01/18/2024
Marie Nemes-Crawford, Editor
Jan 22: * Community Kitchen
Jan 25: Big Brothers and Big Sisters
Feb 01: Blanket Tie for CASA – service project
*extra event
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- Presiding: President Warren Spangler
- Prayer: Joe McNemar
- Piano: Ellery Elick
- Song Leader: Tom Duvall – “America the Beautiful”, “ROTARY”
- Attending: (Drexel has official list) 42 today – Spangler, Poling, Crawford, Nemes-Crawford, Beavers, Duvall, McNemar, McCrady, R.Wolfe, Lambert, Wilson, Fouts, Canfield, D.Wolfe, Mavis, T.Tootle, Montgomery, Ankrom, Maroscher, Robinson, Rothe, Young, Radcliff, Schreiner, Fountain, Wolford, D.Webb, Justinger, Dean, I.Webb, Weaver, C.Neff, Sneed, Nichol, Droste, B.Liggett, White, B.Liggett, Horning, T.Chamberlain, Hooks, Ellis
- Guests: Catherine Farynowski from Orlando, FL
- Students: Westfall represented today with Mrs. Clark introducing Jerry Layton and Bailey Burke
Announcements
- Joe McNemar – latest 125 club member
- Euchre Tournament – Feb.8th
- Sunrise Dueling piano’s – Jan 27th
- Rural Urban Day – Feb. 29th. Speakers from division of wildlife – with critters! Presbyterian Church – 11:30am start time
- Soup Kitchen, Monday 22nd – Presbyterian church anytime between 3:30pm – 5:00pm
- Hocking Hills this Saturday, Winter Hike 9-11am
- March 23rd – 4-way Speech contest 10am – Circleville Library. Judges should be past-presidents. Speeches start at 11am. Please see Tony Robinson to help.
SAA: John Lambert
- Happy Dollars – Bob Sneed’s son rang the bell at the NY Stock exchange today
- Stacy Young – honor roll student in her home
- Ned Schreiner’s sister is going to be 100yr old tomorrow
- Tony Robinson was not hurt when his car was
- Some card game thing….
Scholarship Drawing: Dave Horning was the winner of $24! The jackpot is $470 and it will continue to grow.
Program: PICCA, Nick Pruitt spoke to us about the Public Hygiene station
- Anyone who needs help, homeless, people whose pipes froze, anyone
- 32 feet trailer: 3 showers, one laundry room, 2 commercial grade washers/dryers
- Propane tanks for heating water
- Generator for electric
- PICAA is hiring a staff person for community outreach, mental health outreach, trailer support
- Only needs access to water source and storm drains since only gray water
- Goal is to setup around Pickaway County – Monday-Friday possibly Saturday
- June 30, 2024 is hopeful launch date
- Also working with county EMA – can be used as community emergency response
- $88,000 trailer cost (vehicle not included)
- Working with Pickaway-Ross carpenter students
- Initial start up costs – Mobile hygiene Unit $140,000
- Approximate annual costs $60,000
- Looking to serve 15-20 people a day
- Need financial aid, as well as, laundry pods, hygiene products (travel size), linens. List is being constructed now.
- Communication piece is being worked on now with Scioto County since they have 2 trailers in use
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In appreciation for the speaker today, a donation will be made to the Foster Care Program of Pickaway County through Jobs and Family Services