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 Needed for the conference: New shoes and socks for the Shoes for Orphan Souls project, and wine and crackers for the basket for the silent auction. Bridget Herzog is collecting the shoes and socks and Dick Hoback is collecting the wine. He got a small basket of bottles at this meeting but needs more. And thus far, no crackers.

 

 

 

 

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Boyd Preston (see photo above), organizer of the Service Day project, said 54 volunteers took part March 19, which included 42 Rotarians, five Interact members from Centerville High School, and 7 guests. Six volunteers worked on March 26. The work included seven locations and six different charities. Boyd said the charities we helped were appreciative and said we went beyond the norm of the usual volunteers in the work we did. The bakers at Lindy & Co. who made dog biscuits helped the organization meet their delivery deadline as their inventory was low before the group prepared about 60 pounds of dough. That was a lot of rolling, as Kim Senft-Paras can attest to. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kim Senft-Paras was the team leader for the group at Lindy and Co., where she recruited five Interact seniors from CHS to help out. They arrived in a timely manner and everything was already set up at their arrival by the staff there. Sean Mitchell and dedicated kitchen supervisor Noelle had everything ready, she said. Casey Swoboda, co-president of Interact, helped get their club members involved. Besides Casey, the Interact members were: Chance Koogler, Sahar Rehman, Swariah Rehman, and Zenab Hafeez.

 

Rick Terhune couldn't make the service day, but his wife Terry filled in for him, Kim said. They rolled and cut 60 pounds of dough, and packaged the organic dog biscuits, Kim said. They made Better Butter treats and Cheddar Chompers. "Work was really fun," she said. Dan Sortman and Kim did the washing up afterwards. This is a training site for teens at Daybreak, and the volunteers all got to see how evaluations of the work is done and were proud to be helping out teens. She said she hopes the project is kept for future Service days.

 

 

 

President-elect Ron Hollenbeck was the team leader at Hannah's Treasure Chest. They had to work hard and climb ladders and figure out how to get the covers off the light fixtures and one crashed down when Peachy opened it, Ron said. The group sorted and cleaned and ordered the inventory and was very much appreciated, he said. He showed the club a plaque (he had made up) thanking him for cleaning up Peachy's mess, and mentioned later that he had gone back and gotten those in charge to sign the hand-written message, as seen below.

 

 

Ron said he was presented with a special plaque after their day of service at Hannah's Treasure Chest.

Peachy did create a mess when the light fixture he was working on came crashing down, but it wasn't

his fault. And Ron was instrumental in having the plaque signed by the HTC staffers. 

 

 

 

Jeff Senney, the one caught with the big grin in pictures posted of his group's work at the House of Bread, was the team leader for the group. They chopped onions and made salads and desserts and helped with the roasted chicken, he said. No illness was noticed after the eating of the 208 hot meals they helped produce, he said. It was a good experience and helped him appreciate his lot in life, he said. It was also a chance to give back and for him (an attorney) "a chance to do an honest day's work for a time," he quipped, rolling his eyes. 

 

 

 

 

Jim Harris spoke for the group that worked at St. Vincent de Paul's food bank on South Edwin C. Moses Blvd. Five Rotarians worked with a group of about 30 volunteers sorting cans of food and then filling small boxes. It was assembly line work and they filled 400 boxes. They also learned a lot about how the government keeps track by computer of all the food input. Member Phil Raynes said it was a good workout that was both fun and beneficial. Dick Hoback said the organization is faith based and the Lord's Prayer was said at the outset of their work day. Brian Hayes, a new member, got his first chance to see the club's Service Above Self in action.

 

 

 

 

Ray Werz, seen at the left in this photo, got back from his Florida sojourn just in time to make the March 26 Service day at the area in Grant Park by the Kennard Nature Nook, where their small group painted split rail fences. Pat Beckel, the team leader, took the pictures, so he isn't in any of them, and he was in Washington D.C. at the time of this meeting, so Ray did the presentation, though Pat sent several pictures, the rest of which Carol put on our Facebook. Ray said the day presented an opportunity to see the work behind the scenes and see his fellow Rotarians in a different light. Rotarian Jim Hester is seen here with his son.

 

 

The club members decided they would prefer doing all-club Service Days twice a year rather than four times a year, but that the House of Bread would still be served quarterly as in the past. 

Every group said they found the work worthwhile and well organized and appreciated. They thanked Boyd Preston for setting everything up and getting it all worked out despite the interruption of his triple by-pass heart surgery just weeks before the March 19 Service Day.