Byesville Rotary

Meeting time: Friday 7:00 am--8:30 am.

Location: Stop Nine Senior Center at 60313 (GPS use 60299) Southgate Road, Byesville .

Club officers 2023--2024

President--Chuck Fair

President Elect/Vice President--Shana Fair

Treasurer--Tanya Hitchens

Secretary--Jordi Harding

Membership Chairs--Jordi Harding, Lisa Groh

Board members:
Shana Fair--term ends June 2025
Jim Bacos--term ends June 2024
-Jan Wilson-term ends June 2026


Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Byesville Rotary Christmas


We celebrated Christmas early this Tuesday morning. It was “Bring a gift for Secret Santa” Day. We had a huge stack of gifts for the kids.

Business:
We inducted a new member: Becky Armbruster, Assistant Manager at Wal-Mart. Congrats, Becky. If you missed the meeting, be sure to welcome her when you see her.

Bob finalized our plans for completing the annual Christmas Food Basket service project. Members will pack boxes this Friday, November 19, beginning at 7:00am at the Methodist Activity Hall. We have 225 baskets to pack and will be working until we finish. We need all hands to show up.
The baskets will be distributed Saturday, November 20, 7:00-11:00am, to those who have signed up for baskets. Bob needs some of us to be at the Activity Hall at 6:30 since people will begin coming that early. Some of us will need to plan to stay until 12N.

This project is successful because of the support Byesville Rotary gets from the community. Thanks to the students in the Rolling Hills School District, the Mid-East Career and Technology Center--Buffalo Campus for their efforts to collect and donate canned goods to this project. We also appreciate T&J Market, Andrews Produce, the Byesville VFW, Cambridge Packaging, and the many local organizations and individuals that supported this project with their donations.

As part of Rotary International’s literacy initiative, the Byesville club purchases dictionaries for all local third graders. Dan Navicky reported that club members distributed dictionaries last week to 135 students at Brook Elementary, Byesville Elementary, and Secrest Elementary.

The meeting concluded with drawings for some Christmas gifts for the club members. Thanks to Nellie Bichard and Marty Patchen for organizing the gift giving and Christmas cards.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Meeting Notes for Dec. 16

We celebrated Christmas early this year. Today was "Bring a gift for Secret SantaDay." We had a big stack of gifts for the kids.

Business of the day:

We inducted a new member: Becky Armbruster, Assistant Manger at Wal-Mart, is now our newest member. Congrats. If you missed the meeting, be sure to welcome her when you see her.

Bob outlines our plans for completing our annual Christmas Food Basket service project. Members will pack boxes this week on Friday, November 19. Please plan to start work at the Methodist Activity Hall at 7:00 am. We will be there until we finish and we have about 225 baskets to pack. We need all hands to show up.

The baskets will be distributed Saturday, November 20, to those who have signed up for baskets. Bob would like a few of us to show up at 6:30. Distribution is scheduled to be from 7:00am-11:00am but it is likely someone will need to be at the Activity Hall until 12N.

The club members send thanks to all the schools in the Rolling Hills School District, the Mid-East Career and Technology Center--Buffalo Campus for their efforts to collect and donate canned goods to this project. We also thank T&J Market, Andrews Produce, the Byesville VFW, Cambridge Packaging, and the many local organizations and individuals that supported this project with their donations.
Dan Navicky reported that club members distributed dictionaries last week to 135 students at Brook Elementary, Byesville Elementary, and Secrest Elementary.
The meeting concluded with drawings for some Christmas gifts for the club members. Thanks to Nellie Bichard and Marty Patchen for organizing the gift giving and Christmas cards.

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Christmas project: Food baskets

Bob reports that the food basket fund raising is going well. The only thing in question is how well the students at our local schools are doing on collecting canned goods. Ryan reports that the Interact Club and the high school students are doing a good job of collecting canned goods.

Food basket packing will be at the Methodist Activity Hall on Friday, December 19, 9:00am till we are finished.
Food baskets will be passed out from the Methodist Activity Hall on Saturday, December 20, 7:00am-11:00am. See everyone there to pack and to pass out (I hope not literally from all the hard work).

Thanks for the party and the great food!

We had a great party on Saturday even though it snowed. The food was great. Everyone brought something for the party. We had lots of different soups, great appetizers provided by Richard, and lots of desserts. Thanks to everyone who provided cooking expertise and thanks to Grizz and his wife for opening their home.