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Each week we ask a community leader to come speak to the club.  Guests are Welcome !! If you would like to speak at a future meeting, email us at RotaryofNorristown@gmail.com. Include your contract info and a brief description of your topic.
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The Board has decided to ask our members to collect aluminum can zip tabs or 'pop tabs'. These can be found on not only soda cans but all sorts of canned drinks. The local chapter of the Ronald McDonald House still collects them to turn in for recycling and proceeds go to help local families by paying family expenses to stay will their child is in the hospital. Start a jar, they add up.
According to the RMHC:"We collect tabs instead of entire aluminum cans because it’s easier and more hygienic to store the tabs than cans. There is also a higher concentration of aluminum in the tab itself, so those little tabs can really add up!" Tabs bring on average about .75 per pound. and they have collected more than 350 tons of them. At the end of the year we will accumulate our collections and donate them to the Ronald McDonald House. Please see Vanessa Cossari for more information
New ParaDragonBoat Club
Robin Parker visited the meeting and announced a new local sports group forming, focused on fun for those physically disabled, who are interested in Dragon Boating. Similar clubs exist today for individuals with full upper body use interested in competing and getting some exercise. Robin has spoken to the Norristown Borough who support her cause so the group is forming at Riverfront Park. If you or anyone you know is interested, please contact Robin Parker at (610) 724-7925 or you can email her at Dragonboatcrew2@gmail.com
No Lunch Meeting on March 30th - Happy Hour Instead
While March 30th is the 5th Thursday of the month, the club will not meet at the Hyatt hotel this week. Instead the club will be meeting at Von C's Brewery on 1210 Stanbridge St at 5pm for a Happy Hour.
Please join us for a a social get together on March 30th
from 5-7 pm.
Venue : Von C brewing Company
1210 Stanbridge St Suite 300, Norristown, PA 19401
Please stop by and socialize with clubmates and get to know each other.
Looking forward to seeing you all there.
Thanks
Sunanda Charles
Mary Onama represented our club at the Rotary Foundation Gala last week and donated our wine basket to the fundraiser. It was a big hit in the auction bringing in $270, the highest prize of the event.
Last Saturday, we had a work day at our Padden Park Butterfly Garden. The weather did not exactly cooperate, but with the help of several Girl Scouts and their leaders, we accomplished the task of preparing the grounds for our major work day in April.
Thanks to all who participated.
One of last year's recipients from our fundraiser proceeds, GIRLS FIRST, was highlighted in an article the PATCH.
Wondrous Women Of Norristown: Arts Group Aims To Empower Local Girls
Norristown girls "can choose from vastly different career paths in the future," a new intiative looks to reinforce.
NORRISTOWN, PA — In age where STEM is often touted as the only road to success for young people, a new initiative in Norristown is making sure girls grow up knowing the world is their oyster.
Local organization Girls First, which puts on free programs for elementary school girls, is hosting a Wondrous Women Career Day and Luncheon on Monday, March 27.
"Students will have lunch with women from diverse career fields who will later talk about the paths they traveled to get there," organizers said. "Career Day is ultimately an opportunity to show girls that they can choose from vastly different career paths in the future and still create opportunities to leave a positive and lasting impact on the world."
Speakers include Jerri Lynne Johnson, the Founding Artistic Director of Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra, former Norristown Municipal Councilwoman Sonya Sanders, renown nutrition educator Rashida Padgett, and Temple University student and radio host Ahn'yae Hedgepeth.
The program will specifically focus on helping girls see how their passions and hobbies can turn into exciting careers.
Girls First has a similar general mission: using the arts to teach social, emotional, academic, creative skills with broad applications.
President Sunanda has officially kicked off the 'Each One, Bring One' member campaign.
Rotary Clubs need to continue to grow in order to enhance our ability to dedicate resources to solving a community or global issue.
This year, President Sunanda is asking every Club member to bring a visitor, spouse, family, friend or acquaintance to our meeting and introduce them to Rotary.
If everyone brought a guest it would double our meeting size, and if half of the visitors discovered Rotary and became a member, the club would grow by 50%.
Please think about it this week and identify someone you would like to introduce to Rotary. Bring them to a meeting and tell them why you joined.
If you are seeking to support an organization that impacts the lives of young girls within the community, please consider joining us!
Sponsorships and ticket sales for Girls First’s annual Spring Celebration are live! Don't miss the chance to be part of this unforgettable afternoon supporting tuition-free, out-of-school programming for elementary school girls.
We wish to thank our neighbors "Norristown Brick" for kindly donating brick to Rotary to be used on our Community Butterfly Garden in Padden Park (West Norriton). Your generosity and support of the community is exceptional and most appreciated. Thank you.
Is some of your expected gmail missing from the Inbox?
Aside from regular spam filtering, sometimes Google also takes a guess at your incoming gmail and pre-categorizes it in order to cut down on spam. The Tabs 'Social' and 'Promotions' capture some of your email instead. Well, Google doesn't always get it right.
Fortunately, even though that is the default setting, you can change the setting and control your pre-categorization completely and get all your mail back in the old inbox. YOU can select select the problem email in 'Promotions' and drag it to the inbox, OR.... A more reliable way is to control your own categories or simply have none at all. If you uncheck the 'Social" and 'Promotions' categories in settings, your future email will not appear in those virtual folders but rather in your old inbox as expected.
Here's what you do to fix it. Go to your inbox settings link. https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#settings/inbox Uncheck the boxes 'Social' and 'Promotions', AND CLICK SAVE From now on it will appear in the old inbox as expected.
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