Rotary Club
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Volume 1 | Issue 1

 

And the group gets smaller and smaller. Despite a beautiful day today, and a scrumptious lunch which consisted of pizza and, uh, more pizza, we were able to attract only 18 Rotarians to the Ridge for our weekly gathering. In fact, it was only because Steve Jacoby rolled in around 12:30, that we were able to have enough members to exceed the number of games the Beaners are behind in the American League East standings, which for Ruthie’s benefit, equals 17.5 games. As our erudite President would tweet, “sad.”

Little Free Libraries On the Way

After the opening song and Jack Sayre’s invocation, after the pizza pigging out, after the conversation over lunch subsided, President Bob rang the bell and immediately jumped into announcements. I left his notes on the table at the end of the meeting, so this may be somewhat sketchy:

·       The Board has approved a donation of Five Little Free Libraries to be placed around town by the East Hartford Women’s Club. Great project for both groups.

·       The Yard Goats game benefiting Polio Plus is still on for August 24th and tickets are still available.

·       September 7, Saturday, is the Habitat for Humanity gathering at the East Hartford site. A signup sheet circulated.

·       October 13 the Manchester Rotary Club is sponsoring a 26-mile bike race in the tri-town area. We will be manning a water station in Wickham Park. Put it on your calendar.

·       We have 56 golfers signed up as of now, down from our usual 80+. We still need raffle prizes donated along with tee sponsors and volunteers to work that day at the course. Remember that this is our major fundraisers for the year and the source of much of our charitable funds. Even if you are not attending meetings on a regular basis, you are expected to contribute to this effort. You don’t get to call yourself a good Rotarian if you are unwilling to do your share for this event.

·       August 25th is the Food Share event in Bloomfield. Anwar Hossain has three people signed up thus far. Would welcome more.

Small Purse Today

Jim Watts was our conscientious Sergeant at Arms today and he did his best with the small number on hand. Just about everyone got nicked one way or another. No birthdays, no anniversaries, just a lot of moaning about the Sox or euphoria that they finally won a game the night before. George Schoen did clarify that money collected here goes to the Scholarship Fund and the Scholarship Trust. Monies from the weekly raffle and the flower raffle funds the annual picnic.

Speaking of which, Wes Willett won the meager raffle and Dan Russell repeated as the winner of the flower display.

That’s it for this week,

Doug Willett

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