Greetings Rotarians!  We started things off with summaries from all of the charitable committees on their year-to-date activities. The literacy committee is looking into various local, national and international literacy projects and is in the process of narrowing down which ones it would like to support. The international committee has applied for a $1,000.00 matching grant from the District to support Sharon Dettenreider’s upcoming humanitarian trip to Jamaica. The local committee has donated $100.00 to the Essex Historical Society and $500.00 to each of the three food shelves in our community.  The national committee has earmarked $2,500.00 to assist Blue Star Mothers in training therapy dogs.  The youth committee reported that they have donated $350.00 to Essex CHIPS for their healthy snack program and $250.00 to the Green Mountain Girl Scout council.  We concluded the meeting with a presentation on the Essex Rotary Survey results.  Please visit the following link if you are interested in reading the survey summary that was presented at the meeting: 

 

 

 

            Our Club’s Annual Meeting will be held on December 14^th. At that time we will be holding our annual election for board of director positions.  Any and all members are encouraged to run!

 

 

            Thank you to all of the Rotarians who braved the cold to pick apples for the food shelf this afternoon. A special thank you goes out to Phil Murdock for putting this together and for graciously allowing our members to pick apples at Chapin Orchard.

 

 

            The annual Senior Holiday Luncheon that is scheduled for December 7^th.  We are looking for items to be donated for the goodie bags that we will be delivering to the seniors at this event. Please contact Trish Porter if you are interested in assisting with this project or if you have any goodie bag items you are able to donate. 

 

 

            Our Club has committed to fill bell ringing slots for the Salvation Army on Friday, December 9^th and Saturday, December 10^th. A sign- up sheet will be available at future meetings.            

 

 

            The next opportunities to volunteer at the Heavenly Food Pantry will be on Thursday, November 17^th and on Thursday, December 15^th.  Please contact Sharon Dettenrieder if you would like to sign up for shifts.

 

Upcoming Meeting Schedule:  November 2, 2016 – Our speaker will be Tom Leavitt, President of Northfield Savings Bank. He will be discussing his bank’s agenda for the Essex area.

 

​​​​​​​ HAVE A HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 

 

For the complete list of upcoming speakers and information about the Club, please go to our website at www.essexrotary.org   Be sure to also visit us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/EssexVermontRotary

 

       Yours in Rotary,

 

Jason Ruwet