October 21st, 2013 Meeting - Rotaract Club Raffle

Good evening, folks!
At tonight's meeting the Rotaractors focused primarily on the upcoming raffle. Unfortunately, fall break has caused a disconnect in the planning process and the raffle must be pushed back two weeks.

However, tonight's meeting was successful because we devised a more concise plan as to how we will get this raffle off the ground. The "Business Committee" will be contacting local businesses asking for donations by the start of the raffle on November 4th. If we do not receive enough donations we will use money we have collected from dues to purchase gift cards as a Plan B. Next, the "Planning Committee" will be focusing on where we will sell these tickets on campus and getting permission for solicitation. They will then set up dates and times when we will stand with tables at local businesses and in the quad to sell to the public and students. The final committee is the "PR Committee". They are in charge of creating the logo for the raffle (as seen below), printing out the tickets, and compiling the prize baskets. The raffle will run from November 4th to December 2nd. This will be a wonderful way to wrap up the semester and will be a fun project that is entirely our own. We have a lot of work ahead of us, but we feel confident that we can do it!

The raffle logo, created by Josh Duman

Rotaract Highway Cleanup - October 12th, 2013

Hello, all!
On Saturday, October 12th, five members of the Rotaract club and Judy Hughes set out at 8am to clean up highway #173, otherwise known as Grove City Road. We cleaned from the intersection of Franklin Street and Grove City Road up to The Heights. We gathered twelve full bags of trash, making this a very successful morning! Josh Duman has been in contact with PennDOT about adopting this highway and we are hoping to have a sign erected recognizing our adoption of this area soon. We are all pleased with the outcome and agree that this is a project we would like to continue! Slippery Rock is a wonderful town that means so much to our club and we must work hard to keep it beautiful!

 Josh Duman, Terry Thompson, A.J. Pagano, Mariah Seymour, and Susan Dalessandro ready to clean!

All Night Bowling - October 1st

On Tuesday, October 1st, many members of the Rotaract club made their way to the ceramics building on the upper half of campus to create bowls for the Empty Bowls event. At the All Night Bowling event, volunteers would take bowls that were created by the art students and paint them however they wished. The art students would then fire the bowls in the kiln and save them for Empty Bowls. We had a great showing at the All Night Bowling, but due to conflicts did not have any members attend Empty Bowls. We did, however, hear that it was a huge success and that they sold out of bowls, bread, and drinks by 5pm. Between the 12pm-1pm hour they had 400 people attend, each paying $5. We feel so proud that we could contribute with the creation of these bowls and help this wonderful cause!