Avon Rotary Newsletter

Welcome to Camp Sam Wood that is where we held our last meeting. It was a beautiful evening and the camp was wonderful. We enjoyed a delicious dinner of awesome chicken, corn on the cob, salad, and salt potatoes. Thank you Ernie for the wonderful dinner. We had many guests tonight. Our guests included Steve Vanderbilt, Polly Hayes, Jennie Ippolito, Sally Tompsett, Ginny House, Kim Dougherty, and Ed Kime. We also welcomed Jill, Doug, Dean, Catrina, Courtney, Jeannie and Stan who were there with Jim Yencer. Also Christian and Olivia. Thank you all for coming. Camp Sam Wood has been in operation for over 40 years. Steve Stephenson had the opportunity to present a Paul Harris Fellow Award to Jim Yencer who has given many hours to the youth in the Avon area and has umpired from 2000 to the present and is also Scout Master for troop 26 and treasurer for the Corn Fest. Jim's short and to the point speech was "WOW". Congratulations Jim. Bart Bartalo Jr.Êpresented us with a short presentation about the camp. This is the 44th year of the camp and his 27th year here. The camp is having 99 kids this year. There is 72 Full time staff members and lots of volunteers. Donations and support keep the camp going. Our group has donated money for the purchase of new set of stairs in the pool. If you weren't able to go you missed a very enjoyable evening.

Submitted by Marcia Cameron.

Prez Bill opened the meeting for the evening. There were no guests this evening but we were glad to see Laurie Vonglis with us after having surgery. John Hall our District Governor will be here at our next meeting. Celebrations tonight included one from Diana Williams celebrating the rain because their well ran out of water. She also celebrated a 2 week vacation. Tom Vonglis celebrated successful surgery for Laurie. Our condolences also go to Tom and his family for the loss of his father. They have also celebrated their 26th anniversary. Helen celebrated a vacation and bike trip in the Adirondacks. The weather was mid 90's for her 68 mile ride. Margo went to see the play Menopause and loved it. Dave Henehan missed our last meeting because he was attending a wedding the West Coast where he also went skinny dipping. Past President Wayne was asked to take the gavel. Tom Ippolito told us that his wife Jennie has a sizable vegetable garden so he took a big bag of beans and some extra bags to coffee at the diner. Prez Bill said he would take them all, he even took the extra bags. When Tom drove by his house he said that Prez Bill was selling the beans outside his house. So he had to pay a fine. Helen is riding in the MS bike ride and she is looking for our support. She will be riding a total of 150 miles. We also celebrated Birthday's and Anniversaries for August. The No Fine Button was auctioned off with the highest bidder being Kevin Tompsett. There will be no board meeting on Monday August 13th it will be held the following Monday night. 50/50 was won by Barb Herman. See you at the CornFest.

Submitted by Marcia Cameron.