Sunrise Rotary Minutes for November 30, 2016

Posted by Jim M on Dec 05, 2016
 
Sunrise Rotary
Minutes for November 30, 2016
 
This day in history  Missed it
 
Thanks to Greeters: Ed and KJ
 
Welcome guests :  Lissa Weinmann of “118 Elliot”; student Rotarians Cristol, Morgan and Jack from BUHS.
 
Thanks for the student report from Cristol, Morgan and Jack
  • BUHS Feed The Thousands kicks off today.  Drop items at BUHS.  (Sunrise also involved with FTT, and we’ll bring bags to a meeting this month for BUHS to take away)
  • BUHS played the Brattleboro Police Department in basketball and the outcome was explained by Morgan but the explanation was too complicated for the Scribe to follow.  Anyway, the event raised $500 for Vets At Home
  • Music Dept. fall concert over with; next event will be Acapella
 
No anniversaries
 
3 Birthdays:  Jerry, Jon and Damon
 
Kevin’s weekly fine list:  Michelle and Jeff for stealing the student Rotarians from Kevin’s table
 
Raffle drawing!
  • 2nd runner up (Vermont Country Deli)            Laura from Subaru
  • 1st runner up (Grafton Cheese)                       Joe Hesselin
  • WINNER:                                                       Jon Secrest
 
Board meets tomorrow (Dec 1) All welcome
 
Announcements
  • Overflow Shelter: December 6; next January 23
  • Blood drive in two weeks, on December 14
  • Project Feed The Thousands continues for 2nd month
  • Amelia query:  holiday party?—we’ll call Bethany at Duo’s.  Jon Secrest will put up the first $50 bar tab from his winnings
  • Tristam’s coffee on sale.  UVM student Amwynn Darrow will be returning to Honduras to train people in composting
 
Brags
  • $50 from Jon, for the good fortune and friendship in his life, but he will not wear a hairpiece, that won’t happen, no way
  • Evelyn brags with magnificent gestural dancelike rendition of supercalifragilisticexpialidocious--Mary Poppins, playing at NEYT
  • Jason $10 for the raffle ticket sellers
  • Ali brag for Trivia Night and Linda Torunski in attendance—Linda brought banner from Florida club
  • Sandy L brag for visit with her dad
  • Amelia’s brag for 100% participation in Hilltop’s annual fundraiser
  • KJ brag for the Christmas tree unloaders and the Reformer’s good judgment in printing photos of Sunrise people (Diane and someone else, sorry don’t remember who); also the Alstead music festival; also Sandy Shriver’s 2nd place finish in table tennis
  • Kevin bragging KVT’s PFTT outside Price Chopper and the $500 donor, what great support in this community for PFTT; also Mark Ethier coming thru with transport of food, etc.
  • Turner’s granddaughter one of 6 bassists in the National Youth Orchestra
  • Damon’s son Torin (sp?) running in junior Olympic cross country trials (?)
  • Ali brags for no-shave November, student Rotarians, Trivia Night, and a great Thanksgiving at Michelle’s
 
Speaker:  This Is Your Life:  one of our newest Rotarians, Lisa Fitzgerald, with bio, passion for waterways & being a travel agent, & family
 

Adjourn 8:35 a.m.
                                                                                                            Jim Maxwell
 
 
Future guest speaker assignments:  Next week: Will.  Week after: Sandy.  Week after:  Valerie.
 
Birthdays  Amelia and Kevin, belated
 
Anniversary Again, it’s Bob Fagelson, now for 21 years whereas last week it was 14 years, so time really flew over the past 7 days . . .
 
Brags
 
Todd on moving
Bob Fagelson on travels
Sandy L. on Seder in Brooklyn, the golf tournament, and prayers for Syrian refugees
Tristam on vacation in Arizona
KJ on youngest daughter turning 18
Jill on what great people we are (!) and she’ll miss us (and we’ll miss her and Maysa)
Josh on vacation to New Orleans
Kevin on Bethany and the joy of sharing Franklin Pierce
Diane on the Montpelier Rotary Club and singing
Dan on Natalie turning 13
Michelle on canoe racing with her dad (74)
Drew on KJ’s tough persistence in the training regimen
Marcy on Nature Camp with her daughter (home on spring break) and 6 Flags
Shannon on Restaurant Week and the medicinal use of psychotropic drugs
 
Card was something of Diamonds and no winner
 
No bowl of life, get those life-changing experiences into the bowl!
 
For This Is Your Life we heard from Diane, totally native Brattleborian, big family, happy in her job and glad that soon she and KJ will have an empty nest.  Question:  if you could go anywhere today, where would it be?  -- Ireland.  And it’s ok for KJ to come along.
 
Respectfully submitted,
 
Jim M