4-4-2013 meeting of the Rotary Club of Chickasha.
Posted by Jerry Pittman
on Apr 18, 2013
Guest speakers at the 4-4-2013 meeting of the Rotary Club were Jeff Robb and Chris ZumMallen who run the farm operations at the El Reno Federal Correctional Center.
The April 4, 2013 meeting of the Rotary Club of Chickasha opened with a prayer, pledge and song.
President-elect Greg Elliott filled in for an absent President Cody White.
Greg made a rookie mistake and went straight to announcement before asking for guests and pray concerns.
Announcements included:
-- The Rotary Run is May 18, Please consider being a sponsor. A sign up sheet for sponsors is being circulated. Also a sheet to get your t-shirt size for the run was passed around.
-- The club is hosting an exchange team from Italy later this month. USAO has graciously invited the team to stay at the Alumni House on the campus.
-- Reminders. The April 13 district meeting for new officers at USAO and the May 4 District Convention in Norman.
There were no guests. Prayer concerns included Pauline Garrett, whose uncle passed away; Ann Manchester, who broke her foot; Tim Brauer's son, Caleb, who tore up a knee, Jerry Mottinger and Bill and Janice McVey.
Sherrie Evans with the Open Arms organization thanked the club for a $1,000 dollar donation that allowed the group to purchase items for DHS foster children.
Sherrie reported that about 90 percent of the donation funded the purchase of 3 cribs, 7 car seats and about 30 storage tubs. The remainder will be used for mattresses.
Rotarian of the Day was Tom Adams who introduced Jeff Robb and Chris ZumMallen of the federal prison at El Reno.
The men are in charge of a major farming operation at the prison. Robb is the acting farm manager and the lead dairy foreman and ZumMallen heads the beef and crop operation.
The operationincludes:
-- 3,600 acres
-- Produces dairy products, beef and crops.
-- 8 farm staff and 75 inmate workers,
-- 1200 head of livestock.
The El Reno prison supplies milk, flavored drinks and other dairy products to to 24 federal institutions in the South Central Region. It produces 22,000 gallons of milk and other drinks and 21,000 pounds of butter each week.
The farm also has 462 head of cattle, including Angus, Charolais and Hereford.
It also grows crops that is used to as feed for the livestock and is sometimes bountiful to sell, which was the case in 2012 when it produced 6,000 bushels of seed wheat, 400 bales of grass hay, 900 bales of wheat haulage, 1821 tons of wheat silage and almost 1500 tons of corn silage.
The meeting adjourned after recitation of the Rotary 4-Way test.
President-elect Greg Elliott filled in for an absent President Cody White.
Greg made a rookie mistake and went straight to announcement before asking for guests and pray concerns.
Announcements included:
-- The Rotary Run is May 18, Please consider being a sponsor. A sign up sheet for sponsors is being circulated. Also a sheet to get your t-shirt size for the run was passed around.
-- The club is hosting an exchange team from Italy later this month. USAO has graciously invited the team to stay at the Alumni House on the campus.
-- Reminders. The April 13 district meeting for new officers at USAO and the May 4 District Convention in Norman.
There were no guests. Prayer concerns included Pauline Garrett, whose uncle passed away; Ann Manchester, who broke her foot; Tim Brauer's son, Caleb, who tore up a knee, Jerry Mottinger and Bill and Janice McVey.
Sherrie Evans with the Open Arms organization thanked the club for a $1,000 dollar donation that allowed the group to purchase items for DHS foster children.
Sherrie reported that about 90 percent of the donation funded the purchase of 3 cribs, 7 car seats and about 30 storage tubs. The remainder will be used for mattresses.
Rotarian of the Day was Tom Adams who introduced Jeff Robb and Chris ZumMallen of the federal prison at El Reno.
The men are in charge of a major farming operation at the prison. Robb is the acting farm manager and the lead dairy foreman and ZumMallen heads the beef and crop operation.
The operationincludes:
-- 3,600 acres
-- Produces dairy products, beef and crops.
-- 8 farm staff and 75 inmate workers,
-- 1200 head of livestock.
The El Reno prison supplies milk, flavored drinks and other dairy products to to 24 federal institutions in the South Central Region. It produces 22,000 gallons of milk and other drinks and 21,000 pounds of butter each week.
The farm also has 462 head of cattle, including Angus, Charolais and Hereford.
It also grows crops that is used to as feed for the livestock and is sometimes bountiful to sell, which was the case in 2012 when it produced 6,000 bushels of seed wheat, 400 bales of grass hay, 900 bales of wheat haulage, 1821 tons of wheat silage and almost 1500 tons of corn silage.
The meeting adjourned after recitation of the Rotary 4-Way test.