Meeting Notes 6 18 09 - Escambia County Sherriff's Office

Good Day - SubWest!

We had an interesting meeting this week, starting off with Al Swann doing 2 Groaners for the price of 1. Roland Smith then lead us in the prayer. Jim Holifield lead the Pledge and Andy Hinton lead us in the 4 Way test.

We had a few real good Happy Dollars today, most notable was Ronnie Arnold telling us that Hallmark Elementary had achieved an A rating this year! Wow, that is a dramatic improvement, and I think the club's help all year had something to do with it!

We had two Paul Harris Fellow awards to give out today. Bob Spilman had made a contribution to honor his bride, Priscilla Spilman. Gil Bennett has faithfully contributed to the Rotary Foundation and was rewarded with a Paul Harris Fellow for his donations as well. You gentlemen have really supported the Polio Plus efforts by giving to the Rotary Foundation! We all are grateful for what you do! Thanks!

Ronnie Arnold introduced our visitors and guests. We had 2 visiting Rotarians - Paul Young from Downtown and Corrina Coffee from 5 Flags. We also had 3 delightful guests, Al Swan brought his bride Corrina, and Tim Couch brought his son, Matt, while Huntley Johnson had his beautiful granddaughter Cameron as his guest.

Mike Henderson was our Woolly today. He solicited animal tales, and made a $5 contribution for each table that came up with a good story. If your table couldn't come up with one, you were all fined. Great fun!.

Wes Nicholls won the raffle, which is getting interesting with 41 cards left and $480 in the pot. He didn't pick the ace of spades, so the pot continues to grow!

John Stein then introduced our guest speaker - Ms. Siena Maddison, from the Escambia County Sherriff's office. The sheriff was actually at the meeting, but had to leave early for an urgent matter. Ms. Maddison is the PR person for the Sherriff, and she did a nice job pinch hitting for him.

Special thanks to Jim Holifield for his EREY birthday check contribution to the Rotary Foundation!

Remember the Change of Command, Tuesday night, 6/30/09 at New World Landing.

Yours in Rotary Service,
BILL