President Cheryl Duey brought the meeting to order at 12:15 pm with song, pledge and prayer by Sue Murphy .

 

Guests today:

Speakers: CT Veterans Affairs Commissioner Sean Connolly and Veteran Affairs Director Tammy Marzik

 

Visiting Rotarians:  None

 

Announcements:

• President Cheryl: Letter announcing events were passed around.   
• Note received from last weeks visiting Rotarian from Nepal.
• We received our membership certificate from the Middlesex Chamber of Commerce. 
• Hurricane relief collection postponed one week.                                                  
• Doing a collection today for our server, Chasity. It’s her last day.                             
• Carmella: Octoberfest flyers on each table. Checks for ticket sales should be given to her. If you haven’t gotten your tickets to sell, please see her.                                                            

Gift of Life:  

Tammy Marzik and Cliff Straub. No winner this week.

 

Cards:

High: Pat Tucker

Low: Cliff Straub

Both winners gave their winning to Chasity’s collection.                                                .

 

Happy Dollars:  

• Cheryl: Home lost & found event, Guest Speakers, Chasity’s service, Patti Vassia’ s PR work for this year’s President’s Project.
• Sue Murphy: Guest Speakers,20^th Anniversary of Liberty bank Grant Project            .
• Helene Vartelas: Guest Speakers, Heritage Commons.
• Dan Litwin: Celebrating daughter’s birthday in Boston. 
• Sandra Blevins: Charity Gala at Wadsworth Mansion.
• Justin Wilkie: His friend’s volunteering support, Middlesex United Way Campaign Kick-off at R.J. Julia on 9/28.
• Patti Vassia: One McDonough Place Open House, back at YMCA doing water aerobics, Thankful for many lessons learned in early career at YMCA.
• Chris Soulias:   Commissioner Connolly, upcoming Durham Fair.
• Carmella Gagnon: National Adult Day Care Week, conversation with Trish Witsky.
• Art Meyers: Good feelings at Rotary.
• Kandyce Aust: Justin’s volunteering friend, Firefighters Union 1073.                 
• Tammy Marzik: Her boss and our guest speaker Commissioner Connolly.  

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