With rituals completed, eighteen Barre Rotarians helped themselves to a buffet of salad, soup, grilled cheese sandwiches and cake. President Liane was first on her feet proposing a fine of one-and-nine on everyone for not greeting her on her late arrival. After some brief banter, she withdrew the fine. She was then fined 25 cents for being late. Eddie then bought an advertising moment to pass out flyers regarding the vote on November 6^th of the Barre Town, Barre City and Spaulding school district merger. A lively discussion followed. Karl reported that he had spoken to Bernie Allen regarding making a donation to the silent auction. He also announced that on October 20^th the UVM basketball team will hold a public practice from 11:a.m.-1:00 p.m. at the Barre Auditorium. Brenda reported that clubs at Spaulding, including Interact, will be participating in a light gardening activity on Richardson Road. Tony gave a Happy Dollar for picking up Dick Shadroui and having a pleasant drive to the meeting. Eddie explained the obligations for sponsoring an exchange student including housing and financial responsibilities. Caroline gave a Happy Dollar in celebration of her daughter Lydia turning eighteen. She also announced that sixteen Annual Rotary Ball tickets have been sold.

 

 

Susan announced that she had no report. Tom proposed a fine of one-and-nine on Susan for not having a report. Bruce came to her defense by pointing out that she deserves a medal for all the time she’s put in trying to get Bruce recognized as secretary by Club Runner and Rotary International. Fine did not pass.

 

President Liane introduced Kristin Hayes who delivered her classification talk. Kristin grew up in Plymouth, MA as the oldest of six children. Her parents were foster parents and all of the family has relocated to Vermont for community and a good place to raise kids. She lives in Middlesex with her 9 year old twin daughters, Ashlynn and Lilly and 12 year old son, Liam. The kids go to Rumney Memorial Elementary. She loves live music, jewelry making and reading. She is a full time student at Norwich studying cyber technology and security. She is pursuing a degree to diversify employment in the future taking into consideration the advancements in technology and electronic transactions in the financial industry and all lines of business. She has worked at Community National Bank for a year and enjoys the support she receives from them and noted the fact that they actually live by their values and give back to the community.  She started her professional career in  retail management and then moved to banking starting with Citizens Bank as a teller and as a senior personal banker universal and then to Bank of America  as an operations manager.   Other affiliations besides Rotary include serving on the board of directors of the Central Vermont Chamber of Commerce, chairperson for the Chamber’s Technology Task Force, a volunteer admin for her son’s Mini Metro basketball league and a volunteer coach for her daughter’s soccer team. Everyone enjoyed her lively, animated talk and showed their appreciation with a nice round of applause.