Rotary Club of Rutland

 
Guests and Speaker:
Ron Cioffi-Executive Director of Ravna and Corporate Member
Alis Headlam-Speaker and head of We Are One Rutland" Photo/voice project
 
Fines/brags:
Elias bragged for the long weekend he took last weekend to see his daughter graduate from Albany University. To make the story even better, she already has a job!
Nick bragged for his granddaughter who just graduated from UVM
Colie bragged that one of her teams will be on Channel 3's Spotlight.
Chris was on vacation last week in the Bahamas and bragged about that, plus his eldest is expecting her second in December!
Terry shared a Rotary moment with us:1 in 25 Rotarians were women in 1995 and we were the first club in the District to have a female president.
Lou shared a medical tip with us; Google is creating a sticky car that attaches pedestrians it hits to the car, as to prevent them from flying and being hurt from the inevitable fall.
 
Announcements:
Caprice-First time in seven years that we will have to decline an exchange student if someone doesn't step up soon to host the kid.
Kevin announced the club admin meeting on June 2nd at his office
Krista-Keep selling tickets, don't make her wait until last minute...
 
Corporate Membership Induction:
Ravna and Ron Cioffi-Ceo of Rutland Area VNA. He is an RN himself. Ravna has provided a wide array of in-home health care for over 70 years.
 
Raffle:
$939 big pot and Brian only won the little...shucks!
 
Speaker: Alis Headlam
When Alis retired, she said she wanted to do more work internationally and spent all of September training teachers in Nigeria. While there, she got inspired by a diversity and unity event and after speaking with Project Vision folks, decided she needed to do something to promote the diversity of Rutland. She decided her method would be a photo and voice book spotlighting different folks from our community. Alis also has decided to involve local children in the project. 5 kids from the Boys and Girls club and 7 from Stafford have gone out into the community and actually done the interviewing of the book's subjects. The kids had never met the people before and really did a great job capturing their stories and asking good questions. This gave the kids the chance to learn skills and also how to interact. The ultimate plan is to compile all the stories into a book and publish it with the help of Stafford students, who are doing the digital layout of the book. 21 total youth will be involved in the project. Alis said it was incredible to see the way the kid's views and understanding on diversity have changed from the beginning to now. All of the people who were interviewed were chosen specifically because of their positive contributions to our community.