The Morrisville Rotary will pick up along Stagecoach Road in Morristown. We will cover the stretch from Green Top Market (at the Corners) to Golf Course Road. We will meet at 8:30 a.m. (Saturday, May 1, 2010) at Green Top Market for some coffee, donuts, etc.and then hit the road (or the ditch beside the road). Tim will bring 25 bags and that should be enough. Contact Tim with questions.
Morrisville Rotarians present: Tim Sargent, Marcia Marble, Rudy Loyola, Phil Chiaravalle, and Mark Sinow.
21 Stowe Rotarians greeted us out of their total of 65 members.
Peter Anderson spoke of the upcoming Stowe Food and Wine Classic coming up on June 18-20. Details are at www.stowewine.com This is a Copley Hospital fundraiser.
Rotarian and Past Club President David Pound has designed the new website for the Oktoberfest: http://stoweoktoberfest.com. This event is set for September 24, 25, 26, 2010.
President Brice spoke of developing cooperation between Stowe, Morrisville and Waterbury Rotary Clubs and maybe others to jointly benefit from the Oktoberfest as well as to share in community projects such as the past renovations at the Clarina Howard Center in Morrisville.
Tim picked the winning 50/50 ticket.
President Brice Simon dedicated the Stowe Club portion to Ms. Bernie Quinlan, a Copley Hospital medical/surgical nurse who is raising funds to do a medical trip to Haiti in June.
Ms. Terry Smith then donated her winning half to Ms. Quinlan! Between the raffle and Happy Dollars, Rudy turned over at least $80.00 to Ms. Quinlan.
Green UP: is May 1st Morrisville Club members will be notified on Wednesday, April 28th as to our 2010 road to clean up.
Next Meetings:
Agenda: Club vote on future meeting location and breakfast menu
Minutes submitted by Marcia Marble
Present: Tim Sargent, Jason McArthur, Gary Nolan, Davis Koier, Marcia Marble, Roy Marble, Mary Metcalf, Rudy Loyola, Linda Martin, Deanna Wood, Mel Patashnick, Sharon Menard, Phil Chiaravalle, Ted Lambert, Mark Cattelona, and Jim Mahoney.
Guests: Carroll Lawrence, Nella Wennberg, and Geoffrey Blume.
Tim collected happy dollars from: Carroll, Jason, Rudy, Marcia, Linda, Geoffrey, Mel, Jim and Tim.
President Susan has asked Past President Jim Mahoney to preside over our meetings until the end of the VT Legislative session. Jim called the meeting to order at 7:10 AM
Green UP: is May 1st. Jim Mahoney is waiting to hear back from the Hyde Park Town Coordinator for our 2010 road to clean up.
Marcia reviewed that the District Conference is in Burlington on June 11 and 12, 2010. Motion by Marcia that Morrisville Rotary Club pay the registration fee for any attending club members. 2nd by Dr. Phil.
Vote: All in favor.
Tim shared that the 2011 District Conference is planned to be in Stowe. Members are urged to plan on attending.
Following discussion, Roy made the motion that Marcia is the recording Secretary and Linda will do the Membership and attendance correspondence with the District and RI websites. 2nd by Dr. Phil. Motion passed.
Meeting location: Jim discussed that the Morrisville Municipal Room at the Tegu Building on Portland Street is available for our use at no cost. Breakfast could be catered or brown bag. Members are to expect to vote on this item on May 4th, Tuesday, our next meeting date. An email response if unable to attend is appreciated to Jim Mahoney at jmahoney@polowlaw.com or by telephone at 888-7707.
APRIL 22nd we are meeting with the Stowe Rotary at the Town and Country Motor Inn on the Mountain Road in Stowe. We can carpool from Marble Realty at the corner of Stafford Avenue and Brooklyn Street/Rt. 100 in Morrisville at 6:30PM THIS WILL REPLACE OUR APRIL 27TH MEETING so please attend to keep up our attendance.
Guest Speaker; Nella Wennberg is a Physician Assistant with Mansfield Orthopedics. Three weeks after the Haiti Earthquake, she accompanied a medical team from the Fletcher Allen Medical Center to a medical facility on the Haiti/Dominican Republic border for two weeks of 12 hour days in the operating room in 95 degree weather. She met incredible folks from Haiti as well as from around the world who had come to help.
Thru a DVD, Nella shared a view of the people and conditions that they shared with the Haitians. Power was apt to be undependable so they used head lamps in the five operating rooms. 25 translators helped them do their medical rounds in three hour sessions. Sue Lucas a Copley Hospital Intensive Care nurse is in Haiti now.
Nella does hope to return and continue the medical care needed in Haiti.
The 50/50 ticket was drawn. Tim had the raffle ticket but did not draw the 4 of diamonds.
FYI: check out this site for interactive Rotary discussions! http://www.rotary.org/en/AboutUs/SiteTools/Discussionforums/Pages/ridefault.aspx
Next Meetings:
· April 22 6:30-Happy Hour /7pm – Joint Morrisville – Stowe Rotary Thursday evening meeting
· April 27 – NO MEETING as Joint meeting counts for our attendance.
· May 1- Green Up Day
· May 4- Committee Session
· May 11- Geoffrey Blume, Speaking about his Rotary experiences in Chicago and Thailand
· May 18- Luigi, Cambridge Rotary Youth Exchange Student
Meeting adjourned at 8:05 AM
Minutes submitted by Marcia Marble
Present at the first 7:00 AM Tuesday meeting: Jason McArthur, Marci Henderson, Mel P. , Phil Chiaravalle, Gary Nolan, Davis Koier, Sharon Menard, Tim Sargent, Susan Bartlett, Mary Metcalf, Marcia Marble, Roy Marble, Jim Mahoney and Ted Lambert.
Following Susan’s welcome to all, Tim collected Happy Dollars from: Sharon, Davis, Marci, Jim, Roy, Marcia, Mary, Susan-$2.00, Tim, Dr. Phil and Jason.
Jason reported that another check has come in to make the 2009 Polar Plunge reach $14,000. Tim spoke that another $100.00 is due as well.
Breakfast menu: Jim spoke that though we are being charged $6.95 for pastries, coffee and juice, please wait another week or so before any changes. The restaurant staff has not been aware for very long of our change of meeting time. Kevin, the new restaurant manager just started yesterday.
Susan shared thank you notes received from Copley Health Systems and Morrisville Recreation Council for our recent contributions.
We are invited to a May 4th 7:30 to 8:45 AM Montpelier Breakfast to honor 3 women leaders with the Vermont Girl Scouts. Susan has the details. They hope that we can be represented at this celebration.
Duck Race: Discussion by members of having the 2010 drawing at the Morrisville 4th of July, during the July Lamoille County Field Days, or the August Lamoille Corridor Celebration AND of changing the name. Consensus: Gary to speak with Morrisville Fire Dept. about a pool and holding our drawing as folks gather for the Fire Works Display. Going back to the Field Days entails 3 days of coverage plus 20% of the proceeds to the Field Days. Only $2,500 was netted last year at the Field Days. Consider asking the non-profits that we have helped with the Polar Plunge OR who hope to partner with us in the future, will help sell Duck Tickets.
James Gregg Library Fund: Ted is asking for feedback to disperse this account.
1. Either hold a drawing of all the public libraries in our service area with the winner to receive the total amount OR 2. Divide the total between all the libraries between Greensboro and Johnson.
We are charged $25.00 for the use of the Stonegrill Conference Room. The restaurant is expecting at least 15 attendees each week who purchase breakfast at $7.00 total charge.
Raffle: Gary Nolan had the winning number but not the winning card this week!
Next Meetings:
Submitted by Marcia Marble
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