President's Message October 2014

Time flies when you are having fun! Our club is certainly having a great time celebrating all of our successes this year. We recently held our annual camp cookout where we had a great showing for celebration and fellowship. Todaro's catered an amazing meal and the wine from the Nauti Vine was incredible as well. Our entertainment included music from Rhythm and Roos, a mixed honors group of University of Akron a cappella students. Ben Hunsicker, the director of the group is also a member of camp staff so this was an extra special treat for our event. To close the evening we heard from parents of one of our campers on how much the camp has meant to their family over the years. I appreciate all of the hard work from our camp staff and Hugh Alpeter who helped put the event together! What a great evening to celebrate a great camp year! Another recent cause to celebrate was that the club, camp, and foundation were very proud to be a sponsor of the Polksy Awards this month! Our very own Rennick Andreoli was recognized for all of his support to the greater Akron community and especially our Rotary Camp for Children with Special Needs. Thank you so much for all you have done and continue to do for Akron and our camp!

We continue to add new members to the club infusing excitement and energy into everything we do! The Rotary Club of Akron recently inducted Paul Catania (Oswald Companies), Steve Warren (Fox Sports Ohio / SportsTime Ohio), Brian Steere (Steere Enterprises). In addition to all of these amazing individuals we will be having several more inductions over the coming weeks! I think this is a perfect place for a shameless plug.....Our Chili Open Chairs Jeff Sitz and George Rooney are always looking for you great committee members for our 25th anniversary event coming up in February 7, 2015!

Our recent programs have included several judges such as Christine Croce, Amy Corrigall Jones, and Jerry Larson. We also learned more about the Adaptive Sports Program of Ohio from Lisa Followay. As October 31st draws near we hope that you will consider attending the Halloween Charity Ball at Tangier. This year the event will benefit the camp and is being put on by Samantha Coldwell.

Lastly I would like to thank our most recent Rotarian of the Month - Julie Brandle for all of her hard work on the clubs marketing and communication! You rock Julie!

Here is a video of the group - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYNg3vOs4dE

Yours in Rotary Service

Shon Christy