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Luci Kay lead our club in reciting the four-way test
Paul Deschambault - invocation
Guests:
Cashel Stewart
Shawn Moody
Kevin Kaserman
Chuck Gajewski
Katie Orlando
Luci Kay announced that the Stuff the Bus event will be held on 27 October. Volunteers will be at the Market Basket and Hannaford locations in Biddeford gathering donations to support local food pantries.
The Alzheimer’s walk is taking place on Saturday, 15 September. As of the meeting time only four walkers have signed up. Looking for more people to attend and participate in this short walk.
Bernice distributed tickets to the Celebration of Suds event to be held on 20 October At the Pepperell Mill campus. Ticket prices are $25 until the end of September and then the price increases to $30.
Julie Villemaire spoke to the club about this year’s concentrated effort to collect better records of service hours. Members are encouraged to report their volunteering time for various events during the year. This information can either be emailed to Julie, or reported to her at a meeting.
The 50-50 drawing was won by Conrad Wenzel and donated to Red Ribbon.
Sargent at arms:
Collected happy dollars; Dr. Joe Is happy he made the meeting, and made an announcement about donating books to school projects. Brian Dallaire is happy to be back but suffering from jet lag. Denis Elie beat the school bus on early release day. Fausto is celebrating his 12 year anniversary of living in Maine. Conrad is celebrating the 37th anniversary of his body work job done by Shawn Moody.
Fines; Fausto didn’t order the Cuban Sandwich; Jim Godbout should have placed the field posts further apart at Waterhouse Field; Alisha for stabbing someone over a tater tot; Luci and Heather Maclean for wearing matching outfits; Dr. Joe for his Mr. Rogers sweater; Roland celebrates 20 years in Rotary; Julie 14 years.
Guest Speaker:
Sue Gajewski gave a warm Introduction to our speaker, Shawn Moody, the republican Gubernatorial candidate.
Shawn spoke about the growth of his auto body business over the years. He was 17 years old in 1977 when he pulled his first building permit. Things were very different back then compared to the present. His new building under construction in South Portland cost over $60,000 just in permitting alone.
He attributes the success of his business to his policy of empowering his employees. He has gone so far as to structure of the company so that employees are also part owners.
He spoke of the primary challenges facing the state of Maine and it’s elected officials.
Healthcare costs – not sustainable
Taxes - property taxes, a primary source of educational funding,are too high. Educational costs are very heavy on bureaucracy, not on the classroom and teachers. He stressed the importance of giving vocational and technical programs high priority; critical to the successful future of Maine.
Meeting adjourned at 1:25.