Seville Rotary Meeting 10/26/2010

Seville Rotary Club Minutes: Combined meeting with PYP & Propeller Club

Seville Rotary – Traditional meeting opening by Club President, Kevin Ryan.

Groaner: Matt Stanley

Prayer/Pledge: Patrick J.

Happy Dollars:
Chad Stacy – War Eagle! Paid $3.00 for all things good in Auburn Football.
Brynn Ammon – Yay! Cleveland Browns 30 / Saints 17

Seville Happenings:
• T-shirts are in!! Alecia will invoice once she sorts out the computer debacle; you can pick up at the meetings.
• Martini Fest Tickets still being sold by International Group! (Nov. 6th)
• Oakcrest Read N Treat – this Thursday Oct 28th @ 5:30 @ Oakcrest Elementary (Wear your costume!)
• Barnes N Noble – Bookfair will be held on Dec 4th Contact Melanie Furman for info on volunteering.

PYP – Membership Chair, Will Grace
• Meeting with Five Flags group on Nov. 9th (Winterfest).
• Currently holding a membership drive; pay $100 now and get Nov./Dec. of this year free.
• PYP members can recruit members for $25 credit, up to 4 members.
• More info: http://pensacolayp.com/

Propeller Club – Amy Miller, Port of Pensacola
• The Bay Area Port of Historic Pensacola Propeller Club is a branch of the National Propeller Club of the United States which is a grassroots, non-profit organization, whose membership resides throughout the United States and the world. It is dedicated to the enhancement and well-being of all interests of the maritime community on a national and international basis.
• Propeller Club meets on the 2nd Thursday each month @ Pensacola Yacht Club.
• Speakers and discussion of port.
• Raise money to provide scholarships each year.
• More info: http://www.pensacolapropellerclub.org/


Port of Pensacola – Clyde Mathis, Director of the Port of Pensacola

• "The Port of Pensacola - today and tomorrow's outlook". (Cheers for having a meeting at 5:30 w/ drinks!)
• 50 Acre deep water port; Non-Operating, Landlord port – private companies “lease” use of port for cargo and cold storage.
• 1 of 14 in the state; 1 of 149 in the US
• Regional Impact as economic engine; Revenue from rents, cargo fees, dock fees, harbor fees, security fees.
• Customers include companies who transport/ store the following: liquid asphalt; limestone rock; dry cement products
• Diversified customer: cold storage including frozen chicken – big job producer!
• New customer : Industrial Supply / Offshore oil industry. Economic Impact: 350 seats on planes; 350+ hotel rooms; over 200K on galley supplies; 1.86M gas; 350K to port. CRA offered incentives to encourage port usage.
• Port’s financial stability: Over 7 years since city funds were given to the port; 1.82M used 1.6 to pay for bonds this year with 150K in account; no taxes used to subsidize port.
• Traditionally cargo focused but looking into ways to diversify business space at port area to increase jobs.
• Seeking input for parking lot area across form Fish House and/or tract of land that used to store asphalt; office space?; restaurant?; retail?; historic compliments to the area?;

Seville Rotary Meeting 10/19/2010

Guests
Evan Munro of Jon Pruitt
Lindsey Hutto of Beau Peterson

Visiting Rotarian's
Kathy Brown / Pensacola
Rick Lambert / Subwest
Bill Marchi / Subwest
Jerold Hall / Subwest
Leon Hirsh / Pensacola North
Ted Kirchhar / Subwest

Happy Dollars
Jay, going to Chicago in the morning!
Jerry, Happy Jay is leaving!
Stephen M, Happy Deluna Fest was a success!
Melanie, 2nd the Deluna Fest!
Beau, glad Willie is still alive!
Leon, Happy Curtis made it through his first anniversary!

Minutes
Don't forget when you sign up for one of our outside functions, it counts as a make-up for a missed meeting

Day of Caring this Friday
Ten have signed up and will be doing some repairs at the United Way Office. Thanks to those who are attending and if you want to participate contact Charles James.

Read N Treat @ Oakcrest Elementary
Thursday, Oct 28th...time to be determined
If you would like to participate, please email Becky Camarillo
If you can not go and would still like to bring a bag of halloween candy, you can do so and drop off at next weeks meeting. We really need candy!!!!!

Meeting next week, Oct. 26th, will be in the Apple Annie's room with PYP and the Propeller Club

November 1st, Combined Rotary Clubs of Pensacola will have their annual Military Appreciation Luncheon....this will count as our meeting that week, so we do not have a meeting on Nov. 2nd

Save the date for Jan 29th, we will be working with Habitat for Humanity. More details to come later!

Still time to order shirts, email Alecia Overman your size!

Mugs are now available for sale, email Becky Camarillo if you would like to order!
2 for $12
4 for $20

Guest Speaker
Leon had the pleasure to introduce our guest speaker, John Capps.
John is a "Super Rotarian" from North Carolina, who reminded us tonight of why we all joined Rotary in the first place, what it means to be a Rotarian. He showed us

ROTARY, stands for:
Relationships (building strong bonds within)
Opportunity (Take advantage of it)
Today (today is today, tomorrow is tomorrow)
Attitude (Have the right one, speak up and just say Hello!)
Responsibility (What will be your legacy)
You (you are important and valuable)

Seville Rotary Meeting 10/12/2010

Club News

Next week John Capps will be visiting us. We will be meeting at our regular location & time.

Club T-Shirts
T-Shirts for our club are in the works! They are $15 and if you have not given your size to Alecia. alecia@aoverman.com

Club Pilsner Glasses
2 for $12
4 for $20
Bring your money to Alecia or Becky

Rotary Faces from Equador Calendar
View A Sample of the January Page
Guayaquil Rotary Club District 4400
$12 including shipping & handling
Email Becky if you would like to place an order
becky.camarillo@yahoo.com

Speaker Tonight
No guest speaker. Tonight we had a club networking event.

Announcements
Walk a Mile for Alzheimer's is Saturday, November 13, 2010. Go to the Walk A Mile website to sign up, recruit teammates, and learn more.
Walk A Mile website to sign up

Seville Rotary Meeting 10/5/2010

Club News
Congratulations to Brynn Ammon who accepted the Vice President role of our club!

T-Shirts for our club are in the works! They are $15 and if you have not given your size to Alecia. alecia@aoverman.com

Read and Treat for Oakcrest Elementary School is Oct. 28th. We need candy to pass out so please bring a bag to our meeting.

Speaker Tonight
Carlton Proctor with Pensacola News Journal who gave us some insight on our economy and the positives that our community has seen recently.

Don't forget to bring your dollars bills next week...50/50 is at $179!!


Rotary Foundation Gala for District 6940
November 19, 2010
University Center Club
Florida State University
Tallahasee, FL

Cocktails 6pm
Dinner 646pm

$35 per person

Seville Rotary Meeting 09/28/2010

Visiting Rotarians
Cliff Payne of Pensacola Rotary

Guests

Dove Day of Judson
David Chmiel of Brynn
Richard Turner of Patrick J
Steve Wilmer of Olevia
Lindsey Hutto of Adam E

50/50:
Pot is currently at $171! Kathleen did not pull the joker for both weeks...

Club News:
Pensacola Museum of Art was a cool event last week, thanks to those who could make it! Tuesdays are Free Admission Days

Interested in United Way's Day of Caring? 13 have signed up so far and if you are interested as well, contact Charles James

Oakcrest Elementary Read and Treat night! DON'T FORGET TO START BRINGING HALLOWEEN CANDY IN TO THE MEETING for Oak Crest Read & Treat

SPEAKER: Bill Young
Convert Pensacola Downtown Wastewater Treatment Plant to a World Class Aquarium

Explained how we can convert the site to an aquarium and how its a win win for Pensacola. This kind of project has helped other cities grow like Chattanooga, TN that now has a great downtown atmosphere. It would be a great education piece for our student here and bring more to tourism industry, which is still currently our number 1 industry here.

For more information on how it can be done or who could do, visit marinescape.co.nz

Seville Rotary Meeting 09/21/2010

Meeting was a field trip to the Pensacola Museum of Art

Seville Rotary Meeting 09/14/2010

Groaner - Beau
Pledge - Don
Prayer - Kent
4 Way Test - John P

Happy Dollars
Nick's Kid is walking
Melanie is going to Montreal
Jay had his 4 wisdom teeth pulled without pain
Cantonment Rotary contributed $1000 towards backpacks for Costa Rica

Raffle is up to $171 & Kathleen will draw a card next week.

Notes
Jay introduced the Rotary Woolie to the Club and we raised $13

Kevin gave us some fun Las Vegas facts.

Chad took photos of Rotarians for the district directory. Thank you Alecia for letting the club borrow your camera.

Next week we will meet at the Pensacola Museum of Art.

Seville Rotary Meeting 08/31/2010

Groaner, Jay Overman
Pledge, Ross Shoemaker
Prayer, Josh Rogers
Greeter, Patrick Elebash

Visiting Rotarians: Antonio Terry with Pensacola, Jerald Hall with Subwest and Scott Sollis with Pensacola

Happy Dollars: Happy to announce our club is Happy and had the most Happy Dollars in one night! A total of $18 of Happy things happening!

Club Notes: Governor sent a thank you email to Kevin, who praised us for being the most active club she has seen in awhile!

Brynn gave us a quick rundown of what it is like to work the polls..."hearding cats!"

Don't forget to sign up with Charles James for Day of Caring on October 22nd

Habitat for Humanity, we are now scheduled to help build a house on November 6th! Sign up with Charles James if you are interested!

Message from Chad Stacy: Last week to get your pictures emailed to Aeiko to post! Chad has decided to take pictures with the mouse in the room!!

Grants? Anyone interested in writing Grants? Interested, email Kevin Ryan!

Rotary magazine? Are you getting your magazine? If not let becky know, but read this month because it is very interesting!

the district has a sheltor box if we have want to set up with one!

Any ideas for seafood fest yet?

Anyone a muscian? Let Kevin know!

NO MEETING WILL BE HELD SEPTEMBER 7TH!!!!!

Sept 14th meeting we will be breaking up into our committees so be sure to make it!

50/50: Josh did not pull the joker, so the pot rolls over and getting big!!

Speaker:

Richard A Snyder, Professor / Director
Center for Envoromental Diagnostics and Bioremediation
Oil in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
rsnyder@uwf.edu

www.uwf.edu/cedb/

Wow! This guy had some great information and helped show us what were the myths and the facts about the oil spill here in the gulf. Explained how the fish is safe to eat, what oil is, how oil has always been in our life everyday, what happened to the all the oil, and the future of our ecosystem.

Check out the website above as it has all the information he talked about and more. You can also keep up with the sand and water samples they do daily in our area.

Seville Rotary Meeting 08/24/2010

Rotary Meeting Minutes from Tuesday August 24, 2010

Visiting Rotarians:
Bill Marchi, Subwest
Donna Jacobi, Cantonment
Jack Pruett, Cantonment

Guests:
Mike Myhre, Jerry Cartwright

Happy $$
Josh closed on his new house.
Jerry has been two weeks in a row and Patrick forgot to introduce his guest.
Leon is happy the Reds have a shot at the Pennant.

Club News
Jay started us off with an iReport from the field. He was working the polls hard and had to go after a brief update.

Kevin offered everyone a PBR extravaganza in the Back Alley Bar afterwards and word has it that several people took him up on the offer.

Precinct Partners happening during the meeting. Thank you to Melanie Furman, Kathleen Baldwin, Lynn Hobbs, Becky Camarillo, Brynn Ammon, Jay Overman, Alecia Overman and Aeiko Mitchell for participating.

Stephen is asking for any unused sky miles that people may be able to donate to the Costa Rica Trip.
Tickets are $500-600.

September 21st - Pensacola Museum of Art meeting. We will bring a cooler with drinks and snacks. PMA will give us a presentation and then turn us loose on the museum.

October 20th - United Way Day of Caring.

Around Halloween we will be passing out candy at Oakcrest Elementary.

The Home Brewers Association wants to team up for an event.

The Club Service Committee was holding their first meeting after we adjourned.

Speaker
District Governor Sylvia White was introduce by Leon. She has attended four International Conventions, is involved with Leadership Tallahassee, and is soon heading to Prague to sing with a chorus. There are goals of Rotary on the International, District, Club, and Personal levels. The number one priority is to defeat Polio, and so far we have raised $133m internationally. That’s two-thirds of the amount that Bill and Melinda Gates offered to match. Our District has contributed $60k. There is a new grant funding structure coming in 2013, with more of an emphasis on contributing to the Permanent Fund. Rotary is always rated very high by Reuters for its philanthropic use of funds. At the May 2010 Council Meeting they announced a new fifth avenue of service – New Generations. Part of that effort is to setup strictly online clubs. Those clubs must have a minimum of 20 members to start and dues are as low as $25 a quarter. The next Rotary Leadership Institute is this coming January in Panama City. Other upcoming events are the District’s Membership Seminar and the Tallahassee Foundation Gala. We were encouraged to put Rotary International in our wills

Seville Rotary Meeting 08/17/2010

Rotary Meeting Minutes from Tuesday August 17, 2010

Visiting Rotarians:
Chris Kenny with Five Flags
Johnny Fayard with Subwest

Guests:
Alyson Bayer of Brynn Ammon
Chase Rawson of Ellis Bullock

Happy $$:
Kevin R gave a buck for the progress of the Maritime Park, and a buck for the new mayor forum...
Matt S gave a buck for something about Kentucky...maybe about basketball again.
Beau is happy he has a new defender so his job is easier now!
Johnny gave a buck because he was pleasantly surprised Jay was not President, but Kevin

Club News:
-Thanks Jay for all your efforts in getting the Mayor Forum set up. It was our clubs biggest turnout!
-Every 6 weeks we will have committee meetings instead of our normal meeting during the same time as our normal meeting
Cram the Van was successful...thanks to all who donated
Directory that Chad is working on is in the works. Note: if you do not post a picture of yourself...you may later see a picture the guys randomly found of ya!
Seafood festival is coming up...any ideas on what we can do with them, please let Kevin know

Aug 24th: Poll workers will be working their polls...
Beerfest tickets for sale...see Charles James

Oct 22nd: United Way Day of Caring don't forget to sign up and make a difference!
http://www.unitedwayescambia.org

HBA Home Expo this weekend at the civic center! need tickets, see Alecia!
SEC football is only 19 days away!!!!!

50/50 Kim did not pull the joker, so the pot rolls over next week at $156

Speaker: Mark Casson with Green Acres Farm in McDavid, FL. He runs a small scale organic farm, please stop by his farm and see for yourself on how its done!
Made us aware of how bad the food we eat today is for us...he is Pensacola's Jamie Oliver.

Seville Rotary Meeting 08/10/2010

Combined meeting with PYP and LeaP for the 2010 Mayoral Forum.

Seville Rotary Meeting 08/03/2010

Groaner – Leon

Pledge – Nick King

Prayer – Leon Hirsch

Four Way Test – Beau Peterson

Guests – Frank White

One guest – Courtney Dell, Ballet Pensacola, guest of Brynn Ammon

Happy Dollars

• Jay Overman for the video work in Santa Rosa County by Jason Broxson
• Ellis Bullock for having Kevin back in the President saddle
• Leon Hirsh for Pensacola State hosting the first local Rotary Leadership Institute class
• Leon Hirsh for being the only one who knows the Rotary Prayer
  
• Melanie Furman for clean sand and water at the beach
• Nick Redhead for being back
• Kevin Ryan for being back
  

Club News
Alecia needs a laptop, Beau Peterson to the rescue

Members need to buy raffle tickets to support the club

Mayoral Forum is next week. Jay is the MC

Ellis Bullock and Frank are in LeaP.

We need to get the directory pix from everyone.

This is the last week to sign up for a committee of your choice, otherwise you will be assigned one.

Bring Cram the Van supplies or cash.

No update on the Costa Rica trip

Guest Speaker
Dr. Ed Meadows, President, Pensacola State College

• 1/2 of nurses and 2/3 of first responders in the state are products of the state college system
• Pensacola State is 60% women.
• 44th in the nation in awarding associate degrees.
• Award winning newspaper.
• New focus is on offering workforce-focused degrees and applied degrees. New bachelors programs with focuses on both include BSN (nursing) and BAS (applied science)
• UCF is the only other college in the state offering BAS programs.
• Offer individualized on-line course ‘packages’ for working professionals
• New, ten classroom 33k square foot building in Santa Rosa County
• High priority on branding “Pensacola State” instead of “Pensacola State College” or “PSC”. Initials will come after the brand is established.
• There is an upcoming clay shooting event to raise money
• Pensacola State is experiencing a 10% annual growth rate
  

Questions
Jay Overman – Is there room to grow in Pensacola.
College wants to move away from flat parking lots and towards vertical parking garages.
Still a lot of property in both counties, including 20 acres north of Underwood adjacent to the Pcola campus

Jason Broxson – Where do you see the future of Pensacola heading?
It will depend on the governmental and private industry leadership.
We need to lighten up the working atmosphere for young professionals. Different working hours, relaxed attitude.

Frank White – What areas do we you suggest we diversify jobs into?
Good question, no answer. Look to Ireland for case study.

If you would like to put a team together please email Kevin Ryan kevin_ryan@ml.com

2010 Mayoral Forum

Date: Tuesday, August 10

Time: 5:30 p.m.

Place: Apple Annie's, Seville Quarter

Voters are preparing to elect Pensacola's first strong Mayor in 75 years, but who will get your vote?

PYP, Seville Rotary and LeaP invite you to join us at our 2010 Mayoral Forum on Tuesday, August 10 at 5:30 p.m. in Apple Annie's at Seville Quarter.

Proposed changes on local and state levels will ultimately affect our way of life here in Pensacola. Emcees Jay Overman and Cat Country 98.7's Dana Cervantes won't hesitate to ask the tough questions about topics including Economic Development, Amendment 4, the Maritime Park and BP Oil Spill recovery plans.

All four mayoral candidates will be present:

Charles Bare

Ashton Hayward

Diane Mack

Mike Wiggins

This event is invitation only, so please RSVP your attendance no later than end-of-business on Friday, August 6.
RSVP to rachael@pensacolayp.com

Seville Rotary Meeting 07/27/2010

50/50: Ellis did not pull the joker, so the pot rolls over at $130

Speaker: Retired Lieutenant Commander Kevin King of the National Flight Academy on NAS Pensacola. The NFA is a first of its kind educational facility for high school aged kids based on naval aviation. Mainly for grades 7-12th and opens 2012. A camp that lasts 5 1/2 days and will be state of the art facility...hands on training like we have never seen before with equipment that they train commercial pilots with!

http://www.nationalflightacademy.com

Don't forget your school supplies next week and money for the 50/50 raffle!!!

Seville Rotary Meeting 07/20/2010

Visiting Rotarians:
Jerald Hall, Subwest
Bill Marchi, Subwest
Bob McGill, Destin

Happy $$
Bob McGill, 23 yrs in Rotary and now running for circuit judge!
Bill Marchi, no oil is leaking!

Club News:
Should receive a survey monkey shortly asking which committee each of us would like to participate in

Chad S, membership chair, currently working on a directory for our club

Aeiko, public relation chair, currently working on press release about our club and our recent 1 year annivesary. She is also working on a weekly newsletter to hope those keep up who may have missed a meeting

Heidi Blair who was our speaker last week is still looking for someone to house an axchange student from Japan who lives in the washington high school district. If interested, please email her at hblair@uso.org

We had 7 rotarians sign up to work the polls and if they can now choose to use the money they earn to use towards their trip to Costa Rica

Stephen, costa rica trip is coming together, need to set dates in stone so those attending can start purchasing their airline tickets

United Way, WEAR 3 and Sandy Sansing are craming the van and need our help to collect school supplies. The following is a list of supplies needed: #2 pencils, eraser caps, large pink erasers, washable magic markers, thin magic markers, highlighters, crayola crayons-all counts, colored pencils, wide-ruled loose notebook paper, college-ruled losse notebook paper, elmers school glue, glue sticks, fiskars blunt scissors, fiskars pointed scissors, zipper pouch for pencils with holes for binders, pens--black, blue and red, rulers with centimeters and inches, 3x5 index cards, folders with pockets and prongs, single subject wide rule spiral notebooks, single subject college ruled spiral notebooks, and plastic school boxes.

Events
Dec 4th, Barnes n Noble Bookfair to raise money for Oakcrest Elementary School
Sept 21st meeting will be held at the pensacola museum of art
PYP, Seville Rotary and Leap Alumni Political forum is now August 10th at Apple Annie's

Anyone interested in becoming the official backup support for secretary and treasurer, please let Alecia or Becky know

United Way day of caring is Oct 22nd if you would like to sign up

Charles James was featured in the Pensacola news Journal as one of Pensacola's rising star attorneys…Way to go Charles!

Speaker tonight is Ildi Hosman, with TEAM Santa Rosa - economical development count. www.teamsantarosa.com Great information on how they help bring better jobs to the local area.

Did you know that Milton High School will have the first ever high school aviation academy?!!

50/50: Jerry did not pull the joker, so the pot rolls over next week starting at $131!!!

Pensacola Seville Rotary Club Celebrates One Year

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Pensacola Seville Rotary Club
Contact: Kevin Ryan, Club President
850-434-7065
Kevin_ryan@ml.com

Pensacola Seville Rotary Club Celebrates One Year

Pensacola, FL ., July 19, 2010 --- Over fifty members, along with their families, friends, and visiting Rotarians gathered at Heritage Hall to celebrate the One Year Anniversary of the Pensacola Seville Rotary Club.

The Pensacola Seville Rotary club has fifty-six active members, with the majority of those being charter members.

“Our rotary club is unique because it appeals to a young professional demographic and is the only club in the Pensacola area, and one of only two clubs in the District, which meets in the evenings. We have found that our club is a favorite for make-ups because after work we unwind, network with fellow Rotarians, and then enjoy a presentation by a guest speaker who is usually from our community,” said Aeiko Mitchell, club member.

In its first year, the club has done a number of noteworthy things, including hosting a Group Study Exchange student from India, hosting Rotarian John Capps, raising funds for the Backpacks for Costa Rica International Project, adopting Oakcrest Elementary School, donating two latrines for the Etta Project, participating in Literacy Week and the Brown Barge Career Fair, and welcoming over two hundred visiting Rotarians and Guests.

If the first year is any indication of what is to come this club has a bright future, having received both The District 6940 Governor’s Citation Award and The Presidential Citation Award for the 2009-2010 Rotary year.

Visiting Rotarians and Guests are welcomed to attend the club’s weekly meetings which are held Tuesdays at 5:30pm in Rosie O’Grady’s at Seville Quarter.

For more information about Pensacola Seville Rotary visit http://www.sevillerotary.com or call Kevin Ryan, Club President at 850-434-7065.

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