Thursday, March 24, 2011

Visiting Rotarian

Roselle / Roselle Park Rotarian Hanan Jacobs visited the Cranford Rotary Club this morning and told our Club about their upcoming Annual Spaghetti Dinner March 26th at the Community United Methodist Church, Roselle Park, NJ.



2011 Cranford Rotary Golf Outing


Save the Date
July 18, 2011
Echo Lake Country Club

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Mark Spina from "The Theater Project" addresses Cranford Rotary

The Theater Project, a professional theater troop that currently stages productions at the Union County College, will soon need to find a new home. They are looking for a location that can accommodate between 75 and 200 people.

Begun in 1994, THE THEATER PROJECT, is known for its color-blind casting policy and provocative “actor’s view theater” seating" -- the audience is on-stage with the actors, “where the action is.”

A production of The African Company Presents  Richard III, by Carlyle Brown is scheduled to run from April 28th to May 15th. 

Based on a true story, 134 years before Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus, 108 years before Martin Luther King, Jr was born, and 6 years before enslavement of blacks fully ended in New York state, a theater company of free black actors was passionately performing Shakespearean adaptations and original works in front of packed houses in 1821 Manhattan. The African Company, as they were known, then dared to open their production of Richard III on the same night and right next door to another Richard III production by New York City's leading theater of the time starring English tragedian Junius Brutus Booth. The African Company's refusal to close down and capitulate to the pressure of their white competitors is depicted in this provocative and empowering drama.

Past productions have included:
2011 Astonishment
2010 Manuscript By Paul Grellong
Why Torture Wrong .... and the  People Who Love Them
Crowns
2009 The Smell of the Kill
Psycho Beach Party
Ruby Sunrise
2008 Fully Committed
Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage
Defying Gravity
2007 Omnium Gatherum
Valhalla
It's a Wonderful Life
Open Admissions
2006
The Road to Mecca
The Lady in Question
The Skin of Our Teeth
2005 Three Tall Women
Jackie, An American Life
Music from a Sparkling Planet
2004 • Top Girls
• Betty's Summer Vacation
• The Mystery of Irma Vep
2003 • Having Our Say
• A Wilde Night in the Rockies
• Pterodactyls
2002 • All in the Timing
• The Food Chain
• Artist Descending a Staircase
2001 • The Dining Room
• Empty Plate at the Café du Grande Boueff
• How I Learned to Drive
2000 • The Golden Fleece & The Problem
• Defying Gravity
• What I Did Last Summer
1999 • The Little Playwright
• The Food Chain
1998 • A Chekhov Kaliedoscope
• The Dining Room
1997 • For Tiger Lilies Out of Season
• The Great Illusion: Soviet Theater
• A Durang Evening
• The Waiting Room
1996
• The Actor's Nightmare, Inc.
    1. Desire, Desire, Desire
    2. For Whom The Southern Belle Tolls
• Three One Acts:
    1. The Golden Fleece
    2. Wanda in the Living Room
    3. Sightings
1995 • Open Admissions
• Beyond Therapy
• Oleanna
1994 • Six Degrees of Separation

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Two Club Presidents

Roselle / Roselle Park Rotary Club President Pat Spagnoletti (left) receives a Cranford Rotary coffee mug from Cranford Rotary President Al Ugarte.

Thanks to all the R/RP Club members who made it to today's meeting. See you all next time at your place!

St. Patrick's Day Fun at Rotary

Cranford Rotarian Vincent Spada greets leprechaun Paddy O'Furniture (Rotarian Dan Crowley) at today's meeting.

For more about leprechauns, check out this link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprechaun

Trivia: Prior to the 20th century, it was generally held that the leprechaun wore red, not green!

Cranford's Health Inspector Warren J. Hehl Addresses Joint Meeting of Rotary

Warren J. Hehl, Health Inspector for the Township of Cranford (shown here with Club President Al Ugarte) addressed this morning's annual joint meeting of the Cranford Rotary Club and the Roselle / Roselle Park Rotary Club.


Mr. Hehl explained the particulars of the new recycling laws enacted through the NJDEP that affect both residential and commercial property owners.

For those of you who were not able to attend today's meeting, below is a link to the State of New Jersey DEP website on recycling.


http://www.state.nj.us/dep/dshw/recycling/

Friday, March 04, 2011

Guest Speaker

March Guest Host Kathy Willis greets Cranford Patch Editor Michelle Walbaum and Senior Advertising Manager Sharmonique Shade at a recent Cranford Rotary meeting.

Patch is an Online Community and internet-based news media focused on local news and events. It also offers free listings for local downtown and home-based businesses looking for a web presence.

Their website is cranford.patch.com.

Contact Michelle at michelle@patch.com
or, Sharmonique at sharm@patch.com for more information.

Guest Speaker

Rotarian Kathy Willis greets Union County Freeholder Betty Jane Kowalski.

The recent Guest Speaker to the Club and spoke about services the county provides to its citizens, including the Union County MusicFest held at Oak Ridge Park in Clark.

Guest Speaker

President Al presents Certificates of Appreciation to members of the local Serv Pro team, recent guest speakers to the Cranford Rotary Club.

Rotary interesting guest speakers to make a presentation to the Club about their profession, service project, or charity.

This is not an opportunity for a sales pitch, but rather an opportunity to acquaint yourself with Rotary and to make a presentation that addresses the value your organization provides to the community.

Interested presenters can contact the Cranford Rotary at cranfordrotary@gmail.com

Congratulations to a New Member!

Rotary Club of Cranford new member
David Gordon shakes hands with
Rotary Club President Al Ugarte
.


Rotary meets every Thursday morning at 7:45 AM in the Cranford Community Center on Walnut Avenue.

Congratulations to a New Member!

Club President Al Ugarte and President-Elect Mike Flynn present new Rotary Club of Cranford member, Korine Dankowski, with her Rotary International badge and lapel pin.






Contact a member if you are interested in showing that you also believe in "Service Above Self".