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Dryden, NY 13053-9582
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13th Annual Mystery Dinner Theater

The Dryden Rotary Club & Acme Mystery Co.
Hereby invite you to join them at the Dryden Veteran's Memorial Home for the
13th Annual Dryden Rotary Mystery Dinner Theater:
“Death Takes a Cruise?”

February 1, 2020

Event starts at 6pm (doors open at 5pm)

Dryden Veteran's Memorial Home
2272 Dryden Rd
Dryden, NY 13053

For details and Tickets click here

Dryden Holiday Celebration - Gingerbread House Display

Hosted by Habitat for Humanity of Tompkins & Cortland Counties and Dryden Rotary!

Community groups are invited to build a gingerbread house to be displayed in Habitat’s office windows at 14 West Main Street. Houses will be displayed from Sunday December 1st thru Saturday December 7th.

On Saturday the 7th the community will be welcomed in from 10:00 until 4:00 for a closer look and to vote for their favorite! Formal judging will have taken place prior. The ‘Community Choice’ and ‘Judged’ winners will be presented awards at the Dryden Community Center Café after the tree lighting.

Any Dryden community group; service organizations, youth groups, churches, businesses, may enter. Due to space limitations we are only able accept the first 12 entries.

Registration forms can be downloaded, look to the left on this page...

Completed forms must be received by Friday 29 November either by the US mail of email. The $10 entry fee can either be sent with completed form or brought with the house at drop-off. All fees and any donations will go to Habitat.

Houses must be dropped off at Habitat’s office (14 West Main Street) between 4:00 and 7:00 PM on Sunday 01 December and picked up between 4:00 and 5:30 Sat 07 December.

Houses must be on a sturdy base no larger than 12” x 20”. Any information regarding the house, such as who made it, what it represents, etc. must be incorporated within the base

Questions? Send an email to: 7170drydenrotary@gmail.com

Once Again ...

The Dryden Rotary Club and the Dryden Community Center Cafe are participating in the 27th annual 'Share the Warmth' campaign with over 20 collection sites around Tompkins County.

Donations of clean new or gently used winter clothing will be gratefully collected, sorted, and distributed across the area by volunteers from a number of partner organizations including the Ithaca, Dryden, and Trumansburg Rotary Clubs.

The familiar “red box” collection bin can be found at the Dryden Community Center Café

Your support is needed and appreciated!

Another Fall Dash done!

Despite the forecast of fog the morning was the start of a glorious fall day! Sunny and in the upper 40’s.

Lining up for the 9:00 AM start were 31 runners, mostly women. At the starting whistle 20 folks headed off for 10 k by turning immediately right onto the Schug trail. This took them ‘out and back’ to where they would continue around Dryden Lake chasing the 11 runners doing the 5k.

Dogs and kids were the order of the day with 7 and 8 years old completing the 10 k!

A great big thank you to all of the runners and our sponsors. More information about the race (Map, Results, Sponsors, etc) can be found here.

Dryden Rotary Fall Dash
@ Dryden Lake

Saturday, October 19th 2019

Dryden Rotary's annual fundraiser to support Rotary Youth Programs.

Click Here for information

BBQ Sat 17 Aug

Come to Clark's between 10:00 and 2:00 for some fine BBQ'd chicken!

Funds from these event support our Youth Exchange Program, provide dictionaries to all 3rd grade students in the Dryden School District, send 2 or 3 High School Rotary Youth Leadership Awardees' to a 4 day camp, supplement our annual donations to 3 food pantries, sand other good Rotary works.

A visit from a veteran

Our club was honored this morning with the visit of Pvt Robert Nobles, 508th PIR Co C.(Part of the famed 82nd Airborne). Bob, who lives in Ithaca, was a POW after parachuting behind German lines and fighting on D-Day 75 years ago.

The service that men like Bob performed for the world should never be forgotten!

https://www.ww2-airborne.us/units/508/508_trp.html

Dairy Days

Stop by and visit us at Dairy Days!

Saturday 08 June, Montgomery Park, 10:30 to 3:00

Talk with local Rotarians about the difference Rotary makes in our community and around the world.

Learn how you can join us providing "Service Above Self"!

Recognition Day Flower Sale - April 24th

Support the Dryden Rotary Club

Recognition day is upon us; show you care to those that matter and Dryden Rotary gets $5 per bouquet!!!

4/14/2019 Last day to order flowers

4/24/2019 Flowers delivered personally by a Rotarian

Questions? Orders? Contact Wil & Cathy Buttner (607.220.6630 or 607.262.6940) or any Dryden rotary Member.

Texas Roadhouse Fund Raiser

Support the Dryden Rotary Club

Eat at the Texas Roadhouse, South Meadow Street, Ithaca, on any of these dates and Dryden Rotary gets %10 of the sales!

3/17/19 from 11:30am-9pm
3/18/19 from 4pm-10pm
3/19/19 from 4pm-10pm

Ask a Dryden Rotarian for an invitation to show your server on the night of the fundraiser or download a digital copy.

Click here for more event details

12th Annual Mystery Dinner Theater

The Dryden Rotary Club's 12th Annual Mystery Dinner Theater will be held at the Dryden Veterans Memorial Home

Saturday February 2nd.

Doors open at 5:30 PM and the show starts at 6 PM. Dinner at 7:30

Tickets are $45.00 from any Dryden Rotarian, local businesses, and on-line.

Dinner includes roast beef, chicken, mashed potatoes, mixed vegetable medley, salad, dessert, coffee, tea and soda.

More details at at "Upcoming Events" immediately to the right on this page

or at https://www.facebook.com/events/395363067872917

Share the Warmth

As part of the Ithaca Rotary Club’s "Share the Warmth" clothing drive, the Rotary Club of Dryden is sponsoring a drop off box at the Dryden Community Center Café, 1 West Main Street, Dryden.

The red wooden box will be there from Saturday 03, Nov thru Wednesday, 12 Dec

All winter clothing in good repair is accepted. There is a special need for larger-sized clothing (2X and up) and large-sized boots (13 and up), as well as coats, snow pants, boots, hats, scarves, gloves, and mittens for all—and blankets. Each article of clothing donated should be new or gently used, and clean for future recipients.

Finger Lakes ReUse collects the items for sorting and Catholic Charities, which serves all of Tompkins County, then distributes the items.

“Share the Warmth” began in Ithaca 25 years ago but has extended to Trumansburg and now to Dryden with the support of local business, colleges, and Rotary clubs.

Rotary Dash 2018 is Done!

Despite the rain and cool temperatures we has a field of 42 runners on Saturday. In the 10k there were 18 runners with 24 taking on the 5k loop around the Dryden Lake.

Thanks to all our sponsors and runners. The funds will be used to support Dryden Rotary's local and international projects.

For all the results: https://www.webscorer.com/race?raceid=156994

Dryden Rotary Fall Dash 2018

Dryden Rotary Fall Dash 2018
@ Dryden Lake

Saturday, October 20th

Click Here for information

August Calendar

DRYDEN ROTARY

August GREETERS: __Sylvia_& ______

Thurs., Aug. 2nd : 7:00 am Café, Program: Jakub

Sat. Aug 4^th: Jakub departs: Syracuse airport, 2:15 pm?

Tues., Aug 7th: Board meeting 6:30 pm, Kim's house

Thurs., Aug 9th: Dr. Ornithia Montague, TC3 President, 7:00 am Café,

Sat Aug 11^th BBQ – Evan pit master 6am – 2pm

Sat Aug 11^th- Cambodian Dinner, Holy Cross Church 6pm

Wed., Aug 15th: Host : Evan

Program: Marty and Martha Windsor: Community Core

Friday Aug 17^th: Pasuth arrives, Ithaca Airport, 6:40 pm

Thurs., Aug 23rd: Kayla Lane Clark, Dryden Apt. Company

Thurs., Aug 30th: Program needed

Sept. Greeters ____Tom and Chris S____________

Helping at Lime Hollow

Rotarians from the Dryden, Cortland Noon, and Cortland Breakfast clubs pitched in with other community groups to plant trees at Lime Hollow nature Center on a gorgeous Sunday afternoon.

2018 Mystery Dinner Theater

A great time was had by all who recently attended our 11^th annual Mystery Dinner Theater!

Mark the first weekend in February of 2019 for our next adventure! Details will follow!

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Mystery Dinner Theater 2018

The Dryden Rotary Club & Acme Mystery Co. hereby invite you to join them for the

11th Annual Dryden Rotary Mystery Dinner Theater: “LOW NOON ”

Saturday, February 3, 2018, 6 PM till done. Doors open at 5

It's a Western theme so feel free to dress the part!

Dinner, served at 7:30 will be a buffet of Chicken and Ribs, Roasted Garlic Potatoes, Southwestern Rice, Vegetables, Rolls, Salads, Dessert, Coffee, Tea, and Soda. Stronger stuff is available at the bar for cash.

Dryden Veteran’s Memorial Home, 2272 Dryden Rd, Dryden NY 13053

ALL proceeds help the Dryden Rotary Club support Youth programs, local and International Projects, and much, much more…

Pre-sale Tickets only, $45.00

Tickets available from Dryden Rotarians or Call 607-838-3656 or email sanfordjmail@gmail.com

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RYLA 2018

Dryden Rotary

2018 Rotary Youth Leadership Award

Rotary brings together over 100 high school Jrs. from Ithaca to Cooperstown for week of intense leadership training and fellowship.

If you would like to attend the RYLA Conference from June 24th – June 29th, at SUNY Oneonta, you will need to complete an interest form and participate in an interview through the Dryden Rotary Club.

Forms are available at HS office or on the Rotary bulletin board by the library. Must be submitted by 23 Feb

To learn more about District 7170’s RYLA program go to: http://rotarydistrict7170.org/50044/Page/ShowSitePage?ClassCode=SitePage&Slug=2018-ryla-materials

The 'first 'occasional' meeting

Wednesday,15 November

The first 'occasional' joint meeting of the Dryden and Groton Rotary clubs was held at the Dryden Community Center Cafe. The Dryden club provided the location and logistical assistance while Groton acted as the 'host' providing a dinner of chicken casserole, tossed salad, rolls, soda, and great desserts!

From 6:00 to 7:00 folks were able to socialize and enjoy dinner. At 7:00 each club took about 10 minutes to cover any business and tell the other club about what they are doing. Dryden is pushing sign-ups for 2 days of Salvation Army bell ringing while Groton is working on their Hurricane Heroes which involves their community and grade school students in fund raising for school libraries affected by recent hurricanes in Florida,Texas, and possibly Puerto Rico. All the dinner fees and both club's happy dollars for the evening were donated to the cause for a total of $172.

Foundation Area Director Evan Kurtz presented Ben Curtis, Groton President, with the Groton club's award from the recent Foundation Dinner for $100 per capita giving to the Rotary Foundation in 16-17.

Sadly Dryden's speaker, Jon Helsiva, last years Dryden exchange student to Germany, was ill so the rest of the evening was spent socializing, not that Rotarians mind that!

There was talk of 'doing this again' as all enjoyed the evening so stay tuned for the next 'occasional' joint Dryden/Groton joint meeting!

Adopt a Family

So this year we stepped up to provide ALL the gifts & food to a Dryden community family in need...

Talk to Chris S. or see the week 23 email for details

2017 Food Run is in the books!

Posted on Nov 03, 2017

This year's winner was Dryden Food Pantry. Cindy Almendinger ran on their behalf and carted off $333.90 in food including and a couple frozen turkeys to be handed out at future Food Pantry giveaways.

Ticket sales grossed $1,267 with the net to be equally divided between the three food pantries in the Town of Dryden plus the Methodist Church Wednesday Community Dinner.

Thanks to all Rotarians who sold tickets and to Clark's for supporting this annual event.

L to R - Dick Clark, Aiden Payne, Cindy Almendinger

2017 Fall Dash

Last Saturday was a perfect day for a run! It was mostly sunny and in the low 60’s. Well, by the end of the race it was warmer; it was pretty cool at the start! We had 17 hardy and happy runners on the two courses. Ten ran the 5 k around Dryden Lake and seven others ran 10k by doing 5k on the Schug Trail before heading off around the lake.

The 5K overall winner was Matt Banazek and the 10k overall winner was Dean Russo

Start of the race!

For complete results please go to: www.webscorer.com/race?raceid=118380

Many folks stayed until the end to cheer the other runners, enjoy light snacks, and chat with the volunteers and other finishers.

Thanks to all the volunteers and runners. We all are looking forward to 20 Oct 2018 to do this again!

Please keep our sponsors in mind:

Applied Design Research Assoc.
Bell's Autocare
Bravo Pizzeria Restaurant
Brecht's Towing& Service
CayugaXpress
Comfort Technology
Cornestone Architects
Dryden Center Community Café
Dragonfly Grille
Dryden Agway
Dryden Hotel
Fingerlake Electric Supply
Preston Enterprises
Schickel Construction
Scottie's Auto Repair

Our Upcoming Fall Road Race

Club members, set aside some time to come help and be sure to let friends and family know about this fun run!

5K and 10K run around Dryden Lake on open town roads and the Schug Trail

Start/Finish at the North Parking Lot/Boat Ramp

'Day of' registration opens at 8:00 AM

Entry fee: Adults $15, 19 and under $10, Family $30

T-Shirts available for $5

Online Registration http://rotarydairydash.com

A downloadable registration form can be found by clicking on the Upcoming Events link to the right

This is a fund raiser for Dryden Rotary Youth programs

The past week in Dryden Rotary

Maryann Sumner spoke to the club providing interesting facts and stories of the Historical Society.

A small, but hardy, highway cleanup crew worked 2/3 of North Road. Our club has a commitment to pick up trach on that stretch twice a year...let's do better in the spring!

Evan & Tracy spent the day Saturday in Verona as part of the Rotary Leadership Institute faculty. They helped District 7150 Rotarians discover more about themselves and Rotary. Members of our club should look towards 10 March to attend RLI in Owego. It is certainly time well spent.