Newton Rotary Meeting Minutes
Editor: Rev. Todd R. Lattig
Date of Meeting: Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Meeting was opened at 12:20 PM by Carolyn Ottenbreit.
Prayer was led by Todd Lattig
Patriotic Song America the Beautiful led by Steve Wescott.
Agenda
Guests Present:
Katie Hannan, Joyce Wishart
Picture Fines:
There were no picture fines this week.
Happy Dollars:
- John Cuozzo gave a happy dollar in honor of the cruise Buzz went on and jokingly stated that he had brought a book about another cruise with him: The Titanic.
- Laura Champ gave a happy dollar for having a great weekend down in Lavallette, NJ.
- Dawn gave four Happy Dollars, for the Golf Outing, the Chili Open, for her missing her friend who presented last week, and for the upcoming Gala.
- Steve Gave a happy dollar in honor of his first wife’s, who passed in 2007, 64th birthday. He gave another happy dollar for his eighth anniversary to Helen.
- Buzz gave a happy dollar in honor of Tom and Jane Broedecker
Announcements: Who Made the Announcement About What
- Thank you for bringing hats and scarves today for our Homeless Project.
- The Dictionary Project is on track. Thank you to Barbara Miller for producing Rotary name plates for each book.
- The Farm to Table fundraising dinner has been scheduled for November 2nd at Denise’s Barn.
- Dawn Hall announced that her wine bag was still empty and needs people to donate to that bag for the Farm to Table event.
- Sign-ups for newsletter. We have an opening of November 25.
- We have a foursome playing in the District 7475 Golf Outing. Thank you Kurt.
- Kurt Walton video taped us and had John Cuozzo and John Frank presented to challenge the kids at school to look up the words alibi and respect in their new dictionaries donated by Newton Rotary Club.
- Barbara Miller secured a date for the Newton Rotary Club to serve at Manna House, October 31 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church of Newton. Please respond to Barbara if you can volunteer.
Program:
Isobel Costello presented. She’s a senior at Newton High School. She created the Weekend Bag Program, which is not Weekend Bag, Inc. he started this her Freshman year. The program centers on feeding homeless kids on the weekends. It is officially becoming a 50C3, non-profit organaization and she is currently waiting to receive word of approval. Merriam, Hardyston, Hamburg, Green Hills, and Franklin Borough Elementary Schools have adopted this program. In the last 3 years, Isobel has put together $100,000 in bags. She spends approximately 15 hours a week on this project. These bags are filled with food and hygiene products. The program is anonymous and so the kids don’t know Isobel and she doesn’t know who they are, thus the program does not run during the summer. She’s looking to establish this as a school club. This year, the program has 150 kids enrolled. Isobella can be reached at
theweekenbagprogram@yahoo.com and more information can be found at
http://www.weekendbagprogram.com/.
Other Important Information:
A donation was made in honor of Isobel to Manna House.
Tom Broedecker won the 50/50 in the amount of $9. She did not pull the Ace of Spades. There is $104 in currently in the pot.
Type and Email the Completed Minutes to Matt Hannum at the following email address –
mhannum@sterlingadvice.com
