Meeting Notes for March 11th

Greetings Sub-Westers,

We had another superb day at Sub-West! Tim Couch got us started with three groaners that weren’t worth the price of one. PDG Paul Parks led us in Prayer, followed by David Williamson with the Pledge to our glorious Flag, and Al Swann with the 4-Way Test.

Happy Dollars were started by Jerold Hall via email regarding Ronnie Arnold’s 4th Place finish in the BBQ competition and missing a medal by 2 ten thousandths of a point. Jerold will be happy to pay a $5.00 service fee for the relaying of his happiness (I’m not cheap). I continued the happy dollars because my son is home for spring break from the University of Florida and was with me at the club meeting. Brett Parra was happy to be the best daddy to his daughter. Don Gregory had a great time at Bike Week despite the cold. Bill Spain was happy it was 73 degrees outside. Bill Sheffield is happy the Tennessee Women’s Basketball Team won a championship. Ferd Salomon III was happy to share Duke won the ACC Championship.

PDG Wayne Etheredge introduced our Visitors and Guests. Visitors included Jennifer Fayard and Charlie Hindman, guests of Johnny Fayard; Corinne Swann, lovely wife of Al Swann; Tommaso Camilleri, guest of Bill Sheffield; Joseph Stansberry, guest of Moses Atwood; and my son Alex Lambert.

We celebrated a Rotarian Anniversary with Ed Ellis (12 years).

Patrice Whitten presented the Fundraising Committee’s fundraiser for this year. The committee has put together a drawing for $10,000 cash! She asked for the club’s help to sell 600 tickets for a suggested donation of $50.00 each. Ticket sales will start next Thursday, March 18th and go through our last regular club meeting on June 24th. The prize drawing will be during the Change-of-Command at 7:00pm on July 1st. The object is for Sub-Westers to sell the tickets outside the club and not to each other. There will be a 1st, 2nd, & 3rd prize for the Sub-Westers who sell the most tickets. Additionally (next Thursday only), any Sub-Wester who buys a ticket will receive a separate raffle ticket for an opportunity to win one of ten tickets being given away for the $10,000 prize! The drawing will occur at the end of the meeting.

The Woolly Booger was Bill Sheffield who started by fining anyone without a symbol of Rotary $5.00. Congrats to those who have won this honor two weeks in a row. Bill continued by slamming me for $5.00 for having a big mouth (Note to self: Don’t mess with the Wooly). He then went from table to table seeing who could identify the originator of certain quotes. He raised some money!

John Stein had the winning ticket and drew the Seven of Spades from a deck with only 40 cards in it to miss a pot worth $589.

The program was Phillip Howell with a discussion on Amendment 4 that will be on the ballot this fall and what impact it will have if voters put it in place. This is definitely an item to be educated on.

Next week’s program will be former NFL coach Kay Stevenson sharing his experiences in professional football.

Be blessed or be a blessing,

Rick