About the meeting program: The bell will be rung at 12:15PM to help the staff with food service timing and a final attendance count. Also, a subtle "two minute warning" reminder before the end of the meeting will be signaled to help the program end promptly at 1:30PM.
For all the latest details concerning club related meetings or events click on any and all items listed in the Upcoming Events section in the right column.
Please note:
There is a new location for the monthly meetings for both the Balloon Festival Committee and the Club's Board of Directors: 213 Robinson St, Wakefield, RI 02879; Phone: (401) 284-1000. Time and day of the month stays the same--so Balloon Fest Committee meets at 6:00pm on the second Tuesdays and Board of Directors meet at 5:30pm on the last Wednesday of the month.
Our first club assembly is tentatively planned for early February. There will be more about this plan at the next regular meeting. At a club assembly there is typically a review of the budget; standing committees; adhoc committees; & proposed initiatives. The Speakers Committee, please be advised that there should be no speaker at that meeting. Confirming a date will be announced soon.
Thank You Notes
Check out the donation thanks from Girl Scouts & the Vets hospital in Providence which were added to the thank you letters in the right column of the newsletter.
Three URI/Rotaract students & Beth Leconte applied for the URI Service Corps spring 2018 programs and all 4 of them were accepted. In March, two students will be headed to Houston, Texas, to help with the continuing need from hurricane disasters last fall; one student will be headed to Guatemala to work with Habitat for Humanity; and Beth will be headed to Arizona to work with Habitat & Navajo Reservation School. The donation request for $1,000 will be divided evenly among the four ($250/pp) to offset the costs of being at these locations to provide their service work. This would be the 2nd or 3rd year that our club has supported this endeavor that is a service oriented "spring break." Club membership approved this request.
LAUREL CLARK, DIRECTOR OF SOUTH KINGSTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARIES (SKPL) & BETTY COTTER PRESIDENT OF SKPL BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Clark and Cotter will bring a new perspective to what is happening in the Library and how the SK Library System meets the needs of the citizens of the town. Betty Cotter is an author, teacher and book reviewer. She was also Managing Editor of the SC Independent for 14 years. Here is information about Laurel Clark from a Narragansett Times article from November 12, 2016: "Laurel Clark, of Warwick, took over as library director on Oct. 11 [2016]....Clark takes the place of Shirley Long, who retired from the position in July, after 12 years on the job... Clark earned a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Rhode Island in 2002...After graduating from URI, Clark worked in the special collections department at the Redwood Library and Athenaeum in Newport and then at the Warwick Public Library before landing a job at the Fall River Public Library, in Fall River, Mass." Here is more information that was distributed during the presentation: