Circleville Rotary

04/27/2023

Marie Nemes-Crawford, Editor

May Calendar – Dave Webb, Program Chair

May 4: Melanoma Awareness Month – Berger OhioHealth

May 11: Tom Davis – Pickaway County Park District

May 18: Dr. Gregory Lam, Cardiologist

May 25: Jarrod Burks, Ohio Valley Archeology, Inc.

June Calendar – Heidi White, Program Chair

June 1 – First Annual Euchre Tournament

June 8 – Ohio Dept of Transportation to talk about electric cars

June 15 – Blessings in a Backpack

June 16 – Golf outing at Pickaway Country Club

June 22 – Trent Patterson – Pathways school

June 29 – David Crawford – Year in review

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• Presiding: President David M. Crawford
• Prayer: Joe Brown
• Piano Player: Esther Fouts is helping us keep it together 🙂
• Song Leader: Jim Hooks selected “Better Than Ever This Year” (without books?!); “Red River Valley”
• Attending: (Drexel has official list) 42 today – Crawford, Nemes-Crawford, Spangler, Poling, Beavers, T.Chamberlain, Lanman, Fountain, Radcliff, Reitano, D.Wolfe, Vitartis, Hooks, Robinson, Brown, Routt, B.Tootle, Marosher, Foster, Schreiner, C.Chamberlain, Droste, Wolford, Fouts, Johnson, Wilson, Blanton, B.Liggett, Canfield, Hafey, Horning, Young, K.Neff, T.Tootle, R.Wolfe, McCrady, Riegel, Lambert, Dean, Hedges, McIlroy, Randolph
• Students: Westfall Students introduced by Emily Smith – Brandon and Mackenzie. A month away from graduation!
• Guests: Tony Robinson introduced Darlene Weaver who has applied for membership; Bob McCrady introduced Valerie Crist, and Mr. Donahue; Grant Davis, who will be applying for membership, was introduced by Michele Blanton; Rob Radcliff introduced Dottie even though she was running late : )

New Member: Katie Randolph was welcomed into membership today! She is an account mgr for Green Legacy Greenhouse in Orient. Katie is an outdoor enthusiast and was sponsored by Stacy Young.

Announcements

• Becky Hammond from Sunrise Rotary and PICCA asked for help cleaning up the river bank near Rts. 22/23. Time slots are available May 4, 5, 6th from 10am-1pm or 1pm-4pm. If you can help, contact Wes Ebenhack at [email protected]. Boots/gloves/trash grabbers are recommended. Trash bags/dumpsters will be provided.
• Gary thanked Daryl, Bob McCrady, David & Marie, Warren, John Ellis & Angela for help at the Food Kitchen. We expected 80 and served closer to 100 meals.
• Charlie Hedges presented Paul Harris +2 award to Dave Webb
• Paula Routt – Circleville Food Pantry interim director Bradley P. joined us to accept the over 1800 women’s products collected. The food pantry is open 5 days a week. Women’s products are the most requested items. We were awarded 3rd place out of 59 clubs!
• Rob Radcliff – May 8th, Extra Soup Kitchen. Help is always welcome.
• Rob also announced Program Chairs need information turned in by May 18th
• Dan Fouts – Mayor’s Breakfast on May 11th, 7:30am at the Fairgrounds, is honoring our own Rotarian, Tim Colburn. Please sign up by May 5th.
• Connie Chamberlain – Thank you to the scholarship committee. In June we will be introduced to our 4 winners.
• Tony Chamberlain – June 16th is our golf tournament. Need teams, volunteers and donations.

SAA: Judy Wolford on her last week

• National Library Week
• If you don’t have a library card, pay $1
• Our library has 2 brick and mortar locations
• Ashville location is named : Floyd E. Younkin Branch
• Number of Board Members 7
• Interim Director is Michelle Callahan
• Where is the bookmobile today – Teays Valley West Middle School

Scholarship Drawing: Gary Dean was the winner of $35. The jackpot is $1,236 and it continues!

Program: Kevin T. Donahue – Abe Lincoln

• 158th years ago Abraham Lincoln was assassinated – April 14, 1865 (Good Friday)
• The Arch Street Theatre was where John Wilkes Booth practiced his acting. Drew Barrymore is related to the owners of The Arch Street Theatre owners.
• Booth tried three times to kidnap Lincoln (in early 1865)
• Lincoln never liked security to be around him
• “Our American Cousin” was the British comedy the Lincoln’s were watching at Ford’s Theatre
• Deringer Pistol was used, it is now housed at Ford’s Theatre. 41 caliber bullet was used. To avoid copyright violations, Derringer pistols now have an extra “R”
• One women and 9 men were conspirators to kill many government officials. Booth assigned himself Lincoln.
• All conspirators were tried by a military tribunal. It went on for 7 weeks and had over 360 witnesses.
• Lincoln’s body (with his young son Willie) took a 13 day route back to Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois. The whole Lincoln family is buried there except son, Robert who is buried at Arlington.

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• In appreciation of this year’s speakers sharing their time & efforts, donations to Pickaway Pathways for Success will be made in their names.

04/20/2023

Marie Nemes-Crawford, Editor

April Calendar – Heidi White, Program Chair

April 20: Joy Sharp from OSU Extension for Pickaway County

April 27: Kevin T. Donahue – Abe Lincoln, part 2

April 28 & 29: District 6690 Conference – Columbus State / Veteran’s Memorial, Columbus

May Calendar – Dave Webb, Program Chair

May 4: Melanoma Awareness Month – Berger OhioHealth

May 11: Tom Davis – Pickaway County Park District

May 18: Dr. Gregory Lam, Cardiologist

May 25: Jarrod Burks, Ohio Valley Archeology, Inc.

June Calendar – Heidi White, Program Chair

June 1 – First Annual Euchre Tournament

June 8 – Ohio Dept of Transportation to talk about electric cars

June 15 – Blessings in a Backpack

June 16 – Golf outing at Pickaway Country Club

June 22 – Trent Patterson – Pathways school

June 29 – David Crawford – Year in review

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• Presiding: President David M. Crawford
• Prayer: Norm Wilson
• Piano Player: Esther Fouts is helping us keep it together 🙂
• Song Leader: Jim Hooks selected “Four-Way Test Song”, “America”
• Attending: (Drexel has official list) 44 today – Crawford, Nemes-Crawford, Spangler, Poling, Schreiner, Colburn, Beavers, Dailey, C.Mullins, Horning, Wilson, Elick, Fouts, Canfield, T.Tootle, Radcliff, Robinson, White, D.Wolfe, R.Wolfe, Riegel, Hedges, Dean, McCrady, Mavis, Duvall, Young, I.Webb, Whitten, D.Webb, Rothe, Sneed, McNemar, Rawlins, Halley, C.Neff, Ankrom, Ellis, Brown, Blanton, T.Chamberlain, B.Tootle, Hooks, Lambert
• Students: Amy Rhymer introduced us to Natalie Keaton and Erika Kluczynski – Seniors at Circleville. Good luck at Ohio University and Miami University ladies.

Welcome New Rotarian: John Lambert, Manager of Atomic Credit Union, OCU graduate and board member at OCU!

Board meeting snap-shot

• Welcomed Patty Rothe and Connie Chamberlain. Both are new directors beginning their two-year terms on July 1
• District conference on April 28-29. A few members are attending.
• Heidi, Ellery and Drexel to review the inventory of bank accounts, CDs, etc. and formulate a master list of accounts
• Warren discussed personal and club goals for his presidential year
• New member induction is pending for two candidates
• 18 new members inducted in the past 10 months. All are becoming active
• Service Above Self committee has three candidates. Discussion as to awarding one or more awards. Board prefers to stay with one awardee for 2023. Board may opt to award a “Rotarian of the Year” in the future
• Collection of womens products update, Noon Rotary collected the third highest total in the District. Paula Routt, a new member, chaired the drive.
• Connie is chairing the scholarship committee and said it received a large number of entries and will be interviewing six candidates next week. Five will be selected to receive $2,000 scholarships
• Board approved $1,000 donation to Dolly Parton Library and $1,000 to Miryante Community Center in Uganda. Both donations will be submitted to the District matching grant program
• Euchre Tournament is June 1. (Another project being led by a few of our newest members.) Proceeds will support the scholarship fund.
• Golf tournament is June 16. Proceeds support the scholarship fund
• Patty updated board on ongoing discussions about the return of Interact Club to Circleville High School. The dilemma at this time is that an additional service club may not attract many members. Discussions with school officials will continue.

Announcements

• Charlie congratulated Stacy Young as our newest Paul Harris Fellow!! Thank you for supporting the Rotary Foundation.
• Daryl – Food Kitchen is 4pm this coming Monday – Presbyterian Church on Mound Street
• Connie – Scholarship interviews are this coming Monday
• Carly – Rhoadhouse 56 official opening is April 28th – 6-9pm all are welcome

SAA: Tony Chamberlain in for Judy Wolford

• Mr.Mullins – roads are a mess in a certain township. That township trustee had the fine passed to him
• Carly has an honor roll student
• Rob Radcliff was appointed to OneRecovery Ohio Foundation Board
• What state has 10 cent tax on playing cards – Alabama
• What state has 8 cent tax on toasted/sliced bagel – New York
• What country has TV license tax for those under 75 yrs – UK
• What amendment established income tax – 16th
• What state’s law waives income tax for those over 100 yrs – NM

Scholarship Drawing: Daryl Wolfe was the winner of $33. The jackpot is $1,201 and it continues!

Program: Joy Sharp from OSU Extension for Pickaway County

• Tar Hallow has NO cell reception. That is a life skill some of her 4-H students learn every year. Technology “just stopped”.
• Joy has learned games/activities are how lessons are learned
• Kahoot.it game. Best way to teach Jr. Fair Board the rules of the fair (also a great way to engage Rotarian’s!!). Let’s all play.
• Pickaway 4-H Educator’s Name = Joy Sharp
• 4-H is more than 100 years old? = True
• The Four H’s stand for; head, heart, hands, health
• 4-H runs Pickaway County Junior Fair = False. 4-H is part of 7 organizations that can be a part of the fair.
• How many project choices does 4-H offer? = 208
• 4-H started in which Ohio County? = Clark
• How many community clubs does Pickaway 4-H have? = 33
• 4-H offers more than community clubs? = True
  • Real Money Real World, partner with Pickaway Works to teach about financial planning to eighth graders in the county schools
  • chick embryology with elementary school kids
• Where does Pickaway 4-H hold their camp? Tar Hollow (see first point)
• Joe, Heidi and Chris were the top three winners!
• 4-H part of the Land Grant Programs. Funding is through OSU, County commissioners and USDA.
• 800 4-H members in Pickaway County
• Always looking for community partners – if you can help, please see Joy

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• In appreciation of this year’s speakers sharing their time & efforts, donations to Pickaway Pathways for Success will be made in their names.

04/13/2023

Marie Nemes-Crawford, Editor

April Calendar – Heidi White, Program Chair

April 6: Katarina Sharp – Water conservation and rain barrels

April 13: Jan Shannon for the Uganda project

April 20: Joy Sharp from OSU Extension for Pickaway County

April 27: Kevin T. Donahue – Abe Lincoln, part 2

April 28 & 29: District 6690 Conference – Columbus State / Veteran’s Memorial, Columbus

May Calendar – Dave Webb, Program Chair

May 4: Melanoma Awareness Month – Berger OhioHealth

May 11: Tom Davis – Pickaway County Park District

May 18: Dr. Gregory Lam, Cardiologist

May 25: Jarrod Burks, Ohio Valley Archeology, Inc.

Upcoming Dates:

• June 1, 2023 – First Annual Euchre Tournament
• June 16, 2023 – Golf outing at Pickaway Country Club

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• Presiding: President David M. Crawford
• Prayer: Michele Blanton
• Piano Player: Esther Fouts is in the house!!!
• Song Leader: Jim Hooks: “This is Rotary”, “Row, Row, Row, Your Boat” in 2 and 3-part harmony (wait, was that harmony?)
• Attending: (Drexel has official list) 43 today – Crawford, Nemes-Crawford, Spangler, Poling, Hooks, Fouts, Canfield, McNemar, Wilson, Horning, Brown, Maroscher, Duval, Dean, Fountain, C.Chamberlain, T.Chamberlain, B.Liggett, Droste, McIlroy, Sneed, Riegel, T.Tootle, Hedges, R.Wolfe, McCrady, Ankrom, Blanton, Liddy, Robinson, Johnson, Rothe, Palm, Ellis, Whitten, Beavers, Radcliff, D.Wolfe, C.Neff, Montgomery, Duvall, White, Vitartis
• Guests: Ty Ankrom introduced Shauna Goodheart
• Students: Logan Elm seniors introduced by Nate Smith – Preston Nichols and Chloe Hall. Good luck to you both at OU.

Announcements

• Rotary Board meeting next Tuesday, here at 11:30am
• Connie Chamberlain: Scholarship committee meeting Monday (17th) at noon at Connie’s. Over 30 applications to review
• Dave Horning: Local Choirs Concert – Saturday(15th) at 2pm at Trinity Lutheran Church. Free and all invited.

SAA: Jayme Fountain in for Judy Wolford

• April Birthdays
• Masters Golf Tournament quiz (alittle too easy, therefore no money raised)
• National Pet day – if you have a pet, pay $1 (that made up for it!)

Scholarship Drawing: Dave Horning was the winner of $32. The jackpot is $1,168 and it continues!

Program: Jan Shannon – Miryante Community Centre, Uganda

• 2009 the Miryante Orphanage was founded by Laura Corcoran from Chillicothe (sister of Marie Corcoran Wilbanks from Circleville Sunrise)
• Over 100 foster care children currently
• 48% of Ugandan’s are age 15 and less
• Circleville Sunrise partners with Mubende Metro Rotary Club-District 9213, Circleville Rotary, Chillicothe First Capital club, Zanesville Rotary Clubs, Root Cause Uganda and Shark Tank winner of $5,000 from our District 6690
• Multiple Rotary Area’s of Focus – economic development, child health, disease prevention and treatment
• With the first district grant and contributions from both Circleville Rotary clubs 2 years ago, a pit latrine was constructed
• Last year’s project was a fence for safety and a playground
• Now starting to build a community center
• Since January 13th – bulldozer’s starting to build access road to the facility
• Feb. 7th, leveling ground and bricks were hand delivered and hand unloaded. Footer is going up now after being hand dug. One cement factory in Mubende and it was off line, so there was a delay
• Shark tank and donations collected totaled $20,500 for outside of building and half of the inside
• Need another $19,500 for inside work.
• What’s next? – Currently trying to raise funds – latest $500 came in from New Zealand. Using contacts from around the world.
• What’s next? – Solar Panels and a water tank – Circleville Sunrise is applying for another district grant. ($5,000 project)
• Many individual opportunities for sponsorships of children – $50 per month provides all the school supplies, uniforms, food and care that a child needs in Uganda. (miryanteorphanage.org)
• There are some Rotary Clubs that sponsor a child
• Animal purchase fund – so when children graduate, they receive an animal (a sign of prosperity)
• If you are interested in traveling to Uganda, please reach out to Jan Shannon or Marie Wilbanks from Circleville Sunrise – there are two visits being planned

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• In appreciation of this year’s speakers sharing their time & efforts, donations to Pickaway Pathways for Success will be made in their names.

04/06/2023

Marie Nemes-Crawford, Editor

April Calendar – Heidi White, Program Chair

April 6: Katarina Sharp – Water conservation and rain barrels

April 13: Jan Shannon for the Uganda project

April 20: Joy Sharp from OSU Extension for Pickaway County

April 27: Kevin T. Donahue – Abe Lincoln, part 2

April 28 & 29: District 6690 Conference – Columbus State / Veteran’s Memorial, Columbus

Upcoming Dates:

• June 1, 2023 – First Annual Euchre Tournament
• June 16, 2023 – Golf outing at Pickaway Country Club

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• Presiding: President David M. Crawford
• Prayer: Norm Wilson
• Piano Player: Ellery Elick
• Song Leader: THE Jim Hooks “Better Than Ever This Year”! We are going to get it Jim!
• Attending: (Drexel has official list) 45 today! Crawford, Nemes-Crawford, Spangler, Poling, Beavers, Mabe, Rawlins, B.Liggett, Ellis, Palm, Foster, Robinson, Montgomery, Hafey, Sneed, I.Webb, K.Neff, Young, Ankrom, J.Mullins, D.Webb, Canfield, Fouts, Elick, Wilson, McNemar, Duvall, Droste, McIlroy, Dean, Blanton, Fountain, Wolford, T.Tootle, Riegel, Kramer, McCrady, R.Wolfe, White, Hooks, Radcliff, D.Wolfe, Hedges, Reitano, B.Tootle
• Guests: David welcomed Katie Randolph again, who has been approved for membership and will be joining the club soon.

Board approved membership for John Lambert. John is sponsored by Gary Dean and is Regional Manager of Atomic Credit Union.

Announcements

• In 1944 our Rotary Club served as ushers for a community Good Friday service
• Service Above Self nominations have a deadline of Monday, April 10th. Check your email for the application or contact David. Deliver to Bill Stout by Monday, April 10th.
• Please check out the different activities at the District Conference – April 28/29. Rotary6690.org has a link to sign up. Friday afternoon is at Columbus State from noon-4 with focus on club activity for next fiscal year. Friday night is a reception on top of Veteran’s Memorial and Saturday will be back at Vet’s for the whole day. See Marie if you have problems registering. Fee increase starts April 14th, so sign up now!
• Club 125 push – it is an annual giving campaign for our District. Our website, circlevillerotary.org has a link or deliver a check to Drexel.
• Euchre tournament – Thank you Bob Sneed for donating cards
• Charlie Hedges reported Foundation giving for the end of third quarter – 53 current members are Paul Harris Fellows. $384,212 is our clubs all time giving to the foundation. This year $6,000 was foundation goal, currently at $9,540!! Add Polio Plus $2,240 and we have donated $11,980!!!
• Gary Montgomery receives his first Paul Harris Fellow Award!

SAA: Judy Wolford

• Thank you Bob Sneed for donating cards for Euchre – pass along a fine
• Jessica Mullins has a honor roll student
• National “Sorry Charlie” day!
• First Easter Eggs dyed: red
• Tradition of Easter Bunny started in Germany
• Easter Island is part of Chili
• What president hosted the first Easter Egg roll in 1878 – Hayes

Scholarship Drawing: Rob Radcliff was the winner of $28. The jackpot is $1,136 and it continues!

Program: Katarina Sharp – Educator/Outreach Specialist for Pickaway County Soil and Water Conservation District

• Rain barrel class is sold out, but we still have rain barrel kits available to $35
• For every one inch of rain – 620 gallons of water generated over 1,000 square feet
• Drainage issues? Erosion issues? – we can help answer questions http://www.pickawayswcd.org/
• Soil and Water Conservation officer in every county of Ohio
• New this summer – offering high school or college internships
• Also have job opening for a technician
• Three day camp or one day camp – Experience Earth. Last year was 84 kids registered. For grades 1-5, register early
• Also have Junior Conservation program for activities at home
• Pickawayswcd.org for all information
• Scholarships available for high school seniors
• Soil testing – we have probes and bags – Spectrum Analytics in Washington CH does the testing. $25 per sample.
• Rain barrel water can be used to rinse cars without water spots

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• In appreciation of this year’s speakers sharing their time & efforts, donations to Pickaway Pathways for Success will be made in their names.