Gas supply at highest levels in 21 years!

The good news is prices at the pump will be coming down so it will be less expensive to drive to Rotary meetings each week; and we have some great meetings in store over the next few weeks.

We will start with this weeks club assembly, where each committee chair will be bringing their committee together to discuss ideas, goals and strategy for this Rotary year. If you have not selected the committee you would like to serve on this year, this is the perfect time to do so. If you are unable to attend this weeks meeting please contact the committee chair for the committee you would like to participate in so they can get you up to date with what they have going on. As a reminder, this years committee chairs are listed below:

Membership committee - Neal Pearcy
Sgt-at-Arms (administration committee) - Don Dodson
Public Relations committee - Seth Cromer
Rotary Foundation & DRCF committee - Greg VanLaere
Social committee - Jenny Pearcy
Fundraising committee - Heath Allen
Vocational committee - Michael Petrunich
Community Services committee - Flora Phillips
New Generation committee (formerly Interact) - Sue Rempert
International committee - Eric Oliver
Scholarship committee - Bill Barfield

Many thanks go out to everyone that helped make our year-end celebration a great success. We enjoyed great music from our very own Charles Green and ate like Kings and Queens thanks to all the delicious food Rotarians brought, as well as the pork steaks the ladies of the Shared Blessings Food Bank cooked for us.


Finally, many thanks go out to Rotarian Greg VanLaere for leading our club this past year. He has brought us to the forefront of technology by teaching us how to communicate more effectively each week and by getting our club involved in the District with his volunteer work at that level throughout the year. Now it appears he has taken a page out of the Dugan book and left to go sailing this week so he can relax before he has to fly all the way to Hawaii on Saturday for a vacation.


Enjoy Greg, you deserve it.

Upcoming meetings:

July 18 - Program is Seth Cromer; Greeter is Jenny Pearcy
July 25 - Program is Don Dodson; Greeter is Jeremy VanLue
August 1 - Program is Chelsea Singleton; Greeter is Kevin Hill





I leave you with our very own Kevin Speer learning about Rotary in Ireland. Thanks for sharing the picture Marcia.

Year End Celebration

What a whirlwind of activity last Thursday.  It was a great day to be a Rotarian.   We started things off at noon, on the square, for the clock dedication.  Over 25 Rotarians were present and we had about another 25 guests.  Straight up noon the clock started to chime and Greg prepared to dedicate the click and thank the  people who made it possible. Ron, Henry and Betty Bartly took photos.  Recognition was given to the contractors, town employees and county employees helped erect the clock.  Things were wrapped up at the square in short order and preparation for the year end party was soon to commence.  

At 4pm Jenny, Flory and Suzanne started to orchestrate other Rotarians in setting up for the year end party.   Blowup palm trees needed air, tables needed set up, and beer that needed chilled.  Jenny,  Flory and Suzanne make it all look easy. Rotarians and spouses started to gather a little before 6pm bring side dishes and desserts to share. The Blanton House is an ideal backdrop for our party.  Members mingled on the back patio while Chas played music.  Shared Blessings cooked our pork steaks for us and were given $1000 for their Food Pantry along with donated items from the Rotarians.   Amy Elliott kicked things off at 7:45.  Neal inducted two new members and received the Lois J Arnold award for his work this year on the Membership Committee.   Ron and the new board were installed for the 2013-2014 year and Greg was thanked to his service to the club.  Ron recognized his new committee chairs and the meeting was adjourned back to the patio to clean up the left over beer and wine.

It was a good time for all until someone broke the bottle opener. But, like a good neighbor, Mike P. was there with his shoe.  I wish I had a picture of him in action. Folks, that is just something you will have to see for yourselves.