Rotary Club of Owego, NY ROTATELLER
Thursday February 24, 2005 Gary Williams, Editor

Breakfast Meeting

Judy called meeting to order

Guests:

Mike Wold quest of John Spencer

Birthdays:

John Jones, Ed Arrington

District Conference will be held on May 6-7 at the Villa Roma in Callicoon, NY. They are looking for gifts of gift bags, particularly items from anyone’s business.

New member orientation:

March 15th Tuesday meeting.

Youth Exchange:

Judy announced our first exchange student for 2005-2006. She is Chichiro Fukisaki from Ota-City, Japan.

Trivia Night on March 4. The cost of team sponsorship is $200.

The Breakfast Meeting will be making some changes.

• We will meet every Thursday starting March 3, 2005. No longer meet only twice a month.
• One week the Breakfast meeting will go to the Board meeting.
• One week the Breakfast meeting will do a catch up with one another (what is going on)
• Two weeks we have quest speakers. The speakers can be either inside the club or outside the club.

Projects for this year:

• Replant the flower beds
• Hickory Park build barbeque pit
• Second coat of paint is needed on the railings North Ave.
• Marvin Park build ½ pike at Skate Board Park
• Tioga United Way (check with Sharon to learn of projects that need to be done)
• We have three more Bike racks for Owego.
• Draper Park benches need paint also

Happy Dollars:

• Judy is happy work is good and she is busy.
• Jody happy by next meeting her son will be back in the States. Also she is happy for her husband and Jody have made up their mind to visit somewhere in the South next winter.
• John is never happy
• Florence is happy because she will soon leave for Florida.
• Tim is happy because we are closer to spring.
• Priscilla is happy for her son-in-law was just honored last weekend top Jr. Officer in Reserves.
• Jeannette was happy she was able to surprise her brother on his birthday; in Huntsville, Al. Her brother took Jeannette and Ed to Lynchburg, Tennessee to tour the Jack Daniel’s Distillery. One thing that was mentioned on the 1st Friday of each month every employee gets a free bottle of Jack Daniel’s. This day always has perfect attendance for the month for the employees.
• Orv happy that this year he has a snow blower.

50/50 Priscilla

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