SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Meeting Recap

Greetings fellow Rotarians! Our speaker today was Hillary Burrows, CEO of Autumn Harp, a high-end cosmetics company that is located right here in Essex. The company was founded in 1978 and has gone through numerous expansions over the past several years. Hillary is a 2002 graduate of Essex High School and has been with Autumn Harp for 12 years. She explained that the pros of working for a company in a more rural setting is that the employees get to enjoy a real sense of community that they otherwise might not get working in a larger city. She stated that the cons of operating a company like this are the high taxes and the difficulty in attracting qualified people to work in Vermont due in part to the high cost of living. Hillary also explained that the company takes pride in the number of new Americans they have working for their company. For more information about Autumn Harp, please visit https://lyncdiscoverinternal.autumnharp.com/

Amazon Smiles Program

As more of us are utilizing the services of Amazon, Members are encouraged to take part in the AmazonSmile program. Through this program, Amazon will donate 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to our charities account. To take advantage of this opportunity, please visit https://smile.amazon.com/ch/03-0348126 and sign up!

Heavenly Pantry Food Shelf

The food pantry is looking for volunteers to assist with providing curbside service. People who fall in the vulnerable category, however, are asked to please hold off on volunteering until the health threat subsides. Please contact Associate Pastor Josh Simon at jsimon@fccej.com for more details on how you can help.

Upcoming Meeting Schedule: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 – Our speaker will be Emily Gould, Co-Director of African Peace Partners, a non-profit organization committed to supporting the Ihumure Peace Association in Rwanda. Weekly meetings may be accessed by clicking https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84976905896 After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. For future meetings, you will need log in at www.zoom.us click Join a Meeting, fill in the Meeting ID of 849 7690 5896 and then the Password of 925477. If you wish to attend by phone, you will just need to dial (646) 558-8656 and then enter the ID and Password noted above.

For the complete list of upcoming speakers and information about the Club, please go to our website at rotaryclubofessex.org Be sure to also follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/EssexVermontRotary , on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/essexvermontrotary/ and on Twitter at https://twitter.com/essex_rotary

Yours in Rotary,

Jason Ruwet