Newburyport Rotary - Newburyport Clipper

In the absence of Pres. Geri, Jay McGovern rang the bell on November 9th. We all stood and sang "God Bless America" and then proceeded to hear an invocation given by Kate Kelly. Lunch was blackened haddock or pasta with meatballs. Then Zack and John Budzyna led us in a fine rendition of "Down by the Old Mill Stream" with Ted Shepard at the piano.

Student Guests

Sue Christ introduced the two Newburyport High School Students today...Kaela Choquette and Joe Pellitier.

Kaela is a member of the National Honor Society and Interact. She loves biology and animals and hopes to be a veterinarian one day. Joe is a member of the Marshall Staff and Interact. He enjoys literature and trigonomitry and hopes to start his own business one day.

Scotter Fines

We had many scooter fines today... Mark O'Brien, Jack Murphy, Larry Olney, John Macone, Kate and Peter Kelly, and Guy Naovarra.

Badge Fines

Arlene collected Badge Fines.

Announcements

Jay said he felt pretty good standing up in front of everyone that there were no guests, no birthdays,no anniversaries, no raffle and no program. Well, almost no program.

Membership Goals

George Cashman asked if he could speak for a few minutes (??) about membership. This year is the 100th anniversary of Rotary and our goal is to reach the magical number of 100 members. We are at 87 now, so 13 more should not be too differcult. Mike Strem asked George about the procedure for proposing a new member, and ten minutes later we all knew how to go about it. Just ask the person if they would like to be proposed and fill out the application. Geri will hold a club assembly at some future meeting where we will all be educated in Rotary procedures.

Happy Dollars

Jim Connolly was happy Thanksgiving was coming and wanted to know which day we would have the meeting. The answer is Thursday, November 18th we will have a joint meeting with Amesbury for the traditional football program at Weiloon Cafe, Route 110, Amesbury. There will be no meeting Tuesday, November 16th and then we will have a meeting Tuesday, November 23rd as usual.

Santa Parade

Mark Audette spoke about the Santa Parade. A sign-up sheet was being passed around. The date is Sunday, November 28th, but the time is still unclear...sometime between 2:30 and 3:30. More information will be available next week.

Classification Talk

Liz Jutras gave her classification talk today. She said she grew up in Newburyport in a family with seven siblings. The rule was you clean house, participate in sports, or work in the store. She chose working in the store. Appliance Warehouse.

For thirty years she has been working in the store, which started on Pleasant Street in Newburyport and is now located in Seabrook. In their newly expanded space, they now carry high end appliances. Furniture and mattresses have now been added to their invotory. There will be a grand opening on November 11, so please come see what they have.