Chips November 9th, 2015

Dan Stidallia, guest of Dick Rohe. Dan is a carpenter from Shrewsbury who was also a Rotary Youth Exchange Student in High School and said that the experience changed his life.

Tim Mackintosh of Triller Print Source. Guest of Will Gormly. Tim specializes in marketing and sales for Triller.

 

More of a brag...Mike welcomed Chris Keyser back to the club after a long hiatus.

Mike went on to fine alumni of Rutland, Proctor, Otter Valley, and Burr and Burton for State Champion titles.

Jeff W bragged that he recently went to Vermont Tech for a conference on state Forests and Rutland won an award for 100 years of excellent forest management. Said that Rutland's Town Forest is a 4,000 gem that a lot of people don't know anything about.

Nicole bragged for The Really Big Show and thanked those that came out. Said it was a huge success and raised an additional $2,000 the night of the show!

Caprice bragged for Gwen and Will being listed in the paper and paid their fine.

Gwen fined for her Happy Birthday wishes

Bob Miller was fined by Mike for his new job at PegTV as a camera operator. He said he really is enjoying filming things like school board meetings, town select boar meetings, etc. Even almost got to video tape a brawl at the Proctor Town meeting recently!

Chuck spent Saturday with his wife and Steve White and Steve's wife at the Castleton game and thanked Gary for the great hospitality.

Terry gave us the Castleton update. It was a rough weekend for Men's hockey, but the women's team is 4-0.

Joan said that her father in law went right off the back deck and blasted a turkey with his shotgun recently. He didn't even need a cane...

 

Rich said that is our 53rd year as a club selling trees and thanked Brian and his crew that moved the stands from Greybar and Jeff Chabot for hanging up our sign on Main Street.

Kevin time once again for new board members to submit their application to Kevin. The term starts July 1st.

Will needs your blood. Dates and times have been announced for the 12 days of giving that are coming up. You can volunteer, you can give blood, or you could do both! The gauntlet has been tossed with the South Club.

Lou said that a couple of weeks ago, we had a Nuclear Plant expert in the club and Lou was thinking of ideas to share with the gentleman of what to do with our decommissioned plant. Lou shared with us that in Germany, a nuclear plant has been converted to an amusement park!

Dick asked everyone to please introduce yourself to our newest members

Grace Preschool shelves were done over the weekend.

Santa Raffle Tix are now in!

 

 

Board Meeting was on Thursday at RRCC

 

Will won the little pot, not the big

 

 

Some helpful reminders...Make sure the saw is plugged in, Keep everyone around you at a very safe distance from the saw, and wear safety goggles!!!