Next week scribe: Will S., then Sandy S.
Next week Sergeant At Arms: Jon S (but KJ will cover); then KJ (but Jon will cover)
Speaker: 12/5 (not sure); 12/22: Josh T.
Rotary minute: “Every Rotarian every year,” RI Foundation.
$100 in a year, you are a Sustaining Member
$1,000 or more in a lifetime, you are a Paul Harris Fellow
$1,000 or more annually, you are a Paul Harris Society member
When club giving reaches $100 per capita and all dues paying members give $25 per year, the club is an “Every Rotarian Every Year” club.
Goes to water, sanitation, hygiene, education, disease prevention and treatment, maternal and child health, peacebuilding, conflict resolution, economic development.
$15 protects 5 kids from polio. $50 provides new water filter. $100 provides PPE and training for Covid. Imagine what $2 per week will do ($2600 a year at $2 per week per member in our club).
Quote: Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. – Scott Adams
No Rotary anniversaries.
It’s Damon’s birthday. Happy birthday!
12/15 next week bring in project feed donation
Holiday gathering January 8th at Turner’s house. Bonfire, bring some flammable materials. It is requests that you be fully vaccinated.
Raffle tix not until end of December. So now Valentines Day event! Drawing would be Feb. 9.
Wreaths Across American is looking for donations, will be stopping in Bratt. Mona can give you address and contact info.
Request from VT Fuel Association: split the ticket matching fund if you donate. Mona will have more info if you want to reach out to her.
Presented check to Richard Davis from Windham County Heat Fund. Help 100 people a year, get donations from about 100 people. Richard and Daryl Pillsbury, who run it, cover all administrative costs personally, so every dollar goes to recipients. Get grants and local businesses support as well. They don’t solicit, people just send in each year. Recipients fall through the cracks of the government and other support systems. Last year they started a new program to create a fund in name of a donor, if especially difficult situation, they’ll pay fuel for the whole year. Richard was very appreciate of our annual donation.
Guest: Mark Terry. Those seated with him refused to give information about him so he’ll be a mystery guest.
We used to have a list tracking our volunteer hours. That’s starting up again.
Announcements:
Trivia Monday. Attendance has been great. Raising money for Kids in Coats.
Tristam: Chenupa at Pine Ridge Reservation. He says his wish is, “I’d like to know that five families are not sharing a trailer.”
Meeting next week; no mtg on 29th.
Toni wins cards. $9!
Student Rotarian Ava Whitney: Her business class at career center is collecting food for needy. Winter sports is starting, and she’s doing Nordic.
Mona is losing sleep due to puppy.
Brags:
Toni: Thanksgiving rerouted through four airports to Mississippi on her way to see her kids. Battle on way back too.
Nick:
$10 brag moved his Edward Jones office to 80 Flat St.
Josh:
Went to noon club last week to thank them for disc golf tournament. They had all student Rotarians, doing present wrapping for nursing homes, 350 gifts.
Dan:
Partial fine for being late, and thanks for others who help him when he’s late as Sargent at Arms. Deb is doing well, back at work.
Will:
Great slideshow/music presentation about hiking the Long Trail last two years. James Taylor (not the singer) helped create the Long Trail. In pandemic, Will got inspired. Longest trail of any state. Started last year, finalized this May. Finished last piece with KJ. Two ways of hiking: alone (contemplation, meditative, integrated into environment) and with others, more social. If too much time alone on the Long Trail, you will go crazy, he says- need balance. 277 miles. Longest day was 12 hours 20 miles. His pacemaker held up!