Rotary Bulletin
December 3, 2018
Meeting Minutes
Bell rung at 12:15 PM
Pledge/Invocation: Tim Owings
Guests/visiting Rotarians: John Sebby
Interact Student Introduction: Willie Williams
Sunshine Report: Brad Means
Just after the pledge/invocation, President Leland turned the microphone over to Scott Sidell who introduced his very special guests from the Augusta Players. Three performers and a pianist who performed two different musical numbers from their show The Christmas Story, a Musical, entertained us. It was a great performance enjoyed by all.
CART
At our last meeting, we raised $173.16 for CART. We will continue raising money and awareness for Alzheimer's through contributions to the blue bucket, however we are going to suspend the Inside and Outside challenges for December and January while we focus on the Smash Alzheimer's Campaign and the upcoming Signature Fundraising Raffle.
COLLEGE PICK 'EM
Report given by Jeff Simless, announced that George Hall was the weekly winner. The leaders for the entire season are Chris Melcher, John Whitwell, and Jeff Simless, respectively.
SIGNATURE FUNDRAISING RAFFLE
President Leland updated the club on our efforts selling tickets for the raffle. So far, we have 42 members committed to buy or sell 243 tickets towards our goal of 500 tickets. We also had a very special guest, Dr. Mac Bowman, who spoke about the drive to create his Foundation and his calling to help others. He encouraged all of us to use our gifts given to us by God, to help others. A special thank you from both President Leland and Dr. Bowman to two guest in the audience, Nate Chatman and Dee Pierce from Mercedes-Benz, for their creation and ongoing support of the raffle.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Wes Brown reported that 115 Boy Scouts took part in a merit badge workshop focusing on 15 different badges taught by 20 volunteers logging nearly 150 service hours. Almost half of the volunteers were Rotarians.
- Past President Ed Presnell introduced his guest, Alisa, who is applying for the Osler Scholarship through the GRSP Program.
- Our GRSP student, Linnea, turns 21 on this Thursday and the club sang Happy Birthday to her.
- Paul Dainer reported that Bill Bloodworth, former club member and Past President of Augusta University, was recovering from his cancer treatment and sent the club his regards. Dr. Dainer also shared that the Oncology students at AU hosted a Beard Auction to raise money for cancer research.
PROGRAM
Rotarian Ann Katherine Murray introduced our guest speaker, Lauren Dallas, Executive Director of Turn Back the Block. Turn Back the Block is a non-profit faith based organization founded in 2010 to help rehabilitate the Harrisburg neighborhood.
Harrisburg was developed over 100 years ago, as a "mill village" comprised of employees of the King, Sibley, Enterprise and Sutherland Mills. It currently has over 300 vacant properties in need of rehab work. Ms. Dallas is the only full time employee of the organization; however, she has a legion of volunteers who call themselves FROGS, Faithful Retired Old Guys Serving.
Using donated materials and volunteer labor; houses are restored and made available to residents under very affordable terms. In addition to providing "sweat equity" by helping restore their new homes, owners are also required to participate in pre and post purchase counseling. New owners must remain in a homebuyer education program for at least one year following the purchase and they are prohibited from selling the home for a stated period to keep individuals from trying to "flip" their house for a profit.
Ms. Dallas concluded her presentation with a video featuring local resident, Marty Rose, who obtained a house in Harrisburg and is a shining example of the great work Turn Back the Block is doing to serve our community.
REMINDERS
- Lowell Greenbaum reminded everyone that December 4 is the runoff election for several state offices. Everyone is encouraged to vote.
- General Perry Smith will speak on December 10th and December 17th will be our traditional Christmas Party with children running the meeting. The Salvation Army will be onsite ringing the bell for their Kettle Drive on the 10th and 17th.
- There will be no meetings on December 24th or the 31st because of the holidays and then our first meeting in January will be the CSRA Economic Forecast Luncheon at the Marriott.
President Leland led the club in the 4-way test and the meeting was adjourned at 1:15 PM.
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CART
CART buckets
$103.05
Guests
Guest
Lauren Dallas
Les Walden
Daniel Burroughs
De Pierce
Mac Bowman
Nate Cartwright
Allyssa Reburiano
Guest Of
Speaker
Susan Jernigan
John Whitwell
Leland Malchow
Leland Malchow
Leland Malchow
Ed Presnell
Visiting Rotarians
Name
Club
Richmond County Interact Club
Brayden Curley
Conner Vincent
Reab Berry
Loftlin Phillips
Meeting Makeup
Neita Mulherin 12-3-18 West Augusta Rotary Club
Absentees
Forester Adams
Clay Jolly
Stacie Adkins
Brooks Keel
Robert Baisden
Russell Keen
Clay Bednarz
Scott Kelly
Tony Bernados
Bill Kemp
Barclay Bishop
Jim Laura
Steve Boler
Tony Lever
Marilyn Bowcutt
Rob McKenzie
Mark Bowen
Linda McKnight
Edward Braun
Connie Melear
Bennish Brown
Neita Mulherin
Carl Brown
Betts Murdison
Larry Broyles
Sheri Osburn
David Bullington
Natalie Paine
Brittany Burnett
Sue Parr
Eddie Bussey
Jeff Partl
Greg Capers
Jonathan Powell
Gretchan Caughman
Jim Price
Gwendolyn Conner
Daniel Rhodes
Patrick Cullinan
Richard Rogers
Jeanette Cummings
Stan Shepherd
Sandy Dykes
Deborah Sleeth
Steve Farmer
Steve Smith
Mark Gilliam
John Snider
Gould Hagler
Stan Stanton
Chad Harpley
Kevin Steffes
Tripp Harrison
Charles Stewart
Randy Hatcher
Linda Tucciarone
Millie Huff
Ray Walters
Richard Isdell
Margaret Woodard
