Next Meeting: October 16, 2025 (Oct. 10, 2025)

Our most recent club meeting was held on October 9 at Stoneforge and was led by President Bob.

We welcomed several guests to this week's meeting:

Stacey Jordan, Zulmira's guest
Erin Ritz, Dave's guest
Erin Lombardo, Heather's guest

We wished a Happy Birthday to Jody Fiore!

We learned about current events around the city thanks to Carol Sullivan and with Rotary in the News.

REMINDER From the Interact Club:

The Taunton High Interact Club is participating in the City of Taunton’s annual Trunk or Treat on October 25th and they need candy. Please bring any donations to a Rotary meeting or you can drop off candy at AHS, and we'll get them to the Interactors. Thank you!

...Past President George Mendros introduced our speaker, Mayor Shaunna O'Connell. Mayor O'Connell shared updates on city initiatives and her vision for the future.

She highlighted the city's strong financial position and an emphasis on teamwork across all government services to increase efficiency and progress. A recent focus has been on community development in the form of:

Paving, sidewalks, park renovations
Cleanup of blighted properties & creation of new outdoor spaces
Business marketing grant launched with NeighborWorks
Murals to beautify the city

She mentioned economic growth, highlighting ribbon-cuttings nearly every week with the Chamber of Commerce, and the benefits of job creation, increased revenue, and improved services that come with the new businesses. She mentioned several new housing developments that have been approved and continued focus on affordable housing in the future.

She spoke of her efforts to support residents with programs such as free trash bags for seniors and almost monthly free trash days. Looking ahead, there is a veterans’ housing announcement in development, the new public safety facility to open soon, and a fire station replacement program about to commence. She also highlighted efforts to resolve a water fee problem for residents of manufactured homes.

Mayor O’Connell reminded us that local government is ultimately about helping people. We appreciate her sharing the city’s progress and exciting plans for the future!

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Oct 16, 2025

Kayanna Scott Brown

Melanin Market

Oct 23, 2025

Tanya Allain

Manet Community Health

Oct 30, 2025

Night meeting TBA

Nov 06, 2025

Shannon Savoy

Mental Health First Aid and CPR trainings

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Member Birthdays

Jody Fiore

October 9

Russel Martorana

October 9

Jim Howland

October 11

John had an excited buck for Callum who is on track to be coming home in three weeks, and is now over 4 lbs! He had a buck for a great time in New Hampshire with the FBI. Finally, a happy buck to have been invited to speak on cyber security at the Veteran Business Outreach Center.
Carol Souza had a Happy Buck to be back after missing a few weeks.
Bob Hunt had five bucks, happy and sad: for a friend who passed away; for celebrating his 61st wedding anniversary, and for approaching his 49th Rotary anniversary.
Mayor O’Connell had a Happy Buck to be at our meeting. She had a second Happy Buck looking forward to a long weekend, and both daughters being home.
Carol Sullivan had a Happy Buck for the Mayor joining us today, and an excited buck to be visiting Meghan in Vermont this weekend.
George was Happy for the Mayor being here and glad Carol Souza is back.
Jody had a Happy Buck for another trip around the sun.
Mike T. had two sad bucks: for Rick Conti’s wife and Jack Leddy’s mother both recently passing away.