Chips December 7th, 2015

Dan Segalia, guest of Dick Rohe

Ed McCollin, Lainnie's guest and significant other, exec director of Vermont chapter of Boy Scouts

 

Speaker, Jack Crowther on ending fluoridization of our water

 

Caprice paid a $10 fine on herself because she sold trees recently and didn't realize we raised prices by $2 tree and charged old price.

Chuck had fun playing Santa. A girl ran up to him and said "Hi! I'm Sharice!" Made him feel good.

Lou fined himself for his epic at the tree shed during his shift when the power went out. He couldn't lock the door, so he put thumb tacks to booby trap the shed from intruders among other highlights of his retelling of the tale.

Dick thanked Lou for so clearly illustrating the  need to recruit younger Rotarians as witnessed in his story.

Terry gave us the Castleton Hockey update. The men's team has lost 6 games by 1 point, but the women are 7-1-1!

Krista bragged for selling 3 trees before 6AM! Way to go!

 

Rich reminded Lou and everyone else that the she key hasn't moved from the lock box behind the shed in 3 years! Saturday shift sold 33 trees! We are officially break even now, so all the rest on racks are profit. We are behind by about 50 trees from last year.

Krista encouraged all to keep selling raffle tix and Mark pointed out that we received a matching grant from district that requires us to come up with the money so we have to sell these tix.

Ron said that after all he has seen, none of our members should apply for bank teller jobs

Caprice announced the Parent Child Center's upcoming golf tournament at Stonehenge indoor golf center scheduled for Groundhog Day. See her if interested in volunteering.

 

We will have a Christmas luncheon two weeks from today at the Palms. Bring spouse and potential Rotarians. The club will pay for prospective member's lunches.

 

Rich won, but will draw a card next week as we didn't have the deck.

 

Lainnie announced her resignation from the club. She served as a member of the board, club president, and even Assistant District Governor. She has been offered a GM position running a hotel and conference center up north. Couldn't give more details due to confidentiality agreement at the moment. She and Ed will be selling the home in Rutland and moving to Hinesburg full time. Lainnie, You will be sorely missed. Thank you for all you have give to the community, those we serve, and to each of us. It has been a pleasure getting to know you over the last 3 years! Don't be a stranger!

 

Jack Crowther is a Rutland resident and has been for many years. He worked as a writer for The Herald for many years, then went on to do freelance work, and eventually took his talents to CVPS before retiring. His wife is a retired teacher who worked at The NW School. Jack spoke to us about his initiative to rid fluoride from our water. He said that the issue will be on the ballot for March. He said that only 5% of the world's population is drinkinfgfluoridated water and he feels it is an antiquated, potentially hazardous problem. He said that he feels many chemical and industrial companies produced fluoride as a by-product and it was viewed hazardously and negatively by the public, so the companies found a way to change the opinion on fluoride through clever means. When asked what the most common effect of over fluoridization was, he said that pitted teeth were most common and effect mostly adolescents. He pointed to the fact that many dental societies and lobbyists are just keeping the status quo through accepted through and old misinformation.