Week-in-Review 9/16/2015

 

You missed a great meeting this week. Our guest was Governor Paul Lepage; more on him later. President Bill opened the meeting on time. Everybody was squeezed, I mean greeted by our own Jeremy Ray and Chris Indorf at the door.

 

Bill made a number of announcements about the Beer Festival slated for September 26th. This is hoping to be a premier event for our club and as such we need as many hands on deck as possible. Ken Farley has also sent out requests for volunteers. I think this is going to be a great event.

 

Bill also mentioned that our t-shirts were handed out at the start of the meeting, if you ordered one and have not yet received it please let Peggy Bean know so that she makes sure you do receive it. Bill handed the floor to Lucy Kay who spoke about the Alzheimer's walk scheduled for 09/19; you will be reading this after the event. The great news is that Lucy proudly announced that we had raised $3,500.00 for the event.

 

Frank Dumais took the floor next and said " we are moving forward with our dictionary program for our third graders." Frank then went on to confuse Sarah C with Sarah N when he mentioned that we are giving the teachers homework this year. Sarah N is developing a questionnaire that we will hand out to teachers when we hand out the dictionaries. They will be asked to fill out a questionnaire regarding the effectiveness of our dictionary program-- should we be doing something else still with an over arching goal of it being centered around literacy goals, continue with the dictionaries, etc..., etc....  And Frank D, don't worry- I get confused when I look at the two Sarahs at the same time too.

 

Bill then handed out standard SBS SWAG to me me me me and Karen Chase and Sarah Curley for winning the so you think you know Ken Farley contest. Not braggin but I think we blew everybody out of the water even though we only answered a couple of questions correctly. Happy to say we did it even though Fausto scooted early from our table and then was envious of our victorious spoils. He was upset that Sarah C won something and then didn’t even sit with us.

 

Lunch was served and SAA's went into action.

 

CHris E won the 50/50 and donated it back to the club; nice guy award for him.

 

When I asked for happy dollars Chris was also first with a Jackson, no not brown- he wasn't there, Chris is the proud father of his new baby girl Elissa- congrats from all Chris!! Don L gave a deuce, one for ??? and the other for his Rob Caldwell doppelganger- sorry Don- I didn't remember his name. Lucy was happy for the Alzheimer's Walk, Karen C for her daughters 10 straight conversion points in volley ball as TA swamped Windham 3 to 1. Can't remember the rest- sorry. Fines followed: Jeremy Ray for continuing the war on women ( aren't you a democrat ) for letting me know that he would " let the women wash the glasses for the beer fest". Shame on you. Jeremy returned the volley by proxy as Chris E fined me for saying that Jeremy and he were just educators "c'mon guys- it can't be that hard- I could do 181 days on my head :-) Bill K a buck for slamming credit unions, Lucy Kay a buck for promoting credit unions- can't we all just get along??? Frank D for looking at Sarah C but talking about Sarah N, Brian D for sending the same Bill K Tack message 4 times. I think the arctic ice flows may have had some impact on your thought process- and Brian you are leaving again to go South. When I die I want to come back as Brian Dallaire, I kid you not.

 

OK, I can't remember anything else. You see, Kany had this stupid idea of making all of the directors responsible for a months worth of Tack reporting. He said do what you want i.e., get someone to do it for you or do it yourself. I couldn't get anybody to take notes this week so next week I will take Kany's money. I expect the rest of you to beat him up at Deep Brook ( beat him up = on the scorecard only ) you could even do some side bets and tithe the money to the club.

 

Our guest, Governor Paul Lepage showed up promptly on time at 1:00. I introduced him. I make no bones about that fact that I am a supporter of most of the Governor's agenda. Instead of me writing notes I would rather add the Journal Tribune's article that was published on September 17th. It is a pretty good article and covers the majority of points that the Governor made. The Governor and our club got above the fold coverage on the front page of our local paper!