Rotary Newsletter April 2, 2024 (Apr. 02, 2024)

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Thank you to all those who participated in the the Good Friday Food Drive. $4,700 was raised for Daily Bread and 1,198 pounds of food were donated to them.

We are sending a get well card to Ron Coderre. Amanda spoke with him after his recent surgery and he is recovering well. Get well soon, Ron!

The meeting held at Day Kimball Hospital last week resulted in positive feedback. A formal vote will be taken next week. If you have any additional comments to add, please reach out to Amanda privately.

New Member Orientation will be on Tuesday, April 23rd at noon at the Hale YMCA for all the new members and members who want to learn more about Rotary. Lunch will be provided and an email will be sent out on this shortly. Mark the date in the interim.

Amanda will be out next week on vacation so our monthly Board Meeting has been rescheduled for Tuesday, April 30th via ZOOM.

Committee Reports:

Membership: Jennifer Luichoseph, from The Arc, has applied for active membership. We will vote on her membership next week. Jennifer Ricci will be moving to associate membership status for the Arc.

Nominating Committee - The 2025 Slate of Officers for Rotary Year 2024/2025 has been decided and is as follows: President - Doug Porter; President-Elect - Kathy Kirk; Secretary-Martha Paquette; Treasurer - Fred Chmura; Immediate Past President - Amanda Kelly. Board of Directors - Director for 2 year terms Jennifer Brytowski and Crystal Simonson; Second year of a two year term are Woody Durst and Pam Brown. Motion was made by Bob Fournier to close nominations and John Miller and Missy accepted. Congratulations, everyone!

RYLA - Jay Wade stated that the applications were delivered to three schools to start the process.

2/20 Raffle Tickets - 2/20 tickets sales are going well so far. If you need more, please reach out to Karen. Our budget this year is higher as we don't have the rose sale this year. Each ticket is $20 and each member is asked to sell 10 tickets. Deadline to sell tickets is May 6th. Drawing will be held on May 7th.

Interact Club: Roberta needs help selling Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, 300 boxes of them! They will be selling them at the Citgo in Pomfret, Citgo in Putnam (by Walmart), WINY Radio and at Runnings, this Saturday, April 6th, from 8:00 to 12:00. She is in need of more help during these times, particularly one more person for the Citgo in Putnam. Rech out to Roberta if you can help. Please share this also on Facebook - Amanda will be setting this up.

Golf Committee: This will be on May 31st. Please send Shawn an update on sponsors' responses. We are in need of T Sponsors. Please spread the word and if you have anyone that you know of that might be interested in a sponsorship, please let Shawn know.

All Star Basketball Game Committee - Doug Porter said the shoot out went well and netted $800. Thank you to all the sponsors and to Jay Byrnes who provided the trophies.

Scholarship Committee - Rachael said that we have 18 applicants for scholarships and will report in June as to who has been selected.

Programs-

Raffle and cookies

Jenn B. did not pull the 3 of spades and gave $10 to Archambault Scholarship.

Cookies were won by Pam Brown.

Sergeant-at-Arms

Barry Shead

Fines: Roberta, Barry, Amanda, Doug, Cheryl, Seth Joh St. Dick, Linda and Jonathan T. were all in the paper for different events!

Birthdays:

Anniversaries:

Join Dates:

Pam Brown- 30 years

Karen Osbrey- 30 years

Betty Kuszaj - 30 years

Audrey Witkowski - 33 years

Linda Lemmon - 33 years

Happy Dollars

Karen is happy - had a great time on vacation in Florida with some great martinis and thankful to everyone who helped with the food drive on Good Friday.

Emily Barnes - for her birthday!

Jen B - Spoke with Ron Coderre, he said he is getting our phone messages but it's hard to talk right now, but to let everyone know that he is making good progressive recovery and to say thank you to everyone.

Jay Wade - Special time with family and friends on Easter. Joined the Hale YMCA and absolutely LOVES it. Says Amanda does a great job over there.

Pam - Keith Aubin called and wanted to wish everyone a happy Easter. He will be here in May and will be in touch with Pam, hopefully she can bring him to a meeting! Had a special Easter with her mom and children who came up for the week. Thankful for all the 30 years in Rotary and developing a close friendship with so many and Karen, who she didn't even know when they both joined.

Dick - Missed us the last month! He was in Aruba and proud to say he still has his tan line!

Gary - He also joined the Hale YMCA after a seven year hiatus and has a personal trainer and is loving it !

John Miller - Hosted the Easter family dinner for everyone - tried to master the mandolin to help his wife and finally got it working perfectly on the carrots, but to the expense of cutting part of his thumb! (Ouch!) Wife was very sympathetic, with the words "You idiot!" When asked how the carrots turned out, Karen responded "They were bloody good!"

Rachael - Spent her birthday in Fort Myers, Florida at the beach ....with spring breakers everywhere!

Roberta - There was a special ceremony at Town Hall for the Korean and Vietnam War vets where Mike was honored and went to Mr. Z's for a great dinner after; had 17 family members for Easter!

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