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Join us the 1st Thursday of the month to hear speakers of interest to the community, 5:30 pm, Fullerton Inn. All are welcome!

Fullerton Inn
Chester, VT 05143
United States of America
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Dee Hassett

"We are not all by ourselves," Dee Hassett told Chester Rotary members at the June 24 breakfast meeting.
Dee is a former president of Chestertown Rotary, manager of its Jiffy Mart, and a web designer. She believes all clubs benefit from knowing what other clubs are doing for the Rotary cause. Charlestown's biggest program is a Penny Sale, with over 300 prizes, that raises $12,000 to $15,000 every year. Also on the schedule are a Father's Day dinner and an Easter Egg hunt for kids with balloons and a bunny.
Through the Chief of Police Chestertown Rotary supports a drug prevention program that shows people how to help by being aware of signs of involvement. With Interact, they participate in building houses in Nicaragua and Medical supplies in Cambodia.
"Come visit us, and share," says Dee.
Chief Cloud and Kim Eckhardt

Christian Craig Executive Director Edgar May Health & Recreation

John Holme and Tom Slayton

Rotary President Ed Caron Presents $1,000.00 To Chester Playground Committee

Skylar, Sierra and Sadie

Carolyn Frisa

Paint Your Own Pottery ... Cheaper Than Therapy, and Way More Fun!

Maddie Harper

Maddie showed photos of Thailand and commented on the different cultures there. The house-moms she lived with in the rural southern region were overwhelmingly attentive while those in the wealthier hill north were casually indifferent. In some schools there was wide-open free play, in others silent kids watched TV. She traveled from rural areas to a traditional temple town and to modern Bangkok. Maddie learned how to ride an elephant (you have to sit far up on the hump to avoid the sharp spine), she visited the Tiger Kingdom zoo, and told us how to eat sticky rice with your hands (you roll it into a ball and dip it into other foods) and about the showers and the toilets.
Most of all, we learned the great things a big smile for everyone accomplishes when you don't speak the language. The Thais are always smiling she said, and she brought that smile home with her along with a bunch of new Interact friends and a list to ten things she learned from the experience—the common humanity of different peoples being among them.
Jen Studin

Allison DesLauriers

Ellen Taetzsch and John McAveeney
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Malcolm Summers, Christine Saul and Cynthia Austin

Jeanne Carbonetti, Artist and Author

Suellen Slater & Nancy Kelly

Connie Stone and Ron Theissen

Kathie Stone

Samuel Fogg

Teri Palmer, Store Manager
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Ian Montgomery, Chester Rotarian and Anglican Missionary Minister

Karen Landsberry, Director of Residential Services

Ken Olsson, Conductor and Music Director

Andrew Dey, Unity Homes

Townsend Gilbert, Living with a Learning Disability

Neil Allen, The Message For The Week Editor

Will Reed, VFI

Katherine Fogg

Mike Desanto,, Indie Bookstore Entrepreneur

Charma Bonanno Describes Weston Playhouse Projects to Chester Rotary


Tim Desilets, Serve Vermont

John McAveeney & Bob Davern

Richard Marek

Scott and Leslie Blair - The Southern Pie Company
