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Program
The Wheel April 21, 2022
Program: Update on the May 15 Children’s Festival, led by Donna Vignali and Margaret Johnson
The Children’s Festival is set for Sunday, May 15, from 11:00 to 4:00 at the South County Museum. Setup will begin at 8:00 AM.
There is plenty of work to do. Donna and Margaret have identified a Chairperson and several volunteers for each task. If you want to be assigned to a particular task, please contact the chairperson.
Admission tables: Nancy Kleniewski
Food: Tricia Driscoll
Vendors and performers: Beth Leconte
Rotary information table: Jim Blackerby
Parking: Steve white
Signs: Bob Cruz
Games: Jessica Wong
Crafts: Betty Merner (teacher and friend of Margaret)
This event is a fundraiser, and it is on track to make money. The club has reallocated the donations that were originally given to support a “Beach Bumper Ball” event which, due to Covid, never took place. Community sponsors for the festival have been very generous. We already have sponsorships from Belmont Market, Sweenor’s Chocolates, A Quick Tire Service, and our own Joanne Daly. Brickley’s is supplying ice cream, and local businesses are giving gift baskets to be raffled off. The list keeps growing!
Thanks to everyone for pitching in!
The meeting was adjourned at 8:20.
The Wheel April 28, 2022
Meeting at Camden’s Restaurant
Attendance: 22 members; 2 guests: Peter Feketie, guest of Ed McLaughlin and Steve Certa, District Foundation Chair, via Zoom
President Glen Zibolis called the meeting to order at 7:30 AM.
Rituals
Pledge and 4-way Test led by Glen
Invocation by Gene Corl
Song, “God Bless America”
Club Business and Announcements
- Margaret Johnson – The signs for the Children’s Festival will be ready tomorrow. We need volunteers to place them around the neighborhoods.
- Beth Leconte – Members and friends are invited to march in the Memorial Day Parade and carry our large U. S. flag.
- Steve Certa – Thank you to the club for our donation to Safe Passage.
- Ed McLaughlin – The Charitable Committee recommends the following contributions:
- $1000 each to SK High and Narragansett High for gift cards to help students with food insecurity issues.
- $900 to Welcome House for bus passes and food gift cards.
- $2750 to Habitat for Humanity to augment our earlier gift as a result of Covid-related cost overruns of materials.
- The motion passed unanimously.
Fines and Confessions — Don and Betsy Wisehart
- Missing badges, pins.
- Who was born in RI?
- RI trivia contest.
Happy Bucks
- Sandy Willhauck – Her first day without a boot from her broken toe.
- Donna Vignali – Her birthday post on Facebook raised $70 for Rotary.
- Betsy Wisehart – Tattled on Don, who has a birthday next week.
- Steve White – Took his granddaughters dressed as pirates to Mystic for Pirates Day.
- Fran Alexakos – Delighted that her daughter got a job in Quonset.
- Jim Buchanan – His oldest son is getting married at Shepherd’s Run.
- Glen – Had a nice weekend at a horse farm in Connecticut but Bailey had the most fun because there were so many other dogs there.
Speaker and Program: Mike Millen, Narragansett Historical Cemeteries Commission, introduced by Donna Vignali
Mike comes from a large family with deep roots in South County (the Wrights, among others) and has many cousins. His genealogical research as a Boy Scout earned him a merit badge. When the Town of Narragansett established a Historical Cemeteries Commission to inventory historical cemeteries and evaluate their conditions, he joined and was promptly made Chair. He told us that most of the historic burials in Narragansett are part of the history of South Kingstown because they date from the period before Narragansett was an independent town.
In addition to documenting the cemeteries, the Commission cares for many of them. Volunteers are invited to the next cemetery cleanup, Saturday, May 14, at the South Ferry Church. They will be removing branches and clutter from Historical Cemeteries #10 and #11 that abut the church but are not part of church property.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:30.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:30.
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