This week’s Rotary program was dedicated to healthy eating. Cailin Kowalewski is a Nutritionist and Consumer Sciences Director for Wayne County Cornell Cooperative Extension. She provides classes for the public on things like food preservation and safety and heart disease prevention for women. Cailin and her team will conduct classes on these and other topics to interested individuals or groups. Anyone can contact the WCCCE to learn more and schedule classes.
Cailin is also developing a Farm to School Program with the Pal-Mac Middle School. She is currently working with the student leadership team. The students involved are learning about healthy food options and will be selecting a meal to serve for lunch on Leadership Day this spring.
Joining Cailin was Maggie McHugh, a Senior Nutritionist involved with the Eat Smart New York program. Her team works with income eligible individuals in the SNAP program to help them learn to shop and prepare healthy meals using their benefits. The goals of the group are to increase quality of life by reducing refined sugar consumption and increasing fitness levels . These are accomplished by direct education in churches, schools and food pantries.
If you are interested in more information you can contact Cailin at the Wayne County Cornell Cooperative Extension in Newark NY or you can check out EatSafelyNewYork at www.FLESNY.org
Maggie McHugh, TJ Chamberlain
and Cailin Kowalewski
Students Kyle Elmer and Amanda Steen
Missing: G. Bassage, T. Breen, B. Brooks, , J. Bush, V. Daly, B. Ike, M. Kramer, D. LeMoyne,
D. Pray, J. Preston, D. Read, C. Santelli, C. Surline, A. Wahl , B. Yost
Guests: Speakers-Cailin Kowalewski and Maggie McHugh
Students: Amanda Steen and Kyle Elmer along with Doris who had her first attempt at skiing
last week
Thoughts and Prayers: Gene Bassage is out of the hospital and doing better
Birthdays: none
Anniversaries: none
Fines and Happy bucks:
TJ paid a fine for misspelling our guest’s name
Dianne paid for a comment being totally worth it
Jenn Habecker paid a fine for not bringing her ABC,s of Rotary book
Leslie Vecchiotti paid a happy buck after receiving a mystery bouquet and one for a great
PETS training
Mark Clement paid a fine for asking Leslie if the flowers came from Tinder.com as well as a happy buck for Chapman Insurance and their timely acquisition of an insurance card for son Dan’s new used car.
Joan Shaffer paid $2 for the Eagles beating the Patriots in the Super Bowl
Marie Fessler paid $1 each for Pal-Mac Varsity Swimmers becoming Finger Lakes Champs and
for the end of her coaching season and smelling like chlorine
Rollo Black paid for the 55th anniversary of his engagement at a college dance
Pam Dean paid a happy buck for a good time giving out Valentine balloons at the Wayne County Nursing Home.
Bill Dean paid a happy $ for Gene being home again
Dick Kirchhoff paid a happy buck for finding a driver after 5 calls and 4 voice mails
Eric Chapman also paid for the Patriots losing in the Super Bowl
Announcements:
Leslie reminded the club of the Interact project coming in March where they will be collecting useable shoes for Haiti and other developing countries. Donations of shoes can be made at Rotary meetings and Leslie will set up other drop off points. She also mentioned that the Interact Club has a team for the Spelling Bee. The team name means fear of long words-hippopotomonstrous……you can look it up!
Pam brought up the Rotary Foundation’s “Give a Dollar a Day” campaign for February. Any member who donates $28 in February will be entered in a drawing for 1,000 points that can be given out as a Paul Harris Award. Members can go on line and donate at Rotary.org
We need one more speller for the Literacy Spelling Bee on Feb. 24th
At the recent board meeting the board members voted to order Rotary bike racks for the villages of Macedon and Palmyra-2 each as our District simplified Grant project for 2018-2019
Reminders of the Foundation Gala. Feb. 28 at Parkwood at 6:00 PM and picnic table building at Clements’ house on Mar. 24
The Literacy project this year will be reading corners in 3 more rooms at the primary school.
50-50 drawing- Marie Fessler
