Breakfast meeting notes from 4/6/22.
4.5.2022 Breakfast meeting notes
Guests: Alicia Ladouceur, Renee Brusseau, Danielle Paquette-Horne, Lauren Wentworth of PSU Alumni office
Raffle: 50/50 Bill and he donated back to Tom’s tip
Card Game: Ken W pulled the queen of hearts, rollover another week. Next it the jackpot will be $173
It was confirmed that Plymouth Rotary donated $2,000 to Rotary in Poland to assist in the Ukraine refugee crisis.
This week, Plymouth Regional High School Interact Club members held their event educating on vaccinations of all kinds at Step Up night.
3 Rotary Districts in northern New England are collecting styrofoam to give to an organization who has a Densifier to compact the styrofoam to get it ready for recycling. Rotary of Gilford NH is heading this up.
Today’s speaker was our very own Tony Fitzherbert, a former railroad worker and lifetime enthusiast. Tony shared pictures of unique urban railroads, which are mostly subways. He shared stories, history and pictures of the subway of Glasgow Scotland, Wargate Commuter line in London, Baker St Station, Mordon Branch in London, the Paris Metro and New York Subway, Tony’s former employer.
He explained how local railroad clubs will charter trains, subways, particularly when a line is being sunsetted and the clubs want to take one last run. In another interesting train was the only privately owned railroad by the Lehman Brother’s store in Ft Worth and transported people between stores for less than a mile and used Trolley cars.