Centerville eBulletin 10 03 2019 (Sep 30, 2019)

Rotary's Theme for 2019-20 Centerville Rotary Club Meeting Oct. 03, 2019 Official Greeters for the week:

10/03/2019 Crissy Allums and Dale Berry

10/10/2019 Ann Blackburn and Doug Bockrath

10/17/2019 Terry Hanauer and Rick Hauser

10/24/2019 Matt Kuhn and Don Stewart

Our official greeters: Crissy Allums and Dale Berry greet Adam Manning.

The Pancake Breakfast Committee is fast at work before the meeting begins.

Dale Berry is always ready to fill in when someone else is unable to be a greeter. Many

thanks to Dale.

President-Elect Frank Perez gets to sit down outside the meeting room before it all begins.

Our soon-to-be new member Elda Gotos Gay.

Jack Durnbaugh wears his principal garb very well. A few pals of his will soon show up.

For some reason Club Runner has it in for Ray Merz. It states it is sending him the Bulletin

but for the past three weeks, he has not gotten one.

Here comes our GBA man, who's always on key. Brad Thorp.

Jim Harris is an all-round volunteer.

Here's Crissy being one of the best greeters ever...with Adam Manning helping out.

Terry Hanauer and Doc Hoback have a good laugh at something.

Sury Peddiereddie is on the move...Maybe towards the dessert?

Brian Hayes and Carol Kennard seem to be discussing something important.

Bob Fry gets a greeting from both Dalle Berry and Crissy.

There's Lee Hieronymus, who knows a bit about the dry weather we've been having.

Too much for the dollar he wants to give, as you will hear later.

Gerry our club treasurer knows how to dish it out during Happy Bucks, as you'll soon

find out.

Here comes Arnie Biondi...again, as he's on the Pancake Breakfast Committee.

Our guest Jana Ramos is back with good news to share.

That's Sofie Ameloot above talking with Terry, only she moved her hand up too soon for

the camera.

Shelly Snell says she's interested in joining the club. Let's hope she does.

Matt Kuhn has a great smile.

The academy room fills up just before the meeting begins.

Note that Ann Blackburn is among us this week.

And let the eating begin!

They got the word here.

The Centerville Rotary Club met at Yankee Trace at noon for the weekly meeting. President Chuck King led the Pledge of Allegiance; PDG Harvey Smith told the club that Dottie Overly, the wife of our member Don Overly, passed away on Saturday. He asked for a moment of silent prayer for the two; the singing of God Bless America was led by Brad Thorp.

Menu this week: Chicken Supreme-Broccoli, Baked Potato

Menu next week: One-half club sandwich, soup

Guests this week: Our speaker School Superintendent Tom Henderson, Dan Tarpey,

Elda Gotos Gay, Jana Ramos, Shelly Snell

President Chuck King presided over the meeting.

Announcements:

President King thanked our greeters.

Adam Manning talked about sponsorships,

Sofie Ameloot said we have $9,605

thus far. (for Operation Warm?)

President King talked about the two honorees last week, Harvey Smith and Kim Senft-Paras. The Rotarians in the club gave a good turnout at both events: The Centerville-Washington Foundation event honoring Harvey, and the Woodbourne Library event honoring Kim's retirement.

He mentioned that our Happy Bucks for this quarter will go to the Dayton Food Bank.

Sofie Ameloot said we won't be able to put the labels in the dictionaries and thesauri until after the meeting on Oct. 10, as the area we need to use will not be clear until then.

If you know of any Centerville High School student who would like to be an outbound exchange student, let the club know.

On Nov. 7 from 5:30 to 8:45 P.m. there will be a workshop at Middletown High School on various topics dealing with membership recruitment.

Happy Bucks were collected this week by Sgt.-at-Arms Erich Eggers, with Club

Treasurer Gerry Eastabrooks collecting the funds.

The Happy Bucks go for the Dayton Food Bank this quarter. Next quarter it's for the

Alzheimer's Association of the Miami Valley.

The Happy Bucks this day also included an auction of Sweet City Barbeque Sauce. The asking price was just five dollars for each of the three. When $5 was offered, Erich said sold, but then someone said, hey, maybe people would pay more, and Rick Hauser offered $10 for one of the three.

Last week special note was made of a backboard signed by well-known UD players back in 2002 or so....No bidding was made on it, so Pat Beckel had asked if anyone had gone to UD. No one raised their hand. "Did anyone go to high school? he joked. Then he bid $50 himself for Erich, whom he has assumed will be delighted to have it. This week Erich turned the tables, and since Pat wasn't at the meeting said something about Patrick's $50 going for a coat or something like that.

A Flying Pizza certificate worth $25 went to Gerry for $25.

Erich said he was giving $3 to tell the story about him going to Disney World with a 6 and 4-year old grandsons and hearing their belly-laughs on the Roller Coaster in the Animal Kingdom and wanting to go more, etc., and making their dad, Mark Balsan go on it with them, and wanting to sit in the front row.

Many gave for the Overlys and our guests and guest speaker, and Jeff Senney said he was in Washington D.C. where his son and son's girlfriend are and that he heard good news from them.

Elda said she was happy to be with us, and Lee gave a Buck to tell how we need a good eight inches of rain just for us to get back to normal, and was about to go on, when Gerry cut him off: "You got

more money?" The group roared.

Doc Hoback gave $2 for Dottie Overly, and Dale told about mentioning the Rotary and the Pancake Breakfast on a Meet the Candidates program on TV.

A number of people gave $ 5 for different people and Ron Hollenbeck gave $10 for Carol Kennard's address about Harvey at the Foundation event. Harvey also gave for Dottie and then Lee held up another dollar, and Gerry went over to him and said: "Keep it short." He finished his story about the rain.

I'm keeping this short as my computer deleted everything I had put in (all my pictures and captions) yesterday, and now Club Runner says they are going to be down from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday for some sort of update, which they may have been playing with yesterday...who knows. Anyway, I hope to get

this sent before everything is erased again. Your editor...

Speaker of the Week: Tom Henderson, Centerville School Superintendent,

speaking on the upcoming 6.9 mill continuing school levy on the November 5 ballot

Tom brought along Dan Tarpey, Director of Human Resources for the school district.

Tom began by noting that the school district had not asked for a levy in six years. He noted that most of the schools in the district are 50 years and older, with one being 95 years old. With age, the schools are now digging into the district's savings to operate, he said.

The levy will be a 5.9 operating levy with a one-mill permanent improvement.

He mentioned enrollment increases. In the past few years several hundred students have been added, along with new programs and college level credit courses, etc.

He said before going to the levy, the district conducted a number of community input projects,

from talking with stake holders, to focus groups, to a survey for what people expect from their schools and how they perceive them now. The input was very positive about the education the students are getting and the teachers and programs that are being provided, he said. For the most part residents are happy with the school district and want to see it continue to stay strong and vita, with additional security and mental health and suicide prevention programs. He said the district has a partnership with Southview and mental health programs and have been working with students who have challenges. They have gotten grants to help with programs in the schools and have gotten $648,000 a year for that support, so they have someone in every building to help out. They have a special program for suicide prevention and as special squad to get kids talking, so they can deal with various challenges in a more positive way.

Issue 8 is projected to help keep and attract quality teachers, continue readiness and AP programs, update educational technology, repair and update buildings, upgrade safety and security, and protect home values in the community.

Tom said the levy will cost the home owner about $20 a month per $100,000 property value.

He said residents have stated they want to keep the facilities in good shape. "We work hard

every summer and keep water lines replaced," he said. Though the buildings are getting older]

that is not of immediate concern, he said. He said Dan Tarpey has traveled around the district and works with advanced planning and updating technology and looking at class sizes. All the buildings are air conditioned, he said. The district has gotten efficiency wards over the years for controls they put on it. He offered yard sale signs to those who wanted to post them in their yards. They are seen all around the Pleasant Hill area, and probably elsewhere.

The Rotary meeting was adjourned with the reciting of the Four-Way Test