Rotary Spoke 10 24 16
Posted by Michelle Galbiati on Oct 24, 2016
District 7930 Governor Nominee Bob Wood Speaks to Rotary About Rotoplast
The day was bright and sunny with a temperature of 58 degrees.
We were in the company of 20 Lexington Rotarians, 1 visiting Rotarian, and 1 guest speaker.
The luncheon fare was salmon, chicken, rice, green beans. For dessert there was some fresh fruit and cookies.
The pledge was lead PP Domenic, 1st verse of America by PP Ed, and the invocation by PP Don.
Raffle Gifts were donated by:
- Walpole Co-Op
- Medford Co-Op
Fines/Happy Dollars:
P Susan gave happy dollars for attending a reunion in SC for The USS Houston with her father in law. PP Murray paid 2 fines, 1 for a lousy job on the welcome song and 1 for PP Jim not telling him he did a lousy job singing. PP Doug gave happy dollars for being able to attend the meeting and having his wife Annette with him. PP Connie gave happy dollars for being #28 in her company and being the only female in the top 35 of her company. Way to go Connie! Dan gave happy dollars for a trip he will be making to visit his daughter Becky in Wyoming. DGN Bob Wood gave happy dollars for the sale of his house and a successful inspection. PP Don gave $5 sad dollars for off singing.
Announcements:
Thank you note from Lexington Housing Authority for the cook outs. They really enjoyed them and thanks to everyone who participated. Reminder November 5th is the veterans day breakfast, November 5th Club Social Harvest at PP Don Martini’s in the evening, and November 6th Stop Hunger Now .Bring in a meal for Stop Hunger Now if you can.
Speaker:
Our speaker today was DGN Robert Wood. Bob discussed Rotary's on going mission of Rotoplast and the trip they took to Cebu City Philippines last year. There are many children there with cleft lip, due to vitamin deficiencies, or other disfigurements and they are rejected by the villagers. They had 22 medical teams working in Cebu with these children. They saw 187 children in one day and completed 122 surgeries. The children have to be medically screened before it is determined if they can go through surgery. Children that are not able to have surgery for various reasons are encouraged to come back the following year.
The 50/50 Raffle Winner was PP Jim F in the amount of $65 with ticket #528. The money was given to Charlie V for safe keeping until next week’s meeting!