Pledge

Mike Kelly led the pledge

Inspiration 

Kris David focused the inspiration on Rotary International’s Polio Plus Fund. She salutes John Nanni, a polio victim and lifelong polio eradication advocate.  John and his wife, Christine, are professional singers and perform regularly especially at the home game at Yankee Stadium.  The pair inspires Kris to raise awareness and support Rotary’s Polio Plus and Global Polio Eradication Programs.

On Zoom

Richard Applebaum

Guest

Elaine Fain

Announcements

Don’t forget the Gold Bowls for the Providence Rotary Charities Foundation

Bodega date: October 28 Thank you to Rotary volunteers: Justin Sprague and Richard Applebaum, Liz Messier

Shower on the Move - last one for the season this week 

Rotary meetings Going forward meetings more interactive to engage members

Save the Date: Christmas gathering at the Kellys on December 5th

Gala Update by Holly Applegate. 

This month’s Rotary After Dark is the Gala

We are close to a full house! 24 tables of registered guests.  Gala registrations still available at the Rotary website/Events section

Gala panelists: Honorary Chair Don Saracen will moderate the panel of: 

• Malcolm Mitchell/author;
• Karyn Parsons/author;
• Renee Richards, Teacher of the Year

Gala menu choices: The set meal is a Ribeye.  Please let Emily, Michaela or Yani know if you need a vegetarian/Vegan or Gluten Free meal.

We are still collecting bottles of wine for the Wine Pull.

Installation of New Members

Rachel Briggs: Educational facilitator, founder of Dream through Steam, an organization dedicated to hands-on storytelling to connect young people to history.

Marcus Charlemagne: Vice President, branch manager of the Washington Trust Company

Happy Bucks

Pete Brock collected happy bucks from a host of Rotarians.

We collected $191 today! Money collected will be used to support Rotary projects, e.g., Ronald McDonald House shopping for feeding families.

Speaker

Sydney Swain, Collette’s Manager of Tour Impact, gave a discussion on how Collette Tours is giving back to the community. She serves on the Corporate Citizenship team involving herself in grant-making, volunteering, responsible travel and business.

Collette Travel was founded in 1918, and over the years has developed a philantropic arm of the business.

Their non-profit arm focus is to advance responsible travel and sustainability across the company’s tour experiences, through four main areas of interest:

• Collette Impact Initiative
• Collette Cares
• Social Enterprise Greenhouse
• Acts of Kindness