A fine crowd gathered today fo our weekly Rotary breakfast meeting at Seven Oaks Park. Our esteemed President, Eddie Robinson, for those of you who haven't attended in awhile, opened the meeting. Bob Berry gave a thoughtful prayer, thanking the good lord for all our blessings. John Hanson introduced zero guests which is quite unusual. We did, however have a gaggle of Interact students in attendance, which is always nice to see. Kelly Payne gave a brief report on that clubs activities and membership which now stands at over 100 Dutch Fork High Schoolers.
Lyman Whitehead, as always, wowed us with some humor about a couple senior citizens and a Chicken, or was that a Gamecock. We tried to ask Beetle Bailey for confirmation but he was still licking his "Bama" wounds!!
Joel Collins then asked the club to interact more with the interact club kids (and vice versa). We are all creatures of habit and should do a better job of interacting with these great kids. Also, don't forget the Interact club's Kick - Off Party at Gatsbee's on September 15th at 6pm.
Jim Wellman, Okra Strut Chair, showed us the new t-shirt and reminded us of our "service above self" credo. Everyone needs to be active with this years Okra Strut on the last weekend of September. Sign up sheets will be forth coming.
John Adair provided a wonderful educational meeting last week and our thanks go out to him and his lovely wife for hosting the club. He also mentioned "Shadow Day" coming up on September 24. Please sign up. That is a fun half day with the leaders of tomorrow!
Happy dollars galore got kicked off by "yours truly" and continued until almost lunch time. I demanded an accounting from President Eddie but he was last seen boarding a flight to Mexico, I think.
Our speaker was Kim Bowers of our host location, the Irmo Chapin Recreation Commission. He heads up the Senior Services division. Kim discussed the ICRC's Council on Aging, one of only four statewide affiliated with a recreational department. They provide both generational programs as well as community involvement programs. Some of the services provided include, Meals on Wheels, nutritional and phsical activities, temporary medical equipment, case managers, senior games and Project Love (Let Older Volunteers Educate) with Leaphart and Chapin Elementary schools. Many questions followed. It is great to see services expanded for our senior citizens and better yet to volunteer to serve them.
The meeting was adjourned by President Eddie. Next week, September 10th, we are very excited to have the new Maestro of the SC Philharmonic, Morihiko Nakahara speak at our club. I will be introducing him as I have begun to get to know him since I am on the Board of Directors of the Philharmonic. Fellow Board Member, Harold Crawford and I ask that you all attend to meet Morahiko, he is a talented and energetic guy. I look forward to seeing you there.
Past President
Bill Danielson
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