1. Boy Scout camp scholarships for boys in our area who need financial assistance - $1500.

2. One set of commercial coin-operated washer/ dryer stacked for use in Welcome House. The units are used by both shelter guests and night guests in the winter who stay at the Peace Dale Congregational Church. Laundry Systems - $2768.

 

Upon approval of laundry unit for Welcome House, Robin McGuigan suggested that the Charitable Committee post--signage and/or a Rotary logo--on or around the units so that Rotary's contribution to this convenience for clients of Welcome House is known.  Marion Humphrey said she'd report this suggestion back to the committee.

 

 

FOR CLUB APPROVAL:  The membership dues have been approved by the BOD and details are available on the website's Documents section under "2017-18 Membership Dues."  Please review the document and be prepared to vote on the dues amount for this term.  Here are the steps to access docs:  1) after logging-in, click on MEMBER AREA at the top of the page; 2) click on ORGANIZATION, among the top row of tabs; 3)  click on Documents, listed horizontally under the tabs.

 

BOARD MINUTES:  The minutes for this meeting, when finished, will be available, to members only, on the website's Documents section (see steps above for how to access docs). 

 

MEETING TIME & PLACE:  The board recommends a new meeting time of Thursday breakfast--based on the the results of a committee survey* prepared and conducted during the last term.  The board will review information gathered about meeting places in the area (both restaurants & non-eatery venues) and make a final determination about the meeting time & location as soon as possible. The goal is to have the issue settled so that the new time will start the week of October 9th.  Please email Pam Ancheta--before the August 21st meeting-- if you care to suggest a meeting venue that might be easily overlooked, so it can be checked against the list of locations already considered.

 

number of members present: 25 /number of visiting Rotarians:  0 /number of guests: 4  

 

 

 

Ryan spoke about her Rotary Exchange to Germany.  Our Club sponsored her as an outbound student in Exchange for our inbound student, Mint (Wipatsayaporn Tirapongprasert).  She is currently going into her senior year at SKHS.  Ryan left for her exchange adventure on August 1, 2016, and  spent her 10 months based in and around the town of Bremen, Germany.  She stayed with two families.  One was an older couple who didn't have their own children living in the house and they took Ryan sailing.  The other family living outside of town on a farm and had three children.  Ryan talked about all the bread she ate during her time away and claims all those carbohydrates took a toll on her body...she had a "healthy" diet of bread & butter.  

 

Ryan was asked about how she knew about the Rotary Exchange program.  She mentioned being influenced by a casual conversation with Wakefield Rotary's past outbound exchange student from South Kingstown High School, Chapin Graham (currently attending George Washington University, Washington, D.C.).  Ryan thought it was such an interesting idea to be an exchange student she looked up Rotary Exchange and immediately began to fill out the application.  Even after her mother, Donna, had suggested researching the idea more thoroughly before committing to the Rotary program--Ryan refused and didn't even check out any other exchange option.