ATENDANCE: Club members in attendance for this morning's meeting were: Tom Bahr, Rich Bedell, Bill Choler, Roger Cline, Jenny Coleman, Don Coughlin, Andy Denton, Mary Dula, Steve Dunton, Ray Evans, Christine Faranda, Mark Ferguson, Sue Figler, Jeff Film, Tina Gary, Dick Hall, Mike Kostyack, Jim Laber, Carrie Leising, John Pribonic, Dave Renninger, Brad Ruth, Leslee Salhany, Olivia Saltzmann Smedi, Steve Stimmel, Bob Sweitzer, Marty Tass, Linda Trevorrow, Eric Weber and Marissa Willliams. Dinah Henderson and Jon Leissler were also with us.
President, Linda Trevorrow opened the meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance and also gave our morning invocation from the Book of Monbeck. It talked about recognizing our past service accomplishments but also looking toward future service opportunities.
HAPPY BUCKS:
Linda gave a big shout out to Annie Hanson Hilaire for the great job she did in getting amazing coverage for our cereal challenge. Together we collected 6000 individual boxes of cereal for children experiencing food insecurity in our community, those in Kent, Ohio and in Kent,Washington. With the help of our Interact students, our club was the winner of the challenge, but the three communities were the real winners in this.
Dick Hall gave a Happy Buck because all of the golf slots are filled for our June 7 golf outing. People are waiting if there are openings. Dick still needs for us to contact him about our interest in volunteering or to donate $10 or $25 gift cards for prizes or to give items for the goody bags. Contact him at 330-328-2776 or at dickhall2@gmail.com to let him know how you will participate.
Tom Bahr gave a Happy Buck thanking Dick for the great job he has done in organizing the outing. This success represents a lot of hard work and time.
Tom also said he will be moving into Vitalia Senior Residences in Stow in the very near future. He was impressed when our club met there just before the pandemic.
CELEBRATIONS:
Birthday: Pat Messmore is celebrating his birthday this week.
Wedding Anniversary: Christina and Ethan Gary are celebrating their wedding anniversary this week.
Rotary Anniversaries On May 20 we will observe 41 years of a group of men deciding that there should be a Rotary Club in our community. We had scheduled an event at The Venue to celebrate our 40 years, but that had to be postponed due to the pandemic.Hopefully our founding Rotarians will be with us next week to recognize that day.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Heroes Day: Jeff Film said that we are ready to go for Heroes Day on May 15 when roughly 180 veterans and retired police and fire people will be honored with a plant and banner as well as a card thanking them for their service. Leslee Salhany said that Lowes has donated part of the plants at a 50% discount and Petittis has given the club a 30% discount. We are appreciative to both. Gratitude was also expressed to Eric Weber for donating the banners and cards and to Leslee for organizing the flowers. Jeff also expressed thanks to the Interact students for their help on Friday. Volunteers are needed to help deliver plants on Saturday morning at 9:00. Meet at the building behind The Church of Silver Lake to pick up plants and get a list of delivery addresses in Stow and Munroe Falls. Jeff is going to contact the Stow Sentry to try to gain publicity for this activity. This is a well-organized, much appreciated project of the club. Contact Jeff at 330-688-7283 or at jfilm706@gmail.com if you are available to help on Saturday.
National Police Week: Jeff also explained that this is National Police Week. Officers wear a band during this time to honor those who gave their lives through police work.
Board Meeting will be this Friday at 7:15 through zoom. Board Members are expected to attend, but if you are not on the board and wish to attend, contact Linda at ltrevorrow@bti-cpas.com so she can send you the link for the meeting. Jon Leissler's application for membership will be presented at the meeting.
Pandemic Information: Next week's meeting will focus on the pandemic and changes that have happened as far as what we are and are not permitted to do. Come with questions and comments.
Adopt a Spot Marty Tass says we are still scheduled to do our planting on Saturday May 22 at the doughboy bed at the corner of Rte. 91 and Graham Rd. Meet there at 10:00 ready to plant.
PROGRAM: Today's scheduled program will be presented at a later time.
JOKE: Tom Bahr presented today's joke and actually gave us two jokes for the price of one. One was about a minister trying to find a cemetery and what happened there. The other had to do with a minister's hospital visit. You can contact Tom to hear the whole joke.
Next week Marty Tass will present our joke.
Submitted by Andy Denton