July 28th, 2010 by admin
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The Sunset Club is putting on a Bake Sale & Ice Cream Social at St Pete Shuffle to benefit the ventilator project! We would love for family, friends and anyone interested in getting to know our club to join us on Friday, August 20th at the St. Petersburg Shuffleboard Club play some shuffleboard, have a sweet treat for a great cause, and listen to the music of Rebekah Pulley. The festivities will begin at 7pm and you are welcome to drop by for a few minutes or stay all night. The Shuffle Club is located at 559 Mirror Lake Dr N in downtown St. Pete.
We hope to see you there!
July 27th, 2010 by admin
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We have some great programs coming up in August, so be sure to make as many meetings as you can!
August 5th – Club Assembly
August 12th – The Final Inch Movie. This film, documents and honors the work, spirit and resilience of the millions of frontline workers in the eradication of polio worldwide.
August 19th – Pure Water for the World – Barry Poppel. Barry is going to showcase a low tech water filtration system used in Central and South America. He is also going to cover the Rotary grants that have assisted this program and talk about an outgoing service trip to Honduras in November. http://www.wasrag.org/
August 26th – Our Sunset Club & You. This week’s meeting will cover the responsibilities of club membership, talk about future club opportunities, and provide some time for questions and answers about the Club, Rotary International, and the path ahead.
We’ll see you there!
July 23rd, 2010 by admin
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Interested in learning more about our Sunset Club? Come join us for an informal chat about our club, Rotary International, and what we have all been up to. We’ll meet at the Globe Coffee Lounge at 532 1st Ave North, on Monday, July 26th from 7 – 8 p.m.
If you plan on coming over for a cup of joe, just RSVP to Daphne at membership@stpetesunsetrotary.org, so that she can make sure to have enough info together.
Hope to see you there!
July 15th, 2010 by admin
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It was an exciting night at Midtown Sundries in St. Petersburg tonight. The Sunset Club, and it’s 22 official members, are happy and proud to announce that we signed all the paperwork and submitted our application for charter! We hope to hear word from Rotary International in the coming weeks that we can nix the “Provisional” from our name and call ourselves OFFICIAL!
As we await word from RI, we are busy planning our Charter Night Event for September 16th. We hope our fellow Rotarians, friends and family will all join us for the big event. So keep an eye on the site for more event details and online tickets!
July 13th, 2010 by admin
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Mark your calendars for our upcoming service project at the Salvation Army Cafe. The Cafe is a safe and dry place for those in need in our community to go on Sundays to get out of the elements, relax, and spend an afternoon in the company of others. Our club will be going to The Cafe to hang out and chat, maybe play some games or listen to music, and just be there for some of St. Pete’s homeless, who may need someone to listen, talk or laugh with them. Gail, our wonderful contact at the Salvation Army, told our members, “I have found that the homeless respond best to people like you — people from the community who think they are worth listening to, spending time with, and encouraging.” We look forward to stepping up and making some new friends.
Please join us for an afternoon at Sally’s Cafe.
Date: Sunday, August 22nd
Time: 1230pm – 3pm
Where: 340 14th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701
For more information, please contact our Service Projects Coordinator at serviceprojects@stpetesunsetrotary.org.
June 24th, 2010 by admin
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Interested in learning more about our Sunset Club? Come join us for an informal chat about our club, Rotary International, and what we have all been up to. We’ll meet at the Globe Coffee Lounge at 532 1st Ave North, on Tuesday, June 29th from 7 – 8 p.m.
If you plan on coming over for a cup of joe, just RSVP to Daphne at membership@stpetesunsetrotary.org, so that she can make sure to have enough info together.
Hope to see you there!
June 20th, 2010 by Kelly
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It is time for Seminar for Tomorrows Leaders on the campus of Florida Southern College in Lakeland, FL!
S4TL is a week-long leadership training program for high school students. It is organized annually by several Rotary Districts in mid and southwest Florida. This award-winning program is capable of transforming the lives of these young leaders.
Our club is making an effort to participate this week in whatever ways we can. I had the pleasure of going to Lakeland today to assist with registration and check-in. My task of checking in the incoming delegates offered me the opportunity to meet many of tomorrows leaders face to face. I had a great time getting to know the students and other Rotarians and laughing away the afternoon. As I was leaving, I found myself wishing I was one of the lucky “white shirts” who get to stay and watch these teens blossom and grow all week. I highly recommend that our club members try to find a way to get to Florida Southern for a rap session during the week.
A special shout out to my fellow “green shirts” from the Seminole Lakes Club. Hope to see you soon at a St. Petersburg Sunset meeting!
June 17th, 2010 by admin
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What a great meeting! Certainly our biggest meeting to date, we had a blast tonight with the room so full we ran out of chairs! We had the GSE Team from Chile with us, several visiting Rotarians, a few guests, our wonderful speaker (Gail Stark from the Salvation Army) and all of our newest club members. Thank you so much to everyone for the amazing turnout!
June 17th, 2010 by admin
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This week’s inspiration was brought to the table by our Secretary, Carissa.
“I want you to remember that if you can dream it, you can probably make it come true. Build creative bridges to get where you’re going. Appreciate all the special qualities within you.
Don’t let worries get in the way of recognizing how great things can be. Always keep moving ahead. Live to the fullest and make each day count. Don’t let the important things go unsaid.
Don’t just have minutes in the day; have moments in time. Balance out any bad with the good you can provide. Know that you are capable of amazing results. Discover new strengths inside.”
- Douglas Pagels
June 14th, 2010 by admin
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Please note: These are only a few of the project photos. More will be added this weekend, so please check back!
On June 12th our club had the opportunity to answer a call for help.
Rick, of Habitat for Humanity, called our club specifically for some urgent help he needed working on a house in south St. Pete. Through his own blood, sweat and tears, Rick and a small contingent of volunteers have been rebuilding a house literally from the ground up. This house is home to a retired school teacher and his wife that still volunteer their time tutoring in the local school system.
Getting near to the end of the project, Rick needed a boost of energy and volunteers to help get the job done. Our club stepped in and helped clean prime and paint the living room, bathroom, kitchen and kitchen cupboards, doors, and front porch. Thanks to all who volunteered on this project and answered this last minute call for help. It meant a lot to Rick to have our support and even more to the family who can now truly call this their home.
