Meeting of April 1, 2015

 
 
Minutes of the Charlotte- Shelburne Rotary Meeting – Wednesday, April 01, 2015
 
Richard Fox called the meeting to order and in rapid fire announced upcoming events including a Board meeting on April 9th, the Sugar on Snow party on April 12th for old members and prospective new members and a “grab bag” of a meeting on April 15th which will probably include a classification talk by a member undetermined.
 
Michael Clapp announced that he is working on an event to raise money for the food shelves of Hinesburg, Shelburne and Charlotte and maybe things were not entirely under control. While the Shelburne Supermarket offers a table inside or outside of the market they do not want Rotarians actively soliciting shoppers for donations. They prefer the Rotary to be present and create an attractive setup whereby donors approach without solicitation. Discussion ensued regarding proper notification and publicity, possibly pushing the date out to May so that we could iron out the details.  President Fox thought we might be entering into the phase of “mission creep”.  More details to sugar out at the committee meeting next week.
 
Importantly, the food shelves are BARE following a long hard winter. They need the community’s help.
 
Fines were levied.  Bill Root was the sole Rotarian to park cars at the Farm’s event last weekend, a rescue greyhound was adopted (Congratulations), and people were just happy.  Must be the coffee.
 
Our speaker this morning was Dawn Anderson speaking on the 911 system.  Salient facts:
 
  1. Land lines work better than cells in locating people;
  2. 60% of the 240 million calls placed each year nationwide should not be placed;
  3. Many calls are made by accident on a cell (children playing, etc);
  4. Some calls are nonsense – how do I cook a turkey, there is a spider in my closet;
  5. The standard for making a call is whether it will save a life, stop a crime, report a fire or a natural disaster.
  6. 911 (without the dashes) often has an area of approximately three football fields to locate you – better to be able to give location and/or directions if you can;
  7. The dispatcher will get you to the right responder – you are supposed to remain calm.  I leave that one up to you and your imagination.