Rotateller Rotary Club of Owego, NY
Tuesday, October 10, 2006 Gary Williams, Editor

VISITORS AND GUESTS:

• Kathy Roush, a recent Paul Harris Fellow and guest of Carolyn Galatzan
• Tina Price
• Aja Lans, of OFA’s Interact club
• Jane Sindoni, Kim Houseworth, and Devon Parker, our speakers
• Our exchange students: Mrinalini Koka Siddhartha, from India, and Suzanne Schagen, from Holland.

MUSIC:

Carl and Carole led us in “America the Beautiful.”

FINES:

Ed Arrington fined those who did not go to the pumpkin festival.

HAPPY DOLLARS:

Orv and Carolyn were happy to have been in California last week and also happy to be home. Several people were happy that the Rotary table at the Tioga Chamber of Commerce business show was a success.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

• We will clean-up the area around Route 17’s exit 64 on Saturday, October 21 (with the 28th as a rain date). Wear old clothes and gloves and park at the fire station on the south side. Jeannette McMullen will make it fun by having prizes for items found during the clean-up: most unique, largest, and most unspeakable. No “seeding” the night before is permitted.
• If you haven’t done so yet, please pay your dues in the next two weeks or risk having fines added to what you owe. The club has already paid your fee to Rotary International.
• Cookies are needed for the Youth Exchange orientation meeting on Sunday, October 22. Contact Laura Costello and let her know what you can contribute.
• ROTARY FOUNDATION BANQUET: October 19.

PROGRAM:

Our guests spoke about MySpace.com, the internet site popular with children and teens. We saw sample pages, learned about the content, and heard some cautions about the site. Over 110 million people world-wide now use MySpace for blogging, chatting, forums, email, groups, games, music, and more. Users create home pages with personal information and links to friends. The pages can be set to “private” so only authorized persons can view the pages and anyone under 18 is automatically set to private. Security concerns abound as there is no verification or limitation of information young people give about themselves and no checking of actual ages. Many high schools have MySpace sites which are closely watched. MySpace is only one of the online communities frequented by young people.

50/50 Ed via Doyle Gibbs

Note from Judy Kip: We have a black metal easel left from the business show last week. If it’s yours please let me know (687-0993) and I will get it to you.

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