President Roger Allbee welcomed all to the January 5 2023 meeting of the Brattleboro Rotary Club www.brattlebororotaryclub.org usually held at the Brattleboro American Legion.
Call to Order by President Allbee and the Pledge of Allegiance
Invocation: Ted Kramer spoke of the importance of Rotary to him, and the friends he has made over the years. He mentioned that two of his sons are now members.
Twenty-four Rotary members attended with 8 Student Rotarians..
ED NOTE: Weekly assignments for the invocation or motivational thought can be found on the club website.>
Guests:
JOKE OF THE WEEK
For our joke of the week: President Allbee shared with the Club members a list of “don’t you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace…and share it with children of today.To go back before the internet, to games with friends like Red Light, and Green Light, playing kickball and dodgeball, catching lighting bugs in a jar, climbing trees when kook-aid was the drink of summer, and other like events.Didn’t it feel good just to go back and say, Yeah!
ED NOTE: 2022-23 weekly assignments are posted on the club website.
ROTARY MINUTE
For the Rotary Minute, none this week
Rotary anniversaries : Stay tuned.
UPCOMING PROGRAMS
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1/12/23 The new Executive Director of the Retreat Farm, Kristin Sullivan will be a guest and make a presentation.
NOTE: 2022-23 weekly assignments, are posted on the club website.
REMINDERS
Please bring your bottles and cans to the 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.
Chris that Melrose place withstood high water with the $3.2 million mitigation project., and now having new buildings for senior housing in Brattleboro.
Mark on attending training as a County Sheriff at the FBI Center in Virginia
Bill on saying that Ted Kramer needs to give up on his New York sports teams
Tom on running for Lister in the Town of Brattleboro
Betsy on the Student Rotarians doing the upcoming meal for Groundworks.
George on the Hockey Association Tournament
PROGRAM
What the Student Rotarians did during the Holiday/Christmas Break
Spent time with family; went to a Nordic skiing event; went to a soccer tournament; read five books; went camping with my family in Florida; went to Indiana to see my grandmother with family and she is 107 years old; worked.
What some of the Rotary Members did during the same time
Went to Newmarket; went to Germany with family to celebrate the life of a grandmother; obtained 6 new chickens; happy that son got a new car; played the organ for the Guilford Church; pleased that one of our student Rotarians was accepted to UMASS Dartmouth; pleased that a home health aide from Winston Prouty was able to help a new baby in the Afghan family get immediate medical attention at Dartmouth that saved the baby’s life; spent time at our children's homes over the holiday’s something we have not done in the past; excited that my stepson is a top Nordic Skier and that my daughter Jenny can be in London on vacation now;
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