May 28, 2025 Breakfast Meeting Notes
The 50/50 was won by Russ.
Denise drew for the ace of spades but was unsuccessful. The game continues.
Tony was absent today so Raisa opened with a Rotary minute. The Rotary Youth Exchange program has origins dating back to the 1920s. Local exchanges in Europe started in 1927. In 1975, the program became a recognized program of RI, to foster peace, goodwill, and understanding through youth exchanges. Today approximately 7500 students participate in these exchanges every year.
Dan and Raisa were inducted as new members of the club. Welcome!
Raisa announced that tomorrow at 11, Maggie Goodlander will come to Hubbard Brook at Forest Service HQ on Mirror Lake Road.. They have an array to speakers to talk about the problems posed by the federal funding cuts. There will be lunch and snacks provided.
Tomorrow in Campton 6:30 at Campton Town Hall there will be a commission meeting at which the Owl’s Nest will talk about their new recreation center. They want to build a $15,000,000 project and have it be tax exempt.
Town trash cleanup will be on June 14th. Meet at 10 am at the Walmart parking lot, then decamp to Lora and Ken’s house at 10 Bell Road in Plymouth. From there we will go to the junction of Old Hebron and Texas Hill Roads and pick up more trash. Afterwards we will go to Lora and Ken’s for lunch. A signup sheet was passed around today.
District conference is this weekend. Friday we will have two mini golf teams that will meet at Pirates Cove at 2 and 4. We will donate $10 for every person who plays and the money goes to Polio Plus. Speakers Friday night will be Susan Cherry talking about the peace conference in Istanbul and Lisa Mure talking about Common Man for Ukraine’s latest updates. Dinner is at 110 Grill.
Mike Currier
Mike Currier spoke to us today about the skate board park project. The skate park efforts started in 2009; they started small with one strip and a bowl, and then over the next few years they added features. A few days ago he saw 30 kids skating there! We have not had many problems with the park, and we now have no problems with skateboarding downtown. Graffiti also went down. They have taken down the graffiti park but want to get it up again to provide an area where people can paint the walls without getting arrested. People come here from all over to use our skate park and it is one of the nicest in New Hampshire.
Around 2010-11 the skate park founders applied for a community advancement development grant but lost by 1 vote. The completed park was turned over to the town and the costs to maintain it are very low.
A little less than a year ago Mike was contacted by a woman who works for the NH Charitable Foundation who had been instrumental in completing the park. She had a donor from Plymouth who wanted to do something for kids in town. Chris Hogan, owner of Northeast Skate Parks, quoted $151,000 for upgrades and improvements to the skate park. They put in a request for $155,000 and they were awarded the grant. The town accepted the donation and work will be done by the end of the summer.
A local contractor put in a concrete pad and the high school students designed a pavilion which will be built on the pad. The pavilion will be in a railroad theme. There will be plenty of parking. They are also going to put in a connector between the park and the pavilion.
Mike thanked us for our efforts to help with the skate park. There is a great space for a Rotary sign along the back fence.
The 100th anniversary committee will be meeting right after today’s meeting. June 25th will be the changeover dinner; cost is $40 per person. RSVP to Alicia and give money to her or Ken.
Happy dollars were shared by Allicia, Sharon, Nancy, Mike, Steve, Denise, Phil, Raisa, Jake, and Russ.
Russ will be going to visit national parks in the Pacific Northwest this summer. It was noted that 4th graders get free admission to national parks. A National Parks pass is available for seniors too.
Respectfully submitted,
Lora Miller, secretary
