2023-24 Club President: John Lamanna

You can reach him at lamannaj@outlook.com

Executive Board Members:

President-Elect: Paul Frank (pfrank@ptfassociates.com)

Secretary: Bob Hall (rdhdds@comcast.net)

Treasurer: Darcus Breneman (dbreneman@fbvirginia.com)

Past President: Jenny Baker (jennybrockwellbaker@gmail.com)

Board Members:

2021-2024 2022-2025 2023-2026

Heather Hovermale Wilson Gilbert Malinda Hinkel

Dave Miles Darla McCrary Gary Chrisman

Jay Smith Chuck Peterson Rick Mabe

Dave Sweeney Ridge White John Elrick

MEMBERSHIP CHAIRMAN:

Jean Barch – barchfam@comcast.net (540-247-8402)

club secretary:

Casey Bennett – casey1332b@gmail.com (540-514-9545)

Upcoming Meetings & EVENTS

Aug. 22: Gracie Flowers & JoJo Carter, Rebound Exchange Students

Board Meeting, Special Edition, 5:30 – 7:30 pm, Country Club

Apple Harvest Comm Mtg, 1 pm

Awards Comm Mtg, 1 pm

Kaleidoscope Comm Mtg, 1 pm

Aug 29: Amanda Burrell, Graduate of Recovery Court

Membership Comm Mtg, 1 pm

Rummage Sale Comm Mtg, 11 am

Sept 5: New Member Talks

Kaleidoscope Comm Mtg, 1 pm

Sept 12: Neighborhood Nights @ Whittier Park

Rummage Sale Comm Mtg, 11 am

Sept 21-22: Apple Harvest Festival

Sept 26: NO NOON MEETING -MSV Business Luncheon

LAST WEEK’S PROGRAM

Denny Madigan gave the Club a detailed description of his business, An Affair to Remember. This business has been in operation since 1998 with Denny buying it in 2010. They still offer the same services that they offered 26 years ago.

An Affair to Remember offers digitizing services transferring old technology to new technology. The old technology varies from 8 mm film to VHS and audio tapes. In addition to their digitizing business, they also provide video services to over 100 weddings a year along with screen and projector rentals. Denny says they focus on customer service and have longstanding relationships with their clients.

NEIGHBORHOOD NIGHTS –

SERVICE PROJECT FOR SEPTEMBER

Our Club is a co-sponsor for the September 12th Neighborhood Nights event at Whittier Park. This program, which has been held at different parks each month since April, is Winchester’s efforts to bring “City Hall to the community.” The evening begins at 5:30 pm with a Pickup Party, a general clean up of the park. Those who help and live in the city will be given a storm water credit. Beginning around 6:30, free food will be available. Our Club will be offering grilled hotdogs while there will also be a taco truck giving out free tacos. To build community spirit, there will be a free touch-a-truck, kids games, and interaction with park & rec, police, EMTs, and fire departments. At dusk a free, family-friendly movie in the park will be shown.

Our Club will have our Rotary Tent set up, manned by 4-5 Rotarians to hand out hotdogs and information. The City is providing the grill and set up, so all we have to do is provide the hotdogs, buns, paper plates, napkins, and condiments. This service project will help make us more visible in the community and reflect one of our 4-Way Tests – “Build good will and better friendships.” We will “pass the hat” at our meetings for Aug 29th, Sept 5th and Sept 12th to pay for our supplies. This event will be a great way to connect with the community in a fun setting, but it wasn’t included in the budget. Please be generous with your donation so we can continue to do these kinds of community outreach in the future.

To sign up to help, contact Kit Redmer at kitredmer@hotmail.com (720-289-1830), Dave Miles at dave@drdavemiles.com, or Jean Barch at barchfam@comcast.net.

EVANS HOME VAN FINALLY “WRAPPED”! In 2022, our Club in conjunction with the Stonewall Ruritan Club and a generous donation by Chris Lewis purchased a van for The Evans Home from the proceeds from the Rummage Sale. The van has finally been “wrapped” with decals indicating who sponsored the van. As the Rummage Sale reinvents itself, what a great way to transition out. Many thanks to Wilson Gilbert for his tireless efforts to make this happen.

Newest Members

MARI KOFALT – Mari is well known to our members since she is the wife of Pat Kofalt, a very active member of our club. Mari is retired from the Defense Department and now spends most of her time pursuing her interest in crafts, reading (WWII era is a favorite), walking and singing, sometimes at the same time. Her interests also include working on behalf of women and children to keep them safe and well fed, Bright Futures, Evans Home, Literacy Volunteers, and the Rescue Mission to name a few. Mari has accompanied Pat to Jamaica to help with the Negril dental clinic, so she has seen firsthand how Rotary can impact a community. It didn’t take much persuasion from husband Pat and Jean Barch to get Mari to join our Club once the Active Service Membership became available.

JESSICA WHITE – Jessica is the niece of Ridge White, and like most of their family, she works for White Properties and is the Creative Director for Willow Grove Farm as well. With a degree in Interior Design, Jessica has expanded her talents to graphic design, landscaping design, and is a Feng Shui Practitioner. When she’s not working, Jessica is taking care of her small menagerie (including ducks, cows, goats & sheep), gardening and generally being crafty. She is a current board member of the Evans Home which reflects her interest in supporting children and families to live with security and safety while being exposed to hope and possibility. Both Ridge and Jean Barch spent time with Jessica on the Evans Home Board and recognized her Rotarian qualities. With persistence, they were finally able to convince her to share them with our Club.

AUDI WYNN – Audi is a retired orthopedic surgeon, but she hasn’t given up medicine entirely. Currently, she is the Supervising Physician for Premier Health Resources (PHR) and also has a medical consulting business in NY City every other week. When she’s not working, she can be found on her farm with friends, family and pets. Audi is most interested in helping women and children. She hopes to put her event center to good use in this endeavor through activities and fundraisers. We have Diane Ruckman and Tricia Simpson to thank for bringing Audi into the Club.

Health Report of the Week

HEALTH UPDATE
Jaime Karalis is recovering from nasal surgery performed earlier this month in Pittsburgh.

HEALTH TIP

Libba let us know that August is Medical Alert Awareness month. She said that a nationwide medical alert system using bracelets to identify an individual’s medical information was created in 1956 and signed into law in 1978 under Jimmy Carter.

Last week Libba encouraged club members to get some exercise and support a good cause at the same time by joining CCAP’s 4th annual Bike Tour on August 24th. The family ride will be at the MSV, but also 30, 50, 70, and 100 mile routes are available for those ready to test their endurance.

Our Meetings

We are currently meeting in Hybrid mode. Our meetings are held at Winchester Country Club on Thursdays. Doors open at Noon, and the program runs from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. If you choose to view our meetings remotely, there is also a Zoom option. The link for Zoom can be found on the Home Page.

Who we are

The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:

FIRST: The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;
SECOND: High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society;
THIRD: The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s personal, business, and community life;
FOURTH: The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.

Rotary is a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world.

The Rotary Club of Winchester, founded in 1921, is comprised of some of Winchester’s most prominent community leaders – men and women with a variety of backgrounds in business, professions, religions, civic and non-profit organizations. Our members take action to make the Winchester community stronger through their service, fellowship, and by setting a good example. Every week, we come together to fulfill our commitment to Rotarian values, such as friendship, fellowship, and service to others.

If this sounds like you, Rotary is the right place for you.

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A key tenet of Rotary is service.

Our members roll up their sleeves’ to make a difference. Whether it’s collecting for the Salvation Army, handing out dictionaries in our own community, packing food to send to Haiti, the Winchester Rotary Club’s impact can be felt near and far.