Bulletin 2024-01-29 (Jan. 30, 2024)

Newsletter Highlights

by Marty Clayton

Newsletter Highlights

Program - Melissa Ramon, Amaanah Refugee Services

Lunch Menu

January Rotarian of the Month - Jair Bobys

Membership Moments

PLEASE READ - Shrimp & Spice Updates and call for volunteers

Rotary Club Yellow Pages

Cheeseburger In Paradise District Conference April 2024

2024 Running With A Heart 5K and Kids 1K - Ways to Help

Thanks to Our Rotary Corporate Member – PCCPA

Future Programs

Wit and Wisdom

Rotary Officers and Board of Directors

January Birthdays and Anniversaries

Club Membership List

HISTORY OF PRESIDENTS

Sugar Land Rotary Hall of Fame

List of Rotarians of the Month

Program - Melissa Ramon, Amaanah Refugee Services

By Scott Finley

Our speaker this week is Melissa Ramon, the Major Gifts Officer of Amaanah Refugee Services. Amaanah serves refugees in the Houston area.

Houston is one of the country’s leading cities in refugee resettlement, but resources to get refugees started in their new lives are limited. Settling into a new home can be very difficult, particularly for young people and those who have suffered trauma in their early lives. That’s where Amaanah steps in to help, with services that assist with education, healthcare and overall wellbeing. Learn more at amaanahservices.org/.

Lunch Menu

January 31, 2024

Menu January 31st 2024

Salad - Mixed Greens with Roasted Pecans, Roasted Red Peppers, & Artichokes with Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressing

Entrée - Chicken Piccata with a Lemon Caper Sauce

Angel Hair, & House Made Marinara

Broccoli with Roasted Garlic

Dessert - Chocolate Layered Cake

January Rotarian of the Month - Jair Bobys

by Mark Heuchert

The Rotarian Of the Month for January, 2024 is celebrating his 10th year with our club! (He was sponsored by Stacy Croft and joined our club in 2004). As one of the Sugar Land Rotary Foundation members, he plays an essential role in ensuring the long term success of this club. The SLRC Foundation (which we encourage you to donate directly to) supports key community programs, such as our scholarships, helping students achieve their education goals.

He graduated from Trinity University, an excellent liberal arts school out of San Antonio, and now works for Vast Data, a $9 Billion software engineering company with customers ranging from Pixar to NASA. Before that he was President and CEO of his own software consulting company, right here in Sugar Land, all while being an active member of the Sugar Land Rotary Club!

He has a wonderful wife, Graciela, who we are very thankful to for supporting him with all the time he spends serving our community and our club.

The Rotarian of the Month is: Jair Bobys!

Membership Moments

by Dean Clark

Webex Meeting Link On left side of page

Club Facebook

Club Event Calendar

Club Instagram

In case you missed the meeting the quiz question and the answer is:

How many years has Marty been doing the club ebulletin and still counting?

Answer is: 17 started in 2007

PLEASE READ - Shrimp & Spice Updates and call for volunteers

By Ziad Chbeir

A small group of us has been meeting since Oct of 2023 to start planning for the event. We have already selected the Constellation Field as our venue and

developed a baseline plan. I am attaching the current plan of activities and the identified subcommittees required to execute it.

This is a very labor intensive work and we all chip-in to make it happen and we hope we can get all hands on deck to make it a great success. We have a prime venue that will hopefully bring large crowd.

This is what I am asking you to do:

Review the list of subcommittees in the committee tab of the spreadsheet. Your name is on it

If your name is not there, select the committee you want to be part of

If your name is there please confirm if that committee is the one you want to be in or prefer another one

- if there is no ?? after your name, that means we felt confident about the placement, still we like to get confirmation

- you don’t know what needs to be done? Check the activity column, or the Project plan tab

Subcommittee Chair is the person who will make sure that all work for that committee is under control and being done

Doesn’t mean they are doing everything

We expect them to find the right people that can help

It is important that we identify a chair for each subcommittee, please see if you can chose one

I color coded some subcommittees

Red – have activities that need to be completed in the next 30days

Yellow – have activities that need to be done in the next 60 days

We have time-sensitive work and we need your help

I am going to discuss this during the Wednesday lunch meeting but please review prior and let me know where you can help. Feel free to email me or call me with any questions.

Rotary Club Yellow Pages

by Dean Clark

Our Rotary Club is doing an internal yellow page to advertise all club member’s businesses. It is your option to be added into the booklet. If you want to advertise your business to other club members and guests for free please complete the attached form and email to dean7351@gmail.com to have your information included.

Please complete all requested information on the form and make sure to tell us if you have a company logo by attaching to your email reply or giving us permission to download the logo from your website to add to your listing.

If you are listed in our current yellow pages please see me at the meeting or let me know if you have any changes to make in the new yellow pages.

Deadline for final submission of your company information is Wednesday, February 14, 2024. We hope to have the booklet completed and ready to hand out to club members and guests at the end of February.

If you have any questions please call or email:

Dean Clark

832-595-4590

dean7351@gmail.com

Cheeseburger In Paradise District Conference April 2024

by Lisa Pauls

Happy October, fellow District 5890 Rotarians!

Don't miss out on your chance for a discount on your registration for the Cheeseburger in Paradise Conference to be held on April 25th-28th close to home. The deadline for the rate of $350 is Tuesday, October 31st. See the promotional video here:
https://youtu.be/bXXy81pKwa0?si=zXLEw2VCvh439HQa

Registration for the conference and hotel can be found at https://rotaryd5890.org/page/cheeseburger-in-paradise-2024-district-conference-2

Our conference committee is busy at work and can use your help - reach out to me if you are interested!

Lisa Pauls
District Conference 2024 Co-Chair
District 5890

2024 Running With A Heart 5K and Kids 1K - Ways to Help

The 5K committee is super excited about our 5th annual Running With A Heart 5K and Kids 1K. Several of you have asked how you could help. Here are the following ways you can help.

Our annual event is a walking and running event. To register for our event, all you need to do is click on this link and register.

www.sugarlandrotary5k.com

Volunteer

If you want to volunteer, there are several ways you can volunteer. Click on this link for the various options we have available. It varies from packet stuffing to handing out medals. Sign up soon before our local high school students take those spots.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0A4FAEAB2CA5FE3-47051175-running

Sponsor

If you would like to be a sponsor, there are still sponsorships available for you. Attached is our sponsorship form. If you are interested, please return the sponsor form back to me by Thursday, January 18 to ensure you are on our website, social media and shirts.

Make a donation

If you would like to make a donation to help fund the finishers prizes (gift cards for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place finishers), you can either provide these funds to me or have Janice bill the amount to your account and let Janice know this is for the 5K finisher prizes. If you would prefer, you purchase gift cards in the following increments.

1st Place: $50.00 (number of cards-16)

2nd Place: $25.00 (number of cards-16)

3rd Place: $10.00 (number of cards-16)

If you have any questions, please contact me. My contact information is below.

Thank you so much.

Todd A. Breton

Personal Cell no.: 281-840-9750

Todd Breton, cell 281-840-9750

Thanks to Our Rotary Corporate Member – PCCPA

We are pleased that PCCPA has joined the Sugar Land Rotary Club as a Corporate Member. Their web site is www.pccpa.org.

Future Programs

by Scott Finley

TBA

Wit and Wisdom

Today in History

In January of 1803 President Thomas Jefferson asked Congress to fund $2,500 for an expedition of the North American continent to be led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.

“Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.”

President Calvin Coolidge

"Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us."

Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence