Saturday, February 9, 2013

Valentine's Day Countdown - 4 Days!


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Today is Sunday, February 10, 2013.

Valentine’s Day Countdown: 4 Days

 From the Rotary Club of Frederick County, Virginia, USA

THIS TUESDAY

Weekly Club Membership & Breakfast Meeting
7:30 AM Tuesday morning, February 12, 2013
Shenandoah University
Allen Dining Hall – Clement Board Room

Speaker: Dave Smith, Past President and Charter Member of the Rotary Club of Frederick County; Executive Director of Special Love

Program: True Colors the 2013 Rotary Youth Leadership Conference. 

THE REST OF THE MONTH - FEBRUARY 2013

The RI Theme for February is World Understanding Month
Malcolm Van de Riet is responsible for February Programs
Marietta Walls and Dave Compton - Gatekeepers for February

February 2013 Club Activities

District Award Applications Due, Long Range Planning, Pub Crawl Planning Continues, Harlem Ambassadors Basketball Marketing Starts, Register for District Conference, GSE Team Visit Planning, Golf Tournament Planning Starts, Speakers and Programs for March 2013 Confirmed

February 2012 Club Events, Meetings & Programs

*Note change of meeting day from Wednesday to Thursday -February 14 - 8:00 a.m. at Daily Grind on Jubal Early Drive – The Harlem Ambassadors Basketball Event Committee - All members are welcome.  Attending counts as a make-up. Your help is needed to make this fundraiser a success.

February 14th – Valentine’s Day

February 19th – 7:30 a.m. at SU - Club Meeting Dakota's Dream Animal Rescue, Alicia Aston, President, Stephanie Brooks, Treasurer and Carrie Knupp, Junior Board Co-Coordinator.  www.dakotasdream.com

February 19th – 8:35 a.m. - PR Committee Meeting - Agenda includes: All members are welcome.  Attending counts as a make-up.  Come join Kitty, John, Doug and Steve brainstorm about exciting ways to promote our club events and Rotary.

February 21st – 5:30 p.m. at V2– Pub Crawl Committee Meeting - You know who you are.  Please attend this one.

February 26th – 7:30 a.m. at SU - Club MeetingFran Ricketts with CCAP.  Click for CCAP: http://ccapwinc.org/CCAP/Welcome.html

February 28th – 6:00 p.m. – Club Bowling Social, Northside Lanes

CLUB BOWLING SOCIAL - February 28th

The Club Bowling Social is planned for Thursday evening, February 28, 2013 at Northside Bowling Lanes.  So far we have about 30 attending.  Contact Bill North if you want to attend.

AREA 1 – STOP HUNGER NOW – March 2nd

Stop Hunger Now Meal Packaging Event.
Event Host - Area One Rotary Clubs

Join the movement to end hunger in our lifetime! Help us reach our goal to package 50,000+ meals on March 2nd. Working together we can create a world without hunger.

When:
Saturday
March 2, 2013
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Where:
Hanley High School
425 Handley Boulevard
Winchester, VA 22601

Click here to view the event webpage:


DISTRICT CONFERENCE – March 15th

Click here to register for the District Conference: 


CLUB BOWLING SOCIAL - February 28th

The Club Bowling Social is planned for Thursday evening, February 28, 2013 at Northside Bowling Lanes.  So far we have about 30 attending.  Contact Bill North if you want to attend.

BASKETBALL FUNDRAISER – March 22nd

The Harlem Ambassadors Basketball Fundraiser event at Sherando High School will be held Friday evening, March 22, 2013 to raise funds for a Habitat House to be built in 2014.

A special thanks to Jim Stutzman for sponsoring the event and for Mike Perry for sponsoring the event clean-up.

Click here to see how GREAT this event will be:


2nd ANNUAL PUB CRAWL – April 16th

The next committee meeting will be held February 21st at 5:30 pm at V2 Restaurant.

Integrity Home Mortgage and Potesta Engineering are the first two sponsors on-board already for the second year of this fun event.

2nd ROTARY GOLF TOURNAMENT - June 28th

 The date has been set for the 2nd Rotary Golf Tournament at the Winchester Country Club.  Tee time is 1:00 p.m.  Ryan Oates is chairing this fundraising event again.

THE FOUR-WAY TEST

Is it the truth?

Is it fair to all concerned?

Will it build goodwill and better friendships?

Will it be beneficial to all concerned?

VALENTINE’S DAY – February 14th

The earliest surviving valentine is a 15th-century rondeau written by Charles, Duke of Orléans to his wife, which commences.

Je suis desja d'amour tanné
Ma tres doulce Valentinée...

—Charles d'Orléans, Rondeau VI, lines 1–2

At the time, the duke was being held in the Tower of London following his capture at the Battle of Agincourt, 1415.

The earliest surviving valentines in English appear to be those in the Paston Letters, written in 1477 by Margery Brewes to her future husband John Paston "my right well-beloved Valentine".

The verse Roses are red echoes conventions traceable as far back as Edmund Spenser's epic The Faerie Queene (1590):

She bath'd with roses red, and violets blew,
And all the sweetest flowres, that in the forrest grew.

The modern cliché Valentine's Day poem can be found in the collection of English nursery rhymes Gammer Gurton's Garland (1784):

The rose is red, the violet's blue,
The honey's sweet, and so are you.
Thou art my love and I am thine;
I drew thee to my Valentine:
The lot was cast and then I drew,
And Fortune said it shou'd be you.

In case you've forgotten:

Roses Are Red

Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
Sugar is sweet.
And so are you.

-Anonymous

Have some fun. Make up your own Valentine Day poem. Remember?

Go here to find out how: http://www.gigglepoetry.com/poetryclass/roses.html

Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
This Rotary QUICK READ
Is just for you.

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