Today’s Greeter: Paul Mercier gave blessing with good words from the Rotary foundation letter
Attendance:
- Bow Rotarians: 33
- Visiting Rotarians: 0
- Guests: 4, - Cindy Andersen & 3 VNA members with the speaker.
- Guest speaker: 1
- Scooters: 5
A Total of 38
Announcements:
President Bryant Stevener made the following announcements:
- Board Meeting Monday night at 6:00pm.
- District 7870 conference May 3,4 & 5 - North Shore in Mass
- 2nd Announcement for new member John Preston
Other announcements:
- Chuck Reinhart – Garden Club at Rotary Park for spring clean-up, tomorrow at 8:00am
- Mike Griffin- roadside pick-up to be April 27th at 8:00am, need 14 folks
- Rick Minard – 1st Grade book reading on May 24th in Bow, and May 31st in Dunbarton
- Gerry Carrier- Car show- May 18th. Good on Sponsors, Signup sheet next week, 38 pre-registered cars, selling T-Shirts again this year.
Sergeant at Arms: Ben Kiniry
Fines:
- Logos: John Ruggles from R&T Electric, Jerry Kingwill from Cobb Hill
- Pins, badges: None
Late Dollar:
- Chuck Reinhart – paid late buck for Cindy Andersen, Chuck’s guest
- Dave Gazaway – was late -but needed full clarification on what constituted a late buck
Birthdays:
- Mike Griffin – Busy at work, going to Foxborough with Cross Insurance as one of the top producers. Daughter, Katie 24 - CPA at Sprague in Portsmouth, Son, Andrew has job at TF Moran, some #’s from Mike: married for 26 years, 13 years in Bow, 12 years at Rotary
Happy Bucks
- Chris Parkinson – Saw Fleetwood Mac in concert in Boston, and saw Wild Kratts in Concord
- Judy Goodnow- $10 - for 10 days left until retirement
- Ben Kiniry – in younger days was a Class A cyclist – due to life commitments, lost opportunity to maintain status. Recently regained interest and started to compete again, disappointed with a Class C status after competition. Happy that last night he gained a B class status, sooner than expected, as he expected it would take longer to get back.
Raffle Winner: Judy Goodnow. No jackpot - 5 cards left
Program:
Mike Griffin introduced Lisa Challender from the Concord Regional VNA. Lisa is responsible for getting new volunteers, providing education for new volunteers and to support the existing volunteers.
She current works with 100 volunteers that serve 40 surrounding towns.
Lisa introduced Bill Ames, who is a resident of Bow. The rebirth of a program at the VNA this year is to serve the Veterans.
Bill told us the story of the Korean War Vet that he has been able to provide services to, but more importantly to help the full time provider the ability to do the grocery shopping for the week, to get out of the house for a couple of hours and interact with others.
Bill mentioned that there are 23 Million Veterans in the US, 105 390 in NH. 10% of the NH population. There are currently 23 in the Concord VNA program. Bill has become a volunteer focused on serving the Veterans at the VNA. In May they are starting a training session for volunteers to serve the Veterans better.
Bryant Stevener closed the meeting with a toast to Rotary at 8:25.
Respectfully Submitted,
Jerry Kingwill