Newton Rotary Minutes

February 16, 2022

 

The meeting was opened at 12:17 by President-Elect Todd Lattig. (Laura was feeling a little under the weather and we hope she is feeling much better).

Prayer was led by Carl and Todd led us in “Oh Beautiful. Denise welcomed us all.

There were no guests at today’s meeting. 13 members attended.

 

Tom Digby was happy to be back.

Denise was happy because “the Boss gave her the next two days off”.

Bud was happy for a successful minor surgery,

Bob Shankman was happy by showing Bud “the next step” (You had to be there!)

 

The Executive Board meeting at Laura’s for Friday morning was canceled.

Members were encouraged to sign up to take minutes for the newsletter.

Homeless bags will be loaded at Denise’s home on February 23 at 10 am. Everyone is encouraged to come and help. They will then be delivered to Project Self Sufficiency in Newton.

June 29, 2022, will be the quilt drawing

The Wallkill Valley Rotary Club is offering Narcan training on February 24, 2022, at their regular meeting at Tony’s Pizza. You must sign up to attend. Two of our members are attending.

 

Our program today was presented by Todd. The cub received communication about a project The Burwick Minnesota Rotary Club is involved within Nakivale, Uganda. With the advent of a massive influx of refugees as a refugee destination. There are poor water conditions as well as a shortage of food and poor sanitation. They recently built a three-room school. Recent refugees receive monetary assistance of 12,000 shillings a month which is equal to $5.67 US. They are working on a 1,000,000 liter gravity-fed water system, extending the piping system, and funding supplies through 26 grants. The sponsoring club is Kampala South Rotary Club.

For more information or to donate go to http://bestfuture.center/

 

Tom Digby won the 50/50 @ $3.00 and the pot of 213.50 lives on!

The meeting was adjourned at 1:15.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Jim Taylor