Today’s Greeter: Jeanie Richards – She spoke about hope
Attendance:
- 32 Bow Rotarians
- 1 Visiting Rotarian: Brayden Wesler
- 0 Guests
- 1 Guest Speaker: Jessica Martin, Executive Director InTown Concord
Announcements:
- Dick Swett, Steve DeStefano, Peter Imse – Talked about Interact. The club is taking on the cleanup at the boat ramp as a regular service and seeing if they can get garbage cans and park benches for the area.
- Judy Goodnow – Old Town Hall – wallpaper is up! Bryant did a great job on the primer. Wallpaper installation cost was $900 which was below budget.
- Matt Gatzke – Michelle made it to the final 4 for the 4 Way Speech Contest District finals will be held on May 1st
- Matt Gatzke – Friday April 9th NH Food Bank will have a mobile distribution at Lincoln Financial. Looking for 5 volunteers for 10:00 – 2:00
- Matt Gatzke – Rich Berryman called and said the Franklin Club disbanded 5 years ago but they are trying to restart the club. Capital City Sunrise Club is taking up a collection to help get them started and Matt said we may try and purchase a banner for them or anything else they may need.
- Gerry Carrier– Car show had a committee meeting and decided to move the date to August 21st, assuming everything will be settled down by then.
Sergeant at Arms: Joya Dennehy
Birthday Bucks:
- Chuck Rheinhardt: Crazy year glad the year is over, looking forward to seeing everyone again!
Happy Bucks:
- Linda Bliss: $1.00 - 3rd grandchild in August; $1.00 - For Judy’s hard work; $1.00 - On March 30th it will be her 23rd year in Rotary & 22 years of perfect attendance!
- Matt Dodge: $1.00 - Went skiing for the last time at Pat’s Peak with his dad it was 70 degrees!
- Matt Gotzke: He wants Matt Dodge to wear a GoPro when he skis. $1.00 - for Vaccine; $1.00 - for plumbing work needed to be done at his house but the plumber kept saying “Never seen this before”!
- Bob Couch: $5.00 - Large tree taken down in the yard $5.00 - He and his wife are both 14 days plus since receiving their second shot. Time to travel!
- Rob Werner: $1.00 – I missed what you said, sorry Rob!
- Ken Moulton: $1.00 - He and Jackie both received their second shots in February so they went to Arizona to see their son and grandson.
Program:
Linda Lorden introduced Jessica Martin from InTown Concord. Jessica joined in December 2020 as the Executive Director.
Events:
- Market Days – August 19-21, 2021
- Hallow Howl – October 29, 2021
- Midnight Merriment – December 3, 2021
- Winterfest was last month, about 1,000 people visited!
Her job is to promote Concord and its events. In 2019 $2,458,357 was the financial impact to the city of Concord with over 2,300 volunteer hours. Also, there is a Facade Grant for downtown buildings.
Book – Coming on Home to the Baker Free Library
Respectfully submitted,
Stephen DeStefano