Last Week: Alexis Holderlyn, President of Kittatinny Interact updated Newton Rotary on the activities of their club this year. Kitatinny has been very active, with 200 members and several community service activities, including: working at Manna House, installing a beautification project at McKeown School, providing Thanksgiving Day meals for families in the school district, and sewing pillow cases for child cancer patients. They also launched an EarlyAct program with McKeown elementary school and have engaged in 7 community service activities with the younger children. A very successful year! Our program speaker was Donald Schuld, who spoke on the topic of WWII POW camps in the United States. As a rule, POWs were treated quite well in the United States and were allowed, in fact, encouraged, to work for pay in local businesses. The canning industry was especially dependent on the labor of POWs. The US government hoped that by treating our own POWs well, our enemies would be more likely to treat American POWs better.
Guests: Alixis Holderlyn and Michele Kaminskyj from the Kittatinny Interact Club.
Announcements:
Newton Rotary has committed to opening the Fair Booth for a Horse Show on May 20th-21st. We will open from 7 am to 2 pm and will have two shifts each day. The shifts will be from 7:00 am to 10:30 and 10:30 to 2:00pm. Breakfast sandwiches, Hamburgers, Hot Dogs, salads, and beverages will be served. If you can spare a few hours for a shift please e-mail Jim Taylor at jftaylor@centurylink.net to sign up.
The Year-End training Assembly will be held on May 24 at the Hanover Manor starting with registration at 3:00. Pam, John Roberts, Charles, and Carolyn are planning on attending. The cost of the Assembly will be paid by the club and includes a very nice dinner. Please let Helen know if you would like to attend and you can also register on the district website.
May 14th is the first anniversary of Sylvester Fletcher’s death. His widow, Catherine, will be installed as an honorary member of Newton Rotary this spring.
John Cuozzo is undergoing triple-bypass surgery and Charles returned to the hospital for further treatment of Lyme disease. Our thoughts and prayers are with them both.
Happy Dollars:
Barbara Miller had a wonderful time at the Rotary Conference held at Skytop Lodge. She is honored to be part of the most active International Service organization in the World.
Denise is happy for the District Conference, and was very happy to hear Beam’s presentation at the Conference, which was very well received.
Alice Vigiletti reported that the Ebay program has raised another $103.
Matt Hannum is happy to be expecting his 4th child.
Jan Pasculli is happy for Barbara and Denise, who represented our Club at the District Conference.
Carolyn is happy for Alice and the Ebay program, which fund the Kittatinny EarlyAct program.
50/50: Jan Pasculli won the 50/50, but left the pot to grow .
