Rotary 10.16.13
pledge led by Ed Casavant
invocation by Mary Kern
song was sung "God Bless America" by Susanne McInerney
Visitors introduced by Stella Pang
Speaker - Marcia Cooper, President of Green Decade
Jay Walter - Head of Newton Eco project
Peter Smith - Green Decade Board, Chair of Newton Chamber of Commerce environment committee
Ben Harold - Represents Next Step Living (partner with Green Decade)
Ann Deck - Mary Kern's guest
Jon Barnes - Ed Casavant's guest
Announcements:
Mary Kern - board meeting at BGC at 12:00. Bring your own lunch. Send agenda items to Mary ahead of time.
Paul Sullivan - Sue, Chris, and Paul met about membership.
Paul and Sue went to social media training for Rotary.
Tom Keery - Newton Has Talent met at YMCA. Chris, Kevin, and Tom cleaned up website.
Death by Chocolate - Mary will find out what the current thoughts are in terms of date and location and report back.
Sue Peghiny- please like our page. if you do something, post it on the Newton Rotary Facebook page. Search Rotary Club of Newton on Facebook.
Jay Walter - Livingston Taylor concert in November.
Raffle:
Ben picked Anne's number. Got 3 Diamonds.
Happy Dollars
Paul Kerrissey- lots of guests
Chris Chu- guests and family from out of town to celebrate mom's 90th bday.
Paul Kerrissey - go Red Sox
Marcia Cooper-
Susanne McInerney- sister is off dialysis. keep praying. Thanking all people who try to save us energy. Go Red Sox.
Peggy Lapore - guests
Dick Bowen- go Red Sox
Tom Keery- wearing sox in honor of Jim Means and the Red Sox.
Anne Decker - Mary
Sue Peghiny- Green Decade for coming today. Sunday night Nashoba Valley showed up at her husband's band. Red Sox. Patriots. other guests.
Stella Pang- guests. power went out and was able to recover
Peter Smith- Thank Rotary for all the work you do. His father was a Rotarian. Cambridge Rotary is supporting a vocational school in Zambia which he supports.
Mary - for Anne. For Jay.
Marie - for Marcia and the work you do with Green Decade.
Marcia Cooper - Speaker
Marcia spoke about the various activities that Green Decade Newton is
involved in and that they are a fully volunteer organization. Peter
talked about the Newton Eco Project, especially the upcoming Harvest
Fair this weekend where they will have a large presence, including
many energy efficient products, cars and vendors. Jay spoke
specifically about the subsidies available to residents who install
solar panels on their homes (30% off on top of the state and federal
tax credits), and finally Ben exhibited some of the products that Next
Steps provides during their free home energy assessments (light bulbs,
low flow shower heads, programmable theromstat) and also described the
$2000 per year subsidy availabe to every homeowner and renter to use
for energy improvements (like blown in insulation).
Ben Harold from Next Step Living, Mary (obviously), Peter Smith who is the Chairman of the
Newton Chamber of Commerce Environment Committee and Jay Walter, who
leads Newton’s Eco Project. Unfortunately, Marcia Cooper from Green
Decade Newton (who arranged for all these guys to come and who spoke
first) had to rush out after the meeting to meet her mother at the
airport, so she's not in the photo :-(.
Below is a picture of Chris Chu with her family at Old North Church.
Thank you to Sue Peghiny, Stella Pang, and Chris Chu for your help with pics and updates to this newsletter.
Respectfully submitted,
Marie Presti
