06/13/2024
Marie Nemes-Crawford, Editor
June 20: Chris Sprague – Columbus Clippers
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- Presiding: President Warren Spangler
- Prayer: Paula Routt
- Piano: Ellery Elick
- Song Leader: Dave Webb selected “My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean”; “Sing Rotarians”
- Attendees: only 33 today: Spangler, D.Wolfe, C.Chamberlain, Crawford, Nemes-Crawford, Radcliff, Poling, Fouts, Elick, Wilson, Duvall, Lambert, McNemar, Horning, D.Webb, Foll, Sneed, B.Liggett, Reigel, McCrady, R.Wolfe, T.Chamberlain, Montgomery, Young, Routt, Schreiner, Robinson, Wolford, Mullins, Lanman, Brown, Fountain, Hooks
- Guests: Molly Fountain
- Visiting Rotarian: Charlie Hedges
New Member induction: Sandy Montgomery! Sandy was a teacher in Chillicothe elementary schools as well as other districts and retired after 32 years. She is personally responsible for home cooked desserts for the 120 neighbors we feed the fourth Monday at the Community Kitchen. She volunteers her time with Trinity church and Pickaway County’s Food Pantry. She and Gary are grandparents to two year old Lucy.
Announcements:
- Jayme Fountain – Romania team coming July 17-20th. We need four hosts families. Will need transportation, activities, etc. Please see Jayme or Ty. Mongolia team might also be coming.
- Board meeting June 18th.
- Foundation giving nearing end of fiscal year. (June 30th). See Jayme Fountain and she will help you give on-line or take your check. As a club, we are over $400,000 in total giving. Wow…
- Paula Routt – invites us all to the Grand Opening of her new agency, Ruoff Mortgage. June 27th, 4pm-7pm. 844 N. Court St.
- Fame! Pickaway County Board of Developmental Disabilities annual fashion show – Saturday, June 29th doors open 5:30pm Rhode House 56. Casey Liddy is one of this years models!
- Thank you from Boy Scouts for our contribution
SAA: Tony Robinson filling in for Rick
- Happy Dollars
- Revolutionary General – June 13, 1777 came to assist in the war- Marquis de Lafayette
- 1789 Mrs. Alexander Hamilton served what to George Washington for the first time – ice cream
- 1825 – what item was created by Walter Hunt? Safety pin
- 1777 first colony of British America to ban slavery. Vermont
- You are supposed to wear your membership pin every meeting day per the Rotary Rule Book (Tony makes a bundle on this one every time!)
Scholarship Drawing: Rob Radcliff won the weekly drawing for $23. Big Bean pot is $945 and will continue.
Program: Bill Frost – the Dan Fout Disabled Veterans Hunt
- History lesson: WW I, II, Korea – Blue Star in your home window if family had someone in the service; Gold Star if they lost their loved one
- 100,000’s of thousands returned with disabilities both mental and physical
- 2010 Bill Frost started the county Disabled Veterans Hunt (cross-bow deer hunting)
- Deer Creek / Division of Wildlife has been very helpful in cutting disability accessible paths to get to the center of the woods
- Salmon fishing visit is also a weekend event for disabled veterans through the organization
- First hunt was 10 hunters, each year it has grown. Most is 63 disabled veteran hunters with over 100 volunteers
- Second Saturday in November is hunt at Deer Creek
- Fourth weekend in October there are 5 locations where veterans can hunt
- www.danfoutmemorialvahunt.com for more information
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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