05/25/2023
Marie Nemes-Crawford, Editor
June Calendar – Bob McCrady, Program Chair
June 1: Anthony Neff – County Engineer
June 1: * First Annual Euchre Tournament
June 8: Ohio Dept of Transportation to talk about electric cars
June 15: Blessings in a Backpack
June 16: * Golf outing at Pickaway Country Club
June 22: Pathways For Success
June 26: * Community Kitchen
June 29: David Crawford – Year in review
July Calendar – David Crawford, Program Chair
July 6: District Governor, David Uhl plus Warren’s induction
July 10: * Bonus Community Kitchen
July 13: Jenny Rhodes, Visitor’s Bureau
July 20: Dave Roasa, Disaster Aid & Grove City Rotary
July 24: * Community Kitchen
July 27: TBD
*extra events
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- Presiding: President David M. Crawford
- Prayer: Warren Spangler
- Piano: Ellery Elick
- Song Leader: Dan Fouts – “America the Beautiful”, “You’re a Grand Old Flag”
- Attending: (Drexel has official list) 47 today – Crawford, Nemes-Crawford, Poling, McCrady, Reitano, Riegel, Elick, Duvall, Lambert, McNemar, Robinson, C.Chamberlain, Wilson, Fouts, Canfield, Dean, Colburn, Radcliff, E.Liggett, B.Liggett, I.Webb , Hedges, Liddy, Droste, D.Webb, Sneed, Dailey, Mavis, Palm, Spangler, Ellis, D.Wolfe, Robinson, T.Chamberlain, Beavers, Young, McIlroy, Lanman, Lam, Simmons, Fountain, Blanton, Sneed, White, Hooks, Maroscher, B.Tootle
- Guests: Jean Droste introduced Marilyn Orr ; John Ellis introduced his son Andy Ellis
Announcements
- Charlie Hedges was pleased to acknowledge Paul Harris Fellows – Tony Robinson PHF +1, Jim Hooks PHF +8
- Ian Webb – directory being updated, please make sure it’s correct and contact him with corrections if you are not at the meeting
- Daryl Wolfe thanked Gary & Sandy Montgomery, Bob Sneed, Tom Duvall, David & Marie Crawford, Bob McCrady, Angela Beavers & Alice Harker for working the community kitchen. We lost count after 120 meals were prepared and people kept arriving until 5:30pm.
- Maggie Simmons from PAAC invited everyone to attend a professional development program on June 2nd. To register and more information see DrugFreePickaway.com.
- Don McIlroy announced the grand opening of Ted Lewis Park will be at Noon, Friday, May 26th.
- Tony Chamberlain – Friday, June 16th is our golf tournament. Need teams, volunteers and donations. For more information, please contact Tony. All proceeds fund scholarships for high school students going to technical colleges.
- First Annual Euchre Tournament is June 1st (next Thursday)! See Karlyn, Stacy or Carly if you can help. Remember, it’s a scholarship fundraiser.
SAA: (the Angel in the room) – Angela Beavers
- May 25th trivia: 1979, what movie was released “Alien”
- 1965 – Ali knocked out Sonny Liston
- President in 1950? Truman
- First Star Wars movie opened on this day in what year? 1977
- Longest running Memorial Day Parade takes place in Ironton
- May 4th – auspicious day in Rotary – 1987 must allow women into membership
- National Sing Out Day – Happy Birthday to David
- Heidi White made front page of paper
- Tim Colburn new P3 director
Scholarship Drawing: Tim Colburn was the winner of $39 (and graciously donated it back). The jackpot is $1,373 and it continues!
Program: Pickaway County Dog Warden, Ron Custer
- Ron has 2 deputy’s and has a law enforcement background
- 80% in the building are strays. There is alot of work to evaluate a stray dog and their behaviors before they can be put up for adoption
- Medically necessary euthanasia or for safety issues
- Currently have a dog there for over 2 years
- They will investigate issues with abandonment issues and neglect
- Commissioners have funded improvements to the facility and “Partners For Paws“ is a valuable fundraising organization for the shelter
- Volunteers are a blessing. There are opportunities for feeding, walking the dogs, cleaning kennels or just visiting the dogs.
- Deer Creek Golf Course – June 10th is fundraiser golf outing for the shelter
- Everyone is invited to visit the shelter and call if you see something you think needs reported
- Donations are always welcome and needed
- There is education provided for all the new owners. Adjustment time will be needed for their new family member.
- Foster program in place – we want someone to try the dog in their home before committing to caring for it.
- Facebook is biggest tool with news – have over 14,000 followers
- “Phantom” 25 lb cat at the shelter. One of the tools to evaluate the dogs, will it get along with cats?
- Shelter open 8am at 4pm. Closed to the public Sunday and Tuesday for cleaning or paperwork.
- Work with breed specific rescues, but finding they are full
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In appreciation of this year’s speakers sharing their time & efforts, donations to Pickaway Pathways for Success will be made in their names.