Chips Nov 3rd, 2014

Gary Lieb - Approved New Member, Liz Demarco Weinman - Approved New Member, Senators Kevin Mullin and Peg Flory, Sonya Ya - New Dentist in town from Saratoga Springs (currently at Dr. Dick's office)

 

Brags/Fines:

George bragged about the Really Big Show and thought it was fantastic, Nicole followed up with a big thank you and said they generated over $10,000 for the United Way from the show.

Caprice fined Rich Carlson because he always seems to mispronounce people's names.

Mike flipped through the Rutland Reader and pointed a few Rotarians out for the appearances in the publication; notably Jeff Wynnberg, Joan, and Stephanie.

Terry bragged about Castleton Men's Hockey and how well they are doing this season.

Rich Carlson bragged about Nicole's performance in the Really Big Show and said she did a great job.

Lainie bragged that her brother had a lung transplant 15 years ago and has done very well since. Her nephew was in a terrible car accident a few years back and is finally able to stand w/o pain after a tough road to get there.

Ron-went to Vegas and saw a bunch of family on recent trip.

Elias-Said he was going to vote today after looking on the calendar Chris Keyser gave him, then he realized the calendar was printed wrong

Tom- His granddaughter's costume won the Heritage Family costume contest.

Liz bragged about Castleton's F.A.B. Series and the recent Dr Pridah's horror talk at Hop n' Moose.

Lou Bragged that he was so happy that he asked for one snow plow recommendation and he got 5!

 

 Caprice is looking for a host home for the Rotary Exchange Student from Slovakia. The Student is a female and the length of stay needed is mid December to Mid March.

Rich announced that the tree shed is arriving on Wednesday to Main Street Park and he and Jeff Chabot would be there.

Joan showed off the new Rotary aprons we received.

Kevin- Club Admin Committee meeting at his office on Thursday

Ron- Mike Jacobowski reviewed our financials and said we are legal and good to go. Mike does this every year PRO-BONO. We have made donations to the United Way in his name to show gratitude for his generosity.

Chuck fined Jack because Jack had left a bag of tools at Mark's home during the parade float build. Last Monday, Chuck had brought the tools in to give to Jack and he left them at the Palms!

 

 

Liz Demarco Weinman was inducted on Monday. Her sponsor is Rich Carlson. She was recently named Professor of the Business College at Castleton, She also serves on the Vermont Farm/Food Link, among many other endeavors. Her goals both professionally and philanthropically include finding where the needs are, aligning those needs with her certain skill set, and leveraging her skills to try to make a difference. Her classification will be University Admin.

 

Gary Lieb will be inducted next week.

 

Elias won (go figure) $48. He did NOT win big pot, which is north of $800 at this time.

 

Right now, a few of the ideas floating around for our project include a path around Rotary Park, a pavilion at Rotary Park, a playground in NW section of town, Purchasing/revitalizing a facility in NW section of town to turn over to the neighborhood/city to provide benefit to community, Renovating band stand gazebo in Main St park, helping Wonderfeet Kids Museum find a permanent home, Comfort station/restroom in Downtown Rutland to enhance traffic from shoppers and tourists (Bob Miller hoped to have a Bob Miller Memorial Urinal as tribute of his efforts)

 

Key things to consider: Whatever we decide it needs to be long lasting, self perpetuating (meaning it pays for itself, or we aren't constantly attached to it financially), Our club must get it off the ground and set up how we want before we can turn it over to the city etc, to ensure it goes how we intend.

 

George and Cale talked about the Rotary Park Path, but mentioned that proper drainage is paramount before that is viable. George is under the impression that funds have been set aside to fix this and that a team of consultants think the problem can be fixed.

 

Dick proposed a fountain and green house downtown.

 

Bob Miller proposed helping the Rutland County Parent Child Center out with their facility etc.