President Laura opened the meeting with Jerry Hanifan saying a heartfelt prayer
and Steve Westcott leading us in singing God Bless America.
Our Guest today, Laura's friend Denis Reilly, a Mortgage Broker who lives in Vernon
and is a past Rotarian. Luis welcomed Denis and all to the meeting.
Happy $$
Todd happy to be with us rather than the Bishop and is glad Benny is back today.
Steve had his 50th HS Reunion
Laura announced Finished Projects.
Dictionary's delivered.
Backpacks for the Homeless assembled at Denise's Barn last week. They're almost ready
to go to PSS, Denise says it needs a few more items. Side note...the food was Wonderful!
Gift of Life Raffle tickets - the Drawing is on 2/4/22 - The Colombo Metropolitan
Sri Lanka has a request for 2 hearts.
Chilly Open - Volunteers John Konzel, Nancy Morrissey, Laura Camp and Alice Vigiletti
are going to bartend on Saturday 2/5/22
We've have an invitation from the Wallkill Rotary Club to come join them at their Rotary
Club Narcan Training session. It will be 2/24/22 at Tony's Restaurant, 3339 Rt 94S
Hamburg. Let Laura know if you would like to go.
Rotary Foundation - Steve Wescott announced our Club makes donations and is doing well
in spite of the times. But, we are $1000. short of our $3000. goal.
Speaker today was Benjamin Davey , commonly known as Benny ( he was here before and
spoke about Benny's Bodega (helping homeless men )that he does. He is also employed by
Child Services /Child Protection, DCF- Division of Children and Families in Newton. He said
NJ is a mandated to report abuse state, meaning that Everyone is obligated to call if they
observe child abuse. The calls are anonymous. Every county has an office in NJ.
When determining cases, they want to keep family with family, but will remove the child if
mom and dad are abusive. It's an approved system and NJ has one of the best in the country.
Benny encourages direct calls to him of abuse - his # 973-383-8400 x 254
50/50 - Won by Jerry H. but not the right pick for the pot.
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