Rotary Club of Rutland

 
Guests:
Brooke Flewelling, Gwen's Daughter
Brooke and Brookelyn Kimble (Brookelyn was our speaker)
Peter O'Brien-visiting Rotarian
 
Brags/Fines:
Caprice bragged that she had an exchange student over for Christmas. Had a great time.
Colie passed her tests and is now a certified Youth Sports Administrator. Congrats, Colie!
Kevin picked up a quarter keg on accident trying to buy some beer. If he hasn't drank it all soon, he'll be having us all over to finish it.
Andrew had his 3 kids up for Xmas and they played Cards Against Humanity
Lou had his family up for Christmas and his ex-wife came and insisted on cleaning everything.
Chuck had his kids home for Xmas and played 9 holes of golf.
Joe had his kids home as well for Xmas and his son had an employee review recently and wasn't sure what to expect, but they told him he was getting a 20% raise.
Chris' daughter works for Lego and she got a month's salary for her Christmas bonus.
Krista bragged for the Hab's flag and apparel she got for Xmas. Joe then said, "So, How are the Habs doing?" Krista replied, "terrible." Joe said, I'll pay a brag on that one.
Dave Anderson bragged that he was happy to be back after a 5 week bout with Pneumonia. Glad to have you back Dave and happy to hear you are feeling better!
Mike shot his 12 gauge shot gun over the holiday and showed his skill off to family members slaying the first clay pigeon that was pulled.
Krista lost her diamond engagement ring in Joanne's Fabric and everyone in the store searched until she found it. Not taking it to Elias to make sure that it is a diamond and not sparkly dress parts
 
Announcements:
Will is still looking for 3 volunteers for our team on the Meals Challenge.  He also gave the update on the GOLM results. We had 20 pints donated, 105 hours volunteered (thank you Steve Costello who had 80 of those hours!!! WOW), and also 8 friend pints, which tallies up to 133 points. Will is waiting on the South Club's response to figure out who won.
Chuck said be on the lookout for an email sign up for Mentor Connector Bowling on January 23rd.
Peter O'Brien announced The Granville Club's Trivia Night on January 30th. Our club is trying to put a team together ( a team is 6 people and cost $150 to enter). Talk to Will or Mark Price if interested.
Rich said the Tree Shed Celebration will be on January 9th at noon-1:30.
Caprice announced the Snowball Dance for the Youth Exchange students on Jan 30th. She is still looking for a few volunteers to help.
 
Mark got a thank you from BROC for the $100 donation the club made to them.
 
Santa Raffle:
Mark said that the Raffle did well and we are able to not only subscribe to a 5 year agreement to fund a reading and learning software program for the kids at the NW school, but also the NE school!
The first place winner of $1,000 was Patty Cuppoli. Ticket sold by Cathy Petrini
The second place winner was Tamara Mack, sold by Chuck. (I believe that is Chuck's daughter?)
 
Weekly Raffle:
$33 in little pot, won by Father Andrew Carlson. Not so lucky on the big pot.
 
Speaker:
Brookelyn Kimble was our speaker this week and she was introduced by Krista and accompanied by her mother, Brooke. Brookelyn is a 10 year old girl, who Krista met while camping. Krista said she instantly fell in love with her because she had a great personality and just a ball of energy. Later on, Krista learned that Brookelyn has fought Juvenile Myositis since she was 4. Brookelyn shared with us her story of how she found out that she had the disease, the things she has gone through and where to is at now in her life. She has had over 200 rounds of chemo therapy, was taking 10 medications a day, and couldn't walk on her own. Now she is playing soccer (scored over 20 goals last season!) and helping other kids like her stay positive and find hope and inspiration. She has done much fundraising work and even been featured in Huffington Post and the radio. She was truly an amazing girl to here speak and made you appreciate how an uneventful day is ok.