Rotary President Michelle Jones called the meeting to order on a mild day in the 60s and opened the meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance.
President Elect Caitin O’Reilly led the Star Spanged banner and Amy Rohler delivered the invocation.
Caitlin next introduced Fran Lapinski, guest of Becky Robbins; and our exchange student Jan Steinmann and outgoing exchange student Sofia Cama.
Michelle made announcements:
- The Earth Day JCC Speech Sponsorship is at 9 a.m. April 22, with Jason Sample and Patricia Graves serving as judges of high school students enrolled in JCC’s public speaking course in a speaking contest.
- Love School Wildflower Garden Bench Dedication is at 2:30 p.m. April 22 – the students will take over the gardens we started.
- Highway Clean-up led by Vince Horrigan takes place at 8:30 a.m. May 2 at the Park and Ride, route 60.
- The Golf tournament takes place at Moon Brook County Club on July 13.
- Emily Cama spoke about the Rotary Youth Exchange Weekend. Seven more students need housing for the April 24-26 weekend. She suggested that floors or blow-up mattresses would suffice for the exchange students’ sleeping arrangements. She also mentioned that one group will need activities on Saturday afternoon and Brandon O’Dell suggested the Doubletree Hotel would host that group, to which everyone applauded.
Brandon announced that the 50/50 winner of $38 was Misti Allen.
Mike Roberts served as Sargent at Arms, starting off with a tribute to his mentor, Gary Lynn who recently passed away.
- The Chamber of Commerce was recognized for having its County Executive Breakfast at the Doubletree on April 21.
- People who ever had a boat on the Lake were fined as were former United Way board members.
- CRCF board members were fined instead of Tory Irgang who wasn’t present.
- Mike also fined people for his Rotary Trivia segment which was also fun.
Happy Bucks:
Michelle mentioned that Little Theater is putting on Murder on the Orient Express for the next two weekends.
Becky Robbins announced a fundraiser for Johnny Lamancuso at Shawbucks Sunday from 1-5 p.m. and that she had $15 raffle tickets to help the Lamancuso family with Johnny’s Ewing Scarcoma disease treatments.
Ruth Lundin noted that she has two vernal ponds on her property where salamander eggs currently appear in the pond.
Max Eimiller said that his family of four brothers were able to see the Masters in Georgia and followed around the ultimate winner before the tournament, thinking he wasn’t that good.
Emily Cama happily announced one of her daughters got accepted at RIT.
