleggers - Five Skaneateles Rotarian Bookleggers and a community volunteer sorted and packed 24 cartons of books at the Skaneateles Middle School Library Thursday, Dec. 21st. Those included were: David Piper, Bill Conole, Chuck Williams, Cathy Powell, Carolyn Widas & Ward Vuillemot. Good books, good volunteers and a good time for a good cause.

DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS TRANSPORT NEWORK

Disabled Dewitt Rotary donated $1444 and Skaneateles Rotary donated $ 500 to purchase magnetic signs for the vans to generate awareness to veterans and to solicit volunteers.The DAV transport vans cover all of Central New York, Mohawk Valley and up north. Volunteer drivers are very much needed by DAV ! BTW. kudos to our own John Moran is one of the many volunteer that drive these vehicle.
Pictured l-r are: Debb Parker, Dewitt Rotarian and volunteer DAV driver; Sue Reisman, Dewitt Rotarian; Bill Conole, Skaneateles Rotarian; and Dewitt Rotarians Mark Matt and Ken Souser

Skaneateles 2016-17 District Grant ... from Mission of Miracles website

Portable Dental Unit .... Mission of Miracles

Bill Dawson, a member of Christ Church in Manlius, first started assisting the dental team on the 2015 Mission of Miracles. With other volunteers, he helped to sterilize implements, keep records, and distribute toothbrushes and supplies donated by Central New York parishes. A retired electrical engineer, he also discovered he could be especially useful repairing important medical equipment. But when one of the two portable dental kits began to fail, Dawson concluded that it was beyond repair—and a replacement was needed.

“To acquire a high quality unit,” Dawson recalled, “the local team in El Salvador would have to import one, which presents significant costs and logistics challenges.” So the Mission of Miracles team began to explore options to replace the broken unit. Dr. Gard Lorey, a Skaneateles dentist and long-time Mission volunteer, ultimately secured funding for the unit with a [District 7150] grant from the Skaneateles Rotary Club.

When volunteers with the fourteenth Mission of Miracles head to El Salvador this weekend, they will be transporting the new portable dental unit, which is valued at several thousand dollars. The unit, which travels in a wheeled case slightly larger than a typical suitcase, includes a vacuum unit for suction, as well as an air compressor and foot pedal controls to drive dental drills. When this year’s Mission wraps up, the local Salvadoran team will continue to use the unit—hopefully for years to come. “When you plant a seed you don’t know what might sprout from it,” says Dawson. “It has worked out well!”