Meeting Date: May 13, 2022
Presiding: President Ben Kiniry
Greeter: Jon Ruggles
President Ben opened the meeting at 7:30am and greeter Jon shared some inspirational words.
No Guests but one guest speaker.
Attendance:
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17
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Live
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12
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Zoom
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1
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Visiting
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0
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Guests
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1
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Guest Speakers
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31
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Total
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Announcements:
- Board meeting is Monday May 16, 2022 will be a virtual meeting only.
- The Pavilion Committee has met several times but have not taken a vote yet. The Pavilion will be located at Hanson Ballpark on Albin Road and the club will have the naming rights. The total price tag will be between $15,000-$20,000. This will be discussed at the next board meeting on Monday and brought to the members at next Friday Club Assembly.
- Car Show all set to go:
- Today members will be laying out the parking, banners and signage. Tents will go up this afternoon.
- Interact will have 8-10 members there to help with parking.
- Admission is $3, Under 12 and over 70 free.
Sergeant at Arms: Bryant Stevener
Fines: Jerry Kingwill - Cobb Hill logo fine
Happy Bucks:
Jerry Kingwill - recovered from Covid and looking forward to the car show this weekend.
Tom Ives - Happy for his mom’s 90th Birthday.
Dick Swett - Hosted a gathering for Lech Walesa on Wednesday. He touched on many issues involving the war in Ukraine and how NATO should proceed regarding Russia in the future.
Ken Moulton - Attended a Red Sox game and was fortunate to sit in the luxury box owned by team Chairman Tom Werner
Peter Imse – Happy 3 for a great vacation.
Steve DeStefano - Back at it as Commissioner of the summer Sunset Baseball League after his retirement failed to get a replacement.
Program: Steve Taylor is an independent scholar, farmer, journalist and longtime public official. He has been a newspaper reporter and editor, and served for 25 years as NH's commissioner of agriculture. Steve was the founding executive director of the NH Humanities Council and is a lifelong student of the state's rural culture. He is from Plainfield, NH and is currently 82 years old. He reflected on the changes in the Upper Valley over his lifetime and there have been many. He grew up on a dairy farm and at that time there were 46 independent Dairies in the Upper Valley, now there’s only 1 left McNamara Dairy in Plainfield. (On a side note if you’re ever in the Upper Valley between Thanksgiving and Christmas, Pick up a bottle of McNamara Dairy’s Egg Nog. The best I’ve ever had!).
In 1840, 80% of Southern New Hampshire was cleared of trees for Farming and other Agriculture. Now with many farms closed, the forest is reclaiming the land. Streams and major river ways have cleaned up due to The Clean Water Act. This resulted in better leach field technology, closing of dumps on river banks and prohibiting factories from dumping chemicals into streams and waterways.
Wild life started to migrate as the result of more forests and better water quality. Wild Turkey, Moose, Bear and Beaver, once only seen North of the White Mountains, are now routinely seen in southern parts of the state.
Changes in Transportation have been dramatic. When he was young transportation was very local as one usually worked in town and train was used to go anywhere out of town. Farms, local saw mills, rubber shops and textile mills closed which forced people to commute longer to work. Public demand saw improvement in roads, snow removal and the addition of highways. Trains all but vanished in NH by the early 1960’s.
Steve ended by talking about his reporting and editing days. Radio was replaced by the TV and local telephone switch boards and newspapers replaced by the cell phone.
A reminder of the car show tomorrow 8-2 and the virtual Board meeting on Monday 6:30pm.
Respectfully Submitted,
Bryant Stevener
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