Birthdays
Neither were present:
Linda Pendergast - June 30
Bill Barnes - July 4th *!@*&$*
Happy Dollars
Lauren Gardner was very happy that this year's Fore Autism Golf Tournment was so successful despite a little afternoon rain and wind.
Ann Clark was happy for another successful Senior Luncheon on Wednesday.
Alicia Canning has moved to a new house in Farmington and was hoping that someone would offer to move the 50 boxes in the garage of her former Canton home.
Salin Low read a Thank You note from one of Canton's scholarship recipients who will use the $1000 he received to pay for his Class A license course. He plans to train as a lineman. He received our Vocational Scholarship.
Bob Cave attended a Chamber function at the North House where the Senior Job Bank was honored 50 years of service to those seeking part-time employment or needing their services.
Peter Vignati thanked Luke for his leadership over the past year as President.
Johnny Guillot, our newest member, has started on our Gifts of Love project to rehab the stairs and do some painting. He went to Maher's Benjamin Moore paint store to get the paint need. The donated the paint to us.
Announcements
Luke Violette thanked everyone for the tremendous turnout to help with the Senior Luncheon in Canton. Over 100 seniors were served. Luke said that we would not be receiving anymore of his Friday meeting email reminders. We will not have a regular meeting on Friday the 4th due to the Holiday weekend. The Lonely Rotarians Society plans to meet at LaSalle Market in Collinsville at 7:30AM instead. Luke claimed to have had a lot of fun this past year. He's very happy to be turning the reins over to our 2024-25 President, Debbie Stanwood.
Sue Budde passed out tournament advertisements to be displayed in yards. Keep looking out for more information on how to support the tournament. Following the meeting a few members are needed to help sort and update our inventory of tee signs at our storage unit in Avon.
Salin Low put out a plea for a new scribe. Lauren Gardner is going to be Sergeant at Arms and needs a replacement. The scribes work well together and the commitment is about once a month. Gary Miller does a great job training and as tech support (Editor's note: it's true, it's not that bad!! The only skills needed are some computer proficiency, listening and note taking, and you learn a lot about the club and its members! Help our scribes out!)
Calendar
July 5 - No meeting. Lonely Rotarians Society at 7:30 AM
July 17 - Loaves & Fishes (see Bob Cave)
July 22 - District 7890 Golf Outing at Twin Hills CC in Longmeadow MA
July 27 - Rotary Day at the Yard Goats
August 21 - Loaves & Fishes - See Bob Cave for additional days
August 30 - No meeting. Lonely Rotarians
September 9 - Avon/Canton Rotary Golf Tournament
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Jolly Lux brought us up to date on the activities of the committee this year.
Peter Vignati reported an outstanding year with six new members. We had a successful recruiting event at Golf Lounge 18 and will plan a fall recruiting event. The next project is to create testimonials from members talking about why they joined Rotary. We will continue to pursue getting town officials to attend out meetings. The committee will be reaching out to current members who are less active participants.
Dick Kisiel was pleased to report that the committee has met its goal of two service activities a month. We need some new faces to become part of these activities. Bob Cave has created an ongoing effort with Loaves & Fishes in Hartford every month. Luke Violette introduced us to our now ongoing project with Habitat for Humanity. 
Treasurer Phil Ferrari reported that we exceeded our expectations this year. We started the year with some uncertainty and reduced the budgets of the International and Community Service Committees. Happily both the Golf Tournament and Tastes of the Valley we very successful. We cleared $65,000 from the Golf Tournament and $21,000 from TOTV. Our investment income was also good. 88% of our expenditures were for our charitable giving leaving ahead of budget by $29,000. The Board will be talking about setting up a committee to work with members on planning for the Nation Family gift which is currently invested in 6-month CDs.
Bill Budde is heading up our sales effort this year. He spoke about getting out to tell our potential sponsors and advertisers about all the we do to help our community and the world. We have a great story to tell while also promoting our sales efforts. Bill will be happy to coach or even accompany members who are shy about making a sale. Our tournament funds the bulk of our charity efforts, so we all need to participate in its promotion.
