Amanda Vincent shares her experience at the Rotary International Learning To Lead Zones 28 and 32 over the weekend!
What goes up must come down and be sorted! CSH Rotarians pack up the golf balls for Golf Ball Drop 2024!
Club Meeting – Club Meeting & Golf Ball Sort
Dan called the meeting to order at 8:30 am.
Dan shared a thank you note from Vermont Donor Center.
Guests: Sam Friedman, who has applied for membership and Kevin Lewis, both from Hinesburg.
October 28 - Rotary Leadership Institute leadership training in St. Johnsbury, Vermont
November 11 - Rotary District Training. Anyone interested in attending these events is welcome and they are free of charge.
October 8 - tractor parade. Rene, Annette, Catherine, Charlie and Linda are the volunteers; arrive by 10:30, serving food at farmers’ breakfast.
October 28, Saturday – Last race of the year. Keith, Jon, Annette and Chris will volunteer.
October 29 – Halloween Parade - please sign up! Signs are available here today, please take one and place in high traffic areas of your communities.
Turkey distribution is on for all three towns.
Amanda shared her recent experience at the District Rotary Convention in Toronto. She had a great time and attended many training and educational events including: Young Professionals event at which the District Past Presidents spoke, a global grant project for which they pitched a grant idea for mental health to the Rotary leaders in attendance.
She learned about Toastmasters and their collaboration with Rotary International was amazed at the $100,000 that was raised at the event for the Rotary Foundation!!
Club brainstorm session:
Golf Ball Drop: Positives: attendance, weather, Rotary swag, no helicopter pivot with the fire truck, invitation to the Fire Department, raised a lot of money, good club attendance, the Kwini Club and Steve Gonsalves, audience, great publicity.
Improvements: sell balls earlier, audio announcement of winner, more community selling events, difficulty of QR sales and lack of physical evidence for receipt, day of we need credit card sale availability, better promotion of other events at the drop, Fire Department sales?, press release post event, more online options for sales, too many events during this time.
Pickle ball Tournament: Positive: weather, great turnout, great attendance, great participation feedback, $1200 was donated to Burlington Football Club, fun, non-Rotarian participants, third party organizer, new event, new demographic.
Improvements: Game On would like to increase event to a two day event, September 21 & 22, 2024, timing, attendance can push for sponsorships, good distribution of club publicity.
Farmers Market positives: nonprofit, brand awareness, exposure, sales opportunities for our clubs.
Improvements: hard to get volunteers to set up and take down for the many months it runs,
can the nonprofits bring their own tent or at least they break it down and deliver it to the barn?
The meeting was adjourned at 8:30 and the club sorted golf balls for storage and next years’ event.