Bulletins - 2009 - 03/04/2009

This Week's Bulletin Was Written By Chris McCain

THIS WEEK’S MEETING

Invocation was delivered by Steve Wells., the pledge was led by Jeff Olson, and Mulvaney led us in the singing of “It’s a Grand Old flag.”

SGT. AT ARMS

Paul Marsh raffled off a couple of dinner certificates and auctioned off 4 tickets to the Shamrock Party for St. Patty’s Day which brought in a total of $175.00.

GUESTS

Guests of the day included Michaels Jenkins, Steve Torney, Peter Shaw, Kevin Clarke, Sara Hanskin, Barrett Drewler, and Sandy Erbetta.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Scott Carr announced the implementation of a rotary micro site through face book. 

• Melissa reminded us that Sat. was going to be the Women’s Resource Fair. 

• Jonathan reiterated the Kansas City BBQ grand opening meeting with Rotaract. 

• Kevin Clark received his first Paul Harris award as a recognition toward his efforts to help Jeff Hogue and his family with hotel rooms at the Sheraton when Jeff was in the hospital. 

• A check for two thousand dollars was presented to the Midway’s “No Child Left Ashore” program on behalf of Ron Erbetta (the founder of the program) and his wife Sandy.  Sandy and Ron's brother provided a nice rememberance of Ron and we were all happy to see these Rotary family members.  We all miss Ron and hope his family will stay in touch with us. 

THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM

Jim Ponder, CEO spoke about the importance of building healthy relationships in business.  Jim shared with us his story about the crushing financial blow he took both personally and professionally when his financing fell through on a start up company during the down fall of the dot com boom in the early 2000’s.  Although he suffered financially he realized that his salvation was going to come from the relationships he had forged and the personal contacts he had made.

He stressed that in building good strong business relationships, we need to practice at being good listeners when we are engaged with someone.  He explained that it is important to hear what “our customers” are saying and that in the end, “chemistry and likability is what is going to get you the deal.”