Newton Rotary Club
September 18, 2019
Barbara Miller, Editor
Call to Order by President Carolyn at 12:20 PM
Prayer by Alden Welch
Song led by Steve Wescott: America the Beautiful
Guests: Frank Rubino and Katie Hannon, guests of Bill Kehoe and welcomed by Buzz Tomasino.
Happy Dollars: Lots of people were happy today, including:
Jim Taylor - $5 for the 5 Rotarians who ran the Food Booth on Sunday, including Carl Lazzaro, Kurt Walton, Laura Camp, Barbara Miller and Alice Vigiletti. (Jim forgot to count himself in that number!!!). Five-hour sale total net was approximately $1475!
Tom Digby - $2 for the Golf Committee Co-Chairs, Matt Hannum and Charles Grotyohann and for the honoree Bud Luthman. Great job on whole event!!
Bud Luthman - $5 no explanation needed
Frank Eberhart - $1 for being 2nd place winning team at Golf Tournament (after much explanation Frank had to be reminded to pay the $1)
Denise Current - $1 for Rotary quilt she is having made that will be raffled off after the first of the year
John Cuozzo - $2 for an upcoming family event to celebrate Sweet 16 birthdays
Bill Kehoe - $1 happy for his guests today
Barbara Miller - $1 happy to able to walk when she left the Rotary booth on Sunday
Helen Wescott - $5 for her son who won the Chef contest at Sussex County Day at the Fairgrounds and for her granddaughter who won the Apple Pie contest!
Mark Hontz - $2 for his daughter Suzanne—one for a pink gnome (didn’t quite get details on that!) and one because her doubles tennis team (Kittatinny) beat Pope John!
Steve Wescott - $1 for upcoming event on October 12th honoring Sandy Hollander. Newton Rotary is trying to have at least one table of 10 at the event. Cost is $150 per person.
Carolyn Ottenbreit - $1 happy for her daughter who attends Hotchkiss School in Connecticut and is Co-President of the Terry Fox Foundation there and they sponsored a run this past weekend that raised $3,000.
September Birthdays were celebrated:
September 16 Tom Digby (Ohio)
September 8 Kurt Walton (Albany, NY)
September Anniversaries were celebrated:
September 7, 1957 Alden and Dody Welch – 62 years
September 27 Bill and Diane Kehoe
September 30 Marci and Jason Rittie
September 17 Carolyn and Ken Ottenbreit
Announcements from Carolyn:
Branchville Businessman’s Club having 75th anniversary dinner and notices are on he table. See Bill if you have questions.
Vernon Rotary Club has invited Newton Rotarians to attend their meeting on September 24th at the George Inn. Cost is $28 and PDG John Wilson and DG Ray Freaney will be there to present a Membership Seminar.
Dictionary Project: Kurt Walton gave an update on this. Following people will be participating at schools: Andover, Charles and Rob Rhine (date to be determined). Fredon: Carl Lazzaro and Denise Current (tbd) and Hampton McKeown School: Dawn Hall and John Cuozzo on October 21st at 9:30. Kurt is going to follow up on this project with videos to be sent to the schools so that students continue to use the dictionaries on a regular basis. More details to follow.
Homeless Project: Barbara Miller spoke about the start of this event and distributed the list of items that members are asked to donate each of the next 7 weeks, as follows:
September 25, 2019 Socks for children ages 8 – 15
October 2, 2019 Socks for adults (both men and women)
October 9, 2019 Scarves and hats for children (8 – 15) and adults
October 16, 2019 Snack packages for backpacks
October 23, 2019 Shampoo and conditioner for all ages
October 30, 2019 Body wash and deodorant—men and women
November 6, 2019 Toothbrushes and toothpaste
November 13, 2019 Drawing pads and colored pencils for backpacks
WE WILL BE FILLING AND DISTRIBUTING 6 BACKPACKS FOR SMALL CHILDREN, 12 BACKPACKS FOR AGES 8-15, 12 DUFFEL BAGS FOR WOMEN AND 12 DUFFEL BAGS FOR MEN!
Please be generous!!
The Farm to Table Fundraiser Dinner will be held on November 2nd and Denise will have more information about that next week. Duffel bags and backpacks will be stuffed at a Thanksgiving Dinner to be served at Denise’s Barn on Monday, November 25, 2019 at 5 p.m.
District Golf Outing is October 21st and Bill Kehoe is looking to put together 4 golfers to play at Berkshire Valley that day, with dinner to follow at Portofino’s Restaurant.
Sign up sheet for Newsletter is being circulated. Please offer to help!!
Foundation Presentation:
Steve Wescott, Foundation Chair, spoke about the Rotary Foundation and fact that Newton Rotary has 43 Paul Harris Fellows, 51 donating members, and has given a total of $254,000 to the Rotary Foundation. There are three Major Donors ($10,000): Barbara Miller, Larry Condit, and Tom Brodhecker. Today a 4th member was added to the group as Denise Current was honored as the most recent Major Donor. CONGRATULATIONS DENISE and thank you for all you do for Newton Rotary!
Budget:
Helen Wescott gave an excellent presentation on the budget and how it is put together and money is spent. Questions regarding the Endowment were also discussed. It was very informative and well organized. Thank you to Helen for a great job!
50/50: Buz Tomasino claimed the weekly $$ but left the pot to grow.
The meeting was adjourned at 1:15 p.m.
