Minutes - 2010

February 11

Date: February 11, 2010
Place: Golden Corral

Attendees: Gail Belville, Lois Carter, Will & Marie Church, Irene & Jim Clark, Karen Cornell, Henry & Pat Dillon, Nancy Hood, Barb & Lewis Shelton, Sara & Gene Spurlock, Janet & Doug Wetherholt (16).

Opened with the Pledge of Allegiance, prayer was offered by Henry Dillon.

Program: Doug Wetherholt - Riverboats on the Ohio River. Doug shared many memories of his days along the Ohio River and many interesting facts concerning the locks, the depth and width of the river, as well as his love for the river. He said, "Respect the river and it will respect you - it gives you no chances. But....learn to swim first!"

Reports:

Volunteer Hours - Hours were down this year.
        2007 - 2184 hours
        2008 - 2800 hours
        2009 - 1836 hours

        Volunteer winner this year - Marlene Hoffman with 932 hours (Congratulations!)

Annual Report

     After reviewing the reports, Barb shared that we need to do more Community Service Projects. Some ideas are: helping out at the Blood Mobile; donating blood; helping with the Health Fair (a group project); bring books for children to our meetings that will be donated to Serenity House, Holzer, or the WIC Program. Or money may be donated for the purchase of these books and this could be put in the newsletter to get the word out to those who would like to participate in this project.

Treasurer's Report

    Checking Account                $2841.68
    L.L.M.S.                            $7690.90
    Scholarship                          $86.62
    Scholarship CD                 $21,338.06
    Raffle                                   $47.00

Other:

    Maxine Whitehead, from MCRTA, would like to plan a joint retirement planning seminar. Roy Sprague will be contacted about this. Maxine invited our group to their next meeting which will be March 25 - 12:00 noon at the Wild Horse Cafe in Pomeroy, OH. Their group is dwindling and she hopes we could encourage them.

    Jim Clark shared thoughts about retirement. He mentioned that people cannot retire on 60% of what your income was. He suggested that we encourage our working friends to save more (put more in 403B or IRA) and not retire until they can afford it.

    We had one active teacher present at this meeting - Gail Belville.

    Thanks to Irene Clark for putting the meeting announcement in the newspaper, it was very helpful and several people said they saw it and appreciated the reminder.


    Will Church commented that we have a good organization because we have good officers and well planned programs.

Raffle
Three afghans were donated by Nancy Hood and a heart shaped cake by Barb Shelton: Winners:

Karen Cornell - afghan
Marie Church - afghan
Barb Shelton - afghan
Irene Clark - cake

Next meeting:
April 8th - Nazarene Church Family Life Center - catered by Park Front Dinner.

Adjourn
Gail Belville made the motion to adjourn and Will Church seconded. Meeting was adjouned.

Submitted by

Pat Dillon, secretary Pro-tem

*Note from Marlene: Many thanks to Pat for taking notes in my absence, also to Irene Clark for taking pictures. THANKS ladies!