Over 70 Rotarians and guests celebrated the holiday season on Thursday, December 12, in lieu of our normal lunch meeting.  The celebration was a dinner at the new Centennial Bar and Grill owned by Adrian Abed, one of our members, and his partner.

 

Rotarians brought socks for the Resource Center and teen gifts for "A Christmas Wish".  

 

The evening started out with a social hour followed by a lovely buffet dinner.   After dinner, President Simona honored us with an original poem (watch for it in a future bulletin), we gave out some Paul Harris recognitions and played the hot game of Christmas Trivia.

 

Normally all 26 televisions are playing sports.  For our night one set over the bar only had Thursday Night Football.  5 sets and rotating slide shows of Christmas parties and project past, and the remainder of the sets had a yule time fire to add to the ambience.  Thank you Paul!

 

For Christmas Trivia each table of 8 or more were asked to identify Christmas movies based on three names of the stars in the movie, identify Christmas songs by name and artist, and list Christmas songs based on clues given by the Trivia Master.  A tie was announced at the conclusion between the Rum Balls and the Doctors with No Borders.

 

One of our charter members, Don Richards, still an honorary member with his wife Shari joined us in for the evening.  2020 marks our club's 50th anniversary.  Don poised with our newest member, Pete Holmes:

 

The party was a start of our busy two weeks of holiday service projects.  On Friday, December 13, Rotarians helped with the set up at the Boys & Girls Club for "A Christmas Wish."  In the evening we participated in helping collect food for the food bank as part of the Arlington Fire Departments "Santa Run".  On Saturday, Rotarians helped at A Christmas Wish as families shopped.  Next Thursday its Christmas food basket deliveries and on Friday we buy and serve lunch for seniors at the Senior Center.

 

The dinner photos are displayed above and each of the service projects will have photo albums for you to view.

 

Have a Very Merry Christmas!