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01/26/2012

Greeter: None

Presiding: Judy Wolford

Invocation: Offered by John Prince

Piano: Don Metzler

Visiting Rotarians: (Read by Bob McCrady) Sunrise – Jayne Barr, Brad Lutz, Larry Scheiber, Warner Searls

Guests: Warner Searls introduced his son, Joel Searls. Joel has recently returned from serving in the military, and is now “looking for gainful employment!”

Absentees: Applegate, Beavers, Dailey, Dan Delong, Dumm, Dutton, Eitel, Ely, Fluhart, Fountain, Fouts, Dick Gerhardt, Halm, Henson, Hill, Jim Hooks, Kraus, Kuehnle, Bob Liggett, May, Moore, Moss, Mullins, Palm, Pelcic, Pigion, Scherer, Smith, Spangler, Stickel, Taylor, Theller, Tootle, Throckmorton, Wellman, Wilcox, Wilson, Wolfe, Woodward, Yingling.

Make-ups: Sunrise – Jason Eitel; West El Pasu, TX – Earl Palm.

January Birthdays: 2^nd – Jeff Spires; 5^th – Bob Tootle; 9^th – John Stout; 13^th – Jim River; 14^th – Sue Pairan; 19^th – Hayes Wilcox; 22^nd – Dave Webb; 23^rd – Clark Cellio, Roger Wolfe; 25^th – Wayne Vickers; 26^th – Mike Dutton.

January Anniversaries: 4^th – Tim Throckmorton; 7^th – Bob Mabe; 20^th – Barry Bennett, John Stevenson.

February Birthdays: 3^rd – Joe McNemar; 9^th – Kirk McMahon; 10^th – Don McIlroy11^th – Norm Wilson; 14^th – Ian Webb

February Anniversaries: 6^th – Don McIlroy; 8^th – Robert Cole; 9^th – Kirk McMahon; 21^st – Carly Neff

Songs: Tim Tener selected “Clementine” and “Sing out a Song of Rot’ry.”

Student Guests: Christy Pritchard, of Pickaway-Ross Career Center, introduced two of her students, Ashley Wears & Devin Parrett.

Ashley: based out of Logan Elm High School, studying Cosmetology. She works currently at Smart Style, and hopes to someday open an animal rescue center.

Devin: based out of Circleville High School, studying Diesel Mechanics. He won a physics award for a car he built. He plans on attending university of Northwestern to concentrate on Auto Mechanics.

Announcements:

• Ellery Elick reminded us that our club’s Rural-Urban Day will be on Feb. 23^rd at promptly 11:30AM at Emmett Chapel. (So please arrive before then to be sure to get seats for you & your guest!) The price is $15/Rotarian, which includes the cost of a guest. Ellery said that it will be either a baked chicken or steak dinner with all the trimmings. A head-count will be taken once the day gets closer, so please have your number of guests ready for Ellery to gauge attendance for the event.

• Sister Monica explained that the membership directory was being passed around for our review & corrections. Please be sure to read your entry closely!

• Pres. Judy read a letter regarding the formation of Circleville Fire Department’s Auxiliary. It will consist of an all-volunteer membership that will give support to the fire department. You do not need to live in Circleville’s city limits, just within five miles of Pickaway County. Feel free to call the fire dept at 474-3333 for details or to join the ranks!

• Bud Christopher’s niece, Sherree, sent a thank-you note for all the donations made in Bud’s memory to the Rotary Foundation. She and her husband Tony will be making a similar donation of $100.

• Tim Tener gave a personal “thank you” to his only two volunteers at the recent Community Kitchen: Bob Sneed & Debbie Hoffman.

• Via snail mail: Pickaway county Chamber of Commerce’s next Business After Business event will be on Feb. 7^th, from 5-7PM at the Kingston National Bank in South Bloomfield, 5101 S. Union St. please RSVP to 740-983-0000.

SAA: Tim Tener

Dwight Radcliff had to pay a fine for his photo on the front page of the newspaper as the special guest (with his wonderful wife Betty) of Steve Austria at President Obama’s State of the Union speech.

Bob Mabe was jokingly questioned as to whether the suspect of the recent drug robbery was perhaps on his payroll.

OCU had to toss in a dollar for the announcement of the creation of a nursing program.

Tim himself expressed his gratitude to everyone who donated to our Community Kitchen project. He said that we raised $280!

Tim then wrapped up the session with a “Redneck Medical Terms” trivia quiz, table-by-table. Many laughs (& groans) were had by all!

Lottery: Charlie Hedges bought the lucky ticket & gained $22, but did not select the golden pebble. The jackpot is $358.

Program: Jeff Spires introduced today’s speaker, Dave Hannahs. Dave is the Executive Director of PICCA. He brought along two of his employees, Tiffany Twinings and Teresa Cramer, to feature two of their programs, Youth Education & Training and Free Tax Clinic respectively.

Tiffany approached the podium to begin her portion of the PowerPoint presentation, followed then by Teresa’s portion.

Here are the highlights:

1^st half:

• Youth Education & Training program took place of the former Youth Build program.

• Mission is to provide education and job skills & opportunities to income eligible candidates.

• People in the GED/Education portion spent 21 hours /week. People in the Job Skills portion spent 32 hours/week.

• They receive weekly stipends of $100 for GED and $200 for Job Skills.

• Construction training is done in conjunction with Elsea, Inc.

• The program works with participants to set individual goals.

• They also receive career counseling, such as how to create cover letters and resumes.

• Program’s participants are between 18-24 years old.

• Job interviewing and testing of assessments are also performed.

• They include community service into the program, such as helping the Salvation Army over the holidays.

• Work on leadership skills, life skills, financial literacy, time management, ethics, etc.

• Finally, they assist in job placement of the programs participants.

• Last year, 41 applications were received, but only 8 could be accepted due to funding constraints.

2^nd half:

• The Free Tax Clinic is via the Ohio Benefit Bank (OBB). OBB is an internet based program to help low income individuals.

• OBB provides tax assistance, as well as food assistance and other community programs & support.

• Provides child tax credits, education credits, and federal earned income credits (EITC), etc.

• To be eligible for the free tax clinic, must earn less than $60,000/year. Their target audience is the low-to-moderate income population.

• All the tax preparers are volunteers. They are in need of more volunteers, so please contact PICCA if you or someone you know might be interested in helping!

• Volunteers are provided a thorough training session.

• 4 out of every 5 clients claim the EITC.

• You can volunteer at any of these locations: PICCA, OCU, Kingston National Bank in South Bloomfield, Younkin Branch of the Pickaway Co. Library in Ashville.

• Volunteers are not held liable, via the Volunteer Protection Act.

• Super Saturday Kick-Off is Feb. 4^th, from 9AM-1PM.

• If you are unable to volunteer your time, you can support the program by donating financially. All donations are welcomed!

At the conclusion, they opened the floor to questions.

Speaker’s contact info:

None provided

Pres. Judy regained the podium to thank our speakers and to announce that a donation will be made in their names to the Pickaway County Emergency Clearing House.

Meeting adjourned.

February program schedule:

• 2^nd: TBA

• 9^th: Mike Smith – Sports broadcaster with WKKJ

• 16^th: Nico Straathof – National Pork Board

• 23^rd: Rural-Urban Day at Emmett Chapel. Begins promptly at 11:30AM, so come early so you and your guest get your seats! Meals will be either baked chicken or steak with all the trimmings.

March program schedule: (not received yet):

Until next week…,

Patty Rothe,

Editor

E-mail: pjrothe@rpjohnson.net