Wednesday,15 November
The first 'occasional' joint meeting of the Dryden and Groton Rotary clubs was held at the Dryden Community Center Cafe. The Dryden club provided the location and logistical assistance while Groton acted as the 'host' providing a dinner of chicken casserole, tossed salad, rolls, soda, and great desserts!
From 6:00 to 7:00 folks were able to socialize and enjoy dinner. At 7:00 each club took about 10 minutes to cover any business and tell the other club about what they are doing. Dryden is pushing sign-ups for 2 days of Salvation Army bell ringing while Groton is working on their Hurricane Heroes which involves their community and grade school students in fund raising for school libraries affected by recent hurricanes in Florida,Texas, and possibly Puerto Rico. All the dinner fees and both club's happy dollars for the evening were donated to the cause for a total of $172.
Foundation Area Director Evan Kurtz presented Ben Curtis, Groton President, with the Groton club's award from the recent Foundation Dinner for $100 per capita giving to the Rotary Foundation in 16-17.
Sadly Dryden's speaker, Jon Helsiva, last years Dryden exchange student to Germany, was ill so the rest of the evening was spent socializing, not that Rotarians mind that!
There was talk of 'doing this again' as all enjoyed the evening so stay tuned for the next 'occasional' joint Dryden/Groton joint meeting!
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