Charlotte-Shelburne Rotary - Newsletter

In the video pick of the month, Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar Esha Chhabra fights for polio eradication. Her YouTube clip features glimpses of her participation in a National Immunization Day in India in February.

Announcements

10/14 meeting – Adam Knudson
10/21 – Howard Seaver on City to City
10/22 – Board meeting
10/25 – Halloween Parade: Remember floats are not required to pre-register but it helps the judges if they come early and check in to provide all their vital information
10/30 – Car Raffle at Shelburne Farms Coach Barn: Fritz Horton asked for helpers to canvas for door prizes – circulated the dessert sign up.

Pumpkin Raffle Tickets

Ric Flood conducted a Pumpkin Raffle – the winner was Bridget Ritchie. Keep selling those

Paul Harris Fellow

Bruce Willetts was inducted as a Sapphire Level Paul Harris Fellow based on his financial contributions to the Polio Plus program.

Sergeant at Arms

Don Condon (with assistance from Kris Engstrom) appealed for help in gathering jokes that are suitable for meetings when we have guests who might be offended by “R” rated language or sexual content or that are too complicated – in fact he suggests aiming for a 3^rd grade level.

For the fifth week the target he had chosen for his “Where’s Waldo” challenge was at the meeting, beating him to the draw. This week it was John Hammond and everyone was glad to see him back.
Birthday fines – Kris Engstrom and Dave Rice
Scoot fines – Carol Obuchowski, Colleen Haag, Judy Christensen
A Really Well Dressed fine -- Bob Maynes, of course. He then explained that he now has two new suits – he bought a new suit for his son’s wedding, got to the hotel and discovered the new suit was still at home in the closet – so he bought another new suit!

Happy fines:

Jim Spadaccini was happy that Don will look for better jokes – so Paula won’t be upset when she reads the news!
Tom Glaser – going to Florida next week
Judy Christensen – John is home from Texas where he graduated from the Technical program of the air force – he’s working for the Vermont Air Guard
Joyce Errecart – happy that it’s rain not snow
John Hammer – hoping for snow
Russ Blodgett – just happy
Elaine Dates – a week in St. Louis
Steve Dates – seconding Joyce’s preference for rain over snow
Michelle Lash – back from California where she was doing resilience training for the Navy
Eric Hanley – coaching U-14 girls hockey
John Hancock – happy about something!
John Beal – happy about the good attendance and seeing snow geese horizon to horizon
Ric Flood – for Linda Barker’s winning the Citizen Bank Inspired Employee award – and for attending the 10^th annual Red Flood Golf Tournament
Jim Spadaccini – for being in Citizens Bank when they were celebrating Linda’s award with apple pie and ice cream
George Ewens – in Scotland researching genealogy

Lucky draw: Pat Sokolowski’s number was drawn (at the Anarchy Table) but she chose the wrong card and missed the $549 pot.

Guest Speaker

Jen Poulin, who with her husband Chris, owns Poulin Performance, talked about their work helping people improve their health through a strategy called the Postural Restoration Institute. Jen paid tribute to Sam Feitelberg as her mentor when she studied physio-therapy.

She said at the Institute they focus on the whole body, but recognize the importance of the diaphragm as the muscle that may be the root of imbalance throughout the body when it exerts asymmetrical forces. Muscles work in chains and exercise can improve problems by strengthening weak muscles.

Jen gave a demonstration of the typical problems resulting from poor posture and habits of favoring one side. Her demonstration subject was George Schiavone – and who would ever have thought that he would be “left leaning.”