Charlotte-Shelburne Rotary - Newsletter

President John Beal lead the Pledge and Kris Engstrom gave the devotional. John introduced guest/guest speaker David Beckett of the Discover Jazz Festival board. He also reported on Ric Flood’s condition, that Ric is still in the hospital and his condition is stabilized. He is in our prayers.

Announcements

6/9 meeting – Speaker Kitty Bartlett of Lund Family Center
6/11-12 – 7850 District conference at the Davis Center at UVM. We are placing an ad in their program, and they still need donations for the Texas Hold’Em Poker. Also need volunteers for Rebuilding Together, Texas Hold ‘Em Poker and Girls on the Run.
6/16 meeting – Committee meetings
6/17 – Board meeting
6/23 – Cancelled
7/1 – Changing of the Guard at the Coach Barn at Shelburne Farms – 6 p.m. Bring appetizers, salads and desserts. William will do the grilling.
Bowl-a-thon – expect 86 people – should be a good evening.

Sergeant At Arms

Kris Engstrom stepped in, in the absence of Don Condon.

Happy fines:

Kris Engstrom – a wonderful week – picking up her daughter and grandson for a visit to Michigan where Kris has the honor of shooting the cannon in honor of the veterans at the Memorial Day Ceremony.
Elaine Dates – discovering Zoomba classes at Club Med
Chuck LaClair – attending his grandson’s high school graduation in Florida and staying in his son’s new water park condo – and taking first place in the senior league bowling
Terry Kennaugh – waking up to smell smoke on Monday –a discovering that it wasn’t his boat
Jim Spadaccini – bowling Monday night with Tom Hart who many remember as the founder of the LIFE Program at CVU
Russ Blodgett – no pin
Linda Gilbert – watching her grandson pitch
Colleen Haag – thanks for the Memorial Day Ceremony – wonderful
Carol Obuchowski – volunteering at the Vermont City Marathon
Joan Lenes – for the newsletter while she was not able to come to meetings during Legislature – she said she didn’t feel she had missed Rotary
Joyce Errecart – six of her seven brothers and sisters came for a visit
Tom Glaser – attending graduation at Harvard
Denny Bowen – attending his grandson’s graduation from kindergarten
John Hammer – four nights of Russian guests – lots of vodka
Gary Bergeron – celebrating his grandson’s first birthday
Bob Sanders – not going in the marathon
Gary Marcotte – Happy but forgetful
Jimmy Fayette – happy
Rosalyn Graham – scoot fine
George Ewins – has a new granddaughter – hooray for email pictures
Dennis Delaney – two parades with his Model! and his two grandchildren in the rumble seat
Terrell Titus – visit to Maine and her anniversary

Lucky draw: Chuck LaClair’s number was drawn but he chose the wrong card and missed the $432 pot.

Guest Speaker

David Bennett of the Discover Jazz advisory board with Tod Whitaker, left, and Adam Bartsch, right

Guest speaker David Bennett of the Discover Jazz advisory board with Tod Whitaker, left, and Adam Bartsch, right

David Bennett of the Advisory Board to the Discover Jazz Festival, and a jazz radio host, talked about the history and importance of the festival. In 1983 several local jazz musicians and jazz enthusiasts, noting that there were many good local jazz musicians and they didn’t often get to be featured on local stages, decided to organize a festival to expose the local community to jazz.

The Discover Jazz Festival which fills Burlington from Church Street to the Waterfront for ten days has grown to be the largest multi-day event in the state.

Some of his interesting facts:

When they started the festival in 1984 they even had music on the buses
This year they had 85 sponsors donating everything from rooms and food to cash
Music has ranged from classic jazz to more diverse jazz programs today
Many youth musicians including a group from Moss Point, Miss.

In addition to fulfilling their mission of building community, providing education and an opportunity to discover jazz, the festival is a chance to meeting people including the famous and the ‘will be famous.’