At the May 31, 2019 meeting, President Michelle Mullaly welcomed 51 members and 1 guest to the meeting. President Michelle took the opportunity to let everyone know they would be receiving a cup of Taggart's butter pecan ice cream compliments of Past President Rick Taylor. Thank you PP Rick!!Rotarian Jon Adland gave the Invocation.
Past President Amanda Tietze had the winning 50/50 raffle ticket worth $60.00!
Club Secretary Suzette Matthews welcomed one guest to the meeting, Tim Haverstock (guest of Steve Fettman).
The "Happy News" was provided by the following:
- Mark Clendenin - to celebrate the beautiful weather this Friday, May 31, 2019, and the fact that he could 'goof-off' the rest of the afternoon!;
- Dave Schrade - to celebrate his daughter Erika's recent Cum Laude graduation from the University of Akron. He also wished her well as she moves on to Law School;
- PP Rick Taylor - to remind Suzette Matthews that being Rotary Secretary is supposed to be for "LIFE"! (Editors note: Thank you, Suzette, for your outstanding years of service to this Club as Secretary);
Golf Co-Chair Bill Liber reminded everyone of the upcoming annual "Four Person Golf Scramble" taking place on Friday, June 28, 2019. There is still time if you are interested in being a $500 GOLD Sponsor or a $100 HOLE Sponsor. He informed everyone to please get either your foursome or individual golf registration into the Rotary office as soon as possible. Bill also asked for volunteers for the day of the event. We will need many hands to make this event successful!
Unevent Raffle Chair Mark Clendenin then brought the members up to date on the upcoming raffle. He provided a list of a few of the raffle items, and encouraged people to buy or sell tickets.
Rotarian Theresa Blocher graciously volunteered to auction off the metal Rotary Wheel made by Rotarian Ron Haines. The winning bid came from PP Dan Matthews ($110). Theresa then auctioned off the Club's four Hall of Fame Football game tickets. The winning bid came from PDG/PP Dave Ewing ($200). Proceeds benefited the Canton Rotary Charitable Fund.
President Michelle concluded the meeting with the following announcements:
- next week's meeting would be in conjunction with the Canton Greek Fest held at the Krassas Event Center. *Please see above story for details pertaining to this event
- any golf committee member or anyone interested in helping out during the golf outing was asked to please stay for the committee meeting which will took place immediately following the Rotary meeting.
The following will receive a makeup for attending the Golf Committee meeting on Friday, May 31, 2019: Bill Liber, Brad Carpenter, Dave Schrade, Drew Pelger, Greg Bumbu, Dave Ewing, Rick Taylor, Wilbur Allen, Amanda Tietze, Shawn Dougherty and Jim Molnar.