Gallipolitan
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010President Bonnie McFarland called the regular meeting of the Gallipolis Rotary Club to order at bit after 7:15 am this morning. ADG Matt Willis provided the invocation and Bonnie welcomed our guest speaker for the meeting, Brad Draper, Gifts Officer from Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio.
Valentine’s Dinner—President Bonnie reminded everyone to mark February 9th as our club’s Valentine’s Dinner. There will be NO MORNING MEETING that day as members will be escorting their Valentine to an evening meeting at Dave’s American Grill starting a 6:00 pm. A sign-up sheet was passed around for members to indicate their attendance and guest. We will have our own private room and will be ordering off the menu. Be sure to sign up next week!
Split-The-Pot—Jim Morrison ran STP for the meeting today and asked our guest speaker to draw the winning ticket for the small pot of $7 and the lucky winner was . . . PDG Mel! Mel donated the funds to the club’s endowment and carefully drew for the big pot pulling the Ace of Spades. The Foundation Fine was assessed against anyone who cannot make the Valentine’s Dinner meeting.
Coin Box—Rotarian John Ellison turned in a mighty heavy Rotary coin box today. Margaret Evans provided John with a brand new EMPTY replacement box and offered club members additional coin boxes. New Members are urged to use the coin box for loose change which can then be turned in as your donation toward the ‘Every Member, Every Year’ $100 donation to the Rotary Foundation. (more…)