Pledge/Prayer: President Peter
Song: Bill McLaughlin
Brents Card Game Winner: Bill McLaughlin
Sergeants Report: Gerri
Welcome to our guest, Lauri Fedorich - Joe's Mom
Raffle Winners: Al, Bill S
Happy Bucks
Announcements
Peter: 1) Matt Sullivan has resigned from the club due to personal reasons. 2) There will be a food drive at the Mystic Marriot this Friday and Saturday night and volunteers are needed
Brent: Thanked hosts Al Lindquist and Bob Hester for an afternoon of golf at the Old Lyme CC. Brent is planning another day at Black Hall on Oct. 18 to be hosted by Andy Anderson
John Donnelly: Host families for our exchange student Zuka are still needed. Please call John with prospects.
Gene Heiney:The Citizens Police Academy is starting Thursday Nov. 8. Its an 8 week program and is limited to 12 people. It meets one night a week for 2 to 2-1/2 hours and you learn about the functioning of the department behind the scenes. Let Gene know if you are interested.
Andy Anderson: Commended Larry Freundlich for obtaining a $20,000 grant for a program held at Camp Hazen for 8th graders moving on to high school. It was a chance for the kids to get to know each other and bond as a class. It was for 2 days and 1 night and received lots of positive comments.
Bob Chase: We need members to step up and become officers and board members. If interested, please talk to Bob who is in charge of the nominating committee.
Special Event:
Gene Heiney was inducted into the club in a ceremony lead by Bill McLaughlin
Program: Charlie Norz
Charlie spoke of the Dictionary Project which our club has been doing for several years now. It is extremely popular with the local 3rd grade teachers. This is part of a No. Carolina national program and is taking off with over a million dictionaries distributed annually. The dictionaries cost $1.70 each for a total of $700 for 400 books. Please let Charlie know if you'd like to be part of the team that distributes the dictionaries - its fun and rewarding. Here is the schedule:
Thursday, Oct. 11 - Old Saybrook Schools
Friday, Oct. 12 - Lyme-Old Lyme Schools
TBD, Westbrook
Following Charlies talk, we broke down into groups and applied stickers to the books which tells where they came from and a line for the student to enter their name.
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