Chips August 17th, 2015

Speaker-Brian Remer from Firefly Group

Visiting Rotarian, Bill Perkins

Ken LaBate, guest of Mark Price. Ken is director of Admissions at CSJ

Madeline Coppinger, Mike's mother

Proposed new member, Bob Amelang, guest of Dick Rohe

Visiting Rotarian, Peter O'Brien

 

Additional proposed new members, who were not in attendance at lunch: Gwen Flewelling, Lyle Jepson, and Bruce Bouchard.

 

Chuck is looking for 1 more person to play on his team in the Rutland County Parent Child Center golf tournament

Gary Ladabouche updated us on the 240 initiative open house at the Paramount on Thursday, starting at 5:30. Will be food and drinks etc

Winter in August was a great event for our club and the community. Many people and tons of waffles served. Had a few folks inquire into what our club does etc.

The military family bbq in Brandon served around 60 people and was a success! Thanks to all that attended and helped for both events.

 

Terry Moran won the raffle...big surprise. He only won the little pot, unfortunately for him.

 

Brian Remer, founder of Firefly Group and author of several books. He specializes in leadership development and changing your outlook on life. His hope was to get us to re-xamine our thinking. He had us think about specific questions, such as, Why is Rotary important to our community? What is Rotary? How has being a Rotarian changed you? After thinking about these questions, Brian had us write our personal answers to these questions and exchange cards with other Rotarians to see how each of us felt and learn new ideas. He told us the sharing of ideas is important and vital to change your thought process. He also encouraged us to write down 5 names of people you would like to invite to Rotary meetings. Overall, it was an interesting discussion and fun to participate in.