Greeters:  Joe Gaffney and Jeff Moore

 

 

The meeting of June 25, 2019 #48 (5306) was called to order by President, Amy Norman  who made a special note of being robbed of two Rotary meetings due to holidays falling on her Tuesdays.  

 

President Amy began by leading us in the Pledge of Allegiance.  Tom Rainville, PP PDG, provided the Thought for the Day in a prayer for peace and service. 

 

Joe Gaffney introduced Mikal Norman, husband of Amy; Drew and CarlyAnn Miller, Steve’s wife and daughter; Becky Fontaine, Jennifer Rancourt, and

 

PDG Kathy deTurk.   President Amy fined the people sitting at Kathy’s table $5 each for the privilege of sitting with her.  Their fine had to be paid before she could sit down.

 

Announcements included:

 

1.  Rookie Picture was taken following meeting – Amy Norman

2.  Clothes for kids pick up day is Thursday and reminded us of the VOA volunteering– Nick Hansen

3.  Cards for Lance Balla (Back Surgery) & Paul Stoot (Diabetes Diagnosis)

 

Happy Dollars/Birthday Bucks included Jim Staniford $100 for turning 65; Don Senter’s annual auction of the Presidential Cartoon for $200; Rich Toyer has been our Treasurer for 17 years; Deane is 50; Gail celebrated 55 years of marriage; Danny talked about baseball players; Randy was happy; David Chan thanked Gail for telling him to join Rotary to get to know people; Michael forgot to get Amy flowers; Gary Cohn is moving to Kirkland and this was his last Everett Rotary meeting, thanked everyone for their support.

 

Raffle:  National Catfish Day Tom Rainville, Tom Koenig and Judi Edwards won vodka, coffee, a book and Almond Roca.

 

 

 

Gifts were given from the Club to Mikal and President Amy along with a standing ovation as Amy received her Past President’s pin. 

 

Tom Rainville, PP PDG administered the oath of office to Steve Miller who was given his President’s pin.

 

Tom Rainville, PDG & PP administered the oath of office and installed the following:

                   

                   

Remarks and New Theme Announcement by Steve Miller, President 2019-2020   President Steve started off announcing that the Strategic Planning meeting would take place in August as well as the annual golf tournament.  He thanked guests and bell-ringers, his wife Drew and daughters.  He wants to increase membership, participation, perfect attendance, attendance at the district conference, continue to receive the presidential citation, continue caring for the world by contributing to the Healing Fund in Panama.  He said the new banner would be “Rotary Connects the World”.  He finished with another big thank you to Judi Edwards and her support as the Assistant to the President.

 

Meeting adjourned,    

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

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