Meeting Notes from Sept 17th

Dear Sub-West Brothers and Sisters,

Another super meeting! (this is becoming routine). Tim Couch got us started with a Groaner and it had to do with something growing in his backyard. PDG Paul Parks led us in Prayer, followed by PP Jerold Hall with the Pledge to our Flag, and Charlie Hass with the 4-Way Test.

It was my pleasure to award Bill Sheffield the Paul Harris Fellowship. Bill is a great Rotarian and asset to Sub-West. Immediate Past President Bill Cleary selected Bill for the award and presented the PHF pin, medallion, and certificate to Bill.

Happy Dollars were started by Bill Ramsey because it was Constitution Day. Andy Hinton was happy his football team was still on track for the National Championship. Brett Parra was happy Bill Sheffield received his award and the work Impact 100 was doing in the community for special needs kids.

PE John Stein introduced our Visitors and Guests the proper way by saying most people’s name wrong. At the end he corrected the lesson to, “How NOT to introduce Visiting Rotarians.” Visiting were Kat Davis, guest of Betty Wasson; Sam Marshall, father of PP Mike Marshall; and Bob Stumpf, guest of Ed Holt. Visiting Rotarians included Amy Rauls from Macon, GA; Joe Boyles from Five Flags; Mike Ferguson from Downtown; John Blair from Crestview; and Stephanie O’Connor from Gulf Breeze.

We celebrated Rotarian anniversaries’ this week with Don Gregory (32 years) and Jack Brown (10 years).

The Woolly Booger was PDG Wayne Etheredge who challenged the group on their knowledge of Rotary. He squeezed a dollar out of everyone with a vowel in their first name.

Visiting Rotarian Amy Rauls had the winning raffle ticket and drew the Two of Clubs from a deck with only 44 cards left to miss out on a $432 pot.

The program was Rotarian John T. Capps III from the Morehead City – Noon Rotary Club in North Carolina. John reminded us that the work of Rotary is accomplished at the club level and how important Rotarians are to the local community and the world.

Next week our speaker will be people from ShelterBox. ShelterBox is an emergency response program that provides necessary items in the wake of disaster.

Another $150 was donated to Polio Plus this week bringing the total to $1911. I’m beginning to think we are going to get to $2000 in the next 5 weeks.

Be blessed or be a blessing,

Rick