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.
Rotary is a worldwide organization of more than 1.2 million business, professional, and community leaders. Members, known as Rotarians, provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. Clubs are nonpolitical, nonreligious, and open to all cultures, races, and creeds. As signified by the motto Service Above Self, Rotary’s main objective is service — in the community, in the workplace, and throughout the world.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
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.
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".
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