Chips November 16th, 2015

Randall Northrop from St Johnsbury Rotary Club

Sara Travers of the Rutland South Club

Robert Dostas, Honorary Rotarian and Vp and Executive Director of GMP

Betsy Bloomer of GMP

Chris Hultquist, Speaker from Mentor Connector. Chris is the director of the program.

 

Lou bragged for Nicole Miller's determination in competing in a body building contest. He said that he has seen her push iron and he wouldn't want to run into her in a dark alley!

Lyle and Gary bragged for Castleton Football's stomping of Norwich.

Stephanie bragged for her trip to Phoenix, AZ with her husband and kis. They went to the Canyon, zoo, butterfly house. Had great time!

Dick bragged for his 48 year old daughter who was recently ordering a drink at a bar in Boston during a family function and was asked to show her ID

Terry gave us the Castleton Hockey update. Men lost again and women are still undefeated after 6 matches.

Will said that he had a 3rd party food inspection recently and that he passed with flying colors! Congratulations, Will.

Chuck bragged that we once again will be able to offer the Red Sox tickets as a raffle prize!

Joe bragged for the UVM Men's Soccer team's divisional championship.

 

Krista handed out raffle tickets and reminded folks that is not a 50/50. The grand prize is $1,000 and second place is $200. Please try to refrain from credit card sales unless a larger order.

Rich gave us a xmas tree update. On Saturday, November 28th, the tress will be getting unloaded by Rotarians at Main Street Park. Be there at 7:30 for breakfast and 8am to unload.

Colie announced the November RYP mix at Clem's at 6 o'clock. This is a comedy night and should be fun

Mark gave us an update on the completed Grace Preschool shelving project and thanked all who helped in the project.

 

Board voted to give $2,000 to the United Way

Tree sales prices were raised by $2 at all levels.

 

We inducted Robert Dostas, VP and Exec. Director of GMP into the club today. Robert lives in Waterbury.

 

Gary won the small pot. Not so lucky on the big one.

 

Chris has a lot of experience running non for profits. He shared with us a story about a youth whose life was greatly changed by Mentor Connector. The program hopes to teach values, career skills, and belonging to at risk youth. Chris said that they have reached 1,000 lives in the Rutland County Community through their efforts. The program targets youths ages 5-21 years old. They go up to 21 because they realize that there are many challenges when you transition from high school to college and eventually the working world. They want to help make that an adjusted, smoother transition. An interesting statistic Chris shared was the average length of mentor mentee matches that they have here locally in their program. Their average match is 5 years, where the national match is only 9 months. They try to expose the youth to as many mentors as possible to see which may be a best fit and then monitor the match very closely. 87% of the local youth who have been a mentee say that the mentoring they have received helped them stay away from drugs and booze. 93% of youth say they would like to go on and become mentors. Chris said that definitely need more mentors and volunteers. Please consider this opportunity to help serve underprivileged children. The time commitment is only 1 hour a week.