Our annual winter social is always a fun evening out with our fabulous Sunrise Rotary friends!

We are repeating last year's approach of holding our Winter Social downtown as part of restaurant week--Saturday, February 27th.

The Franklin has once again offered us the privacy of their upper level dining room (the indoors one - don't panic).

Cocktails at 6pm

Dinner at 7pm

Please sign up online (see link in our Events calendar) so we can give them an accurate headcount.

On a related note--at our meeting last week you heard Becky Ewing RAVE about the FABULOUS Lebanese dinner which she bid on at last year's winter social. The dinner she referenced was donated by Vic and Georgia Geha as part of the on-site silent auction. For those that are new to the club, members donate items which often include donations of fun experiences, like VIc's dinner. Proceeds of the silent auction are directed to Rotary Foundation Annual Fund to help us achieve the required $100 per capita annual giving level to make us eligible for matching grants. If you have something you'd like to donate, please contact Nancy.

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1. Mark O Riley, 69th Leadership Conference, need to fill slots. Target attendee is bright & energetic high school students that exhibit great leadership qualities. This is a 4 day conference at Kettunen Center in Tustin (just south of Cadillac). Details for candidates are found are at our District website.
2. Sunrise at Sunset is next Thursday, January 28th at Sorrelina's (after hours). We hope to see lots of you there!
3. Our Annual Winter Social will be held Saturday evening, February 27th at Franklin. This is the closing night of TC Restaurant Week. We enjoyed a great evening at this venue in 2015 and chose to repeat given the fun, central location. We will be upstairs in our own dining area. Payment will be directly with restaurant.
4. Doug Kosch indicated he has 12 high school girls available to do service projects – contact Doug
5. Marcia Billings and her assistant announced the Super Bowl Squares fundraiser by the evening club
6. Laura & Ryan reminded us to bring toiletries items for backpacks

Jim Stoops did his classification talk using power point photos for great effect. Jim grew up in the Garden State as an active youngster, heavily involved in music, sports, and of course academics. After successful high school years where Jim excelled at baseball and basketball, he wanted to go to college in the south so he could pursue his dream of playing baseball.
Jim attracted interest from the U of South Carolina and became a Gamecock. While there he not only earned a degree in business but also developed into a good pitcher – which earned him a contract with the San Francisco Giants. He worked his way up thru the minor leagues and in 1999 was called up to the majors with the Colorado Rockies. Jim pitched in the majors for several years until arm injuries (and surgeries) derailed him. He got into financial advising in Phoenix and married Karen (Susan Carlyon’s daughter) in 2004. They moved to Chicago with their two boys and after several years, decided Traverse City was where they wanted to be. The family moved to TC in summer of 2014 and Jim joined Susan and Steve in their financial management firm.

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