Morrisville Rotary Club

Present at the Tegu Building in Morrisville:  Gary Nolan, Roy and Marcia Marble, Mel Patashnick, Tim Sargent, Ted Lambert,  Phil Chiaravalle,  Rudy Loyola, Jason McCarthy, Geoffrey Blume, Davis Koier, Linda Martin, Deanna Wood.  (13 members )

Guests: Rebecca Beidler , from the Vermont Food Bank in Wolcott and Lucien Gravel from Wolcott.

Happy Dollars: Tim;  Marcia for getting zucchini pickles made;  Roy-Happy Day; Mel- married 41 years today; Deanna-played under the sprinkler with her daughter; Gary- his softball team is #1; Linda-happy that she got up today;  Geoffrey-made it today to Rotary; Davis- had a great Maine vacation. Jason- sad dollar as he is back to work after his vacation.

Tim announced that District Governor Bill Thompson is hosting an After Dark Celebration August 19^th at the Stowe Mountain Lodge. All are invited to view the venue for the 2011 District Convention.

Cambridge Rotary Fun Run is September 6 starting at 9:30 AM.

OLD BUSINESS:  Deanna: RE: Literacy Grant applicants: River Arts will not participate in the future.  Proposal to hold a Pie for Breakfast event in September at River Arts and split the proceeds with them to support their October Children’s Puppet Show trip to Flynn Theater in Burlington.

Speaker:  Rebecca shared with the group how Teresa Snow’s Salvation Farms project has now become the Vermont Food Bank with refrigerated storage space in Wolcott.  Rebecca is the Lamoille Valley Field Director and Teresa is working on a state wide gleaning project and is currently working out of Brattleboro. Several large Lamoille Area farms as well as small gardens produced 300,000 lbs of produce that was distributed as food last year rather than ending up as compost and in landfills. Senior centers, food shelves and Senior Centers and after School Programs are receiving healthy local food items.

Volunteers are always needed to glean the fields, pick up and distribute produce and outdated food in a timely manner. Community release people are able to complete their time thru this program. Funding is through donations and federal grants.

Contact Rebecca at 472-8280 ext. 1401 or rbeidler@vtfoodbank.org

Lucien shared how he grew up in Orleans County, served in the US military, worked in many different places for Pizzagalli Construction before starting his own construction business in Wolcott with his family. Rotarians were invited to visit with Lucien after the meeting.

Submitted by Marcia Marble

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Changeover Dinner meeting was held at the Plum and Main Restaurant in Johnson.

Present: Shelly and Gary Nolan, Roy and Marcia Marble, Susan Bartlett, Patti Coultas, Mark Cattelona, Mel Patashnick, Marci Henderson, Tim Sargent and Bethany, Ted and Kim Lambert, Dr. Phil Chiaravalle,  Rudy and Elvira Loyola, Hazel Prindle, Mark and Nancy Sinow.  (13 members and 4 guests)

Happy Dollars: Tim ($5.00), Patti, Mel, Susan, Gary, Roy, and  Rudy.

Fine: Ted presented a fine against Gary and was voted down.

Tim presented Susan with her Rotary Past President’s pin .

New officers: Tim announced that Mark Cattelona has agreed to be our Club Vice President and will follow Davis Koier who is President Elect.  Mark took over the Sargent at Arms duties starting tonight.

2010-2011 Club Platform:  President Tim announced that his Presidential Year Goal is to add ten New club members with the help of current Rotarians.

Fellowship was shared over a very delicious meal in a Johnson village landmark.

NEXT MEETING:

Tuesday, July 20: 7:00 AM, Tegu Building, Morrisville: Presentations for District   Literacy Grant applicants: 12. Literacy Chair:   Deanna Wood

Submitted by Marcia Marble

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Morrisville Rotary Club   Meeting Minutes   July 13, 2010

Meeting was held in the Tegu Building Conference Room, Portland Street, Morrisville.

11 Present:  Tim Sargent,  Davis Koier, Marcia Marble, Roy Marble, Rudy Loyola, Mary Metcalf, Dr. Phil, Gary Nolan, Mark Cattelona, Ted Lambert, and Deanna Wood.

Guests: Renee Ross, Joe Ciccolo (theciccolos@gmail.com) ,Peter Jones, Paul Cillo and Jack Hoffman.

Tim called the meeting to order.

Sergeant at Arms Davis collected happy dollars Mary ,  Marcia, Davis,  Tim,  Deanna, Roy, Dr. Phil, Gary, and Rudy.

Joe Ciccolo has now moved full time to Elmore as he just retired from his Superintendent of Schools position in New Jersey. He is a past Rotarian and is looking to join in a club in Vermont.

Speakers: Paul Cillo and Jack Hoffman are with Public Assets Institute that is based in Montpelier. Paul is a former state representative from Hardwick and Jack is a longtime journalist. Their web site is www.publicassets.org

Since 1983, they have been analyzing ‘sound, timely and factual government data to answer current governmental issues’.  Today’s presentation focused on the 2011 state budget and are residents leaving Vermont due to financial concerns. By using IRS data, 15,000-16,000 people move in and out of Vermont each year. The incoming residents bring 15-20% higher incomes with them than those who leave. Item: A higher number of people leave NH for Florida than Vermonters. They also shared charts dealing with how the state budget could be level funded in 2016 if health care costs were removed from the picture. Public Assets has partnered with the Ethan Allen Institute and created (www.vttransparency.org) to provide governmental information. Several questions kept the conversation going past the end of the program.

Duck Race. The winning checks are being mailed to the recipients. Tim presented Gary with his $100.00 for the #4 Duck. Motion by Gary and 2^nd from Roy to pay $62 for Transcript to print Duck Race Thank You. Vote: all in favor.

High School scholarships:
PA- Ms. Dana Bourne
LUHS?
Craftsbury?

New Rotary Mailing Address: P.O. BOX 983, MORRISVILLE, VT 05661

Next Meetings/Events:

July 14:  Change over at Plum and Main Restaurant in Johnson from 5:30 pm to 7pm

July 20: Literacy Grant: 12 presentations- Deanna

July 27: Rebecca Beidler, Lamoille Co Food Shelf

August 3: Committees

August 10: Andrew Calderwood about his exchange experience

August 17: District Governor Bill Thompson

August 26: Joint Morrisville Fish & Game Club and Rotary Joint Dinner: Catered or pot luck?

Minutes submitted my Marcia Marble

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Morrisville Rotarians are proud to announce this year’s Duck Race winners:

The first duck  from the pond  belonged to Richard Spiese  of Craftsbury who won the $1,000.00

Stuart Senghas of Wolcott receiving the 2^nd price of  $500.00.

The $100.00 winners are:  Hang Lin of Morrisville,   Gary Nolan of Morrisville,  Alan Lehouillier of Johnson,   Bruce Shields of Eden,  Mark Loyola presently in Germany,  Bart Lamb  of Johnson,  Del Magoon  of Morrisville,  Jennifer  Densmore  of Morrisville,   Lance Lamb from Morrisville, and   Jason Charbonneau of Westford.

Thank you to all who purchased tickets this year!

Thank you to the Morrisville Fire Department for setting up their fire pond for the ducks at the Morrisville 4^th of July  festivities at Peoples Academy!

A special thanks to our sponsors: Acute Technology, Buck’s Furniture, Chittenden Bank,

Community Bank, Contractor’s Crane Service, County Oil, House of Troy, KA Harvey’s Manufactured Homes, Manufacturing Solutions, Marble Realty, Barbour Real Estate, Century, 21 Trombley Associates, Susan Martin & Company, Menard’s Agway, Polow, Polow & Mahoney, Rudy’s Clip Joint, Sargent’s Law Office and the Union Bank.

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