Dave Buttar, our program chair, presented June Logan, who is working with a committee to renovate the girl's locker room at Fitch High School. She enlisted the aid of the Rotary Club of Austintown to help with the project.
These lockers are 40 years old and are used by all the girls in the Physical Education Classes. Her committee would also like to add partitions between the toilet area and the showers. An amount of $25,000 must be raised to take care of this situation.
Many students visiting Fitch from other schools also use the facilities so this is a project that needs addressing.
PRESIDENT: Michael Cafaro opened the meeting and called on Gary Reel to give the Invocation, Pledge and leading of God Bless America. Guests: No Guests. Hillary Prestridge led us in singing "Daisy, Daisy". Hey, how'd we do??? ANNOUNCEMENTS: CONTI WALK: The Conti Rotary Walk for ALS is on Saturday, November 1st from 10 -11 a.m. at Boardman Park. Several from our club will be walking Dictionaries have been distributed. Only one more to go. Make sure you take some pictures - send to Carol along with the name of the school. Board Meeting October 29 at Lucianno's at 7:30 A.M. Rescue Mission October 27, at 5:15 and 6:15 - we're trying two shifts to accommodate those who can't make it at the 5:15 one. Next Rotary Social is at Trax on October 30 at 7 P.M. Bell Ringing: December 6 at Santisi's IGA from 10 A.M. to 8 P.M. This year Austintown Rotary will celebrate it's 40th year. Melissa Crowley has volunteered to help plan a Reunion Meeting to celebrate. This will be the same date as our fireside chat. Old members, past presidents, etc will be invited. Please see Melissa if you can help. REVERSE RAFFLE: In October, committees will be forming the start up this important fund-raiser for our club. We need our members to step up to the plate on this one. Lots of help is needed in all areas especially with ticket sales. Growth Foundation would like Rotary and all service clubs to sell tickets to the Taste of Austintown as a fundraiser. Tickets are $5.00 each and the club keeps half of all the tickets they sell. Money is starting to come in already. Sell those tickets-make $$ for the club. Field of Dreams: Mike read an article from "Rotary World" featuring "Field of Dreams". The article relates how Rotary brings baseball to disabled youth in West Jacksonville, Florida. They spent $200,000 on this project and got some District funds of about $2,000 to help with this project. Now there are 17 in Florida and 125 nationwide. FELLOWSHIP: Toby Mirto did fellowship today and hit the crew with lots of Presidential trivia - not much money but lots of fun. Brian Laraway brought a banner back from his speaking engagement at the Boardman Lions Club. RAFFLE: Susan Leetch won again...the little one that is....lost the biggie. Maybe next week, Susan? PROGRAM: Our Program today presented June Logan who is working with a committee to renovate the girl's locker room at Fitch High School. She enlisted the aid of the Rotary Club of Austintown to help with the project. These lockers are 40 years old and are used by all the girls in the Physical Education Classes. Her committee would also like to add partitions between the toilet area and the showers. An amount of $25,000 must be raised to take care of this situation. Many students visiting Fitch from other schools also use the facilities so this is a project that needs addressing.