At our weekly meeting on January 15, 2016, President Paul White welcomed the members to the meeting.  President Paul announced today's speaker would be Merle Madrid, Director of Legislative Affairs for Governor John Kasich. (The Governor was unable to attend as the speaker for the meeting).
 
Club Secretary Michelle Mullaly welcomed the following guests to our meeting:  Tim Ross and Kacy Bullard. 
 
The "Happy Bucks" news was then provided by the following Rotarians:  Fred Whittier was pleased to announce his mother-in-law turned 100 years old on January 12th and stated she is a wonderful lady and is doing fine; Ron Becker was very happy to announce his daughter is pregnant with the first grandchild; Suzette Matthews announced that her husband and fellow Rotarian Dan Matthews' family started their company 75 years ago on January 2nd.
 
Rotarian Shawn Dougherty took to the podium to make an announcement regarding the fellowship outing to the Canton Charge (see story above for more details pertaining to this event).
 
The following Rotarians turned in a makeup at Friday's meeting: Bill Maddox (2 makeups).