April 10, 2023
Meeting Minutes
President Faye Hargrove rang the bell and called the meeting to order.
Bill Keogh led us in the Pledge and Invocation.
Bill Keogh gave the Sunshine report.
Club members introduced their guests in attendance today.
Announcements
- Rotary Golf Clinic – Tuesday April 18th, 6:00 pm West Lake Country Club. (John Whitwell)
- Club Golf Outing is Tuesday May 2nd. No regular meeting on Monday May 1st. (Gould Hagler)
- We are inviting Kiwanis Club members to join us for the clinic and the outing. Bring canned goods to donate to Golden Harvest Food Bank.
- Club Outing at the Green Jackets game – May 10th (Millie Huff)
- Interested in going to an Atlanta Braves game Sunday, June 11th? Game starts at 1:30pm. Let us know by May 8th meeting. (Millie Huff)
CART
- President Faye asked everyone to contribute to the blue buckets.
- Inside Challenger for this week is KevinWade and the outside challenger is IntelliSystems
- You can also give online at mycartfund.org. Login credentials are the same as DACDB.
New Members
Sreeni Doppalapudi was introduced as our newest member. Please make time to welcome Sreeni to our club.
Join the District Stars as we celebrate a year of Dreaming Big!
Rotary District 6920 District Conference April
April 27 – 30, 2023
Callaway Resort & Gardens.
www.dreambigservebig.org
Paul Harris Fellow
Become a Paul Harris Fellow!
- PHF members donate 30% of their points to a Club Point Bank.
- Members pay ½ the amount to PHF status.
- Club donates ½ points to PHF status.
- We celebrate donations and new PHF’s
Today’s Program
President Faye introduced our guess speaker Amy Breitmann, President, and CEO of Golden Harvest Food Bank. Amy provided the history of Golden Harvest and its past leaders; Mike Firmin and Travis McNeal, she was proud to say she is the first woman to serve in this role and excited about leading Golden Harvest forward. Amy discussed the goal of ending hunger in 25 surrounding counties in GA and SC by using direct service programs such as Child Feeding Program, Senior Feeding Program, The Mobile Market Program, The Master’s Table Soup Kitchen and SNAP Advocacy.
Amy provided us with plans to expand their facility, currently underway at a projected cost of $10,300,00 with 7,900,00 secured funding to date. She went on to discuss Volunteer opportunities for their Soup Kitchen, Faith Food Factory sorting facility, The urban Farm, Mobile market food distributions and the Aiken Center. Anyone interested contact Doressa Hawes dhawes@goldenharvest.org to volunteer.
Ryan Erlacher, Director of Athletics of Augusta University will be our guess speaker next week
President Faye led us in reciting the four-way test and adjourned the meeting.
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Rotary schedule of meeting dates and speakers
Member Proposal Form
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