April 22 Newsletter - Earth Day

 

 

President Todd opened with the following:         “To bring sunshine into the lives of others is to bring twice as much to ourselves.”  A very paraphrased James Barrie

 

More philosophical:  “A day without sunshine is like …. You know….. night.” Steve Martin

 

Greeter:  Turner

 

Next week’s greeter:  Ross

 

Next two week’s scribes:  Will Shakespeare (April 29) and Jon Secrest (for Sandy Shriver) (May 6). 

 

Guests:  LeRoy a SIT student from Alabama.  Brad Ellis of the Vernon Advent Home.  Shelia a SIT student from Uganda (and a Rotarian).  Diane West 

 

 

 

Tristam:  Coffee is still available for sale.  Also, if you want to visit Hondoras, our contact in the Rotary Club we are working with on the stove project would love to host you and has mapped out a 7 day tour….Which is much better than a 3 hour tour. 

 

Dan:  Camping for a cause with Josh and Damon…. Looking for donations. 

 

 

 

Birthday:  None…. But there is a big one next week.  Watch out. 

 

Cards:   

 

Jack of Hearts:  You lose losers.

 

 

My daughter’s first phrase was:  “stupid car”.  Marcy… Ross (but he has no daughter – at least that he knows about), Dan (he has lots of cars), Mark, Kevin, Toni …. Michele:  She has a car with a big backseat that broke down all the time…… Needless to say she was always saying “stupid car”.  One day when the car came to a sudden stop, she heard that phrase coming from the back seat.

 

 

Ali:  For technology which is letting her stay in touch with her daughter in China. 

Marcy:  For the return of the frogs.

 

Tristam:  For Commonwealth Yogurt who supported the nutrition project by donating 60 squeezable, suckable yogurt tubes. 

 

Kevin:  For the Reformer (Bob Audette in particular) which ran his letter to the editor regarding the 3 on 3 basketball tournament.

 

Todd;  For the blue Bonnet ice cream company, with a Board full of Rotarians, for pulling all their ice cream off the shelves because of a listeria outbreak.  A decision that was “beneficial to all concerned.”

 

Jill:  For the Community Health Assessment done by the Retreat which had a response rate of over 800 people.

 

 

 

Brad Ellis from Vernon Advent Christian Homes.  They own Vernon Green and several other facilities on their campus.  It has been 15 years since the last nursing home was built in Vermont. 

 

They were established in 1919 when the South Vernon Advent Christian Church bought an old hotel near the state line and turned it into a home for retiring ministers and missionaries.  Bought Vernon Green in 1955.  1965 built 35 bed facility.  72 built congregate living facilities. 77 built 15 independent apartments_  Vernon Birches.  88 built an Alzheimer unit.  93:  bought 13 unit building in Kittery Maine.  The future is a small house model, each house with 11 or so residents. 

 

 

 

 

The small print:  This newsletter is only a rough facsimile of what actually occurred.  If you really want to know what happened, you should have been there because, after all, a lot happens at our meetings. 

 

 

                                                                                    Your scribe:  Sandy S.

                                    Pinch hitting for Jon Secrest.  You owe me in 2 weeks.