Meetign Notes from Dec 10th

Merry Christmas Sub-Westers,

It was good to see everyone this week. It was especially good to see Jim Lent who has been taking care of his wife Jo for quite a long time. Visiting Rotarian Kenny Morgan got us started with a Groaner. Moses Atwood led us in Prayer, followed by Mike Woods with the Pledge to our glorious Flag, and Bob Stone with the 4-Way Test.

I shared the good time we had at the Sub-West Christmas Party on Tuesday night. Ervin Byrd and crew did an excellent job. Thanks also went out to Ronnie Arnold and all those who participated in the Barnes & Nobel fundraiser last Saturday for Hallmark & Ynestra Elementary schools.

Happy Dollars were started by Bill Cleary who was happy to be here. Jim Lent piped in and was happy to be at Sub-West and also reported his wife Jo was doing much better. Andy Hinton simply commented, “If you don’t know why I’m standing, you don’t belong here.” Paul Parks was happy to have his wife and Honorary Rotarian Ginny here. Laverne Baker was happy to announce her son Daniel was graduating from the University of Florida on Saturday. Don Gregory was happy his house was unharmed when the house next to his burned down.

We celebrated one Rotarian anniversary with Christine Isham (10 years).

Bob Bothfeld introduced our Visitors and Guests. Visiting was Randy Hamilton, guest of Ronnie Arnold; Bob Bailey, guest of Bill Spain; Rocky Parra, lovely wife of Brett Parra; Kristin Fairchild, guest of Jerold Hall; and B. Dwayne Hardin, guest of Ervin Byrd. Visiting Rotarians included Dan Livingston, Richard Peterson, and Kenny Morgan from Pensacola North, and Beverly Patterson from Downtown.

Wendy Simon reminded us next Thursday, December 17th, we are distributing bikes to the Pre-K students at Hallmark & Ynestra Elementary Schools. Please come join us at 11:15am at Hallmark, then come to the Club meeting, and then join us again at Ynestra at 1:30pm. Trish Woodburn shared Kirk Ball was in the hospital following surgery and was doing well.

The Woolly Booger was Jerold Hall and was relentless fining everyone just because they were. Even a nice guy like me got fined $5.00 for no reason. The money goes to the Foundation. The money goes to the Foundation. The money goes to the Foundation. The money goes to the Foundation…

Ronnie Arnold had the winning ticket and drew the Ace of Hearts from a deck with only 51 cards in it to miss a pot worth $306.

The program was Charles Wood from the Pensacola Bay Area Chamber of Commerce. He shared some of the economic development efforts going on in our area.

Next week our program will be Pat Crawford from WUWF.

Merry Christmas!

Rick