Epistle for Rotary Meeting August 9th

Following the encouragement from Homer Nye to honor the beauty not only of our scenic surroundings but using service-above-self principles to draw out people’s inner beauty; Dave Milross, with a rhythmic assist from John Racine and Mike Meindertsma, orchestrated a rousing rendition of the “Canoe Song”. This was obviously most appropriate given the presentation’s subject of the Boardman River; but with lyrics such as “dip,dip and swing” perhaps this was also a lead in to the announcement of the results of the Rotary Golf outing which are listed later.

Dan Rickard’s announced there were no visiting Rotarians, which it was conjectured might have been because of advance awareness of the day’s song selection.  Mike M. sent out congratulations to Rob and Kim Lovell on the birth of daughter Alexandria and the following save the date reminders were given:

Monday, September 19th, at 5:30p for the 13^th Annual Gourmet Dinner at the TC Golf & Country Club.

Monday, August 22^nd  6pm for the Boating Social Gathering at Power Island. Susan Krause  encouraged all those who are commitment phobic to sign up as soon as possible with her so somewhat of an accurate guess can be made regarding how many boats are needed. Let her know as well which departure point you would like – Clinch or Bowers Harbor or other Old Mission locations. It’s BYO and bring a snack to pass if you want. There are both power and sail options for boats, and while the intent is to stay on the island for about an hour, there is a possibility for those who would like to extend the evening with a little more cruise/sail time.

Lisa Pointe requested assistance for backpack stuffing, and suggestion it is a family/kid friendly opportunity to be of service to the community. And John Noonan requested help this Thursday 9am for a workbee at the Discovery Dock; which by the time you read this newsletter will have already taken place.

Mike Buday and Mark Echkoff announced the winners of the various events at the golf outing, completely stunning the team of Cindy Ruzak, John Racine, Kat Phillips and Herb Lemcool with the announcement they’d won Low Scrabble. Cindy then used her cash earnings to purchase a Friends of the Boardman pin which Michael Richmond has available for sale at $10 to support the Gourmet Game Dinner Committee’s efforts this year, and plans to wear it every day until the dinner to peak other peoples’ interest.

Other golf winners were Susan Krause for longest putt, Jay Hooper for closest to the pin (on the correct hole), and Mark Newhouse won low gross with an 82, Syd Van Slyke had the straightest drive showing the skill that then led to his achieving low net of 70 (or as many suspected his handicap might be a bit inflated), and least longest drive was the affable (or is that laughable) Al Zielinski.

Trevor Tkach handedly won $41 in the 50/50, and then it was on to the main presentation.