President’s Message
February 13, 2008
AUCTION TIME!
There will be an important Springfield Rotary Wine Auction meeting after our regular club meeting today. Please plan to spend whatever time necessary with Bruce and the committee if you have a role to play in this year’s event.
And, you do have a role - a big one.
Our program today is about our Signature Project - a project in our area that will bear the name of our Club, and through that, the efforts of each Springfield Rotary Club member. We will be investing in-kind skills and labor hours from our club, but we will also be putting $15,000 of our Club budget behind this important trail project in Springfield.
The dollars we have to invest in our Signature Project and community, and in many other efforts throughout the year, are the result of your efforts at the Auction last year. Those funds from last May are funding our projects today - just as your investment and participation in this year’s event will fund the very good projects we settle on next year.
So, it is essential we give our best effort to make this year’s Auction the best ever.
If you need more motivation, here are 10 good reasons to participate that have nothing to do with fundraising for our Club:
1. Fellowship. It is a fun evening with friends and Club members we see too often only for lunch.
2. New Members. You really need to see our Club in action. And, it is a great, casual way to meet some of the veteran Club members.
3. Friends, staff, family members. Finally, you can prove there really
IS a Springfield Club meeting that
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