Pledge: Presdent Keith
Prayer: Gerri Lewis
Song: Led by Andy
Brent's Flim/Flam: Low hand drew a tie between Mike Velgouse and President Keith.
Tie breaker won by President Keith who claimed he hasn't won in
2 years.
Raffle: Winners were Walter Osborne, Joan C. and Mike V.
Happy $'s: David Wiight for new great grandson, Many for Angus McD. lung transplant
(apparantly doing OK), Brent and Bill Suits for jokes, many for nice morning,
President Keith for winning poker hand, and a sad dollar for Bill Bernhart who
apparantly rebrike his hip or leg!
Announcements:
Thank you note from one of the RYLA attendees who was very impressed.
Thank you and picture from Chamber on our participation in the Chili Fest.
President Keith (a bit of nepotism) on his daughter's involvement in the Theropeudic
Riding Program, she may speak to us on this in the future.
Brent reminded us the Golf tourney is coming up on May 27th. The cost to play will be
$150, still a great deal. Player pictures and invites will be going out soon and team lists
will be set up shortly. Also, the putting contest is being dropped due to lack of interest
and participation.
Secretary Mike needs to know who attended the Gladeview meeting, let him know.
President Keith mentioned Parks & Rec have asked us to be sure that the square tables
are wiped down after the meeting (no more syrup spills please).
Next Tuesday evening is our dinner meeting at the Pavilion, catered by JAMMS, starting
at 6PM. Contact Joan Camire if you plan to attend and haven't signed up.
April 17th is the distric Conference which is a training session for incoming board and
committee chairs. It's a good session on Rotary information. See President Keith.
Program: John Donnelly introduced our speaker, Wayne Silver of the Norwich Rotary Club.
He is a fformer dean of Three Rivers College, now retired and is now an active member
and founder of "American Friends of Kenya". He initially only wanted to start a small
library there, afer a trip to Kenya with his wife. Besides accomplishing this goal he and
his organization have since help build schools, sent down medical supplies and recruited
medical teams to work with the poorer segments of this country. They started a school
for girls in the Kabara, the largest slum in Kenya about the size of Cenrtral Park with a
population of about 750K. They try to avoid the government agencies and try to work
with help organizations within the country, certainly the Rotary way. When asked " why
try to help such a corrupt, despotic, slum ridden part of the world", he replied that the
right kind of help can do wonders and create hope for the masses.
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