President Dick opened the meeting at 07:30 and greeter Melissa shared some inspiration.
Attendance:
28
Live
9
Zoom
0
Visiting Rotarians
1
Guests
1
Guest Speakers
39
Total
Guests Names: Finn Frost
Announcements:
The next Board meeting will be held on Monday February 16th.
Game Night is this Saturday February 7th, 7pm Old Town Hall.
RSVP to Matt Gatzke.
4 Way Speech contest is March 31st 6:30pm at the Town Library.
Scholarship applications have been revised and will go online soon.
Submission deadline 3:00pm April 6th.
Next week the greeter will be Tanya Frost and Gerry Carrier will be the speaker.
Sergeant at Arms: David Farr
Birthdays: None
Fines: None noted
Happy Bucks:
Donna Deos - with a happy $5 for celebrating her 24th wedding anniversary.
Pres Dick - with a happy $4 for attending the International Religious Freedom conference with his wife. Also for his Grandson’s 100 point for Hopkinton High School’s hockey team. He was recently named player of the week with 7 goals and 2 assists in a recent game.
Tanya Frost - was happy for her recent NH Leadership conference. This past one was about Law Enforcement.
Carol Niegisch - with a happy $20 for her recent trip to San Diego but is happy to be home!
Judy Goodnow - was happy to figure out her recent furnace issues but will have to return to Maine at a later date for the fix.
David Gazaway - with a happy $5 for a great time on a recent trip to LA.
Gerry Carrier - happy for an uneventful Amigo’s shuttle trip to Logan at 2am that went well and for skiing Sunapee 3 times this week.
Steve DeStefano - was happy that he will be in attendance today to speak on behalf of Dan Will who has been nominated to the State Supreme Court.
Dave Farr - was happy to announce he’s leaving his job at Dell and starting up with a new company soon.
Mike Gula - happy for a wonderful Scholarship Committee.
Program: Andy DeMeo-Granite Goodness
Granite Goodness is a weekly roundup of progress across housing, energy, sustainability, infrastructure, economics, science and innovation throughout all six New England states. Too often the media shows us only what’s going wrong. Granite Goodness focus’ on what’s going right with a simple belief that optimism isn’t naïve, it’s pragmatic. When solutions go unnoticed, we lose sight of what’s possible and how to do better. Granite Goodness exists to change that by featuring stories that are substantive and optimistic sharing the positive local news and stories that happen every day. Their audience is made up of TED speakers, regenerative farmers, electric vehicle innovators, café owners, technologists, members of Congress, Governors, local leaders and many more. Check them out at www.granitegoodness.com
President Dick closed the meeting with a toast to Rotary the world over.
