President Tanya opened the meeting at 07:30 and Mike shared some inspiration from Yogi Berra.
Attendance:
24
Live
3
Zoom
2
Visiting Rotarians
1
Guests
1
Guest Speakers
31
Total
Guest Names:
Chase Hagaman (and his son, Ryan): Stacy McDowell
Visiting Rotarian’s Names: Philip Nadeau, DGE Lou Botta
Announcements:
Mike Griffin - updated us on Trees - going to new vendor for quality reasons. Will be more expensive but we have room to raise our price and still make some profit.
Mike Gula - Auction-Sponsorship letters are going out today. Major sponsors secured: Grappone and Merrimack County Savings Bank!
Concert Series was a great series this year!
President Tanya - Goal to organize and get the Old Town Hall weeds pulled up.
District Golf Sign up - Monday, September 28th, Newport, NH
Sergeant at Arms: Dave Farr in for Barb Griffin
Birthdays: none
Fines: non noted
Happy Bucks:
Matt Gatzke – Happy to have our district visitors and for our concert series.
PDG Donna, happy to have Ruth and Lou here.
Lou Botta-Happy to be here. Going to Cancun. 100 days until ski season!
PDG Chris is also happy to have Ruth and Lou here. And his family week at Lake is coming up.
DG Ruth Clough - Happy to be here.
Steve DeStefano- Baseball League is still going strong. Happy that a Black Heritage Statue at White Park honoring player from the past. Also, a past player in the women’s league has made it into the professional league.
Dick Swett - great two week vacation. 27 family members showed up to the home in Maine.
Dave Scanlan is happy to be taking the day off. Will be walking in the woods
Phil Nadeau - discussed another Yogi Berra interview and comment.
Ken Moulton discussed book “the spy beyond home plate”. Another Yogi berra quote.
Chase Hagaman - injured and was glad he stopped bleeding. Also happy to have Ryan here.
Mike Griffin - Last nights band NO COPAY was very good. So much so that Linda Bliss was very lively, to include dancing, which brought in the money I’m told.
Matt Dodge - Also happy to know there are 100 days to skiing. Team at work just hit the billion dollars under management milestone!
Program: 2026-27 District GovernorRuth Clough
Grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, moved here decades ago (30 plus years) in part for the love of skiing.
Learned of Rotary out of high school when she applied for a scholarship, was her first contact.
Joined when Rotary opened up to women membership.
Informed us that Membership is struggling, down approximately 1000 plus members. New members need to be a priority.
Go out in the world and look for and invite potential new members!
Looking for members to join the membership/public image committee.
Will be using Zoom for more topics such as Foundation, Membership, and public image. This will allow more members to join.
Unite for Good is this years theme.
Food insecurity is an issue, goal is to have a district wide food drive on March 13, 2027.
Pointed out the golf tournament and encouraged members to attend.
Cornhole Tournament, creating more around the district. Goal is to have district finals.
President Tanya closed the meeting with a toast to Rotary the world over.
