Meeting Date: May 2, 2025
Presiding: President Gerry Carrier
Greeter: Ken Moulton
President Gerry opened the meeting at 07:30 and greeter Ken shared some inspiration.
Attendance:
| 29 |
Live |
| 3 |
Zoom |
| 0 |
Visiting Rotarians |
| 0 |
Guests |
| 1 |
Guest Speakers |
| 33 |
Total |
Announcements:
- Pres Gerry: Car show update - All hands on deck sign up sheet going around. Posters are here. We have a new major sponsor - Diamond Detailing
- Stakes are placed for the granite monument at Rotary park we need 4 or 5 people to help dig the hole.
- Corn hole tournament May 29th. There will be a practice before the tournament.
- Mike Ard - Concert series is looking good
- Bryant Stevener - Maps are being printed at NH Print and Mail (5,000)
- Thank you note from Joseph Albposhies the 4 way speech contest winner.
- Thank you from the Bow Pops for the $200 donation.
Sargent-At-Arms: Tanya
Birthdays:
Dick Swett - Apologies for late email to set up committees. $100 for the foundation.
Three of his kids and 8 grand kids kidnapped him they went to the Interval pancake house then to the Concord/ Lexington 250th tour.
Tom Ives birthday was today and we sang to him. Good year but his grandson Henry thought he looked like pickles in the comic strip.
Happy bucks:
Dave Farr - Daughter in California wife in Texas. So the boys are on their own.
Mike Gula - Thanked the Scholarship Committee for all their hard work. He forgot he had set up this morning and lost a chicken to a bear. He is running his first marathon in Wells Maine on Sunday.
Durwood Sargent - Got new hearing aids from the VA and his grand daughter almost got "strained"??? in France
Pres Gerry - Grand daughter is still in automotive school, he and his grand son went on a Illumination tour and Duck tour in Boston
Chris Parkinson - Is in ANTIGUA with his daughter, son-in-law and 2 grand daughters.
Tanya - Yay spring, flip flop season also Boys and girls club golf tourney.
Mellissa - log fine??? Thank you to Bill Ames for the great presentation at the VNA.
Program: Today's Speaker introduced by Dave Scanlan
Ashley Miller - Director of the state Archive department
Very interesting
Pine Tree Riots 1772
Fort William and Mary 1774
Governor John Wentworth fleed the state in 1775
We were the 9th state to sign the Declaration of Independence
We reived our state constitution in 1784
President Gerry closed the meeting with a toast to Rotary the world over.
Respectfully Submitted,
Steve DeStefano
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