September 18, 2019

 

  7:15am Rosie's Restaurant

                

 SPEAKER: Club Assembly

  

  

MEETING SCHEDULE MONTH OF September/October

 

September 18- Club Assembly

September 25- Laurie Patten, President- Middlebury College

October 2-Richard Fox, District 7850 Governor

October 9-Seleem Choudhury, President Porter Medical Center

October 16--Membership Breakfast at Middlebury Inn

October 23-Susan McClure, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum

 

MINUTES OF THE MEETING/ September 11, 2019

 

PRESIDING:

 

Tim Hollander

 

GUESTS:

 

Mike Kiernan, M.D., Todays speaker

Monica Marshall

 

LIFE EVENTS:

 

Wedding Anniversaries

Neil and Kathy 49 years

Cari and Brad 36 years

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

 

Scott- October 16 new membership meeting at Middlebury Inn. Contact Brandy with potential new members names.

Chris- Community supper is October 4

Mike- Observe moment of silence to remember the events of September 11, 2001

 

HAPPY DOLLARS

Seleem- Happy to have Mike Kiernan with us today

 

John Barstow- Also happy to have Mike with us today

 

Spence-Climate Action summit at UVM Sept. 23. Contact Spence for more info.

Also looking to locate at least 6 electric car charging units in Addison County

 

Kathy-One happy dollar for Bill who couldn't be with us today and another for Seleem bringing more participants from the Hospital to join in Woofstock event. Also noted that Yankees were lucky enough to eliminate the Red Sox from this years playoffs.

 

Eric-Tigers won on Friday night and will play again this Friday night against Rice.

 

Terry-Lost his glasses while cutting brush. Told the story of how he paid for new glasses with a check and the confusion involved with such outdated means of currency

 

RAFFLE-

No winner today

 

PROGRAM:

 

John Barstow introduced todays speaker. Mike Kiernan is an E.R. doctor at Porter Medical Center. Mike and his wife Tawnya are the founders of Bee the Change. They are working to replace the loss of critical space for pollinators such as honey bees, butterflies, beetles and hummingbirds.  Bee the Change is working to create pollinator habitat that is equivalent-as an offset- of your footprint at a solar field, underneath power lines or in a school or municipal space. More information at http// www.beethechangehoney.com/

Minutes submitted by Jim Needham