Sean Blacker wasn’t here last week because he was at his fund raiser which raised $783 dollars for the Veterans of Rocky Hill, up from $400 the previous year. Sean was also arraigned for $300 donation to add to our golf tournament fund raiser.
Gary Miller had $20 happy dollars to note his 10th anniversary with Rotary. He became a Rotarian through his friendship with Phil Ferrari who was also a member of the Chamber and his sponsor for Rotary Membership.
Sue Budde remarked that to add to all the confusion, they hired her to work for the Chamber. She was happy to report that the daughter and the grandson arrived safely last night from CA and will be here till Monday morning and today would have been her mother’s 77 birthday. Sue is donating $500 to the Rotary Foundation in her memory.
Bob Cave has just returned from a cruise around Great Britain with his wife. Best part of the cruise is coming home. He talked to a lot of people about Brexit and nobody seemed in favor of it.
Debbie Voorhees, who is a member of the Bonita Springs Rotary Club, District 6960, talked about that one of their projects helped provide clean water for Grand Bahamas years ago. She saw pictures yesterday on Facebook of the well being reactivated.
Yvonne Gardner is excited for the golf tournament. She is celebrating her 30th wedding anniversary.
Joanne Santiago reported that today is the 45th year since she graduated from Chiropractic College. She now has patients that age and look at then think oh my gosh. It is a good mile marker.
Tim LeGeygt loves coming down and having breakfast with us. Tim has two sons, one of whom lives in Switzerland. He was able to come with his wife and two kids and spend 5 weeks with them this summer. They had such a great time that by the end, everyone was calling it “Granny Camp”.
Phil Mikkelson reported on his bike friends cut a check for $75, which he turned over to Salin. Phil talked about a biker who recently died at 51 in a bike accident. The bike club is having a fund raiser for his family.
Lisa Wright was thankful for the club’s Edible Arrangements that she received after a minor accident this summer She also reported that her son got off to Barcelona for his exchange and that her daughter just had a baby.
Linda Pendergast said it is great to be back, but she was going to be sneaking out a little early because her 3-year-old grandson, Wyatt was waiting for her to take care of him.
Phil Ferrari had 2 happy dollars. The first because he was going the Red Sox vs Yankee game tonight. The second one is that his son is coming in from San Diego.
President Heather told the club that tomorrow was her daughter's 5th birthday and also her son's 2nd, so they surprised the kids with a trip to Boston to see The Wiggles. She also did a thank you in advance for all the hard work and the success we will have at the golf tournament.
