Rotary Club of Norwich
June 17th, 2020
THE RONE
Presiding: President Mike Cooney
Invocation: Keith Caplet
Fellowship: Ray Baribeault
Birthdays: None reported
Anniversaries: None reported
Guests: No guests
Ray gave a fellowship on events that happened on June 17th throughout history! On this date in 1994 the famous O.J. Simpson police chase took place in Los Angeles. In 1885 the Statue of Liberty arrived from France as a gift to the United States. In the year 653 on this date Pope Martin was arrested. In 1775 the Bunker Hill Battle took place in Boston. On this date in 1994 Arnold Palmer played in his final US Open Golf Championship. In 1987 Rapper Kendrick Lamar was born and in 1992 the Start 2 Arms Reduction talks commenced.
Announcements:
President Mike Cooney had the following announcements:
*NEXT WEEKS MEETING WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE ROSE GARDEN AT NOON AND IT WILL ALSO SERVE AS THE CHANGE OF COMMAND. NO VIRTUAL MEETING WILL TAKE PLACE. A BOARD MEETING WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE SAME LOCATION AT 11AM.
*Mail in dues to P.O. Box 19, Bozrah, CT 06334 or pay online at Rotary webpage.
*Happy Dollars committee is looking for deserving families or individuals to support.
*If you know of anyone who would be a good speaker at one of our Rotary Zoom Meetings contact Mary Richardson. Speakers can be done virtual.
*No Show Gala information as well as payment info for dues and Happy Dollars is up on the Rotary Webpage.
Happy Dollars: Barry Shead
Barry kicked things off with $20.00 in honor of what would have been his dad’s 96th birthday. His dad died 2 years ago. Barry also is happy to announce he is traveling to Florida to visit his daughter. Barry also thanked Mike Cooney for his service as President this past year.
Mary Richardson gave $10.00 and told a story of watching the O.J. Simpson car chase while lying in the ER after being bit by a dog. It was 3 days of entertainment while in the hospital at Backus!
Jim Daly gave $31.00 happy dollars in honor of his 31st wedding anniversary. He was looking forward to taking his wife to Bella Fiore to celebrate seeing as it will now be open for business!
Andy Grant gave $20.00 to thank Mike Cooney for his term as president!
Jim Konrad gave and encouraged everyone to watch the movie trailers for the “Airport” movies on Amazon Prime! O.J. appears in quite a few of them! Jim also had accolades for Rodney Green for the outdoor dining at Olde Tymes and for the excellent Catfish & Eggs breakfast!
Gary Young told everyone that there will be a breakfast Friday June 19th at Olde Tymes sponsored by the Ambassadors of the Greater Norwich Area Chamber of Commerce. Still a few seats available so call the Chamber to save your seat!
Susy Hurlbert gave happy dollars to thank Mike Cooney for his presidential year. She also said the ECAR had a very successful Awards Meeting via ZOOM! A first for that and at went without a hitch! Also, ECAR had a shredding event on June 6th that also netted 665 pounds of food for the food bank!
Rodney Green thanked Jim Konrad for stopping by Olde Tymes! He is now looking forward to opening inside seating there as well as outside. The catering side is now very busy as well and he’s happy to be so busy again!
Mike Cooney is happy to hear Olde Tymes is back to normal and is looking forward to having his favorite omelets once again! Mike also said he was in Groton earlier in the week with the District Governor distributing PPE items on behalf of Rotary. He told a story of some outside seating at the camp in Ashford long ago that took place on a baseball field and not inside the dining hall and it was not the cook’s choice for where to eat! His daughter Katie graduated pre-school on Friday! His son Matt visited the ER after of complaining of chest discomfort. After chest ex-rays thankfully it was only some acid reflux and the situation was remedied in short order with some medicine.
Auction: There was no auction item this week however Susy Hurlbert very graciously donated $20.00 even though it was not her week for the auction!
Lottery: No Lottery.
Program: No Program this week however, don’t forget that next week’s meeting is the Change of Command at the Rose Garden and there will be food served.
President Mike Cooney ended the meeting at 12:45pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Bob Reed – RONE Reporter