President: Winston C. Connolly President-Elect: Michael S. Levitt Vice-President: Andrea Bryan Secretary: Christine Sanders Treasurer: Dawn Cummings Immediate Past President: Woodrow Foster Serjeant-at-Arms: Simon Amesbury Club Service Director: Kevin Butler Community Services Directors: David Watler & David Reid Marilyn Connolly Fundraising Directors: Tony Catalanotto & Perry Rombough International Service Director: Kim Remizowski Vocational Service Director: Marilyn Conolly Fellowship & Public Relations Director: Geoff Mathews Member ship Director : Bruce John

3rd February 2010 Volume 3 Issue 28 Edited by: Tara Handal

“Quality is never an accident—rather, it is always the result of high intention, intelligent direction and skillful execution.”

The Rotary Sun The weekly newsletter of

The Rotary Club of Grand Cayman Sunrise Rotary Club of Grand Cayman Sunrise Chartered April 18th, 2002

Meeting Place: Grand Old House Wednesdays at 6:45am for 7am

2009-2010 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

DUTY ROSTER 3 February 2010

Greeter: Glen Trenouth Four Way Test: Christian Cartagena Grace: Conor Jennings Raffle: James Chiwesha

INSIDE THIS ISSUE Ramblings All Hands on Deck A Fun day at the Cinema / Stuffed French Toast

Art at Governors This is the 3rd year that we have fed the Volunteers and Artists at Art@Governors, although this year it included all the Exhibitors too. As the Governor has just arrived on island, he does not have a Chef yet, so we had to feed everyone – 160 people. We made everyone burgers – either regular, cheese or veggie with a packet of chips, an apple and a bottle of water. Most of the food was donated by Cost-U-Less and the rest by Sunrise. The Team included JD, James, Frank, Doug and I.

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2009-2010 Leadership

RI President: John Kenny

District 7020 Leadership District Governor:

Errol Alberga Past District Governor:

Rupert Ross Asst. Governor - Cayman:

Raymond Whittaker *

The Four-Way Test Of the things we think, say or do:

Is it the truth? Is it fair to all concerned?

Will it build goodwill and better friendships?

Will it be beneficial to all concerned?

*

The Rotary Grace O God and giver of all good

We thank thee for our daily food May Rotary friends and Rotary ways,

Help us to serve thee all our days. *

PAST PRESIDENTS ROTARY SUNRISE

Charter President Alastair Paterson 2002—2003 J. Gordon Hewitt 2003 - 2004 Christopher Bowring 2004 - 2005 Stuart N. Diamond 2005 - 2006 Hendrik Jan van Genderen 2006 - 2007 J. Rosalie Jamieson 2007 - 2008 Woodrow Foster 2008 - 2009

The Rotary Sun

It was June 2009 when President Elect Winston called me to see if I was willing to fill a vacancy on the Board for the upcoming year. It was only a few weeks before I was due to take over as a Director and he convinced me that the role would be easy. The position was to be the Director in charge of Club Service, of which I knew nothing about. Both Winston and Christine assured me though that it would be easy. Reflecting back, I have to say they were right. The reason they were right is that I have a stupendous committee that I work with who basically do my job for me! But let me reflect back to the early days. The first assistance was from a very well organised Bruce John (yes, I did say ‘a very well organised Bruce John’) who was able to provide me with all background material from when he was a Director of Club Service. He set out exactly how he had organ-ised the Club Service Committee and assured me that it would be easy (have I mentioned that before?) provided everyone on the Committee was assigned a task for the year and completed the task. That is exactly what happened and I would like to thank the following for making Club Service run so smoothly - Simon A, Gillian, Andrea, Garth, Martha, Berna, Tara, Rosie, Claire, Geoff, Pauline, Colleen, Christie and Raquel. But the real question I had when I started with Club Service was ‘what does Club Service do’? I am sure many of you reading this are asking the same ques-tion. When I decided to become a Rotarian it was to work in the community and help raise funds for those who need it; not to run the business of Rotary. In essence that is what Club Service does. In order to make it easy for all of us to get together for fellowship, learn

about Rotary, commit to projects, assist with pro-jects, commit to fundraising and assist with fundrais-ing, we need people to run the business. The Club Service Committee organises the meetings – includ-ing the venue, the greeter, four-way test, grace and the raffle. The Sergeant is part of this Committee and is the one who sets up every meeting, raises a lot of money through fines and tells bad jokes. Club Service is responsible for making sure the projector and screen are there, to ensure the speakers are slot-ted in and that the microphone has batteries. We ensure that there are banners; small ones for visiting Rotarians and large ones to display the banners we are given by visiting Rotarians. When Martin goes on vacation for half of the summer we have to ar-range for other caterers to come in. Club Service looks after the Club Forum which includes arranging a venue, catering, coming up with results for a ques-tionnaire and presenting the questions. Club Service provides you with The Sun which is published every week and is fantastic. Club Service arranges for guest speakers. Club Service ensures we have gifts for our speakers. We arrange for shirts and hats to be produced. We arrange for signs, such as the sign in front of Grand Old House. And after every break-fast, we wash the dishes. To sum it up, Club Service is behind the scenes mak-ing sure the infrastructure is there so our fellow Ro-tarians don’t have to worry about it. That is what we do. As for my year as a director, I must say it has been easy. Sure, the Board meetings that start at 07h00 are a little early! And are they boring sometimes – you bet! But learning about Rotary as an organisa-tion and how our Club is run is an incredible experi-ence.

Ramblings from Director Kevin – Club Service

Don’t forget Valentine’s Day is coming. Order Your Valentine Gifts and Flowers at www.ebt.com.ky

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Rotary Sunrise Calendar of Events *************************************

Coming up… February 3rd Jazz for Haiti @ GOH February 13th Interclub Forum @ Westin February 16th Rotary Training February tbc, North Side beach Clean February 28, Field of Dreams

March 7, Family Fun day March 13, Casino Night April, Heart Fund Health Fair May 9, President Winston ’ s Brunch, Strawberry Hill, Jamaica May 22, Wine Society June 2010, Fellowship in Montreal at the international Convention

Do you have a committee meeting or event scheduled you wish to place on the calendar? Email the information to

Rotarian Tara or Colleen for inclusion.

Sunrise Birthdays & Anniversaries

January Birthdays Rosie Jamieson 3rd Greg Brooks 5th Clive Harris 13th Hazel Brown 21st

Raquel Solomon 23rd :ynne Whittaker 23rd January Anniversaries None January Club Anniversaries Andrea Bryan 8yrs Michael Levitt 4yrs Rosalie Jamison 12yrs Bryan Hollen baugh 2yrs

Reminder to Red Badgers Red Badgers are reminded to submit their bio / job talk to Rot. Tara or

Colleen for publication in the Sun. Please include interesting facts like hobbies, most embarrassing moment etc!

February is Rotary World Understanding Month

Celebrate World Understanding month by focusing on International Literacy Projects

Rotary offers a variety of resources to help you get the most from your membership.

Read about how to apply and qualify for RI awards, get answers to your membership questions, and learn how to make up a missed club meeting.

Silence is Golden

Wednesday Funny Morris and his wife Esther went to the state fair every year, And every year Morris would say, 'Esther, I'd like to ride in that helicopter.' Esther always replied,' I know Morris, but that heli-copter ride is fifty dollars, And fifty dollars is fifty dollars' One year Esther and Morris went to the fair, and Mor-ris said, 'Esther, I'm 85 years old. If I don't ride that helicopter, I might never get another chance.' To this, Esther replied, 'Morris that helicopter ride is fifty dollars, and fifty dollars is fifty dollars.' The pilot overheard the couple and said, 'Folks I'll make you a deal. I'll take the both of you for a ride. If you can stay quiet for the entire ride and don't say a word I won't charge you a penny! But if you say one word it's fifty dollars' Morris and Esther agreed and up they went. The pilot did all kinds of fancy maneuvers, but not a word was heard. He did his daredevil tricks over and over again, But still not a word. When they landed, the pilot turned to Morris and said, 'By golly, I did everything I could to get you to yell out, but you didn't. I'm impressed!' Morris replied, 'Well, to tell you the truth, I almost said something when Esther fell out, But you know, fifty dollars is fifty dollars!'

ALL HANDS ON DECK Up and Coming Events

President Elect Michael has it all under control

- In Honduras that is. CASINO NIGHT - Tickets will be ready for distribution at next Wednesday's meeting and come in books of 4. We will assign every Ro-tarian 4 tickets but like last time, if you do not want any, we will try and redeploy to other Rotarians. To those of you that sell lots of these tickets, please get back to me with your ticket requests before Wednesday and I will try and accommodate. Remember that we have sold out our last 2 Casino Nights and this one promises to be no different, so please get your requests in early. CAR RAFFLE - We are starting this fund raiser early this year and will have the vehicle and tickets at next Wednesday's meeting. As usual, each member will be assigned 2 books of tickets and because the sales cycle will run from earl February through to July 24th, we are hopeful that this year will top all years with record ticket sales. Since we will have both tickets and vehicle by Wednesday, we are plan-ning to display it at Jazz for Haiti and hopefully

Members

Rotary Sunrise

District 7020

Zone 34

Rotary International

Rotary Cayman Islands Make-Up

Opportunities

Rotary Central meets on Tuesdays at 7:00 pm for 7:30pm at

Dolce –Vita Westshore Centre

Rotary Grand Cayman meets on Thursdays at

12:15 pm at The Westin Casuarina.

Rotaract Grand Cayman

meets on Thursdays at 6:45 am for 7 am at

Icoa

Rotaract Blue meets on Wednesday

at 6 pm at

Fusion Restaurant

Conference Countdown 7020 District Conference

96 days Rotary International

Convention 144 days

Resources for new members Check out Welcome to Rotary, a short new video segment, viewable now on the RI Web site. Less than four min-utes long, and offering a broad over-view of Rotary and the four Avenues of Service, this video provides an ex-cellent introduction to Rotary club membership for new or prospective members. Find the video by going to www.rotary.org and clicking on Mem-bers, New Members, Getting Involved. Use this video during the opening seg-

March is Rotary Literacy Month Please help Director Marilyn with her book drive by dropping book donations

at Fosters Food Fair.

3 eggs 1 1/4 cups nonfat milk 1/2 tsp vanilla extract 1/4 cup part skim ricotta cheese 8 slices whole wheat toast crust re moved 8oz container strawberries sliced 4 tsp chocolate chips 1/4 cup crumbled feta cheese

In a large bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk and vanilla. Set aside. Place 1 tablespoon of ricotta in the center of 4 of the pieces of bread and spread around slightly. Top with about 6 slices of strawberries and a teaspoon of chocolate chips. Cover each with another piece of bread to make a "sandwich". Spray a large nonstick skillet or griddle with cooking spray and pre-heat. Carefully dip each of the "sandwiches" into the egg mixture until completely moistened. Then place on the skillet and cook over a medium heat for 3 to 4 min-utes per side, until the outside is golden brown and the center is warm and chocolate is melted. Transfer to serving places. Top with remaining strawberries and sprinkle with confectioners' sugar.

Chocolate Strawberry stuffed French Toast Get ready for Valentine’s Morning!!!

Reminder to Red Badgers Red Badgers are reminded to submit their bio / job talk to Rot. Tara or Colleen for publication in the Sun. Please include interesting facts like hobbies, most embarrassing moment etc!

Frank and Nora Balderamos, Tony Cata-lanotto, Marilyn Conolly, Des Ebanks and Doug Murray were the hosts and they had as much fun as the guests - about 30 in all. The pictures (movies) were great, the company better said the SUNRISE members - we can't wait for the next time.

A Fun Day at the Cinema Sunrise Rotary helps out with Sunrise Adult cen-

ter