Sunrise Rotary Minutes 9/28/16
Sunrise Rotary Minutes
9/28/16
Scribe: Amelia
Greeter: Thanks to Ross. No idea who next week's greeter is, but I'm sure they'll be friendly.
Guests: Erin O’Keefe, Davey, Evelyn and Lucy (Junior Rotarians)
Announcements:
Josh: Disc Golf Tournament coming up. Kudos to Toni and Kevin for all their assistance. He is still working on sponsorships. Deadline is next week. If you have questions, see Josh. He’ll be there tomorrow around 5pm if you want to come and play.Be sure to sign up for the tournament. There’s a great score board and prizes too!
Dan: is organizing the concessions and needs assistance. Also looking for food to be donated. Give him a call if you can help.
Tristam: the coffee shop is open
B-Days: We still need to celebrate Booie’s birthday, but she’s not here. Singing to Jen! Her B-day is October 1st. Happy Birthday, Jen!
Cards: 8 spades. Valerie won and donated money back to the club
Bowl of Life: used to carry up to 5 ice cream sundaes and sing for work
Mark: not him - he guessed Josh
Josh: he guessed Ed
Ed: he guessed John Secrest
John: Ally not her - Tristam
Tristan: Jen! It was Jen! When she was in college - Long Beach Island New Jersey. She worked two jobs in the summer! Striped uniform themes and she sang for us!
Brags:
Ally: thanks to all who checked in on her - recovering from third surgery. She received great text from John Secrest.
Sandy: $10 brag! After 4 years encouraging her dad to move into assisted living, he’s doing it!
Shannon: Hike for the Homeless next Saturday the 1st and Empty Bowls Dinner next week too celebrating 90 days of sobriety today!
Josh: Hike for the Homeless - thanks for all your help. He’s passing around pledge sheet
Drew: Raffle tickets for sale! Also trying to drum up teams for the adventure race. Sign up on-line. There’s a Rotary team brewing…
Ally: daughter in Madagascar, teaching kids for gap year! Awesome adventure for her and mom.
KJ: daughter is in China has been there since May. Her birthday is on Monday turning 20! Last Wednesday went to conference in Burlington and had lunch with other daughter who is at UVM. Awww…
Tristam: Blissful ignorance - no idea he was responsible for having a speaker come! And for banging Ally on her sore knee.
Damon: Catherine had special annual meeting for her work and they left kids for the weekend and went to Portsmouth. Ran 1/2 marathon this past weekend. He finished 28th overall in a field of over 300!!!! Brag to Keene Elm City Rotary for bringing this race back to life.
Erin: went to school for architecture and she is building her own tiny house and she put her windows in!
Kevin: $1 for short brag
No speaker today so we discussed our committee structure.
Kevin PR: making sure our club is in the forefront of the community - getting the word out about what we do. Paper, radio, social media… Lisa can help with Instagram and Shannon is helping with Twitter. Lisa could help us by giving a talk about Twitter and Instagram.
Tristam: International - think about the level of impact that we’re having are you satisfied? Think about that. He thinks that there is something more that could be done.
Josh: Community Service - coordinating with Dan, cooking for events, taking care of the gardens; overflow shelter dinners; help out with discrete jobs as they come up.
Toni: Fundraising: 3 on 3 usually raises about $10,000 for scholarships; Dinner Raffle; made just shy of $8000 last year; idea for lip synch contest - Vermont’s Got Talent - was super successful. Cooking competitions?
Josh: Membership committee - recruiting new members
Amelia: Club Service Committee
Turner: Donations
Toni: Vocational Service - recruits student Rotarians