07/24/2025
Marie Nemes-Crawford, Editor
July 31st: Kristen Kaiser – Big Brothers, Big Sisters
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Presiding: President Rob Radcliff
Greeter: Betsy Weller
Prayer: Gary Montgomery
Piano: the piano (pressed by Ellery Elick)
Song Leader: Warner Searls “America”, “Viva La Rotary”
Attendees: Radcliff, Brown, C.Chamberlain, Crawford, Driesbach, Droste, Elick, Foster, Fountain, B.Gibson, Horning, Lambert, Logan, McCrady, McNemar, G&S Montgomery, Nemes-Crawford, Nickel, Poling, Rawlins, Reeves, Riegel, Routt, Schreiner, Searls, Sneed, Spangler, B.Tootle, T.Tootle, Weller, White, D.Wolfe, R.Wolfe
Guests: Rob’s guest Sid Liming; Dave Horning guest Lindzay Mason
Club Announcements:
- Community Kitchen – Monday, July 28th – anytime between 3:30-5:30pm at the Presbyterian church – your help is needed
- Rotary Board meeting:
- The first 20 members registering for the Zone Conference in Columbus will be reimbursed $50. Saturday only ticket is $150. Registration is: https://www.rizones30-31.org/institute/2025-columbus/. (Thursday-Saturday program is $575)
- Rotary Shirts – Bob Foster looking for interest – sign-up
- Clippers Game – check list if interested $30 ticket, but get $10 back for food
- President Rob’s Goals – $125 Club; Foundation; Membership
- Approved budget for the year
- Pumpkin Show schedule is coming! (Our largest fundraiser) Root beer monetary collection starts next week – cash only
- Board meetings changed to Second Tuesday of each month at noon
- Dues increase is on the table because increase by RI and District both are increasing our portion
- Presidential charity – Soldiers Monumental Society
- Jayme Fountain – $125 pins from last year – Suzi Reeves, Gary & Sandy Montgomery, Connie Chamberlain, Bob McCrady, Larry Logan, Brenna Gibson, Warren Spangler, Charlie Hedges. $125 check made out to Rotary Foundation and give to Jayme for her to mail
SAA: Joe McNemar making up for two weeks off!
- Happy Dollars: Joe Brown married for 60 years! And celebrating his 80th birthday! Rob walked his baby girl down the aisle this past weekend
- Birthdays/anniversaries
- Tom Tootle’s SAA arm band is his uncle’s who was SAA in Chillicothe for 35 years
- If you leave a meeting early, put a buck in the duck!
August 7th: Scholarship Drawing *Price change:
Strip off 3 = $2; 3 strips of 3 = $5!:
This weeks winner is President Rob $20 (who donated it back!) – Big Bean is holding at $897
Program: Anne’s Smiles of Ashville
- Marisha Eveland, Founder and Mike Faler, board member
- Every dollar raised goes to help the kids in Pickaway County
- 2021 – heard a need about kids needing shoes (Samaritan Shoe Fund was started)
- Anne’s Smiles was founded to be more than the Shoe Fund and has expanded to all needs of children : Backpack blessing; Hygiene Packs; Emergency Clothing; Puberty Kits for 5th graders; Visions of Hope – eyeglass program; Lending Tackle Box (borrow fishing poles, bait, lures at Slate Run); Outdoor Mission Work
- All shopping is done for each individual student. We want to make the child feel like they fit in and are cared for
- All four local school districts are served through recommendations from the school
- It’s not just homeless students being helped – there are two parent households who just can’t make ends meet
- 2021-2024
- Students per school district: 321 Circleville; 237 Teays Valley; 145 Logan Elm; 166 Westfall
- Of the 870 students helped: 151 were unhoused and 152 had special needs
- 1,878 puberty kits; 1,390 pairs of underwear; 596 pairs of shoes & socks; 156 backpacks; 197 emergency clothing requests; 391 hygiene packs; 6 eye exams and glasses
- 25,000+ items donated
- All schools have showers and students are being pulled from classes to clean up
- Annessmiles.org; it is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit, all donations are tax deductible
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The Presidential charity is Soldiers Monumental Society – caring for the graves of our service men and women