Our visiting rotarian this week was Peggy Belanger who will be our District Governor for 2020-2021
Peggy Belanger pulled the 50/50 ticket and the winner was…Peggy Bean!
Happy dollars started with Dr Joe giving a happy dollar for getting a prime parking spot out front.
Joe M gave a sad dollar for the Journal Tribune paper announcing it will be closing down. A sad day to see a paper that has had such a long run close its doors.
Kathy gave a happy dollar simply for just having a good day! She was also grateful to be in such a great group of rotarians.
Brian gave a happy dollar because he is gearing up to drive down to Naples for the winter
Visitor Peggy gave a happy dollar for having the chance to attend one of our meetings. She also reminded everyone that October is breast cancer awareness month so reminder to all the ladies to get checked.
Peggy Bean gave all of her 50/50 winnings back to the club, assuring us she will not starve without it!
Fines!
Jim Labelle got fined for allegedly dissing Heather’s outfit last week. Although he doesn’t seem to remember what he said
Joe got fined because he offered to do this weeks prayer, then dashed out of the room to visit some friends in the restaurant and completely missed the whole prayer.
Fausto got fined for being the cutest man of the day
And lastly Julie got fined for messing up last weeks tack.
Some housekeeping notes:
Our 100th anniversary celebration will be May 14-17 at Riverwinds Farm & Estate. If anyone is interested in a tour of the facilities reach out to Fausto and he can set something up.
We are also going to be making that Saturday’s party into a fundraiser, selling tickets and tables to help raise money for the lub.
Sue told the club October 24th we will have a fundraiser going at Texas Roadhouse, all people have to do is print off (or show on their phone) the flyer that is posted on our facebook page and 15% of peoples bill will go towards rotary. With that being said we need some volunteers from 5-8 on that day to help with a table we will have set up outside selling 50/50 tickets and telling people about our club. Run of the mill will also be doing a similar fundraiser for us in November with more details to come.
October 5th is Rotary Rocks event for anyone interested in going.
The presentation today was a little jumbled…since 2 out of the 3 members signed up to talk today didn’t show, I’m sure they will have a fine waiting for them when they get back.
The one who did show is our newest member Kaitlyn Tito. She told us about her history of growing up in Maine, then moving to LA, and then returning to Maine about a year ago. She is a real estate agent fo Coldwell Banker and loves being able to help people during a huge decision of buying a house. We learned how Coldwell uses different technologies to find the best houses and she did a lot of research regarding their standards and picked Coldwell because of their high standards of Ethics, which was also a reason why she choose to join Rotary.
After her presentation, Conrad spoke to fill in the spots of those who didn’t show. His presentation I think was just as interesting as everyone thought it would be. I think my favorite part was learning his nickname used to be Radical Rad. Or maybe the backstory between him and Jim Goodbout in the parking lot of a burger king? That sounds like it could be a whole presentation in itself. Conrad is such a people person, and over the years he has learned how small the world truly is with people from his past overlapping into the people from today. Growing up as a German Italian in Boston and both illegal and legally running in the Boston Marathon he has a lot of stories to tell. He wrapped it up with the joy and confidence rotary has brought him in helping him become a better speaker, and the happiness of giving back to the community.
Meeting adjourned at 1:15
