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Greetings
From 62 Members Strong
The Rotary Club of Asbury Park
Meets for Lunch every Wednesday at 12:15 p.m.
The Renaissance. 1110 Valley Road, Ocean
- just off Route 35 S before Wegman's
Call 732-922-4222 for Club
information.
Map to The
Renaissance Mailing
address: Asbury Park Rotary PO Box
512 Asbury Park, NJ 07712
Links to
Rotary International,
District 7500,
Club Locator, Polar Plunge, Lombardi Dinner March
25, Adopt-A-Soldier Project, Scholarship Application
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Our
Calendar Wed Mar 24- TBA Thur Mar
25 -
Lombardi Awards Banquet - 6pm - Sheraton Inn,
Eatontown. Lombardi
Website
Wed Mar 31 - TBA Wed Apr
7
- Tracy Ilvento and Julia
Zapcic of CPC Behavorial Healcare will talk ablout
the special education needs of youth and adults and the impact
on families in Monmouth County. Wed Apr
14 - TBA Wed Apr 21 - Isaih Jones, who
received the Youth of the Year award from the Boys and Girls
Clubs of Monmouth County, will be our speaker.
Apr 23-25
- District 7500 Conference
- This year's conference will be held at Rehoboth
Beach in Delaware. Lots of Rotary fun and
fellowship. Try to make it. Still time to sign
up. See
Gary. Wed Apr
28 - TBA Wed May 21
- 7th Annual Wine Tasting
Dinner at Deal Golf and Country Club.
Sun
Jun 27
- Installation Dinner - Jeff
Bassett becomes the 91st president of our club.
Will be held at the Deal Golf and Country
Club.
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Past Calendar Items for 2010
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Wed Jan 6 - Stephanie
Olszewski spoke with us about Check-Mate, Inc.,
a community action group in our very own Asbury
Park.
Wed Jan 13 - James Ganter of Gateway
Energy spoke about the deregulated Natural gas market and how
we can save on our gas bills at home and work. Wed Jan 20 - SPECIAL MEETING at
Jersey Shore Hospital. With 6 years
in the
making, the new wing is beautiful. Wed Jan 27
-
Bill Larkin, Mayor of Ocean Township, spoke
about the upcoming revalution for Ocean and the issue of
affordable housing. Sat Jan
30 - ROTARY POLAR
PLUNGE - 11am - Our 2nd Annual Polar
Plunge to raise
funds for our Rotary Eyecare Rescue Project will be
held. Thank you to everyone who supported this great
effort.
Polar
Plunge Website
Mon Feb
1
- Mid-Year District 7500 Assembly
- Our own District Governor Nominee Gary Siciliano
did an excellent job running the mid-year assembly in Toms
River. John Everson particated with an
explanatiuon of our Adopt-A-Soldier Project. Wed Feb
3 - Dr. Rose St.
Fleur, MD - Dr. St. Fleur is a Pediatrician and
was in Haiti when the earthquake struck. She gave us a
first hand account of Haiti's desparate
situation.
Sat Feb
6 - District 7500 Gift of Life "Heart
and Snow Ball" at Battleground Country
Club.
Wed Feb 10
- Meeting Cancelled due to
snow. Wed Feb
17
- Bill Leach of MetLife
talked about long Term Care issues and recent changes enacted
by NJ.
Wed Feb
24 - David Mooij,
Superintentent of the Neptune school system, spoke about the
new swimming pool and the great park behind Summerfield
School.
Thur Feb 25
- Lombardi
Awards Banquet - 6pm - Sheraton Inn, Eatontown.
Lombardi
Website Wed Mar 3
- Tara L Maffei, MSW is the
Director of the United Way of Monmouth County Volunteer
Center. She talked about the United Way and how it
operates and many of the good things it does. Sat Mar
6 - District 7500 Gift of Life "Heart
and Snow Ball" was held at the Battleground Country
Club.
Wed Mar
10 - Club
Assembly
Wed Mar 17 - Leo
Pratte, Chief Diaster and Logistics Officer with the
Jersey Shore Chapter of the American Red
Cross was our speaker.
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Catch up on Past Speakers
View past speakers, stories, and news for
the past year and this year.
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History of Rotary
and Our Club
Rotary
International was founded in Chicago in 1905 by Paul Harris.
On January 21, 1919, J Lyle Kinmouth, owner of the Asbury Park
Press, invited several businessmen to discuss forming a Rotary Club
in Asbury Park. On April 9,
1919... our Club had 25 charter members and the rest is
history. Read more about our club's rich
history.
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Rotary Annouces
Scholarships for 2010
The Rotary Club of Asbury
Park
is accepting applications from
graduating seniors who live within the club's charterd
area. Every year, the Asbury Park Rotary awards
several $1,000 scholarships to deserving seniors.
The high schools covered include Asbury Park,
Neptune, and Ocean
Township.
High
school seniors who
live in these sending
districts but attend Academy
Charter, MAST, Allied Health and Science,
Communications, High Tech, Bio-Medical Tech, Culinary
Education Center, or
the Performing Arts Program
may also apply. Download a
Scholarship Application now!
Please fill out
your application completely and return it to your
guidance counselor in time to reach us
by March 31, 2010.
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Rotary Scholarship Winners
for 2009 During Christmas break we invite
our Scholarship winners and their families to our
regular lunch meeting. This year all six of our
winners were able to attend. Congratulations to
each one of you!

From the left: Kellie
Brokel who graduated from Ocean Township High
School is attending the University of Vermont,
Tannesia Gayle from Neptune High School
attends St. Johns University, Samantha
Teng from Ocean Township High School is
attending Williams College, Saufeeyah
Purvis of Asbury Park is attending Alabama A
& M University, Tina Chow graduated
from the Academy of Allied Health &
Science is attending Muhlenberg College, and
Rahmel Summerlin went to Asbury Park
High School and now attends Towson
University. Click on photo
to enlarge
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2nd ANNUAL ROTARY POLAR PLUNGE
A GREAT
SUCCESS!
View our
Polar Plunge on
YouTube! See Susan
Pellegrini's video. We also can view Jersey
Shore Events video. Then look at the related
section of YourTube and see the related videos of
this year's plunge.
Plungers raised over $13,000 for
the Rotary Eye
Rescue Project
. The Coaster was there to
cover the event. Click on Jeff in the picture
below to read the entire article. Thank you
to everyone who participated, especially McLoones
Restaurant for having us take their facilities
over.

Check out updates on the
Rotary Polar Plunge
Website .
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