WINDMILL CHARTERED 1914 as CLUB 127 DISTRICT 6910

NOW DESIGNATED as CLUB 4187

www.romerotary.org

THE ROTARY CLUB OF ROME 2012-2013

May 30,

2013

2012-2013 OFFICERS President… PETE McDONALD

Vice President.… JIM MANIS Past President… JANICE BRACKEN WRIGHT President Elect CURTIS GARDNER Treasurer… DENISE TILLMAN

Exec. Treasurer... TRESSIE WILSON Secretary… MIKE CLARK

Exec. Secretary PEG AREY Sergeant-at-Arms… JAMES MILFORD Club Service… MARY SIB BANKS Community Service…JERRY LEE

Vocational Service.. RANDY SUMNER International Service KARL WAECHTLER

New Generations STEVE CONRAD GRSP Advisory Trustee KARL WAECHTLER District Governor… MARGIE EDDY-FORBES

Romerotary-Rome-non profit organization/Facebook

HILLSHIRE BRANDS AND ROME

…Carla Mueller

Quick, what’s

the first thing that

pops into your

mind when you

hear Hillshire

Brands?

Sausage, right?

Well, not here in

Rome said Carla Mueller, Plant Operations

Manager. Instead, think granola.

Rome’s facility is the birth place and

number-one producer of Nature Valley

Crunchy Granola Bars. Now made in Spain,

Argentina, and two other U.S. locations,

Rome still makes way more than the others.

See Granola, page 2

PROGRAM, MAY 30: CLUB AS-

SEMBLY See where we’ve been

and where we’re going.

CLAUDIA OAKES, former Rome

Rotarian, returned for a visit and

brought a flag from

her new

club, Pu-

laski, Ten-nessee.

Great to

see her.

URS MAIRE VOLUNTEERED at

April’s

‘Renew Our Rivers’

water pro-

ject. He’s

standing with one

of the piles

of waste

removed from the

river

banks.

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Granola…

The package doesn’t

mention Rome or their

319 employees or the

awards won; it reads

General Mills reflecting

Hillshire’s 30-year part-

nership with them. The

plant opened in 1971,

and is now at 125,000

square feet on eleven

acres.

Teetering on the

brink of failure in 2007,

the Rome plant had an

abysmal safety record. If not cleaned up, there

would be no jobs.

They became Plant of the Year by 2011 and

Safety Plant of the Year in 2012. They currently

are at 2.2 million labor hours with no lost-time

accidents and in March of 2013, had 358 days

without a recordable accident. Ms. Mueller says

she’s not responsible for the improvement, but

says, “The secret ingredient is the people of

Rome...We do it perfectly.”

Everyone in the plant is engaged in recycling

and finding new ways to do it. They send less

waste than Olive Garden to the landfill, making Hill-

shire Brands in Rome a Level I Zero Waste Facility.

Ms. Mueller says they work to do things ‘easier,

faster, and better.’ Thus, Rome is the location of the

pilot plant for any new flavors.

For most people, the outstanding fact is Nature

Valley Granola Bars taste great and come

in Oat n’ Honey, Peanut Butter, Cinnamon, Roasted

Almond, Pecan, Cranberry, Maple Brown Sugar and

Chocolate.

1971

Rome’s 40+ Year History

1978

1995

1999

2001 2012

Plant built as

Coosa Baking

Co. with one

cookie line

Purchased by

Campbell

Taggart

(Earthgrains-

Sara Lee

Began doing

business with

General Mills

Exited Wafer

business and

converted 2nd

of 3 lines to

granola

Converted 3rd

and last line to granola

Building

addition and

added 4th

granola line.Currently 4

production

lines and 2

variety lines

2011

FY11 Plant of

the Year &

Environmental

Plant of the

Year

FY12 Presidential

Safety &

Environmental

Plant of the Year

2012

Above, photos of the production lines

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ROME

ROME

ROTARY

CLUB

NEWS

MAKE- UPS

Frank Pinson 2 Richard Shiflett 3 Bettyann O’Neill 3 Rita Odom 3

NOT A PAUL HARRIS FELLOW?

Do we have a deal for you

Email Pete McDonald to find out what your to-date contribution is.

pmcdonald@gntc.edu

One of the key means to support the Rotary International Foundation is by

members’ contributing $1,000 to the Rotary Foundation and being recognized as Paul

Harris Fellows. The Rome Rotary Club has more than 110 Paul Harris Fellows. One of

our goals is for all members to achieve the Paul Harris Fellow designation and for us to

become a 100% Paul Harris Fellow Club.

To encourage the members who have not achieved the Paul Harris Fel-

low, the Rome Rotary Board has approved the use of some of our Club level

points to offer an incentive to members who have contributed $750 or more

to the Rotary Foundation

The appropriate level of Club points will be used to move these mem-

bers to their $1,000 level and recognize the members with the Paul Harris

Fellow. Also, members who have contributed less than $750 have the oppor-

tunity to bring their contribution level up to $750 and receive the points to

become a Paul Harris Fellow.

Please consider making a contribution to the Rotary Foundation. You may send a

check designated for the Rotary Foundation to Tressie Wilson at Rome Rotary, PO Box

71, Rome, Georgia 30162-0071.

..Pete McDonald

JOHN QUINLIVAN

WINS AWARD

The details were hazy

but it seemed to be an

award for his skill on

his riding lawnmower.

Apparently, he’s trying

to make his lawnmower

amphibious.

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE CURTIS GARDNER, CHAIR

June 6 Martin Goldberg

Loran Smith, Associate Di-

rector of Public Relations

and Development, UGA Athletic Association

June 20 Curtis Gardner

Leslie Hunt Anderson,

President & CEO, Georgia

Chapter, Alzheimer’s Associa-tion,

“Alzheimer’s Update”

June 13 Randy Quick

Doug Walker and

Bob Simmons,

“The Return of Eagles to NW Georgia”

June 27 Rotary Board

Installation of

New Officers 2013-2014