Sent: July 20, 2014
Note: Sorry for the delay in this newsletter. It’s been a VERY busy week for me!
Today’s meeting was under the direction of new President Doug Fisher, who seems to be settling in to the leadership role just fine! He plans to present the Club with some words of wisdom each week from other Rotary leaders. Today’s message was from Harry Rogers, San Antonio Rotary Club, 1927:
“The Rotary ideal is that within us that makes us know that when we are serving others, we are building ourselves.”
LOTTERY
Lottery Master Jake Hill was the huge mistake of asking member Bill Boone to draw the winning ticket – and he immediately drew HIS OWN TICKET! While he did take home the $14 small pot, he DID NOT win the $326 BIG POT.
SGT AT ARMS
Sgt. Larry Kienzle tapped Bill Boone for the normal $2 lottery fine, plus $2 for drawing his own ticket; Larry & Joy Davis paid $1 for pictures in the paper, as did Steve Stirn and Christy Bosch; Dick Brandt paid a late $1 for the great article in the paper about his son Doug Brandt; John Smith and Andy McGhee paid for being late; Van Cardaras was fined for comments about his wife that Sgt. Larry deemed untrue and a violation of the Rotary Code (Pam is NOT mean – well, maybe only to Van!)
Happy Bucks: Bill Boone paid $1 for having a great time at Lilyfest; Jim Robinson announced that he was a new Grandpa; Susan Aldridge had a birthday; Doug Wells is missing his two boys who are on a mission trip.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Andy McGhee said his work day with the 4H kids and Boy Scouts was very productive. The next work day for Kachelmacker Park is July 29.
Board Meetings are moving back to 5:30 on the first Tuesday of the month. The next meeting is 8/5 at Home Tavern. Everyone is invited.
Program lists were passed around for editing and checking. See Doug Fisher if you have a problem with your date.
The Club received a nice thank you note from Sally & Bob Lilley for the gift in honor of their work over the years with the Pancake Feast.
Fudture programs: 7/21 – Susan Aldridge; 7/28 – District Governor’s visit; 8/4 – Kathy Krumlauf; 8/11 – Bob Lilley; 8/18 – Highway Clean Up
PROGRAM
Today’s program was presented by Van Cardaras. Van went way out of his comfort zone and asked fellow Rotarian Joy Davis to talk to us about her programs with the Hocking County CIC.
Joy said that one of her first tasks when she came on board with the CIC was to create a strategic plan. She began by making a SWPO survey: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats.
Within those 4 areas, she identified needed actions and has been working toward improvements. In Strengths, we have available employees, but they need additional training; in Weaknesses we have less than 50,000 in population and it anticipated that it will continue to fall – how can we attract more residents?; in Opportunities, we have 3 million visitors to the area every year – how do we put our best foot forward and capitalize on that; in Threats, we are battling the “hillbilly” persona that the outside world sees too often – how do we change that?
In all, she created a list of 27 actions to pursue and is well on the way to addressing them.
Thanks for all the great information, Joy!