This club has fun with everything they do!  Here club members stuff runners packets in preparation for the up-coming Bay 5/10-K Run/Walk for Charities. 

Petoskey Rotary Sunrise recognizes six “Rotary International Paul Harris Fellows”.  This designation is given to those Rotarians that donate $1,000 to the Rotary International Foundation for international projects.  Many Rotarians earning multiple awards often designate others.  Recognitions were given to:  Dennis Kan (designated by his father Jim Kan); Diane Beever (designated by her sister Pat Ryde); Randy Galloway, John Johnson, Mike Malone and Bill Brower.

 

Club members gathered for the annual "Charities Breakfast" in early December.  It's a great time to hear from some of the local charities our club supports both financially and with manpower.  This year the club donated $4,500 to six local charities.  Pictured (L-R):  Larry Wood-YMCA, Grace Ketchum - Camp Daggett, Major Mathew Grindel - Salvation Army, Kelly Clark - Red Cross, Jan Mancinelli - Womens Resource Center, Kathy Hart - Manna and Carlin Smith - Rotary Sunrise Donations Committee Chair.

The club started as a "provisional club" sponsored by the Petoskey Noon Rotary in December 1997 with a handful of members and has grown to a membership of 45 and has raised and donated over $150,000 to local and international charities.  The club has also named 19 "Paul Harris Fellows" during this time.  Nine Charter members remain active in the club.  (L-R) Dan Rasumssen, Sean Pollion, Joe Kanine, Rod Niswander, Jim Kan (Charter President),  Jerry VanSlembrouck, John Johnson and Jim Connaughton.  (missing from photo: Bill Brower)

Club President Tim Murphy welcomes John Luckhardt to the club.  Jon has a degree from Michigan State and is a Mechanical Engineer with Ventilation Plus Equipment in Harbor Springs.  Jon and his wife live in Petoskey.  Welcome Jon!

Over 70 brave souls came out on a cold and rainy Saturday to run and walk in the Annual Petoskey Sunrise Rotary Bay 5/10 K Run/Walk for Charity.  Club members were active in securing sponsorships and that, coupled with race registration fees netted $6,000 for local charities.  The weather was bad, but spirits were high as everyone enjoyed doing their part to assist local organizations.

The Petoskey Rotary Sunrise Club presented Rotary International Paul Harris Fellow Designations to club members Tim Murphy and Del Ingalls.  The Paul Harris Fellow designation recognizes those that contribute $1000 to the Rotary Foundation for international projects.  Congratulations Tim and Del.

Club Rotary Foundation Chair Jim Kan (right) presents the designations to Del Ingals (left) and Tim Murphy (center)

"Tim Murphy (in-coming Sunrise Rotary President) accepts the gavel from outgoing Club President Jenny Brower.  Over eighty Sunrise Rotarians and their guests gathered for their annual cookout and officer exchange.  Other club board members for the coming year include Keith Williams - vice president, Brandi Wolf - secretary, Matt Most - treasurer, Doug Brown - board member, Kathy Hart - board member, Bill Peek - world community service, Jim Kan - rotary foundation, Dan Rasmussen - membership, Carlin Smith - contributions, Sara Darooge - PR/Marketing.  The Petoskey Sunrise Rotary club meets every Tue morning, 7:30am at the Petoskey United Methodist Church.  

Welcome new member Jeremy McBain

President Andy Hayes (right), accepts banner from Honduras Rotarians, Charles and Jackie in banner exhange. 

Sunrise Rotary Members Tim Murphy, Andy Hayes and Jim Kan clean up a section of the Petoskey Bike Path as part of the MDOT Adopt-A-Highway Program... 

Photo 1: Sunrise Rotary member Dave Meyer and Chef Shane Brown explain the Venison for Manna Project to hungry participants at the dinner.  Photo 2: Sunrise Rotary members that cooked the venison, chicken and side dishes were Joe Kanine, Stan Smith and John Johnson under the watchful eyes of Chef Shane Brown.

 

 Attendance:  22 Members 4 Guests

Annoucements: Bay 5K - Be sure you have October 2nd on your calendar.  Everyone will be needed to help that morning.  2) The club has chosen to clean up Camp Petosega as our Day of Caring Project on Sept 14th.  Please sign up to help if you can, if not plan to join us for a social hour at 5:00.  3) Pedal for Polio will take place Sunday afternoon Sept 12th; 3 ways to participate - bike, pledge or help transport.

Sunrise Rotarians paint the fence at the Womens Resource Center as part of the annual "United Way Day of Caring"

(Top) Stephanie Baldwin, Son Gus and Pat Ryde  (Bottom) Dan Robinson, Bill Brower, Pat Ryde, Stephanie Baldwin, Jenny Brower 

Painting equipment and paint was donated by Complete Paint & Supply - and Harbor/Brenn Insurance  A fun time was had by one and all - and the fence looks terrific!

Welcome to Petoskey Rotary Sunrise's newest member... Geoff Guillaume.  Sponsored by Rod Niswander Geoff was officially inducted on July 24.  With his membership, our club just keeps getting better and better.  Geoff lives in Petoskey, is employed at The Clothes Post and his Rotary classification is "Tailor/Retail Sales".  Welcome Geoff!

Welcome Dan Robinson (Bay Life Magazine) and Dan McDonnell (Physician).  Both long-time residents of Petoskey and we appreciate the high level of "coolness" they bring to the Club! 

Record turnout (18 club members); Record pickup (over 26 bags of litter in two locations) and record time (we were heading home by 9:30)



 Adopt a Highway pickup day a big success.  The fun began at 7am with breakfast at JW Filmores, (and making sure everyone saw the safety video) followed by clean up crews hitting our US 131 section between Walloon Lake Junction and River Road (approx 2 miles) and our bike path section which is approx 1.5 miles behind Glens North.  Lots of fun and as you can imagine, we had as much fun at breakfast as we did "communing with nature" on the service project. 

Recipients of Petoskey Rotary Sunrise Annual Donations from left to right: Matt Major, Salvation Army; Jan Mancinelli Women's Resource Center; Kathy Hart, Manna Food Project; Kenya Swiss, Petoskey Little League; Grace Ketchum, Camp Daggett; Ron Wolford, Red Cross; and Larry Wood from YMCA. 

 

Members of the Sunrise Rotary conducted another successful "Pedal for
Polio" bike ride this year. The annual event featured a bike ride
from Charlevoix to Petoskey with a cookout. Members raised money for
the international Rotary effort to end Polio on the planet by raising
pledges.

 

 We did it!  Petoskey Rotary Sunrise members joined over 100 other community volunteers and packaged over 32,000 meals in less than two hours for the Manna Food Pantry.  Here club members (a.k.a "well-oiled-machine") worked on an assembly line to package macaroni & cheese dinners.

 

Petoskey Rotary Sunrise club members clown around with Rotary District Governor Jane Millar at her official “club visit” this week.  During her program, Dist Gov. Millar discussed various regional and international projects that Rotary is involved with.  The Petoskey Rotary Sunrise has the youngest average age of any club in the District that stretches from Grand Rapids to Wa Wa, Canada and this past year grew by 25%.

Club member Bill Peek, presents a Paul Harris Fellow award to Don
McCarty of Petoskey, for his efforts with the African relief
organization SAME. In making the presentation Peek mentioned that Don
McCarty, through his efforts to help those in Africa exemplies what
Rotary International Service is all about.

Petoskey Rotary Sunrise Newest Members Pat Ryde and Dave Woods (with President, Jenny Brower middle). 

 In-coming Petoskey Rotary-Sunrise President Jenny Brower accepts the gavel from outgoing President Andy Hayes at the club’s annual Officer Exchange Night.  Over 65 members and guests gathered for a cookout to celebrate another successful year of service to the community and install Brower as club President for the Rotary year 2011-2012. 

 

Club President Jenny Brower welcomes our newest member Paul
Motschall. Paul, a Rotarian since 1987, was a member of the Petoskey
Noon Club before moving to Traverse City where he was an active member
of the TC Sunrise Rotary Club. Paul and his wife Kathy moved back to
Petoskey recently and we are excited to have Paul join our club.

  

 Rotarian, Tom Taylor (Venice, Florida) exchanges club flag with Petoskey Rotary Sunrise President, Andy Hayes.  Tom and his wife are spending the summer in Petoskey and is a regular attendee at our club meetings.

Rotarian, Lloyd Flanders (Del Mar, California) exchanges club flag with Petoskey Rotary Sunrise President, Jenny Brower. 

 

 

 

Here , NCMC Foundation Director Sean Pollion (center) accepts the donation from Club President, Andy Hayes and Club Treasurer, Kristy Fralick

Our Sunrise Rotary Club will be hosting the Rotary Group Study Exchange Team from Norway June 5-8 in Petoskey.  Monday June 7, 5:30pm there will be a fun reception at the Noggin Room in Petoskey.  Tue, June 8, 7:30am at the Petoskey United Methodist Church, the GSE Team will present a program on Norway at the Sunrise Rotary Meeting.

This fun Run/Walk event takes place on Saturday, October 2nd on the historic grounds of the Bay View Association in Petoskey, MI.  Each year the event gets bigger and last year over 120 runners and walkers helped raise over $5,000 for local charities.  Come join the fun for a great cause!

Rotary-Sunrise officers complete training:  Joe Kanine (center) congratulates Andy Hayes (left) and Jenny Brower (right) upon completion of Rotary President Elect Training.  Hayes will serve as Club President and Brower Vice President beginning July 1, 2010.  There were approx 650 participants in the multi-district and state training held in Kalamazoo.  During the three day event, participants learned about all aspects of Rotary, from international service to local club operations. 

Rotary Sunrise President Joe Kanine gives a donation to Petoskey High School Band member Derek Rasmussen for the purchase of a new band uniform.  The PHS Band Boosters are raising over $85,000 to replace uniforms for the highly recognized high school band that are over 20 years old.

 

In a unique project, the Sunrise Rotary Club facilitated over 200 lbs of venison to be donated to the Manna Food Pantry.  The club received donations from local hunters and arranged for a local meat processor to donate the processing.  The venison was ground and  packaged into one pound packages and distributed along with recipes.  This actually was a "pilot project" to work out the details.  Next year the goal is to donate 1000 lbs.

Club Member Steve Hajek and wife Flo volunteer to unload the Semi-Truck from Grand Rapids with food supplies for our local Manna Food Bank.

Manna is one of Petoskey Rotary-Sunrise's core projects.  In addition to financial assistance, club members volunteer manpower on a regular basis. ]]>

Watch this great movie clip that shows Northern Michigan in 1949.  It runs just short of 9 minutes.  You'll recognize many of the scenes and you will absolutely enjoy every bit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMR7veI78f8