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Barre
We meet Wednesdays at 12:00 PM
QUARRY GRILL AND TAVERN
210 North Main Street
UPSTAIRS
Barre, VT  05641
United States
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We started our meeting today with the usual procedures.
Caroline said "grace".

 
The meeting was pretty quite for quite a while until we had a couple of happy dollars and a sad dollar. The sad one was because Tony was not present and that was why it was so quite. I am sorry but I can't remember what the happy dollars were for.

 
Ted announced he is working on this years foundation gifts & will be contacting members soon about that. He also announced that George once again this year is donating his Paul Harris Fellow points to the club for matching donations. Ted will advise us more about this soon. The goal is to have every member in our club be a Paul Harris Fellow. With the matching points we should be able to achieve this goal, this Rotary year.

 
President Karl announced that the Christmas party will be held January 23 at noon upstairs at The Quarry. Please bring guests and let Jim know if you will be coming soon so we can have a count for the restaurant, The Rotabarrians are practicing for this party now.

 
Karl also announced that all the wonderful Dancing With The Stars event photos have been posted on our web site (barrevtrotary.org). You can download any of them if you want to keep some or print them. If you had guests at the event please spread the word about the pictures as they might want some.
Karl is looking for a volunteer to do the Granite Chips when Jim is not at a meeting.
Todays program:
Entergy Vermont Yankee Plant Decommissioning
Dec 02, 2015
Joe Lynch
Entergy Vermont Yankee Plant Decommissioning

Bio:

Joe Lynch, External Affairs Manager, Entergy Vermont Yankee

Joe Lynch is the current Government Affairs Manager for Entergy Vermont Yankee and has been in the nuclear power business for over 33 years. Joe started his career with Yankee Atomic Electric Company and has worked at the Yankee Rowe, Vermont Yankee, Connecticut Yankee, Millstone Nuclear Power Stations. 

Joe is a Mechanical Engineer by degree attending Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Massachusetts.  

Joes’ experience includes over 9 years in nuclear power plant decommissioning, working on the Yankee Rowe, Connecticut Yankee and Maine Yankee projects. At Yankee Rowe in Massachusetts, Joe was Site Closure Director which is a very similar role as his current assignment at Vermont Yankee. 

Joe lives in Brattleboro with his wife and three children.

Joe gave a very informative talk about all the timelines and expenditures to close the plant.

Have a great Rotary week.

- See more at: http://barrevtrotary.org/Speakers/4886cfcf-9174-4ff5-8739-cc99bc47ffcf#sthash.iDlzm3tz.dpuf
Badge Discussion Dominates a Fiery Fine Session
 
A different piano did not seem to make a difference in the slightly off key rendition of America the Beautiful. After the pledge, Sue was taken by surprise by Acting President Tom when he asked her to say grace. Although not one of our regular “grace-sayers,” she did a nice job.
 
The first fine was an automatic: Not only did Tony’s phone ring, he answered it.  Caroline gave a Sad Dollar because Bob was sitting at the end of the array of tables all alone. His retort: “I’m with all my friends.” Caroline proposed a fine on Tony because he wasn’t wearing his name badge. Liane came to his defense saying that she and others did not wear theirs because they didn’t like them and wanted ones like that (pointing to one that Ted was wearing). Sue explained that several years ago the club switched to the current badges because they were reusable and thus more cost efficient. Dick rose to report that he hadn’t worn a badge in two years and for our inattentiveness in not noticing, we all should be fined a dime. Ted suggested that Dick pay a fine for each time that he had not worn his badge indicating that it would be a lot of money. Dick said that it was about time he donated some money to the club. Ted said that was not the direction he expected Dick to go. Fine did not pass.  Tom pressed for a vote on the original proposed fine which he declared would be “one and nineteen.” It passed. Tony anted up and opened himself up for additional fines by admitting that he had more ones in his pocket. (It was never clear why all the other non-badge wearers were not fined.) Tony asked Tom to pass the gavel; it went to Sue. Tony proposed a fine on Tom because he was conducting an out-of-control meeting. Caroline interjected that it was his dancing that was out of control. Tom complained of sore hips. That didn’t help; the fine passed.
 
       Sore Hips Babic
 
 
 
 
One hundred and eighty four tickets sold so far for Dancing with the Stars.
 
Presiding announcements and the Secretary’s Report, we worked our way through The Band Played On and Daisy Bell. Our performance of the latter seemed to go better than the former.
 
Caroline reported that 184 tickets have been sold for our new fund raising event, Dancing with the Stars. This is an outstanding accomplishment for a first time fund raising event. She hopes that the initial goal of 200 will be reached by Saturday. Kudos to Caroline, Ted and Liane who have spear-headed this event.
 
Secretary’s Report
 
Birthdays for November: Jack Barnes-Nov. 8; Sarah White-Nov. 15.
        Membership anniversaries for November: Caroline Earle-1 year; Ted Goulette-21 years.
 
RYLA Attendee Praises the Experience
 
       Elizabeth introduced Parker Nolan, our last year’s RYLA selection and his guidance counselor, Emily Graham. Parker attended the annual RYLA leadership conference at Lyndon State College last June. It consists of lectures and activities on leadership and team building. Parker had nothing but positive things to say about his experience at Lyndon. Parker said that since the activities were in the form of games, the participants didn’t realize that they were learning a lot about themselves, leadership and teams. He said that he learned that he had to step back and let others take the lead (shared leadership) and that communication is very important. Based on an instrument that he took during the weekend, he described his style as organization/time management. He would like to pursue a leadership position in government as a career goal. Presently he is President of the Junior Class and a member of the Drama Club. He has a lead part in Spaulding’s production of the play Fools, opening this weekend. Hearing from our RYLA participants each year gives our club inspiration to continue that program.
 
   Parker Nolan Answering Questions
 
Tony won the raffle for the second week in row, regaining his loss in fines.