President Sharon Meisel ran another successful and enjoyable Rotary meeting that included a short visit by our recent Youth Exchange Student, Amanda Reiter from Brazil, Sir Stuart telling us about UK remembrance of war casualties and the Poppy significance, visit by a new member applicant, Larry Newman, latest about our upcoming Flags for Heroes, info on Jim Carmalt’s new pups, update on Meals on Wheels need for volunteers, and a reminder to support our Taste for Giving restaurants. Drew Carroll...

This was another enjoyable meeting with 65 participants and guests. The three guests were: Patricia Borowski, District Gov Nominee, and President Sharon’s parents (Jack and Elaine Richardson from Overland Park, KS). We had birthdays by Drew that included Sharon’s Dad Jack whose 93rd was on May 26, news about a Flags for Heroes donation of $3,000 that will enable us to purchase our 300 flags, encouragement to bring in Flags for Heroes sponsors, and a report on our Ukraine Project....

This Forecaster covers a very busy and interesting ZOOM meeting where 62 of us heard timely announcements about the May meeting of our Board, the May Rotarians of the Month being Cathi Coridan and her Contributions Committee, a “Wonder Woman” recognition for President Sharon Meisel for all she does to provide weekly Zoom meetings, thanks from Russell Biesada for the Eagle Scout Scholarship we gave him, updates on the exciting plans and preparations for the Flags for Heroes, and word...

This was another busy ZOOM meeting with 65 members and guests signed in. The normal opening was ringing the Interact bell by Rick Endres, Pledge of Allegiance led by Taylor Barnes (US Flag flying in the background, and invocation by Jack Fannon that honored mothers everywhere. President Sharon Meisel had announcements about Flags for Heroes (wants each member to bring in 2 sponsors), Meals on Wheels soon to invite volunteers once again when they have the face covers being made...

Once again, a Forecaster reporting on a ZOOM meeting in the time of the COVID-19 crisis. Several timely announcements were made about supporting our TFG restaurants, sending out Contributions Day checks for $65,000 early to support charities in this trying time, congrats to Patrick Coye on receiving national recognition on a major painting project, and an update on our support for the Haiti school project. Jeanne Theismann introduced Gary Powers, Jr. who spoke about his father, Francis Gary Powers, a...

While this weekly Forecaster is not published with an impressive cover, it does provide information on a weekly meeting of over 60 club members. The format is a bit different since it doesn’t need to be folded and passed around a table. The ZOOM get-together is reported on in some detail with this Forecaster, including plans to support Taste for Giving restaurants, Maribeth Bersani’s classification talk, a book review of the “George Washington – Dealmaker-in-Chief” book (written by our speaker...

Our meeting on March 10th started with an alert from President Sharon Meisel that the ongoing Covid19 pandemic would require each of us to determine our actions and decide for ourselves whether or not to attend meetings. Since then our board and BHCC have decided to continue holding meetings but BHCC will discontinue the salad bar and serve a plated salad. We will need to basically RSVP if we’re coming to a meeting so BHCC can know how many to...

Janet Barnett started this meeting with a very appropriate quote of a short piece by Dr. Seuss that was timely and inspirational. During the business meeting President Sharon reminded us that our Charter Night was coming up on Saturday March 28th and we need to get our RSVPs in to Donna and also told us that our March community service project to provide diapers and wipes to the Campagna Center was very successful. Michael Aretti from Dist. 7610 Foundation then...

Our “Fat Tuesday” meeting started with Jim “Creole” Aldige giving us info on the New Orleans celebration of Mardi Gras along with the beads and candies in purple, green, and gold that Donna Wilson had placed on each table. This Mardi Gras recognition was capped by serving King Cake as the dessert at the end of the meal (several members found a “baby” in their King Cake dessert). Other announcements were March birthdays by Paul Anderson (Rich Morrison, Catherine Tulenko,...

The was a very busy meeting with a banner exchange with a Russian Rotarian, Bill Colosomo giving us an update on the Alexandria Singers use of our donation, congrats to Frank Fannon on his food drive, and President Sharon telling us about an upcoming Rotary Leadership Institute as well as a new member mentoring program. Our speaker was Bob Livingston, previous Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee who talked to us about his 22 years in congress and now over...