SUNRISE ROTARY NEWSLETTER
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
 
President Todd took the helm with quote;
 
 
Greeter of the week:
Ed was our greeter this morning.
 
Guests:  Jeff Morse from River Valley Credit Union and the noon club joined us, along with Stan Nor, Bill Stevens, Coretta Bliss. Jon also had his two daughter, Alina and Alexa.
 
Announcements:
  • Sadie announced that the Winston Prouty Center is having their mini-golf event.
  • Sandy announced that the annual BC/BS Mountain Day walk up Mt Wantastiquit is next Saturday the 16th at 10:00am.
  • Jen announced that the Brattleboro School of Dance will be putting on its performance of “City Lights” at the New England Youth Theater.
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Brags
 
Michelle announced that her daughter is looking for a paid internship this summer.
 
Amelia bragged for her husband, Chad, who is the best fundraised for the Cam for a Common Cause” campaign.
 
Stan N brought out the Golf Tournament trophy and reminded the club that we had our name on this plaque for winning two times and encouraged us to go for a third win.
 
Damion was in another running race, this time the Fun Run.
 
Jon, bragged for his two daughters who jumped into the spirit of Green-Up day with a cleaning of part of the Upper Dummerston road, collecting 17 big green bags of litter and trash, including lots of milk jugs form someone’s secret empty milk jug stash.
 
Kevin bragged for his daughter, Sarah, will be graduating from Vermont Tech with her LPN this spring. She was highly recommended to be a tutor in the RN program.
 
Toni bragged for Bret who is also, and with great relief on his mother’s part, graduating from his program at Norwich this week.
 
Ali bragged for her daughter who just got back from an exchange program in China, to be greeted with a letter from Keene High School announcing that she was elected to the National Honor Society. She will be working at Hannaford’s this summer.
 
Bill announced that he had been wearing President Todds name tag for most of the morning and only three people noticed it. I think that just shows that Bill is a regular member and we no longer even look at his name tag. As for Todd’s name tag, ..??
 
Todd bragged for his role as the equipment schlepped to the blue-grass band that Coretta plays in. someone has to do it and he is a gentleman.
 
 
 
 
Caaads:   With a grand total of twenty eight ($28) dollars in the pool, the 10 of Clubs was pulled from the deck, which made Dan the lucky winner.
 
Birthdays:   There were no birthdays so no serenade. 
 
Bowl of Life: “Once went skiing with President Carter”. Started with Damon to Jason to Tristam to Will to Drew to Jerry to Sandy to Josh, who fessed up to his encounter. Seems he was skiing in Cressed Butte, Colorado, and skied into the line for the chairlift. Seeing an older gentleman surrounded by a bunch of thugs, he thought he would come to the rescue and join the fellow for a ride up together until he was grabbed by one of the thugs and re-positioned in back of the line. Seems he was trying to hitch a ride with the past-president.
 
Club Assembly and Committee MeetingsThe group broke up into our committees for the rest of the meeting and then did a brief read-out from each committee. Committee note are attached from  those committees that sent them.
 
Membership:
 
  • Ali as the President ‘elect should provide the committee with what she would like to see as our goal for membership. # members, mix of ages, professions, etc.
  • Will is going to be transitioning the Chair position over to Ross, who will take the Chair after the July changeover.
  • We do not have a formal interview process. We invite for a few breakfasts, meet with the Membership chair for a brief conversation, and then vote. Do we need to do a more extensive interview?
  • Recruitment ideas included;
    • Sponsor one of the Chamber Mixers and do a meet-and-greet with community members
    • Invite the Brattleboro Young Professionals group to a dedicated Sunrise rotary
      Breakfast. Jill to Follow up.
 
 
Fundraising Committee:
 
What we do now:
3 on 3
Trivia Night
Dinner Raffle
 
New Ideas:
Flag Football
Poker Run
Get More Members to help
 
Instead of working on a new event, we should concentrate on improving those that we have.      Discussion centered around the Dinner Raffle, which once brought in $8,000-$10,000 and only brought in around $3,000 last year. What can we do to bring our numbers back to where they were?
  1. If we change the ticket price to $20.00 from $25.00 will it be easier to get people to give up the money since no change is involved?
  2. Create easy way to purchase raffle tickets online with a credit card. This was discussed before but deserves another look.
  3. Motivate members to sell more tickets.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Minutes provided by Will Shakespeare.