Rotaryminder for the Rotary Club of Kent
October 8, 2024
President Rachel Kerns called the meeting to order and thanked audio booth volunteers Roger Kramer, Mark Pennell, and Adam Alderson. Photos will be taken by Dom Bollenbacher. We sang God Bless America, played for us by David Dix. After reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, Kathy Myers offered the invocation. Our second song was Uptown Girl, with Dom Bollenbacher as our song leader, accompanied by David Dix on piano.
Visitors/Guests:
Dave Myers introduced his guest Lisa Soeder. Julien Mackerty was a guest of Jen Lennox. Stacy Richardson introduced her guest, Jackie Smiegel of Open Arms Adoptions.
Happy Bucks:
Todd Kamenash collected happy bucks from the following individuals:
Jen Lennox – is happy for our guests today, and she gave kudos to Dave Sommers for his architecture advice for her daughter. Also, Davey has 700 folks in Florida helping with hurricane recovery.
Sue Whiting – told us that her nephew completed the entire Appalachian trail just recently.
Jackie Smiegel – had a successful fundraiser for the agency.
Lee Higgens – told us his grandson is now working for the National Park Service
Sabrina Christian Bennett – reminded us that early voting starts today.
Asad Khan – is happy to have his son home from college for Fall break.
Amanda Senn – is looking forward to a Fall camping trip.
Anne Moneypenny – is grateful that relatives who lived in the path of Helene made it through the storm.
Joan Seidel – is happy about the Wick poetry celebration and her recent award.
Todd Kamenash – celebrated a big birthday in Houston with friends.
Rachel Kerns – celebrated the recent completion of a new Habitat home.
Announcements:
Ben Tipton is recruiting volunteers to help with the Lords’s luncheon on October 19th. He passed around a sign-up sheet.
Dennis Campbell told us about a Health, Business, and Community Expo, which will be held on November 2nd.
Dom Bollenbacher announced that CASA is doing a fundraising event on October 12th. She also noted that there is special information included with water bills.
Todd Packer distributed flyers about Better World Day, to be held on Tuesday, October 15th at Hyland Software in Westlake
Will Underwood informed us that Coterie will be holding a Tea on Saturday, Oct. 12 from 10:30 until 12:30 at the Patton House on Main St. Proceeds support the Patton House.
Jen Lennox told us that we can hike with Rotarians and Chamber members at Dix Park, starting at 9 am on October 26th.
Doug Fuller announced the upcoming Tap Talks program. It will feature information about the extinction of the wooly mammoth.
Program:
Kaleena Gharky introduced our presenter for Trivia Time. She said that Todd Kamenash, fellow Rotarian, didn’t need a formal introduction. Todd led us in a game of trivia. Each of the tables had a series of trivia questions we needed to answer. There were two rounds of question sets. After giving us time to answer the questions, Todd shared the answers. Todd explained that the fun brain teasers were designed to encourage camaraderie. And Jen Lennox was able to recruit some new players for the next trivia night!
We closed the meeting by reciting the Four Way Test.
Respectfully submitted,
Sue Hetrick
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