02/13/2025
Marie Nemes-Crawford, Editor
Feb. 20 – Happy 103rd Birthday Circleville Rotary!
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- Presiding: President Heidi White
- Prayer: Norm Wilson
- Piano: Ellery Elick
- Song Leader: Gary Dean selected “Daisy..”, “Sing Out a Song of Rotary”
- Attendees: Crawford, Nemes-Crawford, White, Routt, McCrady, Spangler, Lambert, Logan, Riegel, R.Wolfe, G&S Montgomery, Wilson, Elick, Robinson, Sneed, Hedges, Mavis, C.Chamberlain, Weller, Dean, Ankrom, Driesbach, Droste, Horning, I.Webb, Poling, McNemar, Young, D.Webb, Stevenson, Lanman, Rawlins, Brown, Maroscher, C.Neff, Hooks, Fountain, Searls, B.Tootle
- Guests: Michelle Stevenson introduced Tiffany Cornett
- Students: Logan Elm – Nate Smith introduced seniors who have their future planned! Julia Weller – OU Hospitality Mgmt.; Scotty Gaskin – OU Civil engineering; Aubree Walker – OSU geology and earth sciences; Ella Boreland – microbiology, biology major, college TBD.
Announcements:
- Frosty 5K was a fun Saturday! Final totals to come
- Rural Urban Day: Feb. 27th – 11:30am start time. RSVP due on Tuesday to Ellery. Ty Higgins, Ohio Farm Bureau will be the speaker.
- Euchre – Rhoadhouse 56 Wednesday, February 19th. Sign-up link on Rhoadhousegardencenter.com
- Shopping List: Deadline – Feb. 20th.
- Community Kitchen – fourth Monday of the month – Feb. 24th
- March 15th – The House Band will perform at Rhoadhouse 56 6-9pm. Fundraiser for Mid-Ohio Food Collective. There will be a food truck! Rhoadsgardencenter.com for tickets.
- We are thinking of Bill Stout, Asa Elsea, & Mike Logan during their health struggles
- Larry updates of Ted Lewis Park – $500,000 has been raised (thanks to everyone making personal donations and the club support). New shelter house construction starts June 1st!
SAA: Ty Ankrom
- Blue Jacket trivia
Scholarship Drawing: This weeks winner is Gary Montgomery for $17 – Big Bean is holding at $534.
Program: Larry Logan
- Larry always wanted to be in the Army
- Univ. Cal-Berkeley grad – Cadet Colonel of ROTC with 1,000 students under him
- Wanted to be in the infantry and made 15 jumps in Vietnam
- His 6 man troop were found and 4 of his team died in Vietnam, one was lost to a car accident stateside
- 86 vets on the honor flight with over 40 in wheelchairs – all bonded over the experience
- “Grief to Relief” was what the day meant to Larry
- After 50 years of grief, 1,200 people at the airport showering respect and thanks was the dawn of relief for all his fellow veteran’s on that flight
- Scheduled Columbus based Honor Flights https://www.honorflightcmh.org/flight-schedule
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In appreciation for the speaker today, a donation will be made to Anne’s Smiles of Ashville