11/28/12 Newsletter

Posted by Jill Terrell-Ouazzani 
on Dec 03, 2012
 

11/28/12 Newsletter

November 28, 2012

Speaker for next week: Ellen
Speaker for today: Sandy

Announcements:

  • Sandy: Next board meeting is 12/6 at WKVT
  • Linda: Holiday party will be 12/12 at The Marina Restaurant. We’ll have a Yankee Swap, so everyone should bring a gift.
  • 3x3 Basketball Tournament Committee is looking for more members - please contact Peter if interested
  • Jon: raffle drawing will be held at next week’s meeting. Please sell all your tickets.
  • Todd is in the process of scanning all Rotary photographs and will put them on discs. A huge thank you to Todd!
  • Tristam: Westgate food program is in need of more volunteers. If interested in getting involved, please contact Tristam.
  • Kevin: Thank you to everyone who is helping with Feed the Thousands pickups - it’s all going well. And all of the December slots are filled - thank you! When it’s your pickup, keep in mind that Hannaford’s has the largest collection, and we’re only doing the pickup at the Coop on Mondays.

Cards: Marcie was the winner. Congrats!

Happy birthday to Jon Secrest. He enjoyed a lovely birthday song from the quartet.

Brags

  • Booie: Secret Santa has received over 400 requests, and we’re still looking for donations. If interested in participating (even donating one gift), please contact Booie at her office.
  • Bob: Claims that Booie is married to Sean Connery.
  • Will: Well Bob, Will has been mistaken for Woody Allen. And a brag to the wonderful Brattleboro community and the many talented artists and musicians here. Sharon Loredo are performing December 10th, another great concert on December 11 and the Ceremony for the Arts will be on December 10th- all encouraged to attend.
  • Linda: celebrating 32 years of marriage.
  • Tristan: going to new state legislator orientation, and his son was on the winning state spelling bee team.
  • Tristam: grateful to Todd for fixing his computer (and for the evening free of technology while his computer was getting repaired).
  • Damon: family participated in this year’s Turkey Trot (and made a personal best) and Damon completed his second half marathon last weekend and made another personal best.
  • Ali: Toni’s shoes are amazing and Ellen should consider herself challenged for the next shoe competition; North End Butchers is hiring for an after-school position (and has great fringe benefits) - please share with everyone you know.
  • Marcy R.: her daughter took her driver’s ed test and passed; BMH opened their new MRI suite this week.
  • Kevin: both children came home for Thanksgiving and the family had a wonderful holiday together; he feels so much love from the club each and every time he stands up to speak.
  • Scott: daughter Sara will be in the Annie production at NEYT (December 6 to 16).
  • Mark: first daughter was born on 11/19! Harper Zoe is healthy and doing well. Mark is extremely grateful to the wonderful staff at BMH for making the birth experience wonderful for his family.

Toni introduced the 2012-2013 student Rotarians to us: Tanner attends Hinsdale High School; Carrie, Kelly, Sam and Connor who all attend BUHS. Each student shared a short bio with the club, including their educational goals, reason for joining the Rotary Club, extracurricular activities and plans for the future. We warmly welcome them to Rotary and look forward to getting to know them over the course of the school year they are with us. Toni reminded us all that we need to introduce ourselves to each student Rotarian and get to know them. Toni keeps a record of who talks to the student Rotarians.

Have a great week everyone!