Newton, New Jersey                          May 20, 2020                  Carolyn Ottenbreit, Editor

• Alice is happy that items continue to sell on Ebay.  She recently sold CDs for our Club. Please reach out to Alice at bestwayprinting@yahoo.com if you have items to sell to benefit Newton Rotary.
• Jim is happy for Barbara’s cookies.
• Barbara is happy to be in Florida!
• George Kaiser was happy to discover that his new neighbors are also Rotarians.
• Mark Hontz is happy for the Kittatinny HS band’s recent “virtual performance”, now available on UTube.

• Our Rotary District 7475 is matching Paul Harris points, to a maximum of 100,000 points, on donations to the Rotary Foundation through the month of May.  Newton Rotary has its $ goals for the year, but is lagging in participation.  If you have not yet made a contribution to the Rotary Foundation for the 2019-2020 fiscal year, or if you have already made a donation but would like to do more in the current environment, you can go to the Foundation website at www.rotary.org/give and login with your Clubrunner ID to give online.  Other options include downloading the Rotary Foundation Contribution Form to send a check, or mail a check to our Foundation Chair, Steve Wescott, and he will forward it to the Foundation (this last option may be too slow for matching points, given my recent experience with the post office).
• The Fair has been cancelled!  We are exploring other fundraising ideas and are open to suggestions.
• The Pancake Breakfast, scheduled for May 2^nd, has been postponed to October 17th. It is not too late to renew your placemat ad!  If you did not receive a letter, please contact Todd Lattig, our Pancake Breakfast Chair, at pastor.toddlattig@gmail.com . 
• We had tentatively planned a dinner at the Wallpack Inn on June 27^th, in lieu of this year’s Garden Party.  At this time, the Wallpack Inn is closed.  We will continue to look for opportunities to gather as a group as the economy reopens.
• Please contact Pam if you wish to be added to the on call list to volunteer at Manna House.
• Kurt Walton gave us an update on the scholarship selection process, which is being handled by the school Guidance Counselors this year because we cannot conduct interviews.  Once students are selected, we will send scholarship checks directly to the students, in lieu of our usual scholarship awards lunch meeting.
• The District is running a district-wide 50/50, with 50% of sales distributed to the clubs.  If you are interested in selling, or buying, tickets, please contact President Carolyn at carolyn_ottenbreit@gmail.com.  The new draw date is June 25^th.