Past-President Frank Perez welcomed everyone to the Centerville Rotary Club and led the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance. PDG Harvey Smith provided the prayer, and Ron Bowersocks, Jeff Senney, and Lee Hieronymus led singing of God Bless America.
Quote of the week was: "When you're good to others, you're best to yourself." Benjamin Franklin
Announcements:
- Thanks to our greeters today: Erich Eggers and Gina Smith, Harvey Smith, and Jeff Senney
- Guests: Lisa Watkins and Zenas Pierce
- t’s time to vote for Rotarian of the year - reply to President Arnie by May 12. To review previous ROY honorees, visit our website here: https://centervillerotary.com/sitepage/rotarian-of-the-year
- Thanks to Ger Eastabrooks and her daughter, Amber for assembling the Crayons to Classrooms notebooks and delivering them this week.
- Kim Senft-Paras has resigned from the club due to her busy schedule. We wish her well and thank her for her contributions, and now are now looking for a new membership chair.
- O-E Multi-district Country Contact to Spain Rotary District 6670, Southwest Ohio, USA info:
Happy Bucks this quarter are going to East Palestine Rotary Club. Pat Beckel was our Sergeant at Arms with assistance by Jim Stuart.
Pat Beckel challenged Erich Eggers to a competition between two Rotary golf teams at the upcoming golf outing. Place your bet on a winning team and the proceeds go to Rotary. The winning team will also have bragging rights for a year.
Happy Bucks were generously given for:
- Ron Hollenbeck for the upcoming golf outing, noting the committee worked hard to put together a great fundraiser and we’re going to have a nice weather day!
- Rand Oliver had a great morning playing golf with Jim Stuart and after the golf tournament, he will be leaving for 3 weeks to play golf on other courses.
- Kelly McDonald for the golf scramble tomorrow.
- Ger Eastabrooks was happy.
- Erich Eggers was happy for tomorrow’s golf outing.
- Wayne Davis signed up to be on Pat’s golf team.
- Bob Sachs for the good weather tomorrow.
- Sofie Ameloot sent a message saying the scholarship interviews are going well.
- Raj Grandhi for the improving weather.
- Jim Harris for the golf outing and to see which is the better Rotary team.
- Dick Hoback for East Palestine
- Dale Berry for the good weather.
- Uriah Anderson for the great community support for the Rec & Fire levies.
- Chuck King for the golf outing, great committee work, & good weather.
- Ray Merz explained his aversion to golf. When he worked in Chillicothe, he was encourage to golf, but needed to have time, money, and interest. Now he has the time and money, but still not interest, noting he feels it’s as exciting as watching grass grow!
- Harvey Smith for East Palestine.
- Brad Huffman for the amazing job by the golf committee and club support of our fundraisers, and announced their High School seniors have chosen colleges in Ohio - OSU & OU.
- Adam Manning for the golf committee.
- Dan Johnson for getting to do the Daddy/Daughter camp out after the golf tournament.
- Carol Kennard apology for missing the golf tournament as she will be in Philly celebrating her granddaughter’s 4th birthday.
- Jeff Senney for his son, daughter-in-law, and grandbaby Henson visiting for the week. They will all head to Cleveland this weekend for both new grandbabies to meet.
- Pat Beckel said people don’t realize how much work goes into putting together a golf outing and gave a big thanks to the committee.
Our program today was assembly and set up for the Golf tournament. Thanks to all who stayed to help.
Frank Perez finished the announcements:
- Ron Bowersocke & Erich Eggers will greet next week.
- Our speaker next week is Toniya Singh, who will speak on diversity.
Adam Manning announced this is our 3rd Golf Outing. Our biggest fundraiser is Pancake Breakfast but during COVID we had to shut down. As we started coming out of the pandemic, we were searching for another fundraiser, and Harvey Smith thought of a Golf Outing.
Adam gave thanks to committee members, many of the same people serve on both pancake and golf committees. Brad Huffman gave thanks to Adam for their leadership and dedication. The entire club is thankful for them!
Brad noted we started offering a combo sponsorship last year that gives a discount to sponsor both Golf and Pancake. Many have taken advantage of this discount.
- The forecast for the outing is temperatures in the 70s and sunny and 70 golfers are signed up this year.
- Prizes, Raffle, 50/50 Raffle, breakfast, lunch and good fun playing golf.
- The club sang the latest golf song and then all helped stuff bags and set up for the events
2023 Rotary Golf Outing Highlights
The weather was perfect, the event well-organized thanks to the hard-working committee and great leadership by Brad and Adam, and a great time was had by all. A BIG THANKS to all of the sponsors (see logos on the side bar.)
And then, THIS happened:
Dan Cleary got A Hole in One and won a 2-year Infinity lease!
Congratulations to the top teams:
1st Place team was Jeff Senney’s team
2nd Place team was Wyatt Thorp’s team
3rd Place team was Dave Montgomery’s team with PSE Law
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