Niskayuna Rotary’s 1st Annual

The Rotary Club of Niskayuna will hold it’s first annual “Run for Rotary” on Sunday August, 29th 2010 at Central Park in Albany.  The registration form can be found below.  If you’re not going to run or walk, but would like to contribute, donations can be sent to the address below.

Niskayuna Rotary’s 1^st Annual

“Run for Rotary”

Sunday, August 29^th 2010

9:00am-11:00am

Starting at the Pavilion in Central Park

$20 for adults, $10 for students or children ages 10-16. Children under 10 free.

Free T-shirts to the first 50 participants.

Proceeds go to benefit the Scholarships for local high school students as well as other rotary projects.

For questions email Emily Miller at emily.lauren.miller@gmail.com

Register Day-off or Preregister and enclose payment with the form below:

Name: _____________________________________________________________

Number of People Running:       Adults        Students/ Children 10-16        Children under 10

Total: ______________________________________________________________

Payment Type:         Cash       Check

T-Shirt Size: Small         Medium         Large         Extra Large

Make Checks payable to

Niskayuna Rotary Club

c/o Emily L. Miller

120 Maplewood Drive

Glenville, NY 12302

Come join us and make blankets for a great cause! Food, fun, music, refreshments, and a 50/50 raffle will all be there as well as some great people doing great work!

We would also like to thank the local businesses that showed [...]]]> We would like to take a moment to thank all of you who heltped make the Alesandrini Family Benefit Dinner a success last week. We raised a little over $1300 over the course of the evening between Ticket Sales, Silent Auction Items, and Private Donations.

We would also like to thank the local businesses that showed their support by donating either supplies such as plates, and silverware, or items for our silent auction. Without their support our efforts would never have amounted to so much. We are currently awaiting replies from a few of the winners of the silent auction, and once that is taken care of, all of the proceeds will be delivered to the Alesandrini family.

Lastly we would like to thank the area Rotary clubs who came out and showed their support. There were a total of 8 Clubs represented (Scotia, Glenville, Twin Bridges, Burnt Hills Ballston Lake, Schenectady East, Rotterdam Sunrise, and of course Niskayuna) at the benefit dinner.

Again, Thanks to all of our sponsors:

-Price Chopper
-Hannaford
-Niskayuna Wine and Liquor
-Gershon’s Deli
-I Love NY Pizza
-AJ Floral
-The Right Touch
-Good Memories
-The Crown Plaza Hotel
-Bowtie Cinemas
-Lennon’s Irish Shop
-Two Spruces Pottery and Glassy Beads
-Ben & Jerry’s
-Friendly’s
-Haigen Daaz
-Tony Dileva

Farewell to Blase: Join us to wish Blase well as he heads South for the winter. Hors d’oeuvres at Rita’s this evening beginning at 6 PM.

Speaker Event: Tuesday Morning, 7:15 at the Blue Ribbon Diner. Susan Appe will be joining us to talk about her Ambassadorial Scholarship.

Burnt [...]]]> Just an update on some of the upcoming events:

Farewell to Blase: Join us to wish Blase well as he heads South for the winter. Hors d’oeuvres at Rita’s this evening beginning at 6 PM.

Speaker Event: Tuesday Morning, 7:15 at the Blue Ribbon Diner. Susan Appe will be joining us to talk about her Ambassadorial Scholarship.

Burnt Hills- Balston Lake Apple Pie Fest.- Tuesday night at Burnt Hills High School. Tickets are $5 for adults, $4 for children. Please join us and show your support.

A little buisness got taken care of after the bell, pledge and invocation by [...]]]> In attendance this morning were Blaise, Phil, Dave, Emily, Lon Penna, Rita, Derek, District Governor John Eaton, and prospective new member Ravi. We were very pleased with the great turnout for our program this morning, thank you all for coming!

A little buisness got taken care of after the bell, pledge and invocation by Derek. There was a fire on Fillmore Ave in Niskayuna destroying a home yesterday morning. the club decided a pancake breakfast owuld be a nice fundraiser to help out the Alesandrini family. The date is tentativley scheduled for November 13th, 2009, a Saturday at the Immanuel Luthern Church in Niskayuna. Wmily will reach out to the homeowners before proceeding with ticket printing and selling.

Rita spoke to the group about her time at RLI this weekend, she brought up some great things that she learned about the foundation, as well as the inverse pyramid and the whole structure of Rotary.

Blankets for Babies is coming along well. Emily has a lead on a venue for a 24 hour sew-a-thon. Shipping is $1.65 per blanket and we ship in large quantities. Jorge will contact John Eaton to see what we can do about district funding.

Our highlight of our morning was however, our speaker!! Phillip Morris, CEO of Proctors joined us this morning. It was very interesting and informative and we all send our thank yous to him for joining us. He explained how Proctor’s is reaching out the community through programs he developed called The Third Way and the Ambassadors Program which helps bring together people of different backgrounds from weekly chess games to city mission residents working at shows to help people cross the street and welcome the guests. He also explained to us about how theater is not really a money making business, the cost andthe expense of bringing in big shows like Wicked and the Phantom of the Opera and how the financing actually works. He also mentioned someting that was really interesting, Proctor’s has its own power plant in the building that heats itself and multiple surrounding buildings!! How cool! It was great insight into a landmark in Schenectady and a center of the community itself. Thank you again Mr. Phillip Morris.

Lastly, a reminder that next tuesday night, November 3rd is the Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake clubs fundraiser, the Apple Pie Festival, it is taking place at Burnt Hills High School and tickets are $5 each for anyone who would like to attend.

Happy Tuesday!