President Gina Patterson opened the meeting at our lunch meeting site: Heart Rose Club in the former Shriner’s building, Gina welcomed all to the February 29, 2024 meeting of the Brattleboro Rotary www.brattlebororotaryclub.org
Gina let the club in a moment of silence for the loss of one of our area students.
Invocation:
John Meyer. “When Paul Harris first conceived of Rotary, he may not have anticipated that Rotary would become the service organization it is today, or that we Rotarians would focus our efforts more on the community than on business relationships. But here we are.
So may our efforts be blessed with insight guided by understanding and wisdom, and our service be respectful to all. May our personal faiths give us strength to act honestly and fairly in all matters before us. May our efforts at service above self, follow the 4-way test.”
Gina lead the club with the Pledge of Allegiance
27 Members, 1 student Rotarians and 5 guests attended the meeting.
Guests:
Rhonda Weingardner. Runs the student program. Brock and Hayden - students are in the dual enrollment program.
Nick Dubois was here from Sunrise Club
Bill McKim also visiting us.
Student Rotarian
Hayden
New Members:
ROTARY MINUTE
George – Rotary Minute – March Rotary Magazine. Farm to Pantry article. Rotary in Seattle. Saved over a thousand pounds of food each week. Gleaning the crops after harvest. Would otherwise go to waste. Harvest against Hunger.
Out of Isolation – helps isolation in Japanese youth. Japanese Rotary Groups are making mental health a priority.
Note for future presenters; The Rotary Minute could also have the speaker talk about their personal involvement in Rotary or personal background.
Years of Service in our Club for March:
Rick Manson - 207th year in Rotary, or maybe 34 years of solid service.
On Behalf of our Club and all Rotarians, thank you for your Service Above Self
Meeting location - The Heart Rose Club – 11 Green Street in Brattleboro
Announcements
Nick Dubois from Sunrise Club – dinner raffle going on. Big fundraiser for the year. Will have another group member here next week. 20-dollar brag for being so supportive.
Mentioned the work that they’re doing with Stan from our club, spoke about the group events – last one at Saxton’s River Distillery had 15/20 people from each club.
Sunrise is meeting at the bowling alley tomorrow at 6 pm.
March 9th, NECCA circus spectacular at the Latchis. They’re all getting orchestra seats.
Next Trivia is March 20th
Events coming up:
Stan – Upcoming groundworks meal is St Patty’s Themed. Couple Wednesdays from now. Needs more offerings. Cabbage, carrots, milk, if anyone can help, please let Stan know.
ED NOTE: Weekly assignments for the invocation or motivational thought can be found on the club website.>
JOKE OF THE WEEK
For our joke or song of the week:
Liza Harrison
Which is faster, hot or cold?
Hot, because you can catch cold.
What do you call a pony with a sore throat?
A little horse.
What do you call a fake noodle?
An impasta.
What did the mama tomato say to the baby tomato?
Catch up!
What do you call a pudgy psychic?
A four-chin teller.
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ED NOTE: 2023-24 weekly assignments are posted on the club website.
UPCOMING PROGRAMS
Jim Haine announed
Sam Lucheck – Green Mountain Camp
Club Assembly video
Kurt White from Brattleboro Retreat.
NOTE: 2023-43 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.
Nina – 10-year-olds both won the Withington Memorial Cup past weekend. Shut out win against Keene. 2 bucks
Ruben – coaching youth team. Finished season last week – 4th place in Vernon Invit tourney. Ruben caught cold. Fine was because he missed sugar on snow and ski jump due to cold. 5 bucks.
Bill M – Not too old to sit down. In St Maarten went on steepest zip line in the world. 1000-foot plunge in a few seconds. 5 bucks.
Gina – 2 bucks – Winston Prouty hosting bingo night March 8th. Was great last time. Happy Dollar – survived a 5-hour power outage with her gecko. Needed a heated tank. Taco was fine.
President Gina – Says Winston Prouty Bingo was a great time. Nice way to see people.
George – 1st for morning rotary – did a great trivia, but not in summer when should. 2nd for Ruben who is good at it. 3rd is for wife who won it last week. Partly because Ruben wasn’t there. 4th is for him and NECCA – they let him onto their board. It’s a big anniversary for their circus spectacular.
Betsy – Bragged for Bill Vermouth, Teddy Kramer and George Weir for selling hot dogs on Saturday at Retreat. Bill said fun social event, enjoyed the company.
Mark – Fined – was in the paper a lot. Fined himself.
PROGRAM
Guest Speaker:
PROGRAM
Speaker:
Rhonda Weingartner
Introduced by: Ron Stahley
Program:
Ron introduced the program. Windham Regional Collegiate High School - 57 courses that the high schoolers can take at BUHS or the Career Center.
Told a joke - What do you call a little psychic person who has just escaped from prison – a small medium at large.
Ron put the program on the map. Considered the premier program in the state. Most people call it dual enrollment.
DE means any time a student is getting college and high school credit simultaneously. The teacher has to be hired as an adjunct professor by the college. The syllabus must cover at least 85% of the content that would be offered at the college.
The college then gives the credit when the student finishes.
Every student gets two vouchers to take 2 college courses for free. Helps to reduce the debt that students finish college with.
150 of 204 seniors took at least one course this year.
Scribe – Tucker K
DISCLAIMER
Weekly changing scribes and questionable IT may have resulted in oversights and errors. We regret any mistakes.
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