ROTARY NEWSLETTER FOR WEEK OF              September 26, 2007

GUEST - Peg Lindsey, General Manager of the new Madisonville Hampton Inn & Suites, Prospective member. Sharon Smith’s guests were from Merle Norman, Los Angeles; Harriett Whitaker, Madisonville-Hopkins County Chamber of Commerce and visiting Rotarian. Mike Eubanks was in attendance, WELCOME BACK, Mike!

BIRTHDAYS / ANNIVERSARYS / SPECIAL EVENTS - Miss Elsie’s Birthday and Bill Metcalfe celebrated their Birthdays. In honor of Miss Elsie, Bill Thomas led us in our singing.

ANNOUNCEMENTS - Kent Waide, our President was absent visiting the Lion’s Den! Jayne Barton our Vice President did a GREAT job in his absence. Jayne knows how to handle Bliss! For those of you who were at the meeting know what I am talking about, those who weren’t read the history moments with Bliss.

Marcy Payton announced the sign up sheet for the Rotary Family Picnic was being passed around. The Picnic will be Thursday, October 4th at Bob and Judy Moore’s Home. The fun will start at 6 PM. The menu will be Brother’s Barbecue. Don’t forget to bring your own drinks and BYOB.
Our Christmas party will be on Thursday, December 6th.

We will not have a meeting Wednesday, October 3rd, since we are having the Rotary Picnic on Thursday.

Remember, be sure to wear your Rotary Badges during the meeting, or you will be accessed a FINE! I didn’t notice anyone with out their name badge! Either we Rotarians follow rules or we are very tight with our money.

Rotary Football

The last Rotary Football game for 2007 was this past Saturday! All of you Rotarians are to be commended for your special work this season. Commissioners David and James have said they were complemented on several occasions this season by others for the work that Rotary does. I just want to echo that. I am really impressed by the way all of you handled your work this season.

Additionally, the championship game was video recorded. Stephen Rickard (Rotary’s super volunteer) from WFMW / WKTG and our own Allen Rudd did the play-by-play. We are currently working out the time slots with Insight for it to be replayed on Channel 3. I will let you know when that occurs.

Hopefully the players and families will enjoy seeing the game on TV and Rotary will get more positive community exposure.

MADISONVILLE ROTARY HISTORY MOMENT - Our Historian, Bliss Powell, was not in attendance, he first told us about going to the Lion’s Club one time, then he told us about if you were a member and you mentioned your business you were fined a dollar. He laid his dollar down willingly and started talking about a yard sale he was having. Jayne wanted to know what that had to do with Rotary History Moments! Jayne tried to give Bliss back his dollar. He quickly went on to say LR Hunt, Rush Hunt’s Father was a diabetic and the Rotary Club had a cookbook, it was distributed by the Hospital, clinic and the Rotarian Magazine helped us get orders from all over for the cookbook. (Great Recovery, Bliss) Jayne way to go keeping Bliss on the moment!

PROGRAM

Joe Tanner introduced Deirdre (Dee-Dee) Schluckebier, MD. She is the Western Kentucky Regional Medical examiner based here in Madisonville. Dee-Dee, had all of our attention. She walked us through an autopsy. This was very interesting. Those who were not at the meeting you missed a very interesting program. Those who were there, wasn’t it a great program. Thank you Dee-Dee and thank you Joe Tanner.