I hope all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends. As I mentioned in my program last Tuesday, we all have so much for which to be grateful! After Thursday, one of the things for which I am grateful is stretchy pants. 
The Rotary Holiday Party will be this Friday, December 3rd. I hope everyone who wanted to sign up did. I’m not sure if there is any opportunity to join, as the reservations were due last week…. But if you didn’t sign up and wish you did, please check with Rebekah Wright Kulis. If you’re like me and signed up, but haven’t yet paid, you can bring a check (made payable to Rotary Club of Kent, Ohio) to the meeting on Tuesday. We expect to have our Venmo account set up this week, so that will be an option soon.
The Kent Rotarian of the Year will be announced on Saturday as well as several other recognitions. I am quite excited to make these announcements.
High Five to Curt Stumpf and Dave Myers!!! The Story Walk project that our club is sponsoring is under way in Kent. Yesterday (Saturday) we hosted the launch at the Kent Stage. The story for this event is Dragon’s Merry Christmas by Dav Pilkey. We had cookies (Very cute dragon cookies shaped like Dragon from the story), free books, maps for the month long event and more. We had three book readings and the first two had last minute subs. The first reader was to be “Miss Shelly” from the Kent Library, but due to work conflicts for Shelly, was Curt. (Great job, Dr. Stumpf!) The second reader was to have been Anita Herington, but due to illness (hope you’re feeling better, Anita!), was changed to me. It gave me the opportunity to channel my inner Miss Shelley, and what could be bad about that? I am grateful that our club took advantage of an opportunity to interact with literacy and Main Street Kent! Great work, everyone!
The board is working on the nominations for officers and board members for next year. More info will be coming soon.
Planning ahead – we will not have meetings on Tuesday, December 21 or December 28th.
Let’s Serve to Change Lives!
With gratitude,
Kathy