President Glen Zibolis called the meeting to order at 7:30 AM
Rituals
Pledge and 4-Way Test led by Glen
Invocation by Pete Swain
Song, “God Bless America”
Club Business and Announcements
Rotary Minute — Bob Cruz — Information about the Rotary International Convention, planned for early June in Houston.
Community Service — Nancy Kleniewski — Eleven club members volunteered for the Wakefield Oktoberfest on Saturday, and we collected 20 names of people who want more information about Rotary.
Beth Leconte — The East Providence Rotary Club is holding a comedy night on October 23 in Riverside. Tickets are $25 and there will be a cash bar.
Upcoming meetings — Community Service, October 14, 5:30 pm at Panera Bread; events Committee, October 20, 5:30 pm location TBD.
District Leadership Forum will be October 13 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm on Zoom. All invited.
At the last community service meeting it was decided that the food donation barrel at Belmont needed to be more visible and attract donations. Nancy asked me to send you this photo for the wheel I made a sign and we posted to Facebook on Our Town South Kingstown and Our Town Narragansett. The reaction was great. Hopefully the donations will increase and we get some public exposure. Donna V
OCTOBER FEST October 2, 2021
Main Street Wakefield
Started at Noon; the Rotary table was on display from 11AM-5PM
11 Rotarians volunteered to staff the table, Many stopping in to support your fellow Rotarians membership efforts and local merchants.
Fines — Don and Betsy Wisehart
Don and Betsy paid for missing two meetings. They also sold their home in Florida.
People without Rotary pins — pay up!
Red Sox fans — owe a buck.
Happy Bucks
Glen — Happy he and Beth had a good trip to Vermont, even though it rained.
Beth — Also happy about the Vermont trip; they saw Glen’s nephew and a friend of Beth’s from kindergarten.
Pete — His mother Molly was inducted into her high school “Wall of Distinction.”
Russell Bertrand — Thanked Nancy for organizing our participation in Oktoberfest. Also told us about buying his mother a dictionary and finding out it was missing 60 pages!
Donna Vignali — will be babysitting for her two grandchildren while her daughter and son-in-law visit London.
Sandy Willhauck — Had a good trip to Orleans, MA with her friends.
PROGRAM
Speaker: Roberta Richman, introduced by Donna Vignali
Roberta is an artist who came to RI in 1967 with her husband, a professor at URI. In the 1970s, she helped organize several co-ops, including the Hera Gallery which showcases women’s art. Although her Master’s is in fine arts, she became interested in art therapy as a practical application, which led to her work with prisoners.
Roberta held several positions at the RI Adult Correctional Institution, first as the coordinator of an arts program, then in educational services, then as the warden of the women’s prison, and finally in rehabilitative services, for a total of 33 years. She is now on the board of the Nonviolence Institute in Providence.
