August 5, 2013 - 12:15 PM
The Pondhouse Cafe

During lunch, Cindy began the meeting with an update on Lobster Fest encouraging everyone to sell tickets. Also a reminder about what the money goes toward and how to speak with family and friends about what Rotary does.

Hap made some announcements:
• Our club is donating $500 toward backpacks for students in need in West Hartford
• $500 to the Glastonbury club for their backpack drive for Hartford students
• Rotary Leadership institute meets November 2nd, Middlesex Comm College
• Encouragement to schedule and coordinate a Polio awareness day sometime around MLK day 2014
• Jim Goodrich is taking a leave of absence from the Rotary for health reasons.

There was a general discussion about getting more exposure for our club in the community

Sargeant at Arms, Todd Bower reports 21 Rotarians, 3 visiting Rotarians and 0 guests are present.
**The attendance was light today due to several Rotarians attending the golf outing**
• Susan Chandler, wife of Don Chandler visiting from the Wethersfield
• Eric Martin
• Fernando Vidal 

No anniversaries or birthdays this week.

Happy dollars were collected.

• Shari Cantor sharing her experience hosting an Israeli ambassador
• Bennett happy to be back at Rotary after missing a few weeks.

The 50/50 raffle is up to $277 and we are looking for 7 of clubs. There was NO winner today.

THERE WAS NO SPEAKER TODAY

The meeting was adjourned at 1:20, with Hap leading the 4-way test. The next meeting is
August 12, 2013 at Pondhouse Cafe.

Respectfully submitted,
Bennett Forrest, scribe