06/26/2025
Marie Nemes-Crawford, Editor
July 3rd: NO MEETING
July 10th: Induction of Rob Radcliff and DG official visit
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- Presiding: President Heidi White
- Prayer: Norm Wilson
- Piano: Anita Wilson in the house today! Thank you 🙂
- Song Leader: Brenna Gibson – “America The Beautiful”, “Better Than Ever This Year”
- Attendees: White, Blanton, Brown, C.Chamberlain, Crawford, Dean, Driesbach, Duvall, Foster, Fountain, B.Gibson, Hedges, Horning, Kramer, Mabe, McCrady, McNemar, G&S Montgomery, C.Neff, Poling, Radcliff, Reeves, Riegel, Robinson, Searls, Spangler, T.Tootle, I.Webb, D.Webb, Wilson, D.Wolfe
- Guests: Kristen Wilson-Doyle is in the house waiting her induction; Lindzay Mason guest of Dave Horning; Vickie Robinson brought her husband; Travis Blanton accompanied his wife Michelle;
New Member approved by the Board: Raymund Balallo, owner of Crown Hill Golf Course (and spoke a few weeks ago) has applied for membership and been approved by the board. His sponsor is Brenna Gibson.
Club Announcements:
- No meeting July 3rd – Rob’s first official act is to cancel a meeting
- Community Kitchen help this past Monday: Gary & Sandy, Warren, Bob McCrady, David & Marie with Alice passing out the meals. Please mark your calendar for fourth Monday of each month – we need you!
- Thank you Warren Spangler for serving on the board for the last five years!
- President-Elect Rob Radcliff presents President Heidi White with her Past President pin and badge
- Thank you Ian for all your work on the directory
- Mongolian Chocolate was presented to our club from the Rotarians who visited
- Brenna Gibson thanked everyone who attended the Lynn Agency open house
SAA: Dave Horning
- Refrigeration information
Scholarship Drawing: This weeks winner is Bob Foster for $16- Big Bean is holding at $835
Program: Wayne Gray, Director of Crossroads Christian Academy
- 105 students currently
- Pre-school has been running for 28 years – currently with 60 students
- Goal is to continue to grow facilities so all grades can be under one roof
- Crossroads is a charter school – if a student leaves a public school the charter school gets half of the money going to the public school
- Crossroads uses scholarship funding available as well
- Charter schools are affiliated for many things; faith, culture, STEM
- Crossroads is too small for athletic programs – partner with New Hope
- Crossroads covers 7 school districts with only 15 students per class
- Music program is well-known
- Do use state testing as a guideline for students
- Looking for scholarship opportunities for students and will be on the list for Four-Way Speech contest for next year
- Four seniors will be graduating next year
- Crossroads is in Logan Elm school district, but anyone in Circleville or Logan Elm can use school busses for New Hope and Crossroads students. Next year 5-12th grades at the Ohio Street address will go to Crossroads and be transported to Ohio Street building.
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In appreciation for the speaker today, a donation will be made to Anne’s Smiles of Ashville