03/07/2024
Marie Nemes-Crawford, Editor
March 14th – Tom Kitchen – Pickaway County Education Service Center
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- Presiding: President Warren Spangler
- Prayer: Fred Mavis
- Piano: Ellery Elick
- Song Leader: Rob Radcliff selected “In The Good Old Summertime”, “Sing Rotarians”
- Attending: (Drexel has official list)
- Visiting Rotarians: Charlie Hedges stopped in from Hilliard
- Students: We say Happy Retirement to Pam Younkin from Teays Valley, we welcome Eric Farrell who will replace her and Pam’s niece, Kennedy Younkin was our student this week.
Announcements:
- Board approved Tanya Lowe-Winfield for membership. She is sponsored by Michelle Stephens.
- Thank you to the committee for last week’s Rural Urban Day
- District Conference at Deer Creek – April 19&20. Please consider attending – great speakers and the service project is “feeding the funnel” (preparing meal packets). Room block at Deer Creek is released March 15th.
- March starts the Women’s Products collection with the winner being announced at the District Conference! Paula and Michelle will shop for you.
- Soup Kitchen Feb. 26th– Thank you to Judy Wolford, Tom Duvall, Gary & Sandy Montgomery, Bob Sneed, David & Marie Crawford – Chef Bob did check to make sure we were staffed appropriately
- March 23rd – 4-way Speech contest volunteers show up at 10am – Circleville Library. Speeches start at 11am. Tony Robinson does not have enough help. Please call him to volunteer. Judges / score counters are needed. He will teach you at 10am.
- Bonus Soup Kitchen on Monday – 3:30-5pm at Presbyterian church. P3 will donate desserts. 120 people are usually served.
- PICAA will have Easter Egg Hunt – March 23rd
- Warren, David and Connie represented the club at the District Training during the snow storm, Saturday, Feb. 24th
- Community Cupboard – Island Road, behind Hardee’s. Please stop after you go to the grocery – soups with pull tops is the best option.
SAA: P3 is donating to our SAA fund so speakers for the month will have more than the usual 20 minutes
Scholarship Drawing: Rob Radcliff was the winner of $21! The jackpot is $609 and it will continue to grow!
Program: P3 overview by its Executive Director, Tim Colburn
- Mission is to serve as a catalyst, promoting investment, growth and job retention in Pickaway County.
- DuPont – $350 million expansion of Kapton & Vespel film lines adding 60 employees
- Sofidel – $185 million expansion adding 100 new employees. Third paper machine is having its ground breaking March 21st.
- Rickenbacker exchange now has 4 million square feet of warehouses and fulfillment space and about 600 new employees
- Rickenbacker Intermodal campus has 15 million square feet under roof – over 4,000 employees (in Pickaway County)
- West of Intermodal is another project in the works. Now looking for grants to improve infrastructure in the 23/762 area
- Working on capital budgets
- Barthelmas Park Multi use path on Ohio Street
- Earnhardt Hill water expansion along US 23
- Cooks Creek Nature Center
- GE & RCA Thomson Sites
- Site visits around Pickaway County are being featured in the Circleville Herald
- Willow Wood – largest manufacturer of prosthetic limbs – NW Pickaway County
- Novelis – 75% of aluminum steel rolls for Amazon trucks comes from Ashville
- ODOT plans to fix 762/23. Date is 2027 or 2028
- Roundabout at 762 and Ashville Pike is a future plan
- Rathmel Rd. and 23 is Google – 7 buildings are being built to house data centers
- Pickawayprogress.com [email protected].
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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