Oct 5 & 12 Meetings

 

 

President Samantha Maruzzelli brought the meeting to order at 12:15 PM at Purkey’s Pink Apple with John Hovan reciting the 4-Way Test and leading the Pledge of Allegiance and Jon Buxton giving the Invocation.

 

 

Mike Donahue – guest speaker

 

 

Dave Wilson – Interact Club Wed Oct 4

 

 

Ad  Dave Wilson said Interactors are selling $20 gift cards to Twigs. See Dave if you want to buy a gift card. Now, have over 30 kids in Interact including our inbound exchange students.

 

 

Newsletter went out this morning and nothing else to report.

 

 

Nothing new to report.

 

 

There will be a Flash Meeting tonight at Bogey’s at Shadowbrook at 5:15 PM.

 

 

Glenn Holecomb delivered Drug take Back poster and rack cards and we need to get them out so people will know about the date and locations.

 

Great turn-out for Ron’s Dad’s viewing. Sympathy card passed around.

 

 

Sandy reported that we have a t-shirt design for the Festival. She hopes to have them for Thurs. at Lazybrook.

 

Ann Way reported that there are 56 Rotary Lounge and 2,122 online tickets sold so far.

 

We need people to stay around after the Festival to help clean up, since we need to get it done before dark.

 

Thank you party at Nimble Hill Tasting Rooms on Sun Oct 22, 4-6 PM.

 

Club will provide lunch for Lazybrook Park meeting next week.

 

 

Sandy reported that the Dictionaries were distributed Wed and Thurs to the 3^rd grade classes at the 4 elementary schools. Total dictionaries that we have distributed for last 15 years were 3,624 dictionaries. There are a few extra if anyone would like one for a child they know.

 

 

Norm said all went well and we have been doing this for last 20 years. Did it in under 2 hrs. Harry’s car was sideswiped by someone during the pickup.

 

Our next Meeting will be Oct. 12 at Lazybrook Park for our pre-Festival meeting.

 

President Samantha Maruzzelli adjourned the meeting at 1:18 PM.

 

Mike is originally from Jenningsville, PA. His early years in a very large family helped him deal with life events with reason and common sense.

 

He has overseen 29 different drug and alcohol programs and many human services programs in many localities. He was chief of Drug & Alcohol and Human Services in Luzerne County and is responsible for Cammie Anderson being assigned to TASD 26 years ago.

 

He wanted to come back home to Wyo Cty, so he jumped at the chance to take over Wyo Cty Human Services.  The drug epidemic in Wyo Cty is just as severe as in Luzerne and other counties.  These are our kids and we are losing them to drug deaths.  Almost 90% of Children & Youth placements are drug related.  Mental health is exacerbating the drug epidemic through self-medication.

 

Senior citizens are ones to which legal opioids are being prescribed in large amounts. We really need more senior centers in Wyo Cty.

 

Aging, transportation and our society being affected by substance use disorder.

 

He will not be the Wyo Cty Children & Youth Administrator. He will go after a Human services block grant and pay Luzerne county for their services. $1.4 million will come to Wyo Cty for human services for drug & alcohol, mental health and housing programs.

 

They also got approval for a Children & Youth Administrator with human service oversight. Human Services reports to the County Commissioners.

 

His goal to make Wyo Cty a model for human services for all of PA and he wants a wellness center for this County.

 

 

President Samantha called the meeting to order at 12:15 and reminded everyone that there is a Board of Director's meeting on Tuesday Oct 17 at Towne and Country Grille and that our meeting on Oct 19 will be a Club Assembly.

 

President Samantha then turned the meeting over to Harvest & Wine Festival Chair Ron Furman.  Ron reviewed all the work assignments for Saturday's Festival and the various policies that we have regarding what Festival attendees can bring on site.  

 

Ann Way reviewed the current status of ticket orders which were over 3,000.

 

Sandy Lane reported that the t-shirts were shipped to her, but had not yet arrived, so members will get them on Saturday morning.

 

After a club provided lunch from Antonio's Pizzeria and Restaurant, those signed up to help with set-up went back to work getting the site ready for Saturday's Festival.