September 16th Minutes

September 16, 2015

Quote: “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see” - Henry David Thoreau

Thanks to greeter, Jen and to scribe, Amelia! Next week’s greeter will be Kris Johnston and next scribe is Ralph.

Guests: Ross introduced his grandaugter, Kaya, Diane introduced her son, Josh; Mark introduced Davey; and Sadie introduced Eveyln.

Announcements:

October 1st is a board meeting which will be held at John Secrest’s office.

Dan: Touch a Truck great success - thanks to all who came. Made $600 for hospital. Thanks to Mark for supplying the grill; grill masters Ross and Nick were great; C&S donated burgers and there are a lot left if you want to purchase them see Dan. Ross thanked Dan for all his work (lots of applause here).

Trivia night: very fun; 44 participants; Jess, our Jeopardy champ had fun too; next trivia night 10/19; raffling Jess off made $45; we raised $305 for Windham Childcare and $488 was our take. Youth Services is next recipient.

Rotary Romp: next one will be on the 21st and Sadie will send out email reminders

(Jim fined himself $1 for leaving early) Which brought up the discussion that the fee for streaking is $2. Not including if you’ve got to get kids to school or need to leave for work. Also, if you are streaking please let the speakers know that you are going to leave early.

Road trip on October 7th to the Fire Station; Please get your $10 donation in- we’re donating to the BFD.

October 14th will be a club assembly.

Tristam noted that there will be a new shipment of coffee coming and he has 2 speakers lined up, if you need one, ask him.

Speakers: next two weeks are Kevin, Josh then the 21st is Marcy and the 28th is Toni, Nov 4th is Dan.

Marcy’s going to speak to the Halloween Magic - you don’t want to miss that!

Birthday’s: Booie’s (sorry for spelling!) and last week’s was Jill’s - Happy Birthday, Ladies!

Cards: Queen of Hearts no winners, boo hoo.

Brags:

Ally: Northend Butchers is hosting an open house on Saturday from 1-4. Windham Wines will be doing tasting too. Now they are open 7 days a week! Woo hoo!

Tristam: Wendy’s Birthday was Sunday and their sun actually sent flowers. He’s grown up!

Amelia: Chad raised over $2k for the Hike for the Homeless.

Jen: 2015 Wellness Fair is happening on 10/19 from 11-2 at the Retreat and her tap dancing class will be performing at 1pm.

Kevin: 2nd Annual Bacon Fest was great success; 30 plus vendors; and all kinds of food; 1000’s of visitors! Drew was there and the ambulance he had did not start then he went to radio station and his subaru wouldn’t start!

Drew: fundraising for Rescue - they are raffling off a truck and they are hosting an adventure race at Jamaica State Park

Marcie: excited to bake! She roasted pumpkins for pies, bread and beer. Yum.

Toni- spent Sunday at an “Insanity” certification class and she was sore! She’ll be teaching at Green Mountain Fitness.

Ally: bragged for Sandy Ladd and her wonderful healing pt!

Bowl of Life: This person had to leave Rotary early so Bernie Sanders office could chew him out.

It was Mark Either! Who would chew him out?! Apparently, he gave an estimate to replace a heating system and the customer was so outraged by the cost, they complained to Bernie’s office. Mark was able to get lots of rebates etc. to bring the cost down, but it was still too much. Happy ending, someone donated the system to the guy.

Kevin made everyone pay a fine for no pin.

Bio’s of new members: Kris Johnston: Born in West Germany, dad was Col. in army; grew up in Newfane; his dad and grandad built their house; went to Newfane school then to Christian Heritage through 8th grade; Dublin Christian Academy for high school. Worked as a kid at Price Chopper for long time; as an adult worked at SBDC and now is an IT guy and has been for about 18 years. Has 2 kids and 4 step kids between the ages of 28 and 14. hobbies include: hiking, biking, scuba diving. Best last trip was with his step daughter scuba diving - they both took scuba course and did lots of great dives.