06/15/2023
Marie Nemes-Crawford, Editor
June Calendar – Bob McCrady, Program Chair
June 15: Blessings in a Backpack & Service Above Self winner
June 16: * Golf outing at Pickaway Country Club
June 22: Pathways For Success
June 26: * Community Kitchen
June 29: David M. Crawford – Year in review
July Calendar – David M. Crawford, Program Chair
July 6: District Governor, David Uhl plus Warren’s induction
July 10: * Bonus Community Kitchen
July 13: Jenny Rhoades, Visitor’s Bureau
July 20: Dave Roasa, Disaster Aid & Grove City Rotary
July 24: * Community Kitchen
July 27: MaKenzie Love – National Braille reading finalist & Teays Valley Student
*extra events
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- Presiding: President David M. Crawford
- Prayer: Tony Robinson
- Piano: Ellery Elick
- Song Leader: Tony Robinson selected “You’re a Grand Old Flag”, “America the Beautiful”
- Attending: (Drexel has official list) 47 today – Crawford, Nemes-Crawford, Poling, Beavers, McCrady, Palm, R.Wolfe, Riegel, C. Chamberlain, Wilson, Elick, Fouts, Canfield, Randolph, Spangler, Duvall, Schreiner, Young, McIlroy, Hedges, Kramer, Droste, Robinson, McNemar, Horning, C.Mullins, C.Neff, Foster, Radcliff, Sneed, Rothe, B.Liggett, Weaver, T.Tootle, D.Webb, Ankrom, Justinger, E.Liggett, Wolford, Fountain, T.Chamberlain, Liddy, White, Hafey, Marosher, Hooks, Searls
- Guests: Marie Smith as a guest of Tom Duvall; Rod and Marcia Smith are guests of the club; Chase Liggett came with his dad
Last year’s Scholarship Winner – Trevor Wolfe was here to tell us about his first year at Rio Grande and received his second $1,000 scholarship award. Continue your great work Trevor!
Announcements
- “Build Better Friendships” month. Today we recognize Alice Harker
- Alice IS the Community Kitchen. She is there for each of the volunteer groups serving our neighbors Monday, Wednesday & Friday’s and has been for the last 18 years!
- 35 years ago the community kitchen started and now is serving over 100 meals, three nights a week. The need is great.
- Golf Tournament is tomorrow
- Board meeting – next Tuesday, (20th) 11:30am, all are welcome
- Ana Dutra – Jayme Fountain’s Brazil Rotary Exchange student will be returning home July 10th. An open house will be July 8th, 1-4pm at the Fountain’s home. Appetizers and Desserts are needed – the theme is Red/White/Blue with Ana’s mother providing a Green/Yellow Brazilian welcome home party!
- Sr. Justinger passed out Wyngate flyers: Ice Cream Social June 17th 2-4pm and June 21st cookout drive thru noon-1pm
- Applications being taken for a two week Romania Rotary Exchange – please let Jayme or Ty know if you are interested in traveling with other Rotarians
- June 26th & July 10th – Community Kitchen’s on the schedule
Service Above Self Award: Bob Sneed presents Rod Smith with our club’s highest honor for a non-Rotarian. Rod is an educator, coach, deacon, historian, fundraiser, along with a friend to many. Rod spent 35 years teaching social studies to middle school students with an emphasis on Pickaway County and Ohio history. He was a football coach for 43 years, wrestling coach for 20, track for 18 and Jr. High and Girl’s Varsity track for 15! He founded Friends of Logan Elm and worked with the Ohio Historical Society to improve and maintain Logan Elm Park. Rod worked tirelessly on all 6 Logan Elm construction levies and now with construction underway, side-walk-supervisor might be another of his titles. He is active in Circleville Presbyterian Church as well as volunteered for 45 years at vacation bible school. The love of education runs in the family: Wife, Marcia taught at Washington Elementary, their son, Nate is principal at Logan Elm, and daughter-in-law Emily is the Pickaway Works representative at Westfall. Congratulations to Rod for his service to our community, it is our honor to acknowledge your accomplishments.
SAA: Rob Radcliff
- Member anniversaries
- National Smile day
- Tribes not in Ohio – Seminole
- Rotary – occupation of man who started singing in Rotary meetings – printer
- “It’s not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- June 15th of what year, 10 millionth car produced by Ford – 1924
- 2019 – Babe Ruth’s jersey sold for $5.6million
- Happy Dollars!!
Scholarship Drawing: Roger Wolfe was the winner of $41. The jackpot is $1,489 and it continues!
Program: Blessings in a Backpack
- Gina Warner – has been involved with kids as educator and children’s ministry her whole life. She is the local Blessings coordinator.
- Blessings in a Backpack is a National Organization
- 600,000 children in Ohio are food insecure
- 20% of the students in every school classroom are having problems focusing because of hunger
- We have more than 20 community cupboards around Pickaway county trying to help, but kids who are left on their own for weekends cannot get to them
- Schools have found grants to help kids eat during the week, but there is also a need for weekends
- Gina found out about Blessings in a Backpack and with the help of Gouge Roofing and Kingdom Realty, the initial funding was provided so a local chapter could be started
- As of the end of last month, 101 students are being served in Circleville + 75 in Logan Elm + 20 in Pathways = 196 students
- Three times a year – hygiene packs are also provided
- Weekend packs include 10 items – they are no adult supervision items. Fruit cups, granola bars and the like.
- Over 200 homeless children in Pickaway County per the last census
- Blessings is funded entirely by local donations
- By buying in bulk they try to keep costs to $5 per child
- $36,000 a year currently needed for the school year with the hope of increasing their reach next school year
- Darlene Whiteside – Homeless Director helps identify the students in need along with the help of teachers and nurses at the schools
- If you have crockpots – see Ty and he will get them to Darlene. This is a new project for those families in need. She has put together easy recipes for families to have nutritious crockpot meals!
- Our club is proud to be able to help the Blessings in a Backpack cause by donating $750
- Anyone wishing to make a monetary donation:
- Checks can be made out to: Blessings in a Backpack
- In the memo line: Pickaway Co Fund 2118
- Mail to: Blessings in a Backpack
- PO Box 950291
- Louisville, KY. 40295
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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.
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