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Presiding: Pres. Mr. Jim Daly
Invocation: Jim O’Shea
Fellowship: with Nancy Gentes who spoke about holidays in January. Everyone just thought that New Year’s Day and Martin Luther King Day were the only ones. Well, there is a day, week or month for just about everything and here are some of the official ones in January. There is a “Be Kind to Food Servers Day”, “National Pie Day” and a “Kiss a Ginger Day.” January is “National Be on Purpose” Month. There is also a “No Name Calling Week.” Who knew?
Birthdays:
None
Anniversaries:
- Tom Adams – January 24th 17 years
- Laura Hobart – January 24th 17 years
Guests:
- Jim O’Shea introduces Willow Clausen
- Gary Young introduced Zecharia Stover from the Rotary Community Corps and former Norwich Rotarian Marge Blizzard
Visiting Rotarians:
None
Announcements:
- Pres. Mr. Jim Daly had the following announcements:
- The club is always looking for speakers. Mary Richardson has done a great job and we are booked through May. Contact Mary if you have any ideas for speakers.
- The club is taking requests for “Happy Dollars” distributions.
- The Rotary Carnival is most likely going to be held at the viaduct parking area this year.
- The “No Show Gala” is rolling along nicely but is still short of the goal, so get your pledges in.
- Zak from the RCC reported they had a quiet winter. The Annual Scavenger Hunt is being planned for April and they are requesting projects to get working on for the future. Contact Zak if you have a project that should be considered.
- President Mr. Jim Daly for his Presidential Project wants to help out with the restoration of the WWI Cannon. Jim hopes to accumulate between $500 and $1,000 from our membership and will have a donation jar at the podium weekly for member donations. Everything large or small would be appreciated.
Happy Dollars: with Nancy Gentes who
started things off welcoming Marge Blizzard back.
Gary Young welcomed Marge Blizzard and was happy to see her again.
Marge Blizzard said it was great to be back to Norwich for a visit from her home in Colorado.
Bill Champagne gave for Martin Luther King Day and informed the club that slavery was not officially outlawed until 1808. Bill also encouraged everyone to read Lottie Scott’s book.
Mike Cooney said his mother-in-law was quite ill and in the hospital.
Andy Nollman welcomed Willow and Marge to the meeting. He also was quite happy with the outcome of the AFC Championship game and that the Patriots will be returning to the Super Bowl once again.
Barry Shead welcomed Marge and Willow. Barry also said that his daughter opened a vegan market in LA.
Suzy Hurlbert was happy that the pipes in her outdoor hot tub did not freeze during the recent cold weather. She also had a great visit with her son in Boston over the weekend.
Pres.Mr. Jim Daly gave to welcome our guests.
Lottie Scott reminded people that “Miss Lottie’s Café” is coming up the first Friday in February and the music of Lena Horne will be featured. She is also considering doing a book of all her fellowship speeches she has done throughout her years in Rotary. She also said that they will be “Politically Correct.”
Auction:
A donation was made.
Lottery: with Paul Blanchard
- Marge Blizzard
- Gary Young and
- Mike Matera
all drew duds.
Guest Speaker:
Rotarian Susy Hurlbert from the Eastern Connecticut Association of Realtors brought usthe latest statistics on real estate sales, both residential and commercial in New London County and Windham County. For complete information on these numbers you can log on to ECAR for all data. Susy also informed us that ECAR is sponsoring a luncheon at the Resource Conference & Trade Expo on February 13th at the Mystic Marriott where the featured speaker will be Bill Moeller, Retired Commander USCG. Bill will have you on the edge of your seat when he describes the harrowing rescue he and his crew aboard the US Coast Guard Cutter Tamaroa successfully completed during the height of the Perfect Storm of October 30th, 1991. Tickets are $40.00 and to register call 860-892-2595 or go to ECAR.name: John
last-name: Goldman
age: 29
work: Reporter
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  name: John
  last-name: Goldman
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Dear EHH, What's the Big Deal About Boots?
My daughter takes riding lessons at a local farm. I do not normally take her myself – the babysitter does. I received a call from the babysitter saying that since she had forgotten to change my daughter into her riding boots, that she would not be allowed to ride that day. There was no time to go home and get the boots. My daughter was super disappointed and I don't see what the big deal would have been for her to ride in her sneakers just once. Any thoughts?
I'm sorry to hear that your daughter had to miss her riding lesson. I'm sure she was disappointed. Your trainer did the right thing by not letting her ride, though. Riding without boots is a safety issue.
Riding in shoes that are flat on the bottom, with no heel, can be slippery. It is very dangerous for a rider's feet to slide all the way through the stirrups. We do not want our feet to get entangled in the event that something happens and we fall off. If we fall off, we want to drop to the ground, not be drug besides the horse (that's scary stuff right there). The heel of the boot keeps your foot from going all the way through and allowing this to happen.
Wearing riding boots also make it much easier to keep your foot in the proper position in the stirrup, which is to have the stirrup on the ball of your foot, with your heel down.
Besides the safety factor involved with riding without boots, it also isn't safe to work on the ground with horses without boots. Having your foot stepped on by a horse hurts bad enough with boots on! Let alone, in sneakers or god-forbid flip-flops or sandals. Unfortunately, like falling off, getting our feet stepped on by horses is pretty inevitable. With this in mind, it is just another great reason to remember to wear boots!
I know your daughter was disappointed to miss her weekly ride, but her trainer was really looking out for her safety. We want all of our riders to be safe and proper attire is part of that.
We don't want to take any chance of one of our students getting hurt. Not to mention in the litigious society we live in, we have to adhere tightly to any policy that involves safety.
I bet she won't forget her boots again!
This marks the second adaptation of the Punisher to the big screen, and it is a marked improvement over the 1989 effort. This one is a little more faithful to the source material, but the basic story remains the same. Frank Castle is a highly trained agent with all kinds of military and intelligence experience who, after his family is slaughtered, goes on a massive quest for vengeance that (in the comics at least) turns into a broad war on crime. Even though this film gets a lot right, mostly by having a strong cast, some impressively executed and thrilling action scenes, and some great production values, it needs some work when it comes to having a strong story and script. Some of the acting is also rather lackluster, but thankfully Tom Jane pulls off a good turn as Frank Castle. It also makes me happy that he underwent a lot of weapons and techniques training, as it shows during the action scenes. The film does have some good character building moments and quieter scenes, which I liked, but at the same time, it's also rather light when it comes to have depth or anything really all that meaning. The film also does good at showing the tactician side to the character of The Punisher, but doesn't have a good balance with it and his brutal side, leaving the most cringeworthy stuff up to the villains. This