Spoke 5/14/2015

Posted by Ta Clarke 
on May 19, 2015
 
Called to order by:  President Garlan
Opening Song: R-O-T-A-R-Y
Patriotic Song: Oh Beautiful For Spacious Skies
Invocation: Paul Boucher
Song Leader: Jim
Song: Take Me Out to the Ball Game & The Band Played On
There were no visiting Rotarians
Paul Boucher brought Peter Logan of Goss-Logan Insurance as a Guest
Raffle: Jason pulled the 6 of Spades
Announcements:
  • Jamie spoke of behalf of the pie committee regarding the sign up sheet being passed around and the need for more savory pies.
  • Linda shared that Norm Wakely sends his love
  • Jane shared that her dad was recently diagnosed with lung cancer, but the outlook looks good
  • Garlan reminded everyone about the change over dinner on 6/25/15 and the District Conference May 28-31 in Stowe VT
  • Forrest let everyone know he has eggs available for $3/dzn proceeds to the Rotary Foundation
Brags:
  • Paul Boucher bragged that today was his 16th Anniversary as the Lebanon Chamber President
Rotary Minute: Linda shared some geographical fun facts about Rotary clubs around the world. Some included:
  • Reno, NV’s club is farther west than L.A.’s club
  • Portland, ME’s club is farther south than London’s
Speaker: Steve Christy introduced our speaker, Brian Donovan.   Brian talked about how Keene, NH, even though they don’t have a major highway leading to them, has succeeded in being self-reliant. They have two rotary clubs, a strong chamber, a large lions club.  Brian told us about Jack Dugan from Monadnock Development who has really helped the city thrive by finding/using grants/TIFS/tax credits. 
Questions for the speaker:
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  • Garlan: Can we “borrow” Jack?
  • Steve: What role do the banks play: Throughout the years they got together with Ema Ledger and have been very instrumental in helping with sponsorships/donations
  • Jon: Shared that he got his first loan/mortgage through Carl Cheshire in Keene
  • Garlan: City Mayor has meetings with school system/banks/leaders of the community, how often and at whose direction?The Mayor would LIKE it to be quarterly but they have been delayed, but he does them on his own accord.
  • Paul: Any cooperation with Jack from current businesses? Yes – they support Jack but developers don’t like his nonprofit success as he is there competition.
 
Lastly, Garlan presented Forrest with his new BLUE pin which represented Forrest bringing a new Rotarian to the club (Valerie).
 
Garlan then closed the meeting with the Four Way Test.