06/20/2024
Marie Nemes-Crawford, Editor
June 27. Stephen Conrad – Portrays General Mad Anthony Wayne
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- Presiding: President Warren Spangler
- Prayer: Bob Sneed
- Piano: Ellery Elick
- Song Leader: Ian Webb – “In the Good Old Summertime”, “Battle Hymn of the Republic”
- Attendees: 31 today : Spangler, D.Wolfe, C.Chamberlain, Crawford, Nemes-Crawford, Poling, Haffey, Wilson, Young, Dean, Duvall, Lambert, Sneed, Rawlins, Droste, Searls, Dailey, Schreiner, Robinson, G.Montgomery, S.Montgomery, B.Tootle, Brown, I.Webb, Radcliff, McCrady, Riegel, C.Chamberlain, Ellis, Maroscher, Elick
- Guests: Matthew Haffey brought nephew Brexton
Announcements:
- Romania team coming July 17-20th. Please see Jayme or Ty to help.
- Directory update: Please contact Ian Webb this week if you have any changes: [email protected]
- Connie Chamberlain reintroduced Camryn Ross. Camryn finished her first year at OU-Athens and will be studying audiology – hoping to help elementary children!
- Gary Montgomery- Soup Kitchen on Monday, June 24th, 4pm at the Presbyterian church
- July 11th – changing of the guard. No meeting July 4th.
SAA: Rick Rawlins
- Get to know your Rotarians game!!! It was fun and big hit with all
- Montgomery’s now pay double for their anniversary
- Happy Dollars poured in
Scholarship Drawing: Marie won the weekly drawing for $17. Big Bean pot is $962 and will continue.
Program: Chris Sprague – Columbus Clippers
- Director of Media Relations – staff of 30 full time members
- Couple hundred workers for game days
- Minor league baseball helps evolve Major League Baseball (pitch clock operator)
- Major league only two years with pitch clock – 6 years for minor’s
- 2020 Major League Baseball took over minor league’s
- Experimenting with robot umpires – detectors on stadiums
- Two options:
- Umpire’s getting notification in their ear from computer to make the call
- Turn off ear piece – teams can have a challenge *this is the way the major’s will be going
- Clippers are famous for dime a dog – every Tuesday. Goes back to 1977 when team returned to Columbus
- 8,500 seats – last dime a dog night over 11,000 people. Over 20,000 dogs
- Wednesday military/first responder day
- Thursday – Spanish theme
- Friday – $5 meal deal
- Saturday – party at the park with live music
- Sunday – Family and Senior Day. Fun run around the bases after the game.
- Promotions throughout the year – www.clippersbaseball.com
- Clipper’s parent team is Cleveland for the last 15 years
- All games are streamed and on-line archived
- 150 games total for the season, half at home
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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