May 8, 2024 Breakfast Meeting Notes
Guests were Phil LaMoreaux as well as speakers Shawn O’Brian and Kyle Reed.
We began as always with Tony’s Famous NH Trivia: Where Did These Beloved NH Institutions Get Their Names? Edition.
The 50/50 was won by Russ, who donated his winnings to Honduras Hope.
Braden won the right to draw in the card game but he was unsuccessful. The game will continue.
Announcements:
The Circle Program cleanup will be from 10-2 on May 18 and/or 19. A signup sheet was passed around.
Plymouth Historical Society 50th Anniversary will also be held on May 18. The old courthouse has been refurbished. There will be a cookout on the common; if you want to help, talk to Alex and/or Steve. There will be a Daniel Webster interpretation, kids’ games and other fun things. The work shift will run from 11-2:30. Come learn about the history of Plymouth! There is no rain date. A signup sheet was also available. The event will be posted on Central NH Chamber of Commerce.
The Kane cleanup will be on June 1. Signup is on line at Rotarycleans.org.
Nominations for Citizen of the Year must be submitted by next Thursday at noon so that the board can vote on them next Friday.
Erica wants to get a team together for the Chamber of Commerce scavenger hunt, also on May 18. In addition, she is hoping to get a group of Rotarians to go to Honduras in November with Honduras Hope.
As usual, Sharon will ask this year’s scholarship winners to speak to us. However, they usually come between Christmas and New Year’s, and this year both holidays fall on Wednesdays so there will not be meetings on those days. We decided to schedule the students to speak on Thursday the 2nd of January during New Year’s week.
Renee introduced Shawn and Kyle from Plymouth Regional High School. Kyle will be new Career Technical Education director, starting in July. They have 7 vocational programs: Health science, marketing, automotive, architecture, drafting and design, media art, outdoor recreation leadership, and culinary arts. They want to put students into work-based opportunities so they can shadow workers in the field in which they think they may be interested. This helps students decide if they really want to go into this career. If it goes well, they can work into an internship. He hopes to work with Rotary to get mentors.
Shawn is working with Alicia on Trade Talk Tuesdays. The first 6 weeks were so popular that they have other tradespeople reaching out to them wanting to speak. As a result, they will run the program through the end of the year.
They also want to do a program called “free money” in which they will have volunteers/Rotarians come in and help the students fill out their grant applications. They are hoping to reach out to create a bank of experts in the community to help students experience a trade. They work around a student’s schedule. Sometimes they do it during earned time, or after school.
Shawn’s is also with the Adapt program (Alcohol and drug abuse prevention program). They have a camp in Campton. They train wilderness first aid and Steve requested that they come and teach us first aid including the Heimlich maneuver. Note that if a business hires students under their volunteer internship program, in many cases they can partner with the state, In these cases the state picks up half of their salary and covers insurance so that the business owners have no liability.
Happy dollars were shared by Steve, Denise, Mike, and Erica.
Respectfully submitted,
Lora Miller, secretary