The clinic is put to work Mar 2, 2005
It still needs to be finished, but the walls are up, the rooms are partitioned and the roof is on. This allowed us to begin seeing patients.
Clinic Pictures Jan 27, 2005
The roof is ready to be poured.
President John brought the meeting to order and Joe Carroll provided the blessing.
Visiting Rotarians and Guests:
Visitors today were Lois McGinnis from the N Andover Club and also a guest, Jennifer Osmani, the manager of the Salem Five branch now open in Middleton. Thanks for joining us!
Make Ups:
Oscar Padjen made up at
on August 1
If you missed today's meeting, you have until August 30 to complete a makeup.
Fines and Happy Dollars:
Happy Dollars were collected by new father, Derek Scialdone, who filled in as Sergeant at Arms.
Derek gave to Spencer - VERY happy for the birth 3 weeks ago of his son, Drew! (Also a bit sad for some of his loss of sleep at night!)
Gary Sinclair also doesn't sleep much ---but his loss of beauty sleep is due to starting law school.
Jan Sinclair claims that she that she has a lot more free time now due to Gary starting school; also she & Gary had donated some time on their boat for charity ----- Peter & Maureen McAllister were taking them up on their offer and were going on a boat ride with them.
Eden Hutt took his son to his very first Red Sox game recently. Even though they lost, his son had a good time.
Linda Parker just returned from vacationing in North Carolina and heard Bob Dole speak.
Oscar Padjen is happy that Football Season has started up once again.
Ira Singer, with a knowing smile, told Derek not to expect any sleep for the next 18 years.
Harry Martin reminded everyone of the "August specials"! Please read the emails that he sends.
Gretchen Marks said that they, like the Sinclairs, were fulfilling a "back" gift to charity - costing $1,000.
Denver Wallace informed everyone that he had just celebrated his 80th birthday and added $80 to Spencer - he received a rousing round of "Happy Birthday to You" from the group.
Raffle:
Oscar Padjen and Gary Sinclair searched for the Queen of Hearts in today's Raffle but both came up with the wrong cards.
Announcements:
President John asked everyone to review their copies of the 2006-2007 committee list that was handed out to each member.
He also informed our club that the Board approved an international service project which helps a small Rotary Club located in Argentina raise funds for toys for local needy children. That Rotary club requested cards from us & Gretchen Marks showed samples of the 500 cards we are donating.
Don't forget to bring items for the BoxTop Community Store on August 23. This is an ongoing effort where the Club will get part of the proceeds for the goods that are sold.
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Program:
Al Craig, General Manager of the Topsfield Fair and longstanding TBM Rotarian, spoke to the club today about the Topsfield Fair. Al said that the most commonly asked questions at the Fair include: "Where are the restrooms?", "Where's the giant pumpkin?", and "What time do you start?" A lot of people have the misconception that Al's job starts and ends with the 10 day Fair, not realizing the huge amount of planning/organizing that goes into the full time job. Opening up on a Friday night, which is Topsfield night or "First Fair" night is a fairly recent development and includes the local community. Al showed a great video of the fair which included the Midway and rides, the parade, shows offered such as The Bellamy Brothers and The Flying Wallendas , exhibits, rodeo, barrel racing, car racing, and agriculturalpvestock exhibits. The video reminded us that the Topsfield Fair, which began in 1818, is the oldest agricultural fair in America. This year's dates are September 29 (Friday night) and then September 30-October 9. Chubby Checker and The Mounties will be among the 2006 entertainment features. October 6 will be Rotary Day at The Fair.
Al started as a volunteer at the Fair in 1979 and in 1986, became manager. He was responsible for bringing in large name Country Western & Rock Stars to the Fair, including Johnny Cash. The Topsfield Fair has a great reputation among the nation's fairs and is considered to be in the top 50 in attendance. After the fair has ended, All will be judging in several other fair programs, including ones in Alaska and Minnesota.
At the end of the presentation, John thanked Al, not only for a great talk, but always remembering the Rotary Club at Topsfield Fair time; and also he praised Al's strong practicing belief in service above self.
President John brought the meeting to order and Joe Carroll offered the blessing.
Visiting Rotarians and Guests:
Visiting Rotarians today included Paul Brigham, now of Wolfeboro, NH, Carl Melander from the North Andover Club and our AG, Lois McGinnis from the North Andover Club, PDG Victor Saldana from the Winthrop Club, and Joe Parks from the Ipswich Club who brought Michael Argeros as his guest
Other guests today included Barbara Was, Halcyon Carroll, Jennifer Osmani, Brad Swanson, and Dr Dan Vasiliv.
Middleton Kiwanis members joining us today included, Tim Hooten, Maria Silva and Michael Rasmussen.
Welcome and thank you for joining us today.
Fines and Happy Dollars:
Happy dollars were collected by Sergeant at Arms for 2006-2007, Jeff Kruck.
Jeff gave for his tardiness at today's BOD meeting.
Joe Carroll had some cash for missing the meeting.
Bob Was gave was happy for all the visitors and guests we had today.
Peter McAllister also gave some late BOD cash.
Gary Sinclair had $2 for Frank Perry and the Red Sox.
Harry Martin was chuckling over sun glasses in the room.
Denver Wallace was happy for his Grand Daughters success in gaining another first place ribbon at her horse show.
Carl Melander was happy.
Ira Singer was happy to see so many guests.
Raffle:
There were no winners today.
Program:
Today's speaker was Christy Mihos, Gubernatorial candidate for 2006. Christy gave a history of his business life and spoke about his time working on the Big Dig. He is running as an Independent candidate running on the slogan that he is "unbought and unbossed". To get the rest of the story check into his site at www.christy2006.com.
Introduce a friend to TBM and ask them to come to a meeting. See you next week...
Upcoming Programs:
September 6: - District Governor Donna Wayman will visit the TBM club.
September 13: - Bill Sargent will be back to talk about "Crab Wars"
October 4: - Rotary Day at the Topsfield Fair
Calendar:
Calendar of District Events
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