8/20/2026
Marie Nemes-Crawford, Editor
Aug. 27: Jason Stone, Joy House Coffee
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Presiding: President Connie Chamberlain
Greeter: Betsy Weller
Invocation: Warren Spangler
Piano: Ellery Elick
Song Leader: “Battle Hymn of the Republic”, “Sing Out A Song Of Rotary”
Attendees: C.Chamberlain, D.Wolfe, R.Radcliff, Crawford, Nemes-Crawford, Elick, Wilson, Foll, Droste, McNemar, Hedges, Rawlins, B.&E. Liggett, R.Wolfe, McCrady, Fountain, Searls, Lambert, Driesbach, Logan, Spangler, Foster, Reitano, Duvall, Weller, Riegel, Robinson, A.Hill, Neff, Coulter, Sobolock from Gouge, Brown, G.Montgomery, Poling,
Visiting Rotarians: Craig Klein from Chillicothe
Visitors: PCCF closed the office to be here to support Alexis: Steven Collins and Kaitlyn
New Member: Annette Hill joins us from New Hope Christian Academy. She has been a member of Rotary clubs in four different states and is coming from Kentucky most recently.
Club Announcements:
- Next Monday – Soup Kitchen Monday 4pm
- Next week – prepaid Pumpkin Show tickets at the old price $5 – get your tickets before the price increase
- Pumpkin Show booth schedule will come out next week – sign up often for the largest fundraiser we have
- Sandy Montgomery has a request for the Community Clearinghouse (Food Pantry) – toilet tissue please. Bring in your contribution to the next meeting.
SAA: Jayme Fountain
- August birthdays/anniversaries
- Flower with August: which symbolizes strength: Gladiolus
- August birthstone: Peridot
- National Park established in 1919: Acadia
- 1920, 19th amendment ratified – women’s right to vote
- 1977 – Elvis died
Scholarship Drawing: This week’s winner David Crawford took home $15 and did not get the big bean.
Program: Alexis Conrad, Executive Director of PCCF
- 25th Anniversary Year
- $260K awarded in scholarships for 2026
- $5 million granted across funds since 2020
- $26 million invested in assets for the future of Pickaway County
- 68,000 lbs of beef distributed to local families making 240,000 meals since 2020
- $184,000 granted to 25 organizations to celebrate 25 years of community service
- Wheelchair accessible merry-go-round going to MVCH Park in associates with Brooks Yates Opportunities Board and City of Circleville
- 6,500 pounds of ground beef was this year’s total. 16 different organizations received allotments.
- Agriculture – Farm To Plate on Sept. 3rd ; Ag-chat in January
- Leadership for tomorrow – Fellows class to develop Pickaway County leadership
- Inspiration Station funded by Education Fund. Work started in 2020 goal of opening in 2027
- Ralph Starkey Community Action Day is October 7, 2026
- Be Part of the Next 25 years of Impact – Building for the future – Shirley Bowser will be matching $50,000 of donations made to PCCF this year
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In honor of our speaker, we will make a donation to the – Pickaway County Special Olympics