Pledge: President Paul
Prayer: Gerri Lewis
Song: Led by Andy Anderson
Brent's Flim/Flam: Lowe hand won by Heather Gagnon
Raffle Winners: Ken Roche, Al Lindquist and Heather
Happy Bucks: Heather doubly happy and for selling 16 tickets to the Wine Tasting, many
for our guests, many for the great sunrise and a nice day, Marty and Gerri for the wine
Tasting coming along so well, Many for Marty & Gerri's running of the project and Andy
for Tony Carrano, vice principle of the Lyme/Old Lyme H.S. who's retiring at the end of this
year.
Guest: of President Paul, Lee Gesick.
Student of the Month: Heather Gagnon did the honors introducing our Students of the
Month today which were in Language Arts.
Westbrook: Megan Prevost is a 6th year Spanish major who is in the National Honor
Society, Cheer-leading, counselor peer councelor and in the Fire Department and Ambulance
response. She is also an EMT.
Bob Hale, principle of Westbrook High presented Luke Tettelbach who was last month's
candidate from Westbrook in Science. Luke is very interested in physics, founded the
Frisbee club in Westbrook and works at a summer camp in Maine (where he moved down
from a year or so ago) for trouble youths. He's looking forward to pursue an Engineering
course of studies at UCONN.
Lyme/Old Lyme: Tony Carrano, Asst. Principle presented Maria Awwa who is fluent in
Arabic, French and Latin. Next year she's going to master Chinese. Despite her prowess
in languages, she plans to follow a chemistry major in college.
Program: Tony Carrano was on deck again talking about the High School building project
in Old Lyme. As many may recall this was a very controversial issue in town where the
initial proposal was to construct a totally new High School, for several million dollars. The
school board and townspeople finally settled on renovating the present school. All the
schools in Old Lyme are in a campus environment and would maintain basically the same
arrangement. The elementary and middle schools weren't too much of a problem but the
High School posed some interesting issues. School still has to be held during all the
renovations necessitating portable classrooms that can be moved around, a totally stand
alone locker room facility for the gym, complete with showers and temporary walls being
erected and taken down during the life of the project. Tony also mentioned other problems
of noise, smell and dust. He indicated that the contractors were very accommodating to
minimize these disruptive issues. The project is coming alone nicely with a new
auditorium and Commons (cafeteria) area. The auditorium should be completed and ready
for use next spring. When the whole project is finally done is 2013 it should be very nice,
functional and technologically up to date. Tony had layouts and plans showing the project
and indicated that more information can be seen on the Region18.ORG website.
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THE FOUR-WAY TEST
of the things we think, say or do
First...
Is it the TRUTH ?
Second....
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Third....
Will it build GOOD WILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Fourth....
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
