Sivaji Subramaniam and Brad Thorp officially greeted this day. Here you see Sivaji shaking hands with Harvey Smith, with John Beals at the left and Doc Hoback inbetween Sivaji (R) and Harvey.
In this picture Sivaji is seen greeting Brian Hayes, who, like Sivaji and Harvey, often gives the prayer before the meeting.
In the picture below Sivaji has greeted club member Carol Kennard and the two are engaged in happy conversation.
Here Brad Thorp greets Kim Senft-Paras and Sivaji talks with Past President Ron Hollenbeck, who has been standing in for our ailing president, Peachy Metzner.
Below you see Sivaji and Brad with Ron Hollenbeck and Rebecca Quinones, one of the co-directors of New Generations for the club.
The next picture shows Judy Budi (R) and Linda Evans, dining room team leader. Judy is Vice President of Residential Services for Bethany Lutheran Village, which provided us with the dining space at their facility, as Yankee Trace was occupied by a large gathering this day.
And here you see Sandra Combs, executive assistant to the facility's president. She came to make sure everything was going as planned. And you'll see what excellent service and meal, we had in the pictures below.
And now for the menu, please:
And the salad:
And desserts:
And now for the main meal:
And now for a look at the fountain outside the dining room.
This is the speaker's table
The Centerville Rotary Club met in the Village Center Grand Room at Bethany Lutheran Village at noon. Past President Ron Hollenbeck led the Pledge of Allegiance. Ray Merz led the prayer and Brad Thorp led the singing of God Bless America.
Today's guests included:
Our speaker Zebbie Borland, Culinary Instructor and Assistant at the Dorothy Lane Market Culinary Center next to Dorothy Lane Market in Washington Square.
Zebbie is seen with a basket full of the different aprons she wore during her 27-year stint with DML in the second picture below. She said she loves ethnic food, Italian food, pork chops.....and that she's learned something from every class she has taught.
Dottie Overly, wife of member Don Overly, was also a welcome guest. She is seen in the first picture below with Tom Broadwell, her husband Don, and then John Beals. The pond with the fountain is seen in the window behind them.
Zebbie is seen below.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Past President Ron Hollenbeck stood in for our new president Peachy Metzner, who is still working on getting back to health. This is a picture of him and our speaker and Chuck King.
Ron said Peachy, our new president is still feeling fatigued and taking tests. He misses the club and hopes to be back soon.
Ron said he received a letter from the folks at the Americana Festival thanking the club for our $500 donation.
Rebecca Quinones (L) and Mark Febus, of New Generations, discussed some of the plans of that program with one another before Rebecca came before the club to mention that if we are going to help with inbound and outbound youth exchange students several members are needed to help with either an inbound or outbound student, with a deadline of mid September for our club speaking up to participate in the programs. The inbound student would be for the 2019-20 Rotary year. Arnie Biondi is willing to help anyone interested in helping with an inbound student, she said.
If interested, see Mark Febus or Rebecca Quinones.
Boyd Preston talked about signing up for the upcoming service days. Sign-up sheets were available still. He said those working with BOGG at their Chevy Chase outing Aug. 15, where they served food and a hot meal to those living in the subsidized housing units in Centerville and had music and games to play, went well. He said that the tickets for the Pancake Breakfast fund-raiser are in and they will need to be put in envelopes, so anyone who can stay for a while to help do that after next week's meeting, should do so to help out.
Since this Bulletin is going out on Saturday, our club's all service day...be sure to check out Facebook for pictures taken at the seven different venues this week. Boyd was checking in on them as we went and even ended up helping out for an hour at the House of Bread, as well as his work all morning on Project Read. We thank Boyd for all his organizing of these projects. We received a thank you already from the director of Project Read and I include two of many pictures taken there to show you the great help we had from those who donate the books and from folks like Amber Eastabrook and Irene Ullmer, who come to help out. Amber sped things up by jumping into the boxes and getting out the books no one could reach, and she is also a great help at the Pancake Breakfast, so thanks to all at all the projects, which take a lot of working together for good causes.
HAPPY BUCKS:
Sgt.-at-arms Erich Eggers was absent. Patrick Beckel stood in for him.
Happy Bucks are going to Operation Warm. Each $20 donation buys a new children's winter coat distributed by Hannah's Treasure Chest in partnership with local social agencies. Gerry Eastabrooks makes the rounds with the collection cup. She said Rebecca Quinones filled last weeks pledge of matching pledges made at her table, with a $120 donation. Erich also made his $200 donation for matching everyone at another table last week.
Here is a picture of Patrick left over from last week's meeting when he told of having his own cigars made with wrappers showing himself at a much younger age. He has invited members to smoke with him at his insurance agency.
Patrick did a good job of getting donations for coats. Many gave without additional comments about why they are happy, but it is a happy group, and they were all happy about the great food and service and goodwill shown by Judy Budi and the group at Bethany Lutheran Village for accommodating our group, which was not as large as usual, because of vacations and some people probably not being able to find it or remember where the meeting was to be held. Noticeably absent were Jack Workman and John Callander....
Ron gave $40 for a "40" in Bowling...a joke he said later...Frank Perez fined himself for going to the wrong place. Chuck King gave for a coat and mentioned his dog's surgery today. Brian Hayes gave for being Happy. Ray gave for a half a coat. Dave Trout gave for a coat, noting that he has two boys. At the last meeting they said they didn't know he had more than one boy. Brian Huffman gave for a coat, noting he has kids back in school. Boyd gave for a coat and Jim Harris gave for a coat. Doc Hoback said something about a son and a hip operation, but it was not audible as to the whole gist of the matter. Kitty and her mom Irene Ullmer each gave for half a coat and Irene won the ticket draw at the end of the meeting.
Carol Kennard gave noting she attended Springfield's Rotary Monday and that it was quite different than our meetings, with the president of the club reading what the members had written that they were happy about. It was mentioned that their club has a Food Truck event with 36 food trucks that Patrick said brings in more than $100,000. It's held in a park. Sivagi gave with thanks to Judy Budi arranging our meeting at Bethany, where she works. Kim gave for a coat, also thanking Judy for her efforts in the great luncheon Bethany provided. Deb Dulaney also thanked Judy and said she was thankful for the lovely day (to that point anyway). Bob Fry gave for a coat, and John Beals gave for part of a coat and said he and Sally spent the day before working on their farm, clearing out some trees, etc. Don Overly said he would be going to Michigan for a week and doing as little as possible. He also gave for a second great grandson.
Brad Thorp gave an IOU, noting Monday was their 41st anniversary and that his wife removed the $20 he had in his wallet for a coat.
Mark Febus gave and Lee Hieronymus gave $10, noting that he sold out of pie by 4 p.m. at the Ice Cream Social on Sunday, and then went home
Patrick fined himself for going to Yankee Trace before remembering it was not being held there this week, and Frank Perez also fined himself $5 for the same reason, both noting that Yankee Trace did look fine indeed from the outside.
Member Chuck King introduced our speaker Zebbie Borland. The two are seen in the picture below before the meeting.
Chuck said that Zebbie loves all kinds of food and has been at DLM since 1990 teaching six classes since 1998. He said she has a B.S. degree in business and certification from Miami University.
Zebbie said she had to learn to cook to feed her family. She and her husband have seven children, one daughter and six sons. "They eat a lot," she said. She will have her 14th grandchild in November. She said she grew up on a farm and learned "you are what you eat." She said DLM prides itself on quality and services. The founder and owner, Norman Mayne learned you have to be innovative if you are a family owned business. They are involved in consumer affairs, have issued cook books and does cook outs and cooking demonstrations and have a kid's club with kids getting free cookies and fresh produce, apples, and such. She said the cooking school was started in 1983. It has always been for home cooks and not for making chefs, she said. It was ideal, as they had all the food and supplies in the grocery store, and by cooking they could show their customers how to use the food best. The cooking school was started as The Green House Gallery in the Oakwood DLM, she said. It only sat eight people. Her mom went to the program and had a girlfriend sit at the other end of the table. That's how she found out about the program. In 1990 it was moved to the mezzanine, which could seat 20 people. In 1999 they moved the culinary program to the Washington Twp. site, where they feel like they are on the Food Network Show, she said. They have cook book authors, Food Network speakers and a large community of teachers, she said. "I teach all children's classes," she said. They have a camp in summer and holiday classes and try to teach the children where food comes from and how to eat it and, as is the case with pineapples, how to cut them. They try to teach them to eat with all their senses, making things pretty, and with different textures and such. They have classes for couples and grilling and holiday baking and wine pairings. They have schools come and wedding showers and baby showers and companies bringing clients together to cook together. They concentrate on organic and local and seasonal foods, she said. They also go into the schools. Their director is a chef by training, she said, and is now a corporate chef. They travel to trade shows and have pots and pans and everything that goes with food. They have brochures and cookbooks and can seat 36 people and have up to 60 people, she said. She said she learns tips from each class. Their Killer Brownies are shipped all over the world, she said. The recipe is not for giving out, she said. And one great big Killer Brownie is made and cut into smaller pieces and now they also have many variations on the original Killer Brownie. She once was trying to decide what to bring to a funeral in terms of food for the people, and thought of taking Killer Brownies, but thought it might not be appropriate because of the name. It was like when I lived in Germany and attending a young people's program at the local church, in which we each were to bring something. I not being a cook, only could think of making deviled eggs, which they didn't have there, and so had to try to explain my "beteufelte Eier" to them. We all live and learn. (Teufel being devil, and eggs Eier)
At the close of the meeting, Patrick Beckel can be seen in the purple shirt talking to member Don Stewart.
The meeting was closed with the reciting of the Rotary Four-Way Test.
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