The Ken Wednesday, June 30, 2021 

8:54 AM 

President Dick rang the bell to get our attention at 12:16 and led us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Gary did the invocation. He then announced the menu at the fireworks on Friday 7/2. Chicken-sausage-rigatoni-mac & cheese-salad and cookies. There will be a tent, byo chairs and drinks. Passes will be emailed to all. Pay Gary at the event, $20 each and 12 & under free. Cathy informed us that Linda Skroka broke her leg. Keep her in your prayers please. Guests today Skylar Stychalska our Ken West medalist Award recipient and cousin Kelly Rodriguez. Also our speaker DG Frank Adamson on zoom. UB Rotoractor Honar Ali also joined us on zoom. Dick won the split, $10 and Donna drew the 9 of spades, so sorry. Chuck presented the Foundation board nominations, Larry and Paul's terms expired, they were willing to stay on, there were no new proposals. All voted in favor. Frank asked us what the club accomplished the last year and Chuck shared the foundations contributions, which were a new freezer for a food pantry, meals on wheels back up generator as well as a few more that added up to $30,000. Frank was impressed with our foundation that was formed in 1954. Ted reported that our charities helped out with $20,000. Frank would like to challenge us with the goal of 4 new members this year. Larry explained the youth programs that we are involved with. Skylar is the outgoing President of the KW Highschool Interact club, she was accepted for our summer 2020 exchange program to Romania but that was cancelled. Honar shared with us his bike trek from California to NYC, he hopes to raise 25K for JDRF. Be careful and keep us updated. The fundraiser is promoted on FB and Instagram. Larry then presented Skylar with the scholarship. Congratulations to both. Congratulations Larry! Amherst North presented him with a Paul Harris Award. Well deserved. We will not be meeting on 7/5 so let's welcome our guest speaker from NAMI Michele Brooks on 7/12. Hope to see y'all at Friday's fireworks. Be safe. 

Pat 

Amendment form Larry: One of the zoom guests on Monday was Emma Correia, UB Rotaractor who is also an Assistant Governor (a new position created to enhance communications with sponsoring Rotary Clubs and the District)