Charlotte-Shelburne Rotary - Newsletter

The club welcomed back Irv Rose from his winter stay in Florida, and gave a special welcome to Ron and Kathy Tatro, former active members of the club and the district, who moved a few years ago to Michigan. Ron described his visit as “déjà vu” seeing Irv who was his sponsor, and Howard Seaver who was his vice-president. He said he feels a sense of joy being back with the club and enjoys keeping up on the club activities through the newsletter.

Rotary Foundation Thought

District Simplified Grants allow Rotary clubs to identify, plan and fund worth projects in their own communities or internationally. Grants can fund improvements such as kitchen equipment for a food pantry, assistance for after-school programs, dictionaries or encyclopedias for primary school children, or renovations to a playground. The more we contribute to our Foundation’s Annual Programs Fund, the more opportunities and funding we will have for such projects.

Announcements

Fritz Horton, Chuck LaClair, Joan Lenes, Michele Lash, Elaine Dates and Steve Dates worked on the Museum Entrance planting project on Saturday
The club voted to donate $500 to the Colchester Milton Nigerian Water Project
Steve distributed attendance sheets

Upcoming Events

May 29 – Bowl-a-Thon
June 3 – John Scraben, story teller
June 10 – TBD
June 14 – Cambridge Charter Day and District Changing of the Guard – 11 to 2 at The Barn at Boyden Farm, Route 15 and 104 in Cambridge. $35 per person. Contact Anita Lotto 2 802-793-0856
June 17 – TBD
June 23 – COG – Ric Flood’s house

Sergeant at Arms

Kris Engstrom levied birthday fines on Robert Maynes and Fritz Horton, an anniversary fine for Terrell Titus, and a notoriety fine for Ric Flood.

Happy fines:

Kris – she came home to find a voice mail message from her grandson – his first – and happy to have Ron and Kathy visiting
Michael Clapp – missed a meeting
Paul Bohne – happy to be at the meeting
Steve Dates – Elaine’s computer crashed and while the tech had it in his car to return it after repairs, it was stolen
Roz Graham – leaving Saturday for a week in Hawaii visiting her sister
Jimmy Fayette – a pin fine
Michele Lash – her twins are home for a visit
Dennis Webster – congratulations to Don Condon whose wife and daughters were in the paper
Elaine Dates – in the midst of her computer woes, Steve did save all her info on a memory stick
Denny Bowen – his computer crashed and he got a new one in exchange – and he had fun washing dishes for 18 relatives and friends visiting his house
Ric Flood – for Irv, Ron and Kathy’s visit, and for the bowl-a-thon coming together, and for his business being named one of the top 50 of 4,000, earning him a trip to Whistler
Bob Sanders – happy Terry Kennaugh is back
Terry Kennaugh – thanks to Bob for doing such a good job – thankful to be free of jury duty – visit to Montreal to see the Ukranian man who stayed with them while here on an international exchange organized by Vermont Council on World Affairs who has now emigrated to Canada
Bill Deming – for Terry’s Anatomy 101 course (he was on the Abate trial jury)
Bruce Willett – his grandson’s graduation
Robert Maynes – surviving his wife’s high school reunion
Linda Gilbert – the Memorial Day service at which Jimmy Fayette was honored for his service in the Navy – and Kris made three wonderful wreaths
Terrell Titus – inspiring to have Ron and Kathy back for a visit – and thanks to Steve for pre-empting her talk with his Rotary Thought
Jim Spadacinni – for Ron and Kathy and Irv – and a visit to Oklahoma to see his granddaughter graduate
Kathy Tatro – happy to be here

Lucky draw: Linda Schiavone’s number was drawn but she chose the wrong card and missed the $278 pot.

Guest Speaker

Terrell Titus, chair of the District Simplified Grants committee, gave a succinct explanation of the importance of DSGs, how they can be used and how important it is to support the grant system with our gifts.

The Rotary Foundation began when Arch Klumpf proposed an endowment fund in 1917 to do good in the world. To date $2 billion has been donated, 2,000 Paul Harris Fellows have been given. The funding of the grants is based on an assumption that every Rotarian will donate $100 a year – Every Rotarian Every Year.

Fifty percent of the district’s donations come back to the district after three years. Since 2003 $62,347 has come to District 7850 for projects as diverse as the Hands to Honduras project, play ground repairs, literacy projects, dog poop pots, water systems and the South Burlington band shell.