**Rotary Notes for Meeting Held on July 21, 2015**
 
The meeting was opened by President Rich Forte with the ‘Pledge of Allegiance’,  Bob Cocks led us in ‘God Bless America’ , and  Rev. Darrell led us in the Blessing.
 
GUESTS: Our guests today included: the speaker, Emily Spencer of Heartillerygroup.com, our guest speaker, and Anthony Guardia (Does he need a diversion after being married for only 15 days?).  George Hoffmeister led us in the Welcome song.  Welcome back George!!
 
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
-Dues are going up by $25 per year.  Look for the increase on the next billing.
-During the month of October, look up on Chapel St. and see 5 Rotary banners overhead.  Thanks Bill Paulson.
-The reality fair has two dates upcoming.  October 5, 2015 for the current seniors and May 23, 2016 for the current Juniors.
-We are looking for local businesses to underwrite the cost of some of our projects.
 
PRESIDENTAL MOMENT: Lois ran out of presidents born in July so she tried to trick us with Amelia Erheart.  Good try!  She also had a bit of humor:  A police officer called in an unusual situation.  A lady had just shot her husband for walking on her newly cleaned and still wet kitchen floor.  The officer was asked by the station if entered the premises and was she was placed under arrest.  He replied no.  The floor was still wet.
 
50/50:  Winning ticket was held by Dan Tibma but didn’t pick the ten of spades.
 
HAPP DOLLARS:  for our guests, vacations, love for the victims and their families of the Tennessee violence, our vets, our speaker, Anthony’s and Theresa’s  marriage, and the ever popular HTBH.
 
DOUG’S HUMOR:  A man died and went to St. Peter.  He was asked about his record, which wasn’t particularly good or bad.  St. Peter then asked if there was any way the soul could help with the decision.
 
He replied: “Yeah, once I was driving along and came upon a person who was being harassed by a group of thugs. So I pulled over, got out a bat, and went up to the leader of the thugs.  He was a big, muscular man with a ring pierced through his lip.  Well, I tore out the ring and told him he and his gang had better stop bothering this guy or they would have to deal with me!”
Wow that’s impressive replied St. Peter.  But it’s not on your record.  When did this happen?
The soul replied: “About three minutes ago.”
 
GUEST SPEAKER:
Emily Spencer, a newlywed and military spouse whose husband was recently deployed.  She spoke about her charity to send cards to the thousands of military personnel overseas to let them know of our appreciation for their efforts.  In a year and a half she has sent over 300,000 cards in addition to “Care” packages.  She can be contacted at Love@heartillerygroup.com or by mail to PO Box 612 in Norwood, MA 02062