Fort Lauderdale Rotary - Newsletter - Archive (Jul 5, 2010)

ROTARY CLUB OF FORT LAUDERDALE

Established 1922

District 6990, Club 4444

Upcoming Speakers:

7/7 - Amendment 4's

Impact on Our

Economy

7/14 - District Governor

Doug Maymon

Upcoming

Special Projects:

(SEE CALENDAR

FOR DETAILED

INFORMATION)

7/1 - 7/24 - Co-op

Feeding Program - 1st

Annual Holiday in July

Toy Drive

7/17 - Rotary

Community Service Fire

Museum Landscaping

7/17 - Sail Bend

Clean Up

OTHER NEWS

Charles Felix presented

Katya with her blue badge

for completing the New

Membership Orientation

Program.

Terry Robinson introduced

Chantal Raymond -

Scholarship Recipient

TEN DAY NOTICE

Cindy Probeck - sponsored

by Jack Braunstein -

classification - Consulting

Make Ups

Victoria Briggs

LAST WEEKS MEETING:

June 30, 2010

Song:

God Bless America led by Mike Casey

Pledge:

President Bill led us in the Pledge of

Allegiance

Prayer:

David Kramer led us in prayer

Guests:

Dr. Bob Easton introduced the following

visiting Rotarian: Sal DeFelice and our

Rotarian Jorg Hruschka brought in a guest.

Happy Dollars:

The following were Happy:

Sheri Garner, Marty Kurtz, David Kramer, Les

Campbell, Mike Casey, John Langstaff Romney

Rogers, Marvin Chaney and Bill Gundlach.

Winners:

Dick Owen won a key chain donated by

Jerry Rosenthal, St. George Guardabassi

won a gift from Bart Cleri and George

Maxwell purchased the flowers.

The 50/50 pot is now up to $1,184.

Dr. Bob Easton introduced Bob Swindell who was named President and CEO of Greater Fort Lauderdale/Broward Economic Development Alliance. In his 7 years at the Alliance he was instrumental in bringing more than 10,500 direct jobs to our county, retaining more than 10,000 jobs and generating more than $700 million in capital investment. The Alliance welcomes entrepreneurs the opportunity to work with them and help them learn about all Greater Fort Lauderdale has to offer their business. Broward County-Greater Fort Lauderdale fosters and promotes business attraction, recruitment, retention, expansion and new capital investment. Broward County offers a quality of life unrivaled anywhere in the US, has a reputation for clean, competitive industries, has a well-educated, motivated, diverse and capable workforce, has institutions of higher learning, specializing in research and development, just to name a few. Bob then had a question and answer period.