Rotary Club of Rutland

 
Guests and Speaker:
Abby Noland, executive director of the Rutland Free Library, guest of Wendy
Larry Crist, executive director of the Vermont chapter of The American Red Cross, guest of Tom
Stacy Kent, our speaker, Stacy is the Director of Outreach and Marketing for PegTv
 
Fines/Brags:
Rich bragged about his fishing trip at Narragansett, Rhode Island. Braved 6 foot seas and half of his fishing companions losing their lunch to bring home a bounty of striped bass, which he shared with Stephanie Osgood.
Brian bragged for People's United Bank and Nicole. He said he had a great experience in the lending process with them to secure financing to purchase his Grandmother's home in Proctor. He and Vicky moved in over the weekend. Brian also bragged for his 2nd wedding anniversary, which was today.
Cale bragged about his national park trip, which included Yellowstone, Teton, Glacier, and Roosevelt Parks.
Bob Amelang bragged for Cale and thanked him for letting him borrow and read a Bill Bryson book that dealt with Bob's hometown, Des Moines, IA.
Will bragged for the Rutland Young Professionals Summit, which took place on Saturday at The Paramount. Over 120 folks in attendance, including three gubernatorial candidates, Congressman Welch, and other VIP's.
Krista went to Acadia National Park and took in the sights and sounds of the area. Also, she was in Northfield recently at a festival and the Rotaract club had a booth and she bought a $5 necklace from them that was really cool.
Tom gave a shout-out to the Patriots, bragged about the Alzheimer's Walk raising over $25,000, and also Walk a Mile in Her Shoes coming up and how he picked out a great pair of size 11 Wide bright red heels.
Lyz bragged about a recent ranking of CSJ as one of the best bang for your buck schools in the Northeast by Washington Monthly.
Lainie bragged for her daughter taking in a 2 day old baby making it the 40th? child she has taken into her home. Lainie's daughter suffered a miscarriage and the baby being around really helped her through the challenging time. She is very proud of her daughter.
Terry said that he was giving us all a very special warning...When you invite family to come visit, they just might do it. He has had family from Texas all the way to British Columbia over the past few weeks. Been crazy busy, but great to see everyone.
 
Announcements:
Joan has officially been immortalized on the Past President's plaque, which hangs on the wall at The Palms.
Stephanie is looking for a shelter or building to house the trailer we are building the float on. The trail is big...like 8x53 big. If anyone has any ideas, that would be great. Also, there is a joint Rotary club social this Thursday at Red Clover Inn in Mendon @ 5:30.
Steve updated us on Jeremy Carol. His father has been suffering from health issues and Jeremy has been devoting time to his father. He will be back when he can.
Colie said that Strides Against Breast Cancer is coming up and they are still looking for volunteers. Talk to her.
 
Mark provided updates on the Board; An opportunity to do a collaborative project with the Rutland Rec Department has arisen that could partly coincide with our centennial project.
OKTOBERFEST: Saturday, Oct 17th at Mark's home. Rain date the following Saturday, the 24th...Mark said free beer for anyone that wears lederhosen and yodels the four way test.
We received a photo and thank you from the military families whom the club served the dinner to in Brandon area.
 
Raffle:
$700 big pot, lot less in the little...Jeff G. won the little, not so lucky on the big'en.
 
Speaker:
Stacy Kent of PegTv grew up in the area. She graduated from Fair Haven High and went on to Castleton. She has been in the media business for over 20 years. Peg Tv is Rutland County's Public Access Organization. Public Access came on to the scene when cable companies were forced to start providing the medium to communities. After it's startup, PegTv broke away from the cable company into their own entity. Peg stands for Public Entertainment and government. They have 3 channels that show anything from high school sports to how to make mom's meatloaf. close to 100% of the programming is put together by "vip" producers. VIP stands for volunteer independent producers. It is free to become a VIP and they will train you and show you how to use all of the equipment. If you know how to tie flies or have a hobby or recipe you want to share, you can get it broadcast for free. They currently reach over 20,000 households. Stacy presented the idea of us using peg to try to broadcast all the good we are doing for the community. She said, "I honestly had no idea what Rotary was or all the great things you do for our community until I started looking at your Facebook page!". Clearly we could do better broadcasting our accomplishments and mission. This may be a great format for us and that was something kind of posed at the meeting by several folks.