Next meeting: May 24, 2018 (May 19, 2018)

From the President

President Joe Livingston welcomed everyone to our most recent meeting, held at Stoneforge on Thursday, May 17, 2018.

Ed Fowler shared a Youth Exchange Update. Two applications are in for this year's youth exchange and we'll be wrapping up the application process next week.

Joe reminded everyone of some upcoming dates:

There will be a board meeting on 29th NOT the 22nd.
Rev. Morrill Martin Honors Day is the 31st.
June 23rd is Rotary Family Fun Day.

Guests

You can bring a guest to a Rotary meeting!
This week we welcomed:

Chris Studley, Ryan's guest
Darrell Carlson, Visiting Rotarian

Last Week's Speaker

At our most recent meeting,we had some updates from the various Pancake and Family Fun Day chairpersons about the planning processes. We have one more planning day scheduled prior to the event of June 23rd. Following the updates, President Joe presented on recent Boy Scouts of America news and fielded questions from those gathered about the changes in the Boy Scouts.

Happy Bucks

Did you know that your happy and sad bucks help the club make a donation to the Rotary Foundation?

Joe M. had a happy buck for the Celtics. He also had a sad buck because he'll be missing the next game while he's on a plane to Anchorage!
Kerrie had a happy buck for the ribbon cutting at Sakana Hibachi on Rt. 44.
Rich had a buck for Joe's "sad news." The way it was introduced, Rich was prepared for something really awful, but then was relieved it was only missing a Celtics game.
Dick had an announcement buck for the upcoming Taunton Civic Chorus at United Memorial Methodist Church.
Joe L. had a surgery buck for his upcoming wrist surgery. He was happy to have taken part in his first Spartan race last week. This is his last weekend of not having a beard, as his community theater play will be wrapping up and he can start to grow it back. Finally, he'll be off to Pennsylvania to teach camp school.
Christine was happy to be at the meeting and sad to have been gone recently!
Ed had a total of 10 happy dollars for his wife and a tribute to all of the important things that have happened throughout history on May 17th, including, today, his 38th wedding anniversary.
Carol also had a happy buck for her granddaughter Megan's 19th birthday.