June 10, 2026 Breakfast Meeting Notes
Our guests today were Ari Roy, Matt from Plymouth Regional High School and our transition grant students.
The 50/50 was won by PRHS student Colin.
The card game draw fell to Phil, who selected the 10 of diamonds.
Rotary Weekly Highlights: We have awarded our transition grants.
Tony presented his famous NH Trivia, Nuggets from the Plymouth’s Past edition.
Changing of the Guard is on track for next Wednesday evening.
There will be a meeting here next Wednesday morning, featuring Ms. Sydney Whitehouse. Ms. Whitehouse is a biology major at Plymouth State who is also working at Speare. She has developed “courage kits” to give to children to help them cope with the stress of doctor and hospital visits. She is hoping that we will fund a $750 grant to help her sustain the program.
Service projects: We helped with Clean up the Kanc this past weekend.
Alicia introduced 5 of our transition grant students. A couple of these had applied for traditional scholarships but were passed on to the transition grant group. The students introduced themselves and told us what they will be doing with the funds.
Chris Barton is passionate about railroads, so he is going to school at White Mountain in Littleton to train to be a diesel mechanic. This will allow him to work on train engines. He will be a fireman on wood burning engines.
Colin will go to lineman school in Idaho. He interned at the Co-Op this year and got interested in the work. There is now a relationship between the Co-Op and the school, so that students can go out with the work crews.
Lia Green will be going to Lakes Region in Laconia for culinary and pastry arts. She would like to open her own pastry business eventually. She has 6 culinary credits from high school and will be taking business courses as well. Her favorite thing to bake is banana bread.
Carmendy will be going to Empire Beauty School in Laconia for cosmetology.
Haley earned her LNA through the high school’s nursing program and will be going to NHTI Community College to pursue a career in nursing. She is hoping to work in neonatal and intensive care once she finishes her RN. Not every hospital has a NICU; she could work in Dartmouth, Concord, Nashua, Manchester among other places.
Next Alicia spoke about the companion club. She and Marybeth have started the new group and are working on a new vision statement. The club is designed to appeal to entrepreneurs and local business professionals who would like to exchange ideas on how to support their community. Meetings will be held on the 2nd Thursday of the month at 6 pm and will be in rotating locations. They have met at Yamas, the Covered Bridge, the Last Chair and are hoping for one more location for their rotation. They have 7 members and will need one more in order to get started. They hope to be able to mentor new business owners, work with the trade talks program and educate kids about the economic opportunities in this area to help prevent brain drain, and work with local organizations like National Night Out to get people to talk to other area businesses and nonprofits. For now the money they collect will go to Ken; as the companion club grows, it may need to get its own account. Sharon talked about giving them their own administrator page on ClubRunner. They will also need to work on a pamphlet that lists both Plymouth Rotary Clubs and helps potential new members decide which club is the best fit for them.
Announcements: The District Conference will be held in Orford, QC this weekend. There will be a presentation from the Common Man for Ukraine and a delegation from our club will attend. We have developed rack cards to pass out.
We have not yet given to Polio Plus this year (we gave $750 last year). The sense of the club was that we should donate this amount again before the end of the fiscal year on June 30. The board will vote on it at next week’s meeting.
Happy dollars were shared by Tony, Phil, and Sharon.
Respectfully submitted,
Lora Miller, secretary
