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WELCOME

President Carla Lineback welcomed all to the October 24th roadshow meeting of the Brattleboro Rotary Club held at Winston Prouty Center for Child & Family Development. For today’s invocation, Phil George offered the following:
 
As we gather here today as members of Rotary, we pray that we are ever mindful of opportunities to render our service to fellow citizens and to our community. Keeping in mind always the enduring values of life, exerting our efforts in those areas and on those things upon which future generations can build with confidence. Let us continue to strive to make a better world. Amen

This was followed by the pledge of allegiance. 

 
Guests: Kevin Killilly, Margaret Atkinson, Lisa Whitney, Cindy Trombley, and Chloe Learey (speaker).
 
As a luncheon of bagged lunches (turkey or mozzarella wraps, chips, blondie, apple, and seltzer) was being digested, the meeting continued.
 

TRIVIA QUESTION

When did the last case of polio originate in the United States?

 (Answer below.)
 
JOKE OF THE WEEK
 
For today’s joke, Carla Lineback told a version of the following:
 
A three-year-old walks over to a pregnant lady while waiting with his mother in a doctor’s surgery. “Why is your stomach so big?” – he asks. “I´m having a baby.” – she replies. “Is the baby in your stomach?” – he asks, with his big eyes. “Yes, it is.” – she says. “Is it a good baby?” – he asks, with a puzzled look. “Oh, yes. A really good baby.” – the lady replies. Shocked and surprised, he asks: “Then why did you eat him?”
 
At our October 31st meeting, Tom French will tell a joke or lead us in song and Phil George will offer a Rotary Minute.
 
NOTE: 2019-20 weekly assignments are posted on the club website.
 
ROTARY MINUTE
  
For today’s Rotary minute, Phil George reminded us that events are taking place around the world to commemorate World Polio Day  To learn more, click here.
 
At our October 31st meeting, Tom French will tell a joke or lead us in song and Phil George will offer a Rotary Minute.
 
NOTE: 2019-20 weekly assignments are posted on the club website.
 
UPCOMING PROGRAMS
  • 10/31 – Kurt White, Windham County Consortium on Substance Use10/31 – Kurt White, Windham County Consortium on Substance Use
  • 11/07 – Interfaith Youth Group: Trip to South Dakota Indian Reservations
  • 11/14 – Don Freeman: “Advance Care Planning: Taking Steps Brattleboro”
  • 11/21-   Milt Gilmore, TBA
  • 11/28 – THANKSGIVING – no meeting
  • 12/05 – Club Assembly – Senior Gift Wrapping Project
  • 12/12 – Gary Goodemote, TBA
  • 12/19 – Steve Gordon, TBA
  • 12/26 – DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS – NO MEETING
 
NOTE: 2019-20 weekly assignments are posted on the club website.
 

REMINDERS

  • Bottles and cans can be brought to Putney Road redemption center to benefit Pure Water for the World. Please remember to inform the staff that the bottles and cans should be credited to the club.
  • “Like” the club’s Facebook page
 
This is the 17th  newsletter of the new year. 
If you like this newsletter, please brag at next Club meeting. 
So far, there has been only 1 brag! 
Does this mean you are not reading this newsletter????
 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 
  1. Sign up sheets for upcoming community projects can be found in a 3-ring binder in the back of the room.
  2. Milt Gilmore is looking for someone with whom he can switch his program from 11/21.
  3. Episode 21 of Rotary Cares discusses Polio Plus and is airing to acknowledge World Polio Day.
  4. On Nov. 2, there will be a “Walk the Disc Golf Course” to honor John Kohler. Details to follow.
FINES
NONE ;-(

BRAGS / Happy dollars

  1. Regina Stefanelli – for getting tickets to the 2019 White River Junction Polar Express.
  2. Rob Szpila – for Sandy Rouse and the “Literary Festival”
  3. Rob Szpila – for Sophia Howlett moderating a panel during the “Literary Festival”
  4. Marty Cohn – for Tom French being the first one to order a pumpkin pie for the club’s “Pie It Forward”. [ED NOTE: Order forms are available on the club’s website.]
  5. Bill Vermouth – for Rob Szpila’s efforts for disc golf.
  6. Carla Lineback – for her daughter being able to snap her fingers, whistle, and make it across the monkey bars.
  7. George Weir – for her daughter designing a special Santa Claus costume
  8. George Weir – for Stan Nowakowski’s leadership at the Vermont Foodbank.
  9. Carla Lineback – for the services provided by Winston Prouty for her premature daughter.
  10. Sophia Howlett - for her husband being named "Volunteer of the Month" by Monadnock Humane Society.
  11. Dave Twombly – for Chloe Learey and her entire staff at Winston Prouty
  12. Marty Cohn – for buying pumpkins with his granddaughter, Talia, and finding they were bigger than her.
                                        
 
PROGRAM
 
   
Chloe Learey, Winston Prouty Center for Child & Family Development, presented plans for ways to make the campus sustainable via a long-term strategic plan. To learn more, click here.
 
Rotary Cares - TV Show 
 
 
In episode 21 of the award-winning, monthly show, Rotary Cares, Brattleboro Rotary Club past president Marty Cohn talks to Brattleboro Sunrise Club Past President Michelle Pong and Rotary District 7870 Past District Governor Rick Manganello about a focus area of Rotary International – Eradicating Polio. Directed by Brattleboro Sunrise Rotary Club past president Kevin Yager in the studio of Brattleboro Community Television.
 
To watch the show, click here.
 
To listen to the podcast, click here.
 
 

DISCLAIMER

Past President Martin Cohn who attempts to give a gist of the meeting respectfully submitted this bulletin.  However, it is always better to attend.  If you have any complaints about the contents of this bulletin...
 
 

ANSWER TO TRIVIA QUESTION

 
Since 1979, no cases of polio have originated in the United States. However, the virus has been brought into the country by travelers with polio. The last time this happened was in 1993.
 
 
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