10/08/2026
Marie Nemes-Crawford, Editor
Oct. 15th: Pickaway Works, Chuck Reisinger
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Presiding: President Connie Chamberlain
Piano: Ellery Elick
Greeter: Jayme Fountain
Invocation: Warren Spangler
Song Leader: Bob Sneed :”For he’s a jolly good fellow”, “Roll Rotary”
Attendees: C&T Chamberlain, D.Wolfe, Crawford, Nemes-Crawford, Elick, Wilson, Reitano, Saunders, Marosher, Brown, McNemar, Duvall, Horning, D&I Webb, Rawlins, Logan, Droste, R.Wolfe, T.Tootle, Sneed, McCrady, Hooks, E.Liggett, Foll, Searls, Montgomery, Mullins, Spangler, Coulter, Weller, G.Montgomery, Poling, Fountain, B.Hill, Kitchen, Gibson, Halley, Robinson, White, Foster, Wolford, Justinger
Visiting Rotarian: Chris Klein
Students of the week: Pickaway-Ross represented by Kristine Coriell , Assistant Principal – Michelle in police officer training and Austin from construction
Club Announcements:
- Rotary Clean Up – 5pm Monday of Pumpkin Show week (Oct. 19th). Meet at old Jim’s Pay and Save parking lot. Bring your own gloves – Chris Mullins will have vests and picker tools/trash bags
- Sock-Tober will be collection for October – boys/girls briefs size 4+; socks, gloves, scarves, hats. Items are for Corner Closet and Haven House.
- Prepaid Pumpkin Show tickets at the old price $5 – get your tickets before the price increase
- Gary – Wreaths Across America will be collecting money ($17) starting next week. Dec. 19th is pick-up. Program starts at noon if you would like to help distribute at Forest Cemetery, Soldiers Glen.
- Big Wheel Race – sign-ups limited to 84 and then wait list. Help promote race link on our Facebook page – 4-5yr olds. Oct. 22nd – at race track on Pinckney Street 12:45pm.
SAA: Warner Searls
- What is front of train called where locomotive is: head in
- What overnight passenger route sees wonderful scenery : California Zepher
- Standard width of inside rail dimension for American railroads: 4’8”
- What year had the max number of road miles of track in US: 254,000 miles in 1960 and then started to decline
- What year did American railroads carry the most passengers: 1920 – 1.2 billion passengers
- And more! And more!!
Scholarship Drawing: This week’s winner PP Heidi White receives $22 and Big Bean only with $64 continues to grow!
Program: Tom Kitchen from Pickaway County Educational Service Center
- 51 ESC’s in state of Ohio most serving multiple counties, Pickaway only covers our county
- Serve teachers, students, administrators
- After school program at Westfall with grant money
- Grant to teach school bus and van drivers
- Contracts with each school district to provide therapists, virtual programs and alternative school for students
- Leadership and Ethics conference – usually 60 students from honor societies of various schools to train how to run a meeting, how to work as a team, ethics, etc. This year Dr. Jeremy Graves will lead the students through the morning sessions at OCU.
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In honor of our speaker, we will make a donation to the – Pickaway County Special Olympics