May 7, 2025 Breakfast Meeting Notes
Raisa and Dan are our guests today. They had their fireside chats last week, so they should be members soon.
The 50/50 was won by Phil.
Beth won the chance to draw for the ace of spades but was unsuccessful. The game continues.
Tony started off by noting that the Penny Sale will be Saturday November 1 and the gym has already been reserved.
Tony’s then continued into his famous NH Trivia: Hiking in the White Mountains, part 1.
Beth brought a signup sheet for Circle Cleanup next weekend, May 17-18. You may also sign up for some projects at Circle on Friday the 16th for NH Day of Caring.
Denise announced that people should look at their calendars and see if they can attend the district conference on May 31-June 1. That Friday, May 30, is Putt Putt for Polio. You do have to register for dinner on Friday night and breakfast will be provided on Saturday. The meeting will be followed by a chairlift to the top of Mt Cranmore.
We have to vote on district finances next week at our meeting.
Denise also attended Luke’s wine and cheese in Sherbrooke and it was lovely. There was a silent auction, which was exciting because of the exchange rate (1$ Cd is approximately $0.62 US).

Nathan Lorrey speaks to the club about ski jumping.
Bill hosted today’s speaker, Nathan Lorrey. Nate is a native of Plymouth and he is a nationally ranked junior ski jumper.
Nathan began to ski race at age 5 up at Waterville. By the time he reached PRHS he was captain of the ski racing team. A friend who was captain of the ski jumping team challenged him to compete in jumping (the friend would compete in ski racing). He took to ski jumping very quickly and in his first year, he won the Gene Ross award for the most-improved first year ski jumper. In his second year he joined the Andover Outing Club and worked on his ski jumping there. This year he went on to the junior national qualifiers and won 3 of the 5 in which he competed. He then went on to place 12th in the junior nationals in Salt Lake City this February.
PRHS has a 28 meter jump. Nate has also trained at Lake Placid on the same 100 meter jump used in the olympics. At the takeoff from the jump he was clocked at 60 mph! Scoring is based on distance and style; you can’t flail your arms around and must hold the correct position. If you keep one foot ahead of the other at landing, you can score more points (scoring is based on where the middle of each foot lands). Manson has a 40 m jump as well as a 70 m jump. It’s one of the better local jumps and he has done this one as well.
The sport has a lot of women; PRHS has about 50% women in the ski jumping program and they compete in separate male and female teams. He noted that the sport relies on technique more than strength and there are definitely women who are better than he is.
The PRHS program is great but they need more people to jump. New Hampshire the only state that has ski jumping as a high school sport.
Nate trains in the off season by stretching. As a result of an old fracture, he has decreased flexion of his left foot, so stretching helps. He can also practice in the summer on the jumps.
In addition to ski jumping, Nate owns J & M imports here in town. He has spoken at our trade talks…thanks, Nate!
Happy dollars were shared by Steve, Mike, Sharon, Beth, Denise, Lora, and Alicia.
Steve needs to get some Rotary items out of his warehouse on Railroad Street; Russ volunteered to do it today.
Raisa reminded us that the spring ephemera walk will be this Saturday at 10 am at Hubbard Brook.
The district changeover will be in Magog, QC this year on June 7. It’s a lovely town to visit and only about 30 minutes north of the border.
Respectfully submitted,
Lora Miller, secretary