President Adam Manning welcomed everyone to the Centerville Rotary Club and led reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Brian Hayes provided the prayer. Lee Hieronymus led singing of God Bless America.
Today’s quote provided by Don Overly: "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." Thomas Edison
Today’s Announcements
- Since this is Rotary Foundation month, let Ron H know by Nov 20 if you want to participate in the points match for your next Paul Harris Fellow.
- Thanks to today’s greeters, Rand Oliver and Boyd Preston.
- Welcome today’s guests: Rose Lovely and Aaron Smith (Gina’s husband.)
- Veteran’s Day is Tuesday, November 11th. President Manning asked all who are Veterans to stand and thanked them for their service to our country.
- Nov 11 Social will be at Brad Huffman’s house with meats from City BBQ. Please respond to Sofie if you are able to attend and tell her what dish you’ll bring to share.
- Adam shared the Holiday schedule - no meetings on: Thanksgiving; Dec 11 noon meeting is replaced with the evening Holiday celebration; No meetings on Dec 18, 25 or Jan 1. Thursday, January 8 Yankee Trace is closed so we will move the meeting somewhere else. Stay tuned!
- Ron H reminded people to let him know if you donate to the Rotary Foundation online, so he can send in the PHF information all together.
- Bill M announced the last Highway Cleanup of the year is Saturday, Nov 15. There are 2 shifts so please sign up to help! As of now, we only have 5 people to help.
Sofie presented President Manning with a check for $115 for Threads of Miami Valley, from donations members made as a thanks to Adam for his hard work leading Pancake Day and the Club.
Happy Bucks this quarter will be donated to Threads of Miami Valley who provides essential clothing to individuals and families in need at no cost, promoting dignity and hope.
Pat Beckel was our Sergeant at Arms with help from Brian Hayes.
Happy Bucks were generously given for:
- Pat B for the good speakers coming up on our calendar.
- Kristin H is happy to be back.
- Carol K for Brian’s outfit.
- Rose was happy to be here again and thanked the Club for our kindness.
- Jim H for today’s guests.
- Lee H shared the world record for the tallest sunflower this year was grown in Indiana and stands 35’ 9” tall. The sunflower is the national flower of Ukraine, the home country of the grower, Alex Babich.
- Brad H gave thanks to Adam for his leadership of Pancake Day and that he survived Dad’s Weekend at OU.
- Elda GG was happy to be here.
- Harvey S for today’s Sergeant at Arms being so well dressed.
- Ron H for today’s guests.
- Adam M was happy.
- Jeff S shared they have a challenge in his office to complete 100 squats/day so he asked everyone to stand up and everyone did 10 squats at his request (the rest can be finished at home.)
- Mark K for the beautiful day, possible snow flurries in the forecast and hopes for good football this weekend.
- Chuck K was happy.
- Rand O noted we live in the land of the free thanks to our Veterans, and said “Welcome Home” to those who keep us free.
- Aaron Smith announced their son was hired on the pit crew of a cup series NASCAR Team.
- Gina S was happy her friends were at the meeting today.
- The other speakers at the table were also happy to be here.
- Dan J said his girls had a great Halloween and brought home over 25 full size candy bars.
- Sofie A thanked our Veterans.
- Bob D hopes the weather on Veteran’s Day is as good as it is today.
- Dale B said this week’s meeting reminded him of old school days that started with calisthenics.
- Mike W for the good food today.
- Tyler R reminded all that Tuesday, 11 am there is a Veteran’s Day celebration at Stubbs Park and encouraged all to attend.
Today’s visitor’s were all local authors: Antonio Garcia, Lamar Ferrell, Marisa Dillon, and Rochelle Bradley (Gina Smith).
Tony Garcia is the owner of the recently opened The Cozy Book Nook, located at 1400 East 3rd Street in Dayton. They specialize in local indie authors and are located in an 1896 building. They include books by over 120 indie authors. He is on Fox 45 once/month talking about books.
Tony just published his first book - “Sins of the Fathers”, and has also written short stories, too
Indie authors have to pay for the printing themselves, do their own advertising, etc. They do not work with a publisher. Interesting nugget: Tony met his wife at Pat’s Humidor.
He suggested, if you’re thinking about writing a book, do it. Self-publishing allows the artist to be in charge of their own work.
- Find an editor to help clean it up
- Find a graphic designer to do cover work.
Amazon makes it pretty easy to upload and publish your own book.
Indie authors have a community to help each other
Mo Dillon /Marisa Dillon said she writes historical romance novels and visited our club here once before with Channel 22/Fox 45 where she works in Marketing. She has always loved to write. She started with traditional publishing but when that publisher closed, she decided to be an indie author
She has published a 3 book series, The Ladies of Lore. And has published book 1 in a new series, The Art of Love. All books are available on Amazon
HERE.
Lamar Ferrell shared his first published work, “Dirty Big Secret”.
He grew up in Alexander, VA, and moved to this area in 1984. For 20 years, he has been the chaplain for Middletown police/fire. He is also a Pastor. The book is his story, sharing about the lowest part of his ‘brutiful’ life. Life is about relationships and community. The book will be released on
November 18 which is significant as that is the day his father died.
Our own Gina Smith (Rochelle Bradley pen name) said the question she gets asks most is, what inspires her to write? Her stories come mostly from dreams but also some from real life. She feels the world needs more laughter and love, so her books are written as “Romance with sass and shenanigans.”
Gina’s newest book is “Popping the Clutch.” It involves a female car mechanic, CarTube channel, and a dream car’s owner. Gina read part of the book, which included the mention of a Rotary Club.
Gina writes fiction and is here to help you get started if you ever want to give it a try. She has published 14 books so far, including 7 in the Fortuna, Texas series, 2 in the Dragon series, 2 in the Learning to Love Again series, 1 of 3 in the Popping the Clutch series, 2 in Fortuna Dare Society. One of her books starts in Uptown Centerville.
