Meeting Dec 1 at Templeton Landing Community Grants

The Fall Cycle has two grant requests:

1 The Buffalo Hearing & Speech Center, Inc.’s mission is to improve the quality of life for adults, children and infants with communication disorders by delivering cutting edge diagnosis and treatment of hearing and speech impairments and related special education services.
Description of Buffalo Rotary's project: BHSC is raising funds to install an “Inclusive Play” or “Universally Accessible” playground at its main facility in the City of Buffalo that will be incorporated into therapeutic and educational programming for developmentally disabled children.

2. The Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy, (BOPC), is a 501c3 not-for-profit, independent, community organization that promotes, preserves, restores, enhances and ensures maintenance of Olmsted Parks and Parkways in the greater Buffalo
area to guarantee Olmsted Park experiences for current and future generations.
Description of Buffalo Rotary's project:When the citizens of Western New York and Buffalo exercise, visit, and play in the 1200-acres of pristine, landscaped parkland maintained by the BOPC, people interact with each other, smile and benefit socially and physically. This grant request involves a Buffalo Rotary “Welcome Location” at Delaware Park, which includes:

A three tiered drinking water fountain (child, adult and animal level)

Two plaqued park benchesplanting

Ten strong, healthy trees.

Nov 23 meeting at Templeton Landing

The Made in America Store opened on April 3, 2010. Located just 20 minutes from Buffalo and less than an hour from Niagara
Falls, NY, it is the only general merchandise store in the country that sells 100% American Made Products, down to the packaging. Their mission is to restore U.S. manufacturing jobs by providing American consumers a brick & mortar store and e-commerce site that guarantees that each product sold is entirely American in materials and labor.
Since Opening Day, the Made in America Store has been featured on ABC’s World News Tonight, FOX & Friends, and nationally
syndicated and satellite radio. AP articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and newspapers across the
country. Reporters from Japan and Russia have come to the store, making it an international story. To date, more than 50 tour buses have added the Made in America Store as a destination. And, buses are added every week, some from as far as Missouri!
In addition to requiring that all products sold are 100% American Made, down to the packaging, the Made in America Store insists on top quality at comparable pricing. Their customers know they are helping to feed an American family when they shop at our store. And, each manufacturing job has a positive economic impact of providing four additional jobs for the benefit of the U.S. economy.

You will enjoy this video of Diane Sawyer on ABC News. It is a good endorsement of Mark and his store. Share it with friends http://abcnews.go.com/Business/made-america-store-30k-items-buy-growing/story?id=13943386

There will NOT be a regular meeting and lunch at Templeton Landing this Thursday!
Instead, Vocational Service Committee's Laurie Albertsson has arranged for us to visit, participate and enjoy lunch at one of the dynamic agencies of the Rotary Club of Buffalo. The choices are:
Goodwill Industries Tom Lynch 1119 William Street Buffalo 14206 854-5283
Gateway Longview Jim Sampson 605 Niagara Street Buffalo 14201 883-4531
Food Bank Mike Billoni 91 Holt Street Buffalo 14206 852-1305
Salvation Army Major Tom Applin 960 Main Street Buffalo 14202 888-6201
Boy Scouts of America. Pat Coviello 2860 Genesee Street Buffalo 14225 512-6206

Monument will honor Hispanic American Veterans

Buffalo Rotarian Cas Rodriguez invites all Buffalo Rotarians to join him at the Buffalo & Erie County Naval & Military Park today, Nov 11, 2011 at 4 p.m. for the Hispanic American Veterans Memorial Ground-breaking ceremony. A reception will follow.
Read more from the Buffalo News at:
Buffalo News article

The November 10 meeting will be held at Templeton Landing beginning at 12:15 p.m. It promises to be a big meeting. Mayor Brown is our speaker and that is a big appeal for guests. In addition, the Foundation will present two checks: Our final check of $23,000 to complete our $500,000 contribution to Frank Lloyd Wright's Fontana Boathouse and a check to the Buffalo Zoo of $19,902 for the Bungee Trampoline Project. Also, Cas Rodriguez will tell us more about the Hispanic-American Veterans Memorial at the Naval & Military Park that will be dedicated on November 11, as reported in the Buffalo News, Saturday Nov 8.

Mayor Byron W. Brown took the Oath of Office as the 58th Mayor of Buffalo, New York on December 31, 2005.
Elected Mayor with over 60 percent of the vote in the November 2005 General Election, Mayor Brown came into office emphasizing greater accountability and efficiency in City Hall, improving the quality of life for all city residents and a commitment to strengthening and expanding the city's economic development activities.
Since taking office, Mayor Brown has followed those three guiding principles by launching a Zero Tolerance Law Enforcement initiative targeting quality of life crimes, along with other criminal activity in the city; implemented the management accountability CitiStat Buffalo program, which monitors city departments' service delivery activities on a weekly basis; and reconfigured the city's economic development activities by creating the Department of Economic Development, Permit and Inspection Services, a change that has provided greater coordination and cooperation in all development activities taking place in the City of Buffalo.

A surge of economic development activity has followed Mayor Brown's election, including over $4.5 billion in planned, ongoing or completed development projects occurring throughout the City since 2006. Mayor Brown will update us on this activity.