TUESDAY, SEPT. 6, 2005
Last Week (8/30): Thoroughbred Breeding in This Week (9/6): Road
Trip! Edison Exploratarium –
Thurston Sack Sept. 12: Orientation for new Rotarians at Sept.
15: Gift of Life Golf
and Bocci Tournament Sept. 24:
8:30 a.m. Knock down bridges at Cloverpatch; rain date Oct. 1 Sept. 20:
Serotta - Competition Bicycles Sept.
27: Hal and Joyce Davis - Beefalo -- it’s for dinner too! Invocation: Dan, Bob, Garry
Calendar of Events
Events Coming Up:
Suggestions for future programs may be given to Linda LeTendre
BHBL Rotary
Thursday Golf – More Fun for less $$$$$$$$
This reporter is happy to inform that a growing number of
club members are joining the ranks of Thursday morning golf at the Galway Golf
Course on
Early this summer, three of our members started getting
together on Thursday morning for nine holes of golf. It’s been such a pleasant
experience, our numbers have been growing. A round
takes one and one half to two hours to complete. The course is a wide open with
no bunkers and a few water hazards.
There are three par four holes and the others are par three. Those 62
and older pay $9. Anyone under, deserves to pay more. I think it is $10 or $11.
We end the session normally sipping some lemonade.
Last Thursday
we had the best showing yet, with two threesomes. It was also rumored that Earl
“The Pearl” was out on the course with Chuck McLaughlin. Playing last week were
“Slam’n” Paul Lewandowski, “On the green in one” Youmans, “Money bags” Crotty, “Smooth
Stroke” Morrow, “Birdie” Anderson and “+Velocity but ? direction” Caine. It’s
been a lot of fun. You don’t loose too many balls. And, you get to spend some
time with great Rotarians.
All are welcome -- just show up!!!
News Briefs
Visiting Rotarian Don Kessler gave
a wonderful Invocation. It was agreed
that Happy Dollars would go to a Putting Contest during the Gift of Life Golf
Tournament. Ron Serapillio presented an outstanding
Minute for Rotary.
He shared an article from Rotary
Magazine on the Seven Habits of Highly Successful Rotarians. They are:
1. Consistent Attendance
2. A high regard for fellowship
3. Respect for all vocations and
avocations
4. Discipline for carrying out worthy
enterprises
5. A balanced use of time, money and
energy
6. Being more empathetic
7. Always remember that we want a
positive face for Rotary in the Community.
Garry Morrow provided an update on
the Gift of Life Golf Tournament.
We still can use more golf players. If you
want to participate, contact Garry. Ron
and Gini are our two Bocci players and we need more.
Please volunteer. You’ll have a lot
of fun. Contact Ron if you want to play.
Paul Lewandowski passed out posters for the Oct 22 Apple Run. Gini
asked those who have not provided
her their spouse’s or significant others name for the Rotary database to please
do so.
Thoroughbred
Breeding in NY State
Dennis Brad, Executive Director of
the NY State Breeding Assoc. gave
a very interesting presentation on
the nature and significant growth of NYS’s thoroughbred breeding industry. He
described how through the 1973 creation
of the State Breeding and Development
Fund, NY has become the fourth lead-
ing state for breeding in the
has gone from 350 members to 1,050
members.
The
Breeding and Development Fund is the basis of an incentive pro-gram to
encourage thoroughbred breeding in NY State. A .7% tax is levied on
all wagers at Aqueduct,
State born foal
that are winners in NYS horse races. If the foal of a NY State
born mare wins in NY, the breeder
will be awarded from the Breeding and Development Fund, 20% of the purse. If a
breeder buys a mare from out of
state, and it drops a foal in NY State
that subsequently wins NY State races
the breeder is awarded 10%. There
is also a program for NY State stallions.
In the case of a foal of a NY State
stallion winning a race in NY, the stallion
owner gets 8% of the purse from the
fund.
Dennis
concluded his program by giving President Rey a beautiful print
of Funny Cide. It will be raffled-off at the Apple Pie Fest. Hats and
book-bags donated by Dennis were auctioned off at the meeting and an additional
$120
was raised for Gift of Life.
WEBSITES: BHBL Rotary: www.bhblrotary.org District 7190: www.capitalregionrotary.org
Please communicate corrections, news items, program information and
scheduled
events to: Dick O’Rourke at 372-8287 robrwo@aol.com or Gini Whetten at 399-8905
giniwhetten@cs.com;
This weeks reporter – Steve Caine