October 23, 2024 Breakfast Meeting Notes
We opened with Tony’s famous NH Trivia: Part II of Rotary Etiquette.
The 50/50 was won by Sharon, who donated the money to Tom.
Denise won the chance to pull the ace of spades but selected the three of hearts instead.
Today’s meeting was a club forum.
Club financials: We have around $1000 in the bank and we will owe about $125 to the eventual winner of the card game. We are still working on 2 members to pay their dues. We have all 4 sponsors for the Hometown Holiday Celebration.. The foam project still has $900 to spend.We. have about $64,000 in foundation funds not including the Common Man for Ukraine funds.
Sharon has collected $1560 for hurricane relief that will be matched by our foundation. This is the last day to give Sharon any contributions before she mails the money down to Venice, Florida along with the match from our foundation. Mike noted that our district got a grant in 2011 for hurricane relief.
The Common Man for Ukraine recently sent $280,000 to Poland for Ukraine relief.
Tony reported that the DJ will be on for the Penny Sale.
Beth thanked Sharon for her organization in setting up the Penny Sale. If you have a prize “to follow,” you must bring it on November 2nd!!! If you can’t make it that night, have someone else bring it. We will start at 2 pm in the gym at PRHS on November 2. We have 295 items including sponsorship money. We will also have 6 turkeys dinners thanks to Sharon!
Grand prize ticket sales: We have sold 1000 and we have 3000 more to go. Please sign up for slots. We still need to have people pick up their tickets from Bill. If you are unable to sell tickets on the street, we are now asking that you buy an additional $100’ worth of tickets.
Will has been doing Facebook postings to promote the Penny Sale. Alicia sent him pictures and he will post them daily.
Tony has put the call out for runners. We have 2 runners registered; we still need more. Tickets for November 2 are printed and he will pick them up in the next 24 hours. We do have permission to set up on Nov 2 at 2 pm. Other members suggested that we ask Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and sports teams for help. The college tennis team has also helped in the past. Jess Dutile at the college may also be able to reach some students and Beth will reach out to the Girl Scouts. Denise also suggested the Pop Warner Kids’ Football league and their cheer team; she will check with them.
We are trying to put together a business after-hours. We are hoping to have something to promote at the Penny Sale. November 14 (Thursday) was suggested as a good date.Denise proposed 61 Main Street as a location; it is newly renovated and there is room for 45 people. The club should be responsible for providing refreshments for attendees. The time would be 5-6 pm. Braden will try to set this up.
We are calling PRHS to see if there is a student who needs help with drivers’ ed. We will donate our money from cruise night to that person.
November 9 will be trail maintenance at the Walters ski trails at top of Texas Hill. Start time is 9 am; volunteers should bring loppers and chain saws to clean up brush from the ski trails. This could be our community service project for November.
The trails commission is getting their first paid crew of 4-5 students from the high school to do trail work next summer. They will be applying for a grant from Conservation Commission. It will cost the $2000-3000 to hire a grant writer. Phil also suggested asking the select board for a contribution. The first step is to repair the Plymouth Mountain trail.
Hometown Holiday Celebration: Denise has talked to Alex about the food portion of the event. Instead of doing a tent with chili, chowder, burgers and hot dogs, we would do more of a take-out event. All burgers and hot dogs will be cooked and wrapped in tinfoil ahead of time and we can take carts up and down the street to sell the food. Denise will meet with Tony Bomba, Alex’s culinary director, to see if he thinks this is feasible. Alex will still do a station at Newbury’s. PSU will have a beverage station in the senior center. The idea is to get food sales going on for a longer time and hopefully selling more.
We will need somewhere that is close to Main Street to build and store the trailer for our float. Perhaps we could decorate here at the Common Man Inn and store the float in the back. The Magic of Rotary will be the theme. Phil volunteered to let us use his house on Pleasant Street.
Mike spoke about World Polio Day, which is tomorrow. If you are inclined to make a contribution to Polio Plus, tomorrow is a magical day!
The district conference is May 31 at Cranmore Mountain Resort. It will be a one day conference and you could go there and back in one day. Mike wants to do an event called Putt-Putt for Polio on the Friday before the event, using the team from Pirates Cove to set up a mini golf area. There will be teams, prizes for best and worst score, etc. Mike suggested that we make a club donation of $5 for everyone who plays Putt-Putt for Polio. Ken suggested a more significant donation of $20 per person.This idea will be discussed further at the next board meeting.
The Knights of Columbus will have their annual dinner and auction 2 weeks after Penny Sale.
Happy dollars were shared by Denise, Phil, Tony, and Mike.
Next week’s meeting will cover the pre-Penny Sale final details.
Respectfully submitted,
Lora Miller, secretary