Charlene Seward, guest of Reed Wilcox. Charlene is a CPA and partner of Valente & Seward on Grove street in Rutland.

 

Korinne Rodrigue, guest of Rich Carlson. Korinne is the recipient of our club's vocational award in 2013? and the co-founder or project vision.

 

Speakers were members of our club, Stephanie Osgood, Jeff Guevin, and Krista Scarborough briefing us on the Halloween Float work and also Reed Wilcox on the Foundation

 

Cale fined Joan for using cute children in her real-estate ad's because it is almost unfair how cute they are.

Cale bragged for the Rutland South Club's annual raffle and how many of our members he saw there. He was thanked by someone random at the raffle for being a Rotarian. That person's child was given a $1,000 scholarship for college from the south club. Cale is intrigued by how that works and would love to find out more since the south club gives over $12,000 a year for scholarships.

Joan bragged/fined her family member who she saw recently at her mother's 90th birthday. He recently sold a piece of property and she fined him and paid his fine in our club.

Tom bragged for the Patriot's victory on Sunday. Also, he bragged for the successful Alzheimer's Walk on Saturday. They brought in $37,000 so far and are close to the goal of $40,000.

Caprice is the chairperson? of the Juvenile Justice Center and will be spending part of her time in Washington, DC and the other part of the time here. Congratulations!

Mike went to lake Bomo over the weekend for a dock dog jump contest with his pooch. His dog jumped 15.5 feet!

Dan is moving to Austin, TX for a job and wished everyone a goodbye and apologized for not getting to meet everyone before being forced to say goodbye.

Jeff Guevin bragged about getting to leave work early today to go watch the Red Sox in Boston.

Cale bragged for a quarterback from his alma-mater, North Dakota, who is now the starter for The Philadelphia Eagles.

 

Joan has an associate coming to speak to us soon. He is from Syria and will answer questions about the situation and his experience. you won't want to miss this one. He doesn't want to have a prepared speech, but would like us to have questions ready to go.

Andrew joined Kula Cooperative for Yoga a while back and has really grown to like the place, but they lost their executive director recently and they have taken several of the yoga instructors. They are in danger of falling apart if they can't get some strategic direction and help. He encouraged anyone who may be able to help to do so.

Colie proudly announced that Rotary Field will officially host it's first game/opening on Saturday. Please come for the ceremony.

 

$32 in little pot, Cale won the little, but drew the king of hearts on the big one...better luck next time!

 

The theme this year is the Island of Misfit Toys. We are building a big castle, big and crazy misfit Christmas tree and a Charlie n The Box. Our fearless leaders on the parade initiative are Steph, Krista, Cale, and Gwen.

Chris Keyser is donating the lumber and Matt Parker is donating the paint. Mark price has agreed to let us build at his barn.

Important Parade dates:

Saturday, Oct 1st is the pre-build to do the heavy assembling.

Saturday Oct 8th is the decorating and final touch

We need nails, screws, paints rollers and brushes, etc.

 

This is the 100th anniversary of the Rotary Foundation. Back in 1917, the Foundation was started with $26.50 left over in The Kansas City Rotary Club's budget. In honor of that $26.50 seed money, our challenge is for ALL of us in our club to give AT LEAST $26.50 to the Foundation. Also, Starting October 1st-February, We are running another Polio Plus Fundraiser in our club. I will once again spear-head it. The board voted to match the contributions we provide, dollar for dollar, up to $2,650! The Gates Foundation will then triple it! That means if we all donate a total of $2,650, it will turn into almost $16,000! Joan got us started with the first contribution (THANKS JOAN!!!). If everyone gives $45, we will hit our goal. That comes out to about $3 a week between now and then.