50-50 RAFFLE
Mickey Northcutt and Roberta Cantor - no winners
CALENDAR RAFFLE
Sold to: Frank Clocher
Sold by: Hawthorne Hotel
GUESTS AND VISITING ROTARIANS
Assistant District Governor Kang Yu attended the meeting.
Jacob Segal had 2 guests: Former member Beth Bower and Adria Leach.
Patrick Langmaid's guest was Scott McDonald.
Dick Lutts' guest was Linda Atkins.
FINES AND RECOGNITIONS
Viktoria Talebian is celebrating her birthday and donating $75 to the Birthday Fund. With children who are 13, 10, and 8, can anyone figure out Viktoria's age if she adds the children's ages with her own for the total donated? Also, Viktoria's son, William, is enjoying day 5 out of 8 in China.
Bruce Whear's oldest son turned 25.
Rob Lutts spent time in Phoenix at a solar energy conference.
Maryann Curtin announced that Probate & Family Court is moving to Shetland Office Park. Maryann's granddaughter is improving and able to attend language arts for 2 hours per day at school. She is planning to run fall track and a 1/2 marathon!
Dick Lutts amused the group with a joke!
Mike McLaughlin reminded all that they are welcome to visit Camp Rotary any time over the RYLA weekend, May 30th and June 1st. "80 kids are participating, so come by and check it out!" Mike also passed in a donation to the Birthday Fund.
Roberta spent Passover in the Northeast Kingdom with her sisters, and Easter with her granddaughter in Milton.
Chris Casey spent the weekend preparing for his year as Rotary President by developing his committees and assigning co-chairs. He thanks those who helped him.
Liz Bradt and her husband enjoyed exploring the Danvers Rail Trail that currently goes to Topsfield. It will eventually extend to Newburyport.
Mark Leavitt announced that our Club is conducting a drive for the Northeast Animal Shelter that needs 6' leashes and dog and cat beds. Bring them to the Salem Car Wash at 51 Canal Street within the next couple of weeks.
CLUB ANNOUNCEMENTS
Rotary District Conference is May 2-4 in Portland, ME.
There is a card going around for signatures for Mary Ann Lyons.
Claudia Chuber's father passed away.
Joanne Scott's father passed away.
Reminder - next week's meeting (the 29th) is an evening social event at the Adriatic Restaurant. Thanks to Trip for all of his hard work. The social meeting starts at 5pm.
The May 6th meeting is a morning breakfast meeting. Anthony Silva of WBZ will be the speaker. Thanks to Bruce Whear for organizing this and to Viktoria for pulling it together.
SPEAKER OF THE WEEK
Mickey introduced our speaker, John Andrews, a Salem resident and photographer. This past year John provided the beautiful photos for the Rotary calendar. John owns a marketing company called Social Palates (not pilates!)
John said that he is a former chef, so that is where the company's name originated. It also is related to "people's tastes".
John grew up in Stoneham, but loves Salem because it is so lively with events, coffee shops, and a sense of community.
His company serves as an "umbrella" service for small businesses who, like big businesses, need promotion, marketing, and web design. John promotes events, products, food, fine art, etc. He wants to give great value to small businesses and hopes that his pictures will be used.
John follows Chris Brogan, father of social media, marketing, etc. who says that everything in marketing is personal and about telling the story. So, when John consults with a business he wants to know what is the business trying to tell people? Who is the business and why should people care? The answer to these questions can be depicted by John through stunning visuals. Web designs should be clean and gorgeous, letting the pictures tell the story because they are the most sharable and visual content.
John's consultation includes advising clients how they can be more integrated into the community...what events should a business person attend?
John discussed a project that he has begun called "We Are Salem". It is Instagram based. Every day someone different, who has signed up ahead of time, takes photos throughout the day. Everything is allowed as long as it is in Salem. Nothing is inappropriate as long as there is not blatant advertising involved. This project will have 365 perspectives of Salem by the end of the year! It already includes 5,000 photographs! In fact, Juli Lederhaus is scheduled to have a photo day soon.
John would like to have an Art Show about the "We Are Salem" project so that everyone's work could be seen. He also wants to include the photos on postcards, books, and other items. Eventually, he will have a APP for this project.
John has been asked to do "tie-in" projects. As an example, he did a Salem sketch by photographing 90 Salem residents and producing a video that includes those photos. In addition, John has worked on the PEM Artopia project.
NEXT WEEK'S SPEAKER
The April 29th meeting is an evening social meeting being held at Adriatic Restaurant at 5pm.
HERO QUOTE
"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction." ~John F. Kennedy
