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WELCOME

President-elect Carl Lynde welcomed all to the July 11th meeting of the Brattleboro Rotary Club held at the American Legion in Brattleboro. <ED NOTE: This is the first meeting of the 2019-2020 year.>. Rich Carroll offered a meaningful invocation:
We are thankful for the warmth that summer brings.
For friends from afar gathered ‘round our table.
For the warmth of the caressing summer air, humming with chittering, twittering things.
For time off work to do what we are able, to embrace a hurting world into our care.
 
<ED NOTE: chittering = chirping; twittering has nothing to do with making a posting on the social media application Twitter.>

This was followed by the pledge of allegiance. Birthday greetings were extended to Ted Kramer, Tami Purcell, and George Weir.

 

As a luncheon of vegetarian lasagna, baked chicken, roast beef, fingerling potatoes, broccoli, salad, rolls and cupcakes for dessert was being digested, the meeting continued.
 
GUESTS: Kate Berry and her daughter Juniper; four Gateway Foundation Scholarship winners: Julia Barton, Malick Mane, Lucas Newton, and Jack Price.
 

TRIVIA QUESTION

On what date did  Bosnian Serbs claim the town of Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina, starting a genocide that would result in the deaths of more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys?

 (Answer below.)
 
JOKE OF THE WEEK
 
For today’s joke, Greg Worden told a version of the following:
 
A trucker is driving on the road when suddenly he sees a yellow man, crying on the sidewalk. He stops and goes over to him to ask if he’s ok. The yellow man says: “I’m yellow, I come from the planet Venus and I’m hungry!” The trucker says: “Well…I can give you a sandwich but I can’t help you further.” He gives the yellow man a sandwich and drives off.
 
A few miles later he sees a red man, also crying. He stops and goes over to see what’s wrong. The red man says: “I’m red, I come from the planet Mars and I’m thirsty!” The trucker replies: “I can give you a can of Coke but I’m afraid I can’t help you further.” He gives the red man the can and drives off.
 
A few moments later he sees a blue man standing on the side of the road. The trucker, visibly irritated by this whole ordeal, gets out and goes up to the blue man and yells: “Now, which damn planet do you come from and what do you want?”
 
The blue man replies: “Your license and registration.”
 
At our July 18th meeting, Roger Allbee will tell a joke or lead us in song and George Anthes will offer a Rotary Minute.
 
NOTE: 2019-20 weekly assignments are posted on the club website.
 
ROTARY MINUTE
 
 
For the Rotary Minute, Immediate Past President Bill Vermouth presented Paul Harris Awards to Betsy Gentile and Joe Little.
 
At our July 18th meeting, Roger Allbee will tell a joke or lead us in song and George Anthes will offer a Rotary Minute.
 
NOTE: 2019-20 weekly assignments are posted on the club website.
 
UPCOMING PROGRAMS
  • 07/18 - District Governor Nancy Russell
  • 07/25 – Karen Carroll, VT treatment courts
  • 08/01 – Sally Struble, Restorative Justice
  • 08/08 – Rep. Emilie Kornheiser, “New Youth-led Business Initiative”
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 first newsletter of the year. 
If you like this newsletter, please brag at next Club meeting. 

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

  1. Please sign up to help on a club committee.  A listing can be found on the club website.
  2. If you can help staff the Welcome Center on Saturday, August 24th, contact Greg Worden
  3. The Youth Services Golf Tournament will take place on July 24, 2019.
  4. Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development will be having its 50th Birthday party on August 3, 2019.
  5. Surging cases have dashed all hope that polio might be eradicated in 2019
FINES
NONE ;-(

BRAGS

 
  1. Tom French - for winning a disability claim from the VA for a true wartime hero, Jay Karpin.
  2. Mike Mandracchia – for the members of the 5th Annual Brattleboro on Wheels committee.
  3. Dart Everett – for his grandson getting a clean MRI.
  4. Cyndi Ferrante – for her son Gabriel applying to the Peace Corps.
  5. Greg Worden – for the triple play by his softball team.
  6. Bill McKim  - for the summer food program at Living Memorial Park.
  7. Bill Vermouth – for Mike Mandracchia’s leadership with the success of this year’s Brattleboro on Wheels.
  8. Bill Vermouth – for Greg Worden having the foresight to develop fundraisers for the club.
  9. George Weir – for getting an Adirondack chair to sit in his birthday suit.
  10. Gina Pattison – for the Golf Tournament netting $25K this year.
  11. Bill McKim – for the public service of Judge Patricia Whalen.
  12. Marty Cohn – for the birth of his first granddaughter, Talia Cohn Adams, born on 6/21.
                                                   
PROGRAM
 
 
Cheri Ann Brodhurst presented Judge Patricia Whalen who told us about her time as an International Judge at Court of Bosnia & Herzegovina in which Milorad Trbic was found guilty for genocide.
 
Rotary Cares - TV Show 
 
 
Rotary Cares, Episode 19 – Passing the Gavel
 
On episode 19 of the award-winning, monthly show, Rotary Cares, Brattleboro Rotary Club past president Marty Cohn discusses “passing the gavel”, a time when a club president steps down, with Brattleboro Rotary Club Past President Mara Willams and Brattleboro Sunrise Club Past President Sandy Shriver. Directed by Brattleboro Sunrise Rotary Club past president Kevin Yager in the studio of Brattleboro Community Television.
 
To view 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

July 11,1995
 
 
 
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