Sue Budde had $5 to celebrate her 16th wedding anniversary with husband, Bill, a successful voyage to Nova Scotia, and news that show was going to be a grandmother in the summer.
Joanne Santiago thanked Craig Buhrendorf for authoring the very popular Getting to Know our Members series in the Early Riser and on our website.
Art Schaller from the New Britain-Berlin Rotary was making his annual visit to take orders for Christmas wreaths made in a constructive workshop in New Britain.
Jerry Berthiaume accompanied Art and was proud to say that they hoped to sell 700 wreaths this year. Last year sales funded $9500 in scholarships to high school seniors at New Britain HS, EC Goodwin Tech, and Berlin HS.
Don Bonner reported the imminent birth of a grandson by daughter, Annie.
Phil Ferrari had $2 happy dollars - one for Game 1 of the World Series and one for Game 2.
Prasad Menon congratulated us on eight prospective members.
Gary Roman had $5 for a clean sweep in the World Series.
Alicia Canning announced that she has agreed to be the Chair of our next Charity Golf Tournament on September 9, 2019. She is relying on a lot of help from Coach Larry Sullivan and the tournament committee.
Sean Blacker (Honorary Member and our AOFH host) surprised everyone with $45 to celebrate our 45 anniversary which nearly slipped by. Sean noted that the Winsted Club presented our speaker lectern on October 20, 1973 to celebrate our new charter.
Carrie Firestone has been running a coat collection for children in Hartford. She was lamenting to a friend that she was 45 coats short. The friend put her in touch with a Rotarian in Chicago whose club does a coat collection. They use a fair trade company in China that produces coats for $18 each. The coats arrived on Thursday. Carrie received the 45 coats she needed plus coats for all the children's mothers.
Announcements
Gary Miller announced the annual meeting and dinner of the Canton Chamber of Commerce on November 1 at Farmington Woods. See Gary for tickets.
Joanne Santiago announced the District Foundation Dinner on November 1 at Chez Josef at Agawam. (The club will pay for members attending. Members pay for spouses or guests. Members pay if they do not honor their reservation.) It's a good time to see how strong the district is, and our club will be getting an award for our level of giving to the Rotary Foundation.
Calendar of Upcoming Events
Favarh's 60th Anniversary on November 16th - Featuring the Corvettes Doo Wop Revue - See Scott Nardozzi for reservations or call Ronelle Cipolla at 860-693-6662 ext 116 for tickets.
Induction of New Members
None today.