Joyce Bosse organized a Fundraiser for Rocky Bostrom. at our Angie Robinson Gazabo in the center of Henniker.  on August  8th at 6pm

 

 

                           

desert any one???    Sell  it Nancy

 

Our guest speaker this morning was David Diezel of NEC. It is always nice to hear updates about the college and particularly about their students.

With another chili fest in the books, our coffers look a lot better. Because of the proceeds of this event, we're able to give scholarships to local students, grants to individuals and organization in local, regional and international communities, so we thank ALL of the participants in this process. Without slighting anyone, we especially thank the Chili Fest Committee and Pat's Peak for all they did to make this event a success. Over 1200 people attended and for a change, we didn't get rain. Please check out our Facebook pages for the wonderful pictures taken by member Evan Thompson.

Once again our auctioneer Carolyn did a fabulous job of holding our annual Spring auction. In one hour we reached our goal and laughed a lot!! Thank you to everyone who participated.

Henniker resident Pattie Hayes recently spoke to the Club about her business, Care Compass Senior Services and is a  Senior Care Specialist, facilitating options for people who are aging or who have family members who are aging. Most people don't know where or how to  begin to navigate through the process of Senior Care and she provides one on one assistance.

An annual event for the Henniker Rotary Club is to hang wreathes in on lamp posts in the center of Henniker. Hopefully this helps get everyone in the holiday spirit, even if we don't have snow yet.

We were pleased to have more guests than Rotarians at today's meeting. They were invited to hear Dr. Thomas Andrew, the State's Medical Examiner speak about the rise of opioid deaths in NH.

This morning was Catherine Constanzo's last day with the Henniker Rotary Club. Ruth presented her with a "Service Above Self" pin and we wished her good luck in her future endeavors. Catherine will be in the area for a few more weeks and promised to visit us when she returns to visit her parents.

 
Lisa introduced Val Blachley, retired special ed. teacher, who, with several other educators, has founded a non-profit called Children Helping Children, which engages classroom teachers and other adults in mentoring kids in starting and completing philanthropic projects in their schools to benefit other children.

Rep Jim McConnell (R-Swanzey) recently visited our club to talk about the Kinder Morgan pipeline and MBTE. As a NH Representative he has been working hard to try to get our Federal elected officials to see how the negatives far outweigh the positives in allowing the pipeline to be built, and has been trying to get the State to understand the consequences of the now overturned Federal mandate to add MTBE to gasoline. He is shown here with President Ruth Zax presenting him with a 2015-2016 Rotary International pin.