Pledge of Allegiance: Ted Shaughnessy

Song: America the Beautiful led by Bob Cox

Invocation: Karen Wetmore

 

•           Sarah Paulson, daughter of Bill Paulson

•           Sandy Robinson, Executive Director from Needham Community Council

 

Bob Cox led us in  the welcome song.

 

Humor: As Louise did bot have her joke book with her, Bill Paulson downloaded several off the web. Quick thinking Bill!

 

Announcements: 

•           Million Dollar Dinner May 25th, Jim Brown attended, all of the districts donations were recognized, Mary and Karen.  Establishing Rotarian of the year award which is named the ‘Ed Hall Award’, and he is the first recipient.

•           Needham Business Association (NBA) Spring Fair. June 3rd. Schedule of raffle ticket sales was circulated.

•           Thank you notes from the Robotics club.

•           Thank you notes from Hillside School for the saplings were circulated.

•           Final Board of Directors meeting of Ted’s year will be held June 7 at 5pm at Bill Paulson’s office. All are encouraged to attend.

•           Reality Fair was May 25th.  The fair was moved to the cafeteria from the library this year.  Juniors were in attendance and will be going forward.  Mark Messina from Weston-Wayland Rotary visited with the idea of his club starting the same program.

 

 

 

•           Class day is Sunday, Rotary scholarship recipient will be at the meeting next week.

•           Schooner cruise is coming up. Still one seat left: see Jim Brown!

•           June 27 no meeting at Sheraton. Cookout that evening at Rich Forte’s in Dover.

•           Farmer Market Booth 6/11 noon to 4pm. We will be selling raffle tickets

•           Carnival 6/7 – 6/9. We will be selling carnival tickets in an air conditioned booth. We will also, surprise, surprise, be selling raffle tickets. Charles has the sign-up sheets. We are also ordering “Rotarian at Work” T shirts. Let Charles know your size.

•           Perfect attendance pins to be ordered.

•           Marty distributed and recorded raffle ticket books to be sold.  Each Rotarian is expected to sell at least one book of 10 tickets, all contact information on these raffles must be legible in order to be entered to win.  Bill also has flyers for the raffle tickets.

.            Marty, Rich and Ryan participated in the Needham Exchange Club's annual Golf Tournament.:

Bob is glad to be here. Chuck happy to be here, Jim glad to be here, Libby happy to be here and for the guests, Mary for his trip to NYC and seeing a new show, Kathy R for recent Florida vacation, Bill for his daughter as his guest.

 

50:50: No winner this week: stay tuned!

 

Needham Rotary has had a long working relationship with the Needham Community Council. The NCC and Rotary team up at Thanksgiving Day to cook lunch for roughly 80 people, and to cook and deliver an additional 80 meals to folks in their homes.

 

It has been some time since we have heard from Sandy Robinson, Executive Director. So she gave us an update on how the NCC is doing.

 

NCC has been doing good for Needham for 87 years. They provide:

•         free medical transportation with Uber and Lyft as back ups

•         back to school distribution program for school supplies

•         food pantry

•         medical loan closet

•         ESL tutoring program that is very diverse

•         Knitting groups

•         Cooking classes

•         CAP-child assault program

•         Nursing home boutique

•         Thrift shop-great fundraiser for the NCC

•         Rotary club Thanksgiving Dinner

•         VAN-volunteers around Needham

•         Ride for food

 

 When asked how Rotary could help the NCC and it’s clients, Sandy would like to see support for their back-pack program.

 

See http://needhamcommunitycouncil.org/

 

Next meeting: Tuesday, June 6 at 12:00 at Needham Sheraton when we will be awarding our 2017 Scholarship Award.