Norwich Rotary Club
August 28th, 2024
Location-Bella Fiore
THE RONE
Presiding: President Rodney Green
Invocation: Barry Shead
Fellowship: Nancy Gentes
Birthdays: Jay Waitte 8/28
Anniversaries: Jeff Brining – 5 years
Guests: Stan Lucas introduced Diane Daniels. Andrew Nollman introduced Ed Muenzner, Mike Matera introduced his son Jonathan and former Norwich Rotarian Rich Pascal also attended the meeting!
Visiting Rotarians: None
Nancy fellowship last week consisted of a lot of funny facts and quotes. This week she kept things more serious with some historical facts that happened during the month of August. Just a few included that in August 2nd 1992 Iran invaded Kuwait. On August 3rd 1492 Columbus started his voyage to the New World. On August 4th 1944 Anne Frank was captured by the Nazi’s. On August 8th the Great Train Robbery took place. On August 27th 1979 Lord Mountbatten was murdered by the IRA when he was out fishing off the coast of Ireland.
Membership Minute: Stan Lucas said that the Membership Committee met earlier today and it was suggested that another Yankee Swap Christmas event take place at his Air B&B on Broadway in Norwich in December. It was also discussed that the club might consider sponsoring a Little League team and place banner around town for more exposure for the club. Also, brochures are being printed that would promote and give information on the Noon, Sunrise Rotary Clubs as well as the Rotary Community Corps.
Announcements:
***There will be no regular meeting at Bella Fiore next week, 9/4, as that will be when the Rotary Golf Tournament will take place.***
Celebrate Diversity Day is September 9th and the club is looking for volunteers during the event. If you can spare an hour or two, contact Kathryn Tracey to sign up.
Please bring spare clean egg cartons and give them to Bonnie Johnson.
If you know of a speaker for one of our meetings, please contact Kevin Wickless or Alexis Kahn to get on the schedule.
If there is a Rotarian who is sick or going through a tough time let the Sunshine Committee know and contact Mary Richardson or Nancy Gentes.
Happy Dollars: Andy Grant
Andy said he had a great time at his daughter’s Air B&B last week.
Stan Lucas welcomed Diane Daniels to the meeting and hope she would consider re-joining the club. His recent cruise trip to Nova Scotia, Greenland and Iceland was a very good time. He spent time with his son and his grandchildren and said it was very nice. He did mention that Iceland should be called Greenland as its green and vice versa for Greenland! Stan also said that the membership committee hopes to bring the talent show back sometime in the future.
Susy Hurlbert gave $20.00 to say she had a great vacation to Cape Cod and followed that up and went to a realtor’s conference in Chicago. She said Chicago’s a great city!
Pat Marshall said she has visited the very spot where Anne Frank was captured by the Nazi’s and it was a very emotional experience. She thanked Mike Goldblatt for hosting last week’s meeting and it’s great to see his passion for cars! She finished by saying that with all the bad things happening around the world, good things are still happening and to focus on the positive.
Mandy Crispim said she has registered in the Terri Brodeur Breast Cancer Foundation Run on October 5th. Please take part in this important fundraiser if you can.
Mike Goldblatt said he is spending 2 weeks at the beach; however he had to return to Norwich for some work related issues and decided to stop in to Rotary on his way back to the beach house. He thanks everyone for coming to his home last week and had high praise to Rodney for the excellent lunch that was served. He also welcomed Rich Pascal to the meeting and said he and Rich are involved with The Jewish Federation and are hosting 2 emissaries from Israel that are 18 and 19 years old. He hopes to have them speak at one of our meetings.
Diane Daniels thanked Stan for the lunch invitation. She said it nice to be back at a Rotary Meeting where everyone is so positive. She was also happy to report that she and her husband are celebration 34 years married!
Andy Nollman welcomed Ed and Diane to the meeting. He had a great vacation last week at the shore. He only had to come home once to take possession of a new hot tub!
Mary Richardson welcomed our guests and asked for help carrying a couple of huge boxes of Rotary Mugs into Bella Fiore following the meeting.
Steve Martin said he had a great time on Mike Matera’s boat over the weekend! He’s still been able to play some golf in between some extremely busy work time.
Gary Young welcomed our guests and said he is also in need of goody bag items for the golf tournament.
Barry Shead welcomed Diane to the meeting.
Ryan Telford thanked Andy Nollman for accepting him into his Fantasy Football League and hopes to do well this season!
Rodney Green said that he has had a couple of difficult days straightening out and issue with the Toast Payroll System after being hacked. He was close to losing a great deal of money had he not been checking his business bank accounts. Frustrating and time consuming to say the least to clear up.
Ed Muenzner said that his son Kyle who was a former member of our club is living in Queens, NY and is happily married and now has a child. Ed said that he hadn’t planned on buying a second home, but since he now has a grandchild he has purchased a home in Queens so he can be close to his grandchild!
Auction: Mandy Crispim donated $20.00
Lottery: Kathryn Tracey
Ed Muenzner, Jim Daly and Mary Richardson drew cards to no avail! Cookies were won by Rodney!
Program: No Program today.
President Rodney led the club with the 4-Way Test and the meeting was adjourned at 12:53pm.