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Bill Kany lead our club in reciting the four-way test
Joe Bassett - invocation
Guests:
Doug Kay
Reagan Gauthier
This week our club met for lunch at TinTin Buffet since our usual location was closed. We began immediately with lunch and meeting began at 12:40.
President Joe Moreshead announced that the club had approved $600 to place a advertisement in the Biddeford city theater program book. Also approved was a $1000 donation to the pillars of pride program for Biddeford school system.
Lucie Kay announced that the Stuff the Bus event will be held on October 20th. 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, September 15th. As of the meeting time only five walkers have signed up. Looking for more people to attend and participate in this short walk.
Waterhouse Field inauguaral event is taking place 7th of September starting at 5 o’clock.
The Rotary club board has decided to combine committees of both the company B fund and the past presidents fund. Kristen Lane will head the committee.
The 50-50 drawing was won by Mark Nahorney.
Sargent at arms:
Collected happy dollars; Heather will be spending her birthday watching the Red Sox, Joe son came in first place in a 24 hour race in the Catskills, Joe Boyle was happy the Saco police retrieved his kayak, Paul was happy his son got six tickets to have dinner at the lost kitchen, Conrad was happy he had 25 people at his party, Marty beat Chellie Pingree in a cow milking competition, and Fausto is just happy!
Fines; Joe had to pay because of his choice of decorated pants, Jackson was fined for using a two dollar bill, Bill Paterson and Fausto were fined for wearing the same outfit, Marty was fined for having too many signs around town. Bill Kany and Jim Godbout were fined in connection with the missing Tiger Pride sign.
Sue Gajewski gave a presentation outlining our charitable giving for the period of the last 18 months from January 1, 2017 through September 4, 2018. Some of the larger recipients of our charitable giving were to fund T-shirts for red ribbon committee events at the local schools, our club’s funding for red ribbon and Rotary Foundation, scholarships and Christmas gifts for local families in need.
Brenda Pollock finished our meeting by giving an extensive talk and slideshow of her years living aboard a boat.
Meeting adjourned at 1:25.