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February 2006

President's Corner:

Dear Members and Friends,
Please take the time to go over the By-Laws changes or modifications, which the Committee charged with that responsibility has prepared for us. The Executive Board had the opportunity to review these in detail and approved the copy which is sent to you. You will have all month of February to review them and we will vote, on them in our March meeting. If you consider these changes prior to the meeting than we can expedite the process of voting on them in March. So, please be kind to your fellow members and be prepared.

We are doing very well with the rentals and our cash reserve is slowly being replenished. We are receiving many compliments on the results of the remodeling from folks who are seeing it for the first time. The Executive Board of elected officers is grateful to you for your support and patience for the delays in the completion of all the work but we are still tinkering. The bar is not yet fully completed and some of the trim has to be installed. In addition Tom O’Loughlin with the help of Bob Jayo and a few others, is in the process of expending our storage space in the back of the bar. Tom O’Loughlin and Zenon Zawadzki removed the old sidewalk and poured a new and improved ramp up to the new front door. This will improve safety and access to all but especially those with wheel chairs or walkers. Thanks for your efforts gentlemen.

Frances Spychalski has taken over the duties of 2nd VP and taken charge of the kitchen with zeal. With the much improved lighting in the kitchen, making the environment much more conducive and pleasant and the new serving window furnished by Bruno Klus, the food looks and tastes just like mother used to make.

Don’t forget our Potato Pancake Dinner Dance on February 4th. I hope you get this Newsletter in time. Sam Pecorilla and David Bonczkiewicz and the Varitones will be entertaining us. Two bands for the price of one, folks. It doesn’t get any better than this and home made potato pancakes too. I, for one, will diet for two days before this event. Have a great February and support OUR Pulaski Club.

-Casimir "Case" Kosinski

Messages from the Board Members

From 1st Vice President - Rose Pachura: There are some paid people that haven't been inducted as yet to become a full time member. Please call me if you can not make the membership meeting on February 11, 2006, call 480-802-0775 Rose Pachura, First Vice President, Membership. These are the names to be inducted to become a member and approved by the board. James "Jimmy" Babjak, Bartosz Jedryczka, Linda Hanlon, Bob Wedraseka, Dottie Wedraseka. Sponsors please encourage your people that have filled out a membership application to attend the membership meeting to be inducted. When I call they say they will be there, but they don't show. This would help! Be sure the phone number is correct.

Contact Rose Pachura @ 480-802-0775
Email: roselp1@msn.com

From 2nd Vice President - Frances Spychalski: no report

From the Chairman of the Board - Bruno Klus: no report

From the Entertainment Committee - Rose Pachura & Jean Baran: The Pulaski Club is having a Fund Raiser on Thursday, February 2, 06 with a Casino Trip in Prescott. The first pick up will be at the Pulaski Club. Bus will arrive at the Pulaski Club at 7:00 am, leaving promptly at 7:15 am for the second pick up at Sun Lakes Country Club in Phase II in Cottonwood. PLEASE BE ON TIME! By the Flag Pole in Sun Lakes the bus should arrive at 7:45 am leaving promptly at 8:00 am for Prescott. Cost is $10.00 per person. At Bucky's you have to show your Bucky's Reward Card to receive your $10.00 back. If you don't have a Bucky's Reward Card, you can apply for one and receive your $10.00. Come join in the fun and meet new people. Let the Bus Driver do the driving and enjoy the movie and games that will be played on the way back home. You may be a winner!!! Boarding the bus at 2:20 pm leaving Bucky's at 2:20 pm, hoping to arrive at Sun Lakes at 5:30 pm, then to Pulaski Club which is closer to the bus garage for drop off for the bus. For information or reservation contact Rose Pachura, 480-802-0775.

For fund raisers contact Rose Pachura with any suggestions you may have for the Pulaski Club! We hope to see all of you on Saturday, February 4, 06 for the Pancake Dinner Dance. Dinner is from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm with FIRST COME FIRST SERVE. Music by: The Varitones and Sam Pecorilla.

For information call Rose Pachura, Social Director, at 480-802-0775.
Email: roselp1@msn.com

From the Publicity Committee - Paul Chojnacki: no report

From the Treasurer - Mary Kiselus: Hello to All! I hope the New Year is treating all of you well and we will be seeing everyone at the Pulaski Club's February events. Financials for December 2005 were presented to the membership at our January meeting after board approval and they are as follows:

Income: $11,835.00 (Generated from hall rentals 12/3, 12/16, 12/31), Bar income from all events, donations, and dues.)

Expenses: $15,572.04 (Includes bar supplies exp. of $4662.95 and remodeling bills paid $5,756.90, along with regular expenses for the month.)

Loss: $3,737.04

Have a good year 2006 and as always we thank you for your continued support. Best Wishes, Mary Kiselus.

From the Financial Secretary - Diana O'Loughlin: We are getting better at updating our membership dues but there are just a few still out there. Membership dues are $24.00 a year, please check your membership card and send a check to the Pulaski club to update your membership. Let’s continue our membership drive and bring a friend to the next dance and show them a good time.

From the Sunshine Committee - Shirley Sztuk: Our prayers out to the loss of Helen Lockhart, Betty Wilson, Verda Leszczynski, and Jack Lokken. Get well wishes to Wally Glowacki, Joe Szymczak, Virginia Markus, and Jean Kalamasz who was in a car accident.

News & Notes

The Pulaski Club is in full operation. I just completed a full bar inventory last month, and it took me three hours! All is accounted for and ready for the bottles to empty and me to count them all over again. If there are any members out there who have experience in bartending or inventory control let me know - I could use the help. I am also looking for volunteers to help us clean up the club after our small events, and go shopping for supplies. Ya know I just can’t figure it out, I shop for supplies and even buy 20 lb. bags of ice for our events but by the time I get back to the club the ice melts. I guess I should buy the ice last? Well, I hope we get our ice machine soon!

I have contacted with a few beverage distributors who have donated items to our club. Our latest is Jack Daniels - we can tell time in the bar area now and wipe our shoes off too. Neon is on the wall and Tom and I will hang the new mirror. Coke-a-Cola donated a nice BIG Coke clock. I asked Frances if she wanted it for the kitchen but she said it is too big, so maybe we’ll raffle it off at our next dance.

The web page is updated before most of us get our newsletter so check the web page for all the news first. Also, I have been getting back some news letters returned not deliverable. If you know of some members who have moved or are not receiving there news letter let me know. I'm looking for updated address for Walter Lukasik and Ella Lenzen.

"MEMBERS RAFFLE" is in full swing; remember you must be present to win drawing. A name will be picked during the meeting, if no winner, the name goes back in the hat till’ the next meeting.
$$$ GOOD LUCK $$ 35.00 $$ GOOD LUCK $$

DJ “Nickelcity Dave” presents the best in “pod nogi” (foot stompin’) Polka, waltz & American dance soundz… Feb 17th, from 6 – 10pm. Join Na Zdrowie Polish and American Cuisine for the best in Polish American cuisine (smacznego) and the largest selection of Polish beer in the east valley. “Cheers!” 2051 W. Warner Rd., SWC Warner & Dobson, Chandler AZ, 85224 (480) 821-9498

DID YOU KNOW: Fill 'er up with recycled cooking oil in OBERLIN, Ohio - A former gas station in Oberlin, Ohio, could become the first in the Buckeye State to pump 100 percent recycled vegetable oil to power diesel vehicles. Full Circle Fuel Center is the brainchild of Oberlin College graduate Sam Meretcek and Biodiesel Cleveland owner Ray Holankowicz. The pair met three years ago at Great Lakes Brewing Co., which runs its "Fatty Wagon" on biodiesel recycled by Holankowicz's company. "I've been energy conscious since high school," Meretcek told the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "I wanted my environmental science degree to mean something." Today, motorists who pay up to $2,000 to refit their vehicles can tap diesel-vegetable oil blends at Full Circle, which plans to offer 100 percent biodiesel next June. That will be bolstered with cooking oil from every restaurant in Oberlin and Meretcek's alma mater to produce 40 gallons of biodiesel a week. In the winter months, though, the fuel will be capped at 20 percent vegetable oil since biodiesel loses viscosity in colder temperatures.

RENT THE HALL, The Pulaski club is available for all your social events. (602) 275-9329

ATTENTION BUSINESS CARD ADVERTISERS if you would like your business card in the Pulaski news letter contact Diana O’Loughlin @ (480) 834-5484 for more details.

REMEMBER we are a non-profit organization and any donations are tax deductible. Let's support our club!