Tag: 2023

06/29/2023

Marie Nemes-Crawford, Editor

June Calendar – Bob McCrady, Program Chair

June 29:  David M. Crawford – Year in review

July Calendar – David M. Crawford, Program Chair

July 6: District Governor, David Uhl plus Warren’s induction and board members

July 10: * Bonus Community Kitchen

July 13: Jenny Rhoades, Visitor’s Bureau

July 20: Dave Roasa, Disaster Aid & Grove City Rotary

July 24: * Community Kitchen

July 27: MaKenzie Love – National Braille reading finalist & Teays Valley Student

*extra events

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• Presiding:  President David M. Crawford
• Prayer:  Assistant Governor, Jim Rogers
• Piano: Ellery Elick
• Song Leader: Tony Robinson selected “Auld Lang Syne”, “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow”
• Attending: (Drexel has official list) 41 today – Crawford, Nemes-Crawford, Poling, Spangler, C.Chamberlain, McCrady, R.Wolfe, Canfield, Wilson, Lambert, Fouts, Palm, McNemar, Robinson, Montgomery, Mavis, T.Tootle, Hedges, Droste, Searls, Schreiner, B.Liggett, Radcliff, Sneed, Horning, Weaver, Foster, Dean, Wolford, Randolph, T.Chamberlain, Davis, Blanton, Brown, Fountain, Lanman, I.Webb, D.Webb, Hooks, Kramer, Rothe
• Visiting Rotarians: From the Rotary Club of Logan, Assistant Governor, Jim Rogers &  President-Elect, Tim Woodard; from the Rotary Club of Athens-Noon, President-Elect Nominee Don Wood
• Guests: Harry Canfield’s daughter, Carol accompanied her dad today; Nicole Allen is Ashli’s step-mom 
• Scout Troop 52 joined us today 

Scholarship Award winner: Ashli Allen has returned to let us know her first year college experience went well and she will be returning to COTC in Wooster to continue her study of sonography. She hopes to work with OB/GYN’s. Best of luck Ashli!

Announcements

• Gary Montgomery thanked, Daryl, Marie, Warren, Bob Sneed, Bob McCrady, Tom Duvall, Tony & Vickie Robinson, John Ellis for help serving over 100  meals at the Community Kitchen
• Charlie Hedges – will be a visiting Rotarian soon when he comes back to see us. Thank you for all your efforts on behalf of this club.
• Summer traveling to other Rotary Clubs? – remember to get your picture in front of their flag and you’ll be entered into a gift card drawing
• Pickaway County Special Olympics Fundraiser – Aug.5th in Chillicothe. Flyers available or see our Facebook page for a link
• Rob Radcliff – CASA raffle. Yeti cooler full of goodies. $10 per ticket. Please get a hold of Rob.
• Rotary Exchange Student, Ana Dutra’s party is July 8th at Jayme Fountain’s home from 1-4pm
• Applications being taken for a two week Romania Rotary Exchange – please let Jayme or Ty know if you are interested in traveling with other Rotarians

SAA:  Rob Radcliff

• 27 years married – Patty Rothe
• Drexel has been a member for 46 years
• Bill Stout has been a member for 62 years
• National Body Piercing Day
• 1894 – What day became national holiday – Labor Day
• Rotary : could not allow racial discrimination was part of the by-laws in what year?  1922!
• 1987 women should be allowed per the Supreme Court

Scholarship Drawing:  Bob Foster was the winner of $29. The jackpot is $1,549 and it continues!

Program: David M. Crawford – ‘Imagine Rotary’ year 2022-23 recap

• Important projects on both the local and international level have been accomplished
• The Euchre tournament has been added as a scholarship fundraiser
• The new members have jumped into service, organizing our Euchre tournament, adding a Bonus Community Kitchen, led a successful Women’s Products drive (placing third in the district)
• There has not been a dues increase in 24 years (other than adding the Rural/Urban Day lunch cost) – in reviewing the breakdown, $71 goes to Rotary International and $30 goes to the District
• Incoming Presidents are asked to identify their goals for the year
  • Membership from 75 has increased to 91
  • The 22 new members were sponsored by 17 members – two of whom are new themselves
  • Significant donations to local charities and the Miryante Orphanage in Uganda
  • Pledged $12,500 over 5 years to Inspiration Station Children’s Museum and Event Space here in Circleville
  • Rotary offers a large number of on-line and in person programs for Leadership Development. It would benefit to have more members participate.
  • Meeting district leadership is always beneficial to the club, a great avenue is to attend the district assembly and conference April 19 & 20, 2024 at Deer Creek.
  • Social Events are important in order to meet Sunrise members, introduce new members to Rotary and plan events (ie. Euchre). We only managed 3. Cost of food is higher and 3-4 members are needed instead of 2.
  • Thank you to Bob Foster for updating our website and to all who keep Facebook fresh and informative
  • We thank Miles Layton for keeping Circleville Rotary in the newspaper with over 20 articles featured, many on front page
  • We accomplished 23 service projects from the community kitchen’s, to sock collection, women’s products, blanket making, addressing thank you card to Honor Flight veteran’s, etc.
  • Providing opportunities for all members to participate in a project is important, so with projects during meetings, you don’t have to stand in the Pumpkin Show booth for 3-hours or pick up trash on North Court
  • We keep meetings fun and informative 
  • Interact Club is a casualty of COVID. We are trying to start a club in the Middle school
  • Donations to the Rotary Foundation was almost triple my goal. It’s important because district grants are based on our giving level. We are able to augment our donations to Miryante and the Dolly Parton Library.
  • Remembrance of the loss of Dick Fullen, spouses and other family members. Thinking about those unable to join us because of health reasons
  • Please appreciate the work of your Rotary board members. They work very hard behind the scenes to ensure our club stays financially sound
  • I now step aside and Warren takes over next week

06/22/2023

Marie Nemes-Crawford, Editor

June Calendar – Bob McCrady, Program Chair

June 22: Pathways For Success

June 26: * Community Kitchen

June 29:  David M. Crawford – Year in review

July Calendar – David M. Crawford, Program Chair

July 6: District Governor, David Uhl plus Warren’s induction and board members

July 10: * Bonus Community Kitchen

July 13: Jenny Rhoades, Visitor’s Bureau

July 20: Dave Roasa, Disaster Aid & Grove City Rotary

July 24: * Community Kitchen

July 27: MaKenzie Love – National Braille reading finalist & Teays Valley Student

*extra events

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• Presiding:  President David M. Crawford
• Prayer:  Gary Montgomery
• Piano: Ellery Elick
• Song Leader: Tom Duvall selected: “Happy Wanderer”, “…Pumpa”
• Attending: (Drexel has official list) 38 today – Crawford, Nemes-Crawford, Poling, Spangler, Montgomery, Palm, Mavis, Fouts, Wilson, Elick, Duvall, Droste, Lambert, Dailey, Robinson, Brown, T.Tootle, Hedges, Riegel, McCrady, D.Wolfe, Schreiner, Ellis, McNemar, Beavers, Dean, Davis, C.Chamberlain, Radcliff, Liddy, Sneed, I.Webb, D.Webb, Rawlins, Hafey, Maroscher, Lam, Searls
• Visiting Rotarians: President Marie Wilbanks from Sunrise

Scholarship Winner – Connie Chamberlain introduced Brianna Azbell from Pickaway-Ross/Logan Elm. She will be attending Hocking College for early childhood education. Quite a mature young lady who we wish only the best.

Rotary Executive Board meeting summary (6/20)

• Patty and David reported on a recent meeting with Watt Street Tavern management (Myshele). Relationship is going well. Myshele said there would be no problem if Rotary utilizes credit cards for meal payment as long as Watt Street is not involved in the transactions. Watt Street is also willing to provide ready-made “grab-n-go” lunches for Rotarians who may not have time to order. Watt Street also will look to add another 4-top table to provide more seating. Watt Street asks that Rotarians not enter the kitchen area due to insurance purposes. 
• Patty, Heidi, Daryl, Angie and Carly will begin looking into credit card processing equipment that can be used for meals, Pumpkin Show and other purposes. Considerable discussion took place to determine who would be responsible for equipment, point-of-sale transactions and overall cost for hardware, data plan and transaction/swipe costs
• Induction of officers and board members will be at the July 6 meeting by DG David Uhl
• Golf tournament was successful. Final report will occur once all donations are collected.
• Treasurer’s report was approved. Ellery reported he is still working with U.S. Bank to transfer funds. Also, the board approved his request to place the Tricentennial fund in an account with higher yields. Drexel is going to check the Rotary lockbox at U.S. Bank to inventory the contents.
• Connie and Patty join the board as official members in July when Warren becomes president.    

Announcements

• “Build Better Friendships” month – today we welcome Tod Conrad. Master woodworker and Ned Riegel’s neighbor. Tod helped rebuild our Pumpkin Show booth door. Thanks Tod!
• Monday, June 26th – Community Kitchen 4pm at Presbyterian church on Mound St. We are serving 100 people now.
• Pickaway County Special Olympics Fundraiser – Aug.5th in Chillicothe. Flyers available or see our Facebook page for a link
• Marie Wilbanks – CASA raffle. Yeti cooler full of goodies. $10 per ticket – see Rob Radcliff for tickets after today
• Rotary Exchange Student, Ana Dutra’s party is July 10th at Jayme Fountain’s home from 1-4pm
• Applications being taken for a two week Romania Rotary Exchange – please let Jayme or Ty know if you are interested in traveling with other Rotarians

SAA:  Rob Radcliff

• Rick Rawlins had a birthday with a 5 in it
• Gary Montgomery – 54th wedding anniversary yesterday
• Bob Johnson – 64 years in our club
• National Chocolate Eclair Day: read the warning – chocolate is addictive and might cause weight gain
• Supreme Court – 1990 – what state banned thonged bikinis? Florida
• Pledge of Allegiance formally adopted by Congress in 1942
• “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile?” Einstein
• Part of the original 5 Rotary Clubs did not include – New York
• Successful food chain founded in Ohio – Arby’s
• Happy Dollar – Ian Webb has sent the directory to print with pictures of every member

Scholarship Drawing:  Tom Duvall was the winner of $31 (which he donated back). The jackpot is $1,520 and it continues!

Program: Kristen Rhoads and Beth Dill from Pathways For Success

• The presidential charity has been Pathways For Success this year
• The club is happy to present a $750 check in honor of all our speakers this year
• 64 students have been served throughout the year
• Capacity was 40 students at one time
• 3 students have became parents this year
• 9 of 12 eligible students graduated
• Ohio graduation requirements are more than just 21 credits. Need passage of standardized tests and “seals” of accomplishments
• Pathways has partnered with the Rise Up program – retail industry. Students complete two instruction books and when they pass three tests, get a “seal”
• School is half-day program so kids can work
• 19 students have been referred to Pickaway-Ross to help them get jobs after school and also partner with Pickaway Works
• Principal and four teachers for the 40 kids
• Incentive program – school store. Kids have fake money and get $1 just for coming to school. Teachers can also pass out other money amounts for having a good day, staying quiet, staying off their phones, etc.
• Through the store, it costs $200 to play basketball; $50 for a monster drink; Dorito’s also a popular item
• The curriculum is on-line classes with teachers to help
• Grades 6-12
• Most kids are referred for behavioral issues
• Rely on grants and donations from community
• $100,000 safety grant was used for metal detectors, communication items, safety cameras
• Academic grant used to start a culinary program which students are excited about
• Another grant set up a library, which is also a quiet place when students need to decompress
• The staff puts so much of themselves into the students – our goal is to make the students successful and graduate from high school with a plan for their future

06/15/2023

Marie Nemes-Crawford, Editor

June Calendar – Bob McCrady, Program Chair

June 15: Blessings in a Backpack & Service Above Self winner

June 16: * Golf outing at Pickaway Country Club

June 22: Pathways For Success

June 26: * Community Kitchen

June 29:  David M. Crawford – Year in review

July Calendar – David M. Crawford, Program Chair

July 6: District Governor, David Uhl plus Warren’s induction

July 10: * Bonus Community Kitchen

July 13: Jenny Rhoades, Visitor’s Bureau

July 20: Dave Roasa, Disaster Aid & Grove City Rotary

July 24: * Community Kitchen

July 27: MaKenzie Love – National Braille reading finalist & Teays Valley Student

*extra events

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• Presiding:  President David M. Crawford
• Prayer: Tony Robinson
• Piano: Ellery Elick
• Song Leader: Tony Robinson selected “You’re a Grand Old Flag”, “America the Beautiful”
• Attending: (Drexel has official list)  47 today – Crawford, Nemes-Crawford, Poling, Beavers, McCrady, Palm, R.Wolfe, Riegel, C. Chamberlain, Wilson, Elick, Fouts, Canfield, Randolph,  Spangler, Duvall, Schreiner, Young, McIlroy, Hedges, Kramer, Droste, Robinson, McNemar, Horning, C.Mullins, C.Neff, Foster, Radcliff, Sneed, Rothe, B.Liggett, Weaver, T.Tootle, D.Webb, Ankrom, Justinger, E.Liggett, Wolford, Fountain, T.Chamberlain, Liddy, White, Hafey, Marosher, Hooks, Searls
• Guests: Marie Smith as a guest of Tom Duvall; Rod and Marcia Smith are guests of the club; Chase Liggett came with his dad

Last year’s Scholarship Winner – Trevor Wolfe was here to tell us about his first year at Rio Grande and received his second $1,000 scholarship award. Continue your great work Trevor!

Announcements

• “Build Better Friendships” month. Today we recognize Alice Harker
  • Alice IS the Community Kitchen. She is there for each of the volunteer groups serving our neighbors Monday, Wednesday & Friday’s and has been for the last 18 years!
  • 35 years ago the community kitchen started and now is serving over 100 meals, three nights a week. The need is great.
• Golf Tournament is tomorrow
• Board meeting – next Tuesday, (20th) 11:30am, all are welcome
• Ana Dutra – Jayme Fountain’s Brazil Rotary Exchange student will be returning home July 10th. An open house will be July 8th, 1-4pm at the Fountain’s home. Appetizers and Desserts are needed – the theme is Red/White/Blue with Ana’s mother providing a Green/Yellow Brazilian welcome home party!
• Sr. Justinger passed out Wyngate flyers: Ice Cream Social June 17th 2-4pm and June 21st cookout drive thru noon-1pm
• Applications being taken for a two week Romania Rotary Exchange – please let Jayme or Ty know if you are interested in traveling with other Rotarians
• June 26th & July 10th – Community Kitchen’s on the schedule

Service Above Self Award: Bob Sneed presents Rod Smith with our club’s highest honor for a non-Rotarian. Rod is an educator, coach, deacon, historian, fundraiser, along with a friend to many. Rod spent 35 years teaching social studies to middle school students with an emphasis on Pickaway County and Ohio history. He was a football coach for 43 years, wrestling coach for 20, track for 18 and Jr. High and Girl’s Varsity track for 15!  He founded Friends of Logan Elm and worked with the Ohio Historical Society to improve and maintain Logan Elm Park. Rod worked tirelessly on all 6 Logan Elm construction levies and now with construction underway, side-walk-supervisor might be another of his titles. He is active in Circleville Presbyterian Church as well as volunteered for 45 years at vacation bible school.  The love of education runs in the family: Wife, Marcia taught at Washington Elementary, their son, Nate is principal at Logan Elm, and daughter-in-law Emily is the Pickaway Works representative at Westfall.  Congratulations to Rod for his service to our community, it is our honor to acknowledge your accomplishments. 

SAA:  Rob Radcliff

• Member anniversaries 
• National Smile day
• Tribes not in Ohio – Seminole
• Rotary – occupation of man who started singing in Rotary meetings – printer
• “It’s not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself” – Eleanor Roosevelt
• June 15th of what year, 10 millionth car produced by Ford – 1924
• 2019 – Babe Ruth’s jersey sold for $5.6million
• Happy Dollars!!

Scholarship Drawing:  Roger Wolfe was the winner of $41. The jackpot is $1,489 and it continues!

Program:  Blessings in a Backpack

• Gina Warner – has been involved with kids as educator and children’s ministry her whole life. She is the local Blessings coordinator.
• Blessings in a Backpack is a National Organization
• 600,000 children in Ohio are food insecure
• 20% of the students in every school classroom are having problems focusing because of hunger
• We have more than 20 community cupboards around Pickaway county trying to help, but kids who are left on their own for weekends cannot get to them
• Schools have found grants to help kids eat during the week, but there is also a need for weekends
• Gina found out about Blessings in a Backpack and with the help of Gouge Roofing and Kingdom Realty, the initial funding was provided so a local chapter could be started 
• As of the end of last month, 101 students are being served  in Circleville + 75 in Logan Elm + 20 in Pathways = 196 students
• Three times a year – hygiene packs are also provided
• Weekend packs include 10 items – they are no adult supervision items. Fruit cups, granola bars and the like.
• Over 200 homeless children in Pickaway County per the last census
• Blessings is funded entirely by local donations
• By buying in bulk they try to keep costs to $5 per child
• $36,000 a year currently needed for the school year with the hope of increasing their reach next school year
• Darlene Whiteside – Homeless Director helps identify the students in need along with the help of teachers and nurses at the schools
• If you have crockpots – see Ty and he will get them to Darlene. This is a new project for those families in need. She has put together easy recipes for families to have nutritious crockpot meals!
• Our club is proud to be able to help the Blessings in a Backpack cause by donating $750
• Anyone wishing to make a monetary donation:
  • Checks can be made out to:  Blessings in a Backpack
  • In the memo line: Pickaway Co Fund 2118
    • Mail to: Blessings in a Backpack
    •               PO Box 950291
    •               Louisville, KY. 40295

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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.

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06/08/2023

Marie Nemes-Crawford, Editor

June Calendar – Bob McCrady, Program Chair

June 15: Blessings in a Backpack & Service Above Self winner

June 16: * Golf outing at Pickaway Country Club

June 22: Pathways For Success

June 26: * Community Kitchen

June 29: David M. Crawford – Year in review

July Calendar – David M. Crawford, Program Chair

July 6: District Governor, David Uhl plus Warren’s induction

July 10: * Bonus Community Kitchen

July 13: Jenny Rhoades, Visitor’s Bureau

July 20: Dave Roasa, Disaster Aid & Grove City Rotary

July 24: * Community Kitchen

July 27: MaKenzie Love – National Braille reading finalist & Teays Valley Student

*extra events

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• Presiding: President David M. Crawford
• Prayer: Michelle Blanton
• Piano: Ellery Elick
• Song Leader: John Lambert selected “In the Good Old Summertime”, “Roll Rotary”
• Attending: (Drexel has official list) 43 today – Crawford, Nemes-Crawford, Poling, McCrady, Spangler, Fouts, Lambert, Elick, Wilson, McNemar, Riegel, Palm, Young, Ankrom, T.Tootle, Duvall, Mavis, Montgomery, Dailey, R.Wolfe, Brown, Radcliff, Hafey, Schreiner, Weaver, Dean, C.Chamberlain, Sneed, I.Webb, D.Webb, Wolford, K.Neff, E.Liggett, Rawlins, White, T.Chamberlain, Rothe, Blanton, C.Neff, Fountain, Hooks, Mabe, McIlroy
• Guests: Sandy Montgomery & Chase Liggett

Scholarship Winner: Heidi White introduced Timothy Miller and Braeden Martin. Each received their first check for $1,000 today. Timothy will be attending Columbus State to become a chef and Braeden will be attending OSU ATI for Crop Management.

Announcements

• David is calling the month of June – “Build Better Friendships” month (thank you Ned Riegel). Today we recognize Sandy Montgomery, the pastry chef of the community kitchen. She insists on homemade desserts for our neighbors. She provides 30 dozen cookies a month.
• Stacy announced the First Annual Euchre tournament was such a big hit, we’re going to do it more than once a year! She thanked Carly, Karlyn, Bob McCrady, John Lambert, Katie Randolph and all those who showed up to play! $1,800 was raised for the scholarship fund.
• Tony Chamberlain – Next Friday, June 16th is our golf tournament. Please let him know NOW if you have a foursome or if you can help.
• July 12th – Pioneer Day Camp. Signup sheet on bar

SAA: Rob Radcliff

• June 5th – Gary Dean’s wedding anniversary #58.
• June 10th – Bob Liggett’s 61st wedding anniversary
• Ellery just bought a three wheeled motorcycle
• Today is Upsy Daisy Day and Friendship Day
• 55 years ago today Robert Kennedy was laid to rest. How many Kennedy family members have run for president? 4
• 1953 – Washington DC ruled restaurants could not deny service due to color
• 1860 – Columbus is state capital. Chillicothe and Zanesville were prior two
• First Rotary project – comfort station in downtown Chicago
• Happy Dollars – Mrs. Radcliff’s birthday is today; Our club was elected as favorite Service Club in Circleville Herald vote

Scholarship Drawing: Eric Liggett was the winner of $30. The jackpot is $1,447 and it continues!

Program: Ohio Electric Vehicle (EV) Infrastructure Deployment Plan

• Pretti Choudhary, Executive Director of Drive Ohio
• Emerging transportation technology is what her office is tasked with overseeing
• Can we improve safety on the roads? Is our goal
• We want to provide the latest technology to Ohioans
• Electric car charging stations is main focus today
• Alternative fuel vehicle registrations increasing by year. 50% more than last year
• Home charging – Level 1; Level 2 – work; Fast chargers geared toward people traveling
• National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Programs
  • $140 million for Ohio over 5 years
  • charging along interstates and state/rural routes
  • Charge station must be every 50 miles and within 1 mile off the interstate. 4 fast chargers (150KW per)
  • Want the stations to be safe – in already developed areas since you will be there longer than filling your car with gas
  • Planning for 30 stations on intestates; 16 on state/rural routes
• Phase 1: Build out highways AFCs by 2024
• Phase 2 Rural & state routes build out from 2024-2026
• Phase 3-4: use remaining formula funds based on additional priorities
• Call to Action
  • Drive Ohio develops annual EV Infrastructure Deployment Plan updates
  • Provide feedback on the plan: [email protected]
  • Feedback on EV station locations drive.ohio.gov
• Competitive Funding Available for Community Charging
  • Community charging and fueling grants
  • ODOT can help cities fill out forms
• Electric vehicles are double the weight of the current cars, therefore roadway wear and tear will increase
• Hydrogen fueling also another fuel source being developed
• Current car batteries can be recycled; working with lithium battery options
• ODOT is paying for the installation of electric charges and the property owners are responsible for them from there
• EV car owners pay extra registration fee
• Utility companies are also working with ODOT. Because of the volume of power needed, that’s why the chargers have to be placed in existing companies/stations/stores

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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.