Meeting began with the prayer and the pledge.  Paul Henneforth won the Jack of Hearts raffle taking home $316.   Seamus made an announcement for Spaghetti Dinner, THIS MONDAY.  Please fill out the volunteer sheet if your interested in helping out that day.  Rosane asked for additional money to help fund additional scholarships .  She also informed the club about the lack of participation in the student clubs.  We will now be giving away 12 @$2000, 9 for Southampton, 3 for Bridgehampton.  Travis has collected 30 spaghetti dinner tickets for Hamptons Community Outreach.    Anyone interested in donating more tickets let us know.  Day of Service will happen this Saturday at 11am at Southampton Volunteer Ambulance.   Back in Action, Sargeant Karen Acker took to the rotary stage.  Vicki won the 50/50  .  This day in history Madam Albright died,  It was National Choclate Chip Cookie Day and they were delicious.  Mickey Mouse made his first appearence in Plane Crazy and Steamboat Willy.  Our program was Tajea Anderson from the Town of Southampton.  She talked about light pollution and ways to minimize the effects.  Lights off at 10pm.  Make sure you have the correct lights installed outside.  Additional info can be found on the web here

Meeting began with the pledge and the prayer.  Sean D made an announcement about 4th of July Parade and they are trying to re-organize the parade to continue the tradition and to make it substainable.   Rosane made an announcement about Happenings this Saturday at the Riverhead Library.  Happenings are a great way to learn about rotary, and attendance is always encouraged . Eduardo S offered an additional scholarship for a high school senior, we will meeting Monday at 5pm via zoom. He also announced he's running for mayor.  Paul talked about Spaghetti Dinner, sponsorships are coming in, and people are making use of Zeffy.  Sell your tickets, send out the flyer to get those sponsorships, and let's make the Spaghetti Dinner a success.  Vicki talked about our Day of Service, May 17th at Southampton Village Ambulance barn.  Flyer coming soon.   Travis talked about an idea that he previously spoke about .  Everyone contributing additional money for donation of Spaghetti Dinners for needy families.  Tim C mentioned his hike that got rained out at 1164 Scuttle Hole Rd.  Tom G was our sergeant.  Travis won the 50/50.   This date in history 1960 a spy plane got shot down over Russia, that the administration tried to cover up.  The pilot survived.  Elvis and Priscilla Presley got married.  Mark Crandall was our program, he runs a charity called Hoops 4 Hope.  Mark talked about growing up in Amagansett  and being a rotary exchange student.  He ended up in Zimbabwe.  Always interested in starting a business.  His ideas pretty much came together and this how he started his charity.  For more about Mark's charity check him out on the web 

Our first night meeting began with the prayer and the pledge.  Alexis M won the 50/50.  Paul was fined for misspelling the word sergeant.  I promise to work on my spelling.  Tom Guldi took the reigns as Sergeant.  This date in history the Canterbury Tales in 1932.  Vicki dropped a little old english from the book that had us stunned.  The accent too, excellent.  The root of modern english was created by Shakesphere.  The first talking movie was in 1927, titled the Jazz Singer.  In 1970 Paul McCartney dropped his first album, and it was self titled.  Seamus made a spaghetti Dinner announcement.  Paul distributed tickets to everyone in attendance, see him to get your tickets.  You can also use our digital ticket system.  Jennifer Hartnagel from Group of the East End was our guest.  Since 1972, Group for the East End has led the way in protecting and restoring the environment of eastern Long Island through education, conservation, and advocacy.  They talked about their programs geared toward educating the youth which includes bringing them out of the classrooom.   They talked about there program bringing osprey's back from almost being extinct and how they are now evolving into different habitat.  For more info you can check them out on the web at http://thegroup.org

Meeting began with the prayer and the pledge.  Rosane talked about April 17th night meeting being either $50 or $55 and the membership agreed on the price.  The installation dinner has been moved to June 19th.   We had a very different meeting with Rosane asking questions to the membership.  The members asked for financial transparency with club finances.  We talked about having a club assembly.  Tim asked for help from Rob Gill on fixing the rotary clock.  Tim Corwin won the 50/50 but chose the 10 of clubs.   Club also agreed to start contributing money to the Rotary Foundation, $100/member