President-elect Emma welcomed all to the April 4, 2023 club meeting held at the Nolan Murray Center.

For our inspiration moment, Sue Dowdell offered this quote from David Morris:

“The case for recycling is strong. The bottom line is clear. Recycling requires a trivial amount of our time. Recycling saves money and reduces pollution. Recycling creates more jobs than landfilling or incineration. And a largely ignored but very important consideration, recycling reduces our need to dump our garbage in someone else’s backyard. “
 
PROGRAM
 

Ham Gillet, Outreach Coordinator for the Southern Windsor/Windham County Solid Waste Management District presented a slide show featuring how the town of Gilford, NH, serving as the central collection hub, is teaming up with participating Rotary Clubs throughout New Hampshire in the collecting and shipping to Gilford, #6 recyclable foam.

There, the foam is melted down into reusable plastic ingots for making a wide variety of environmentally safe products such as building materials, molding, picture frames, etc. This foam, otherwise known as Expanded Polystyrene Styrofoam, is a hard to recycle material that most towns and solid waste centers do not accept. EPS foam can be easily identified by looking for the #6 recycle symbol embossed somewhere on the product.

Rotary club’s involvement is in the setting up of foam collection events, place collection bins at designated locations within their communities, or working with neighboring communities on a multi-town collection day. Once collected, the foam is shipped to Gilford for processing. This is a great way for the environmentally conscious to help reduce polystyrene from polluting our waterways, highways and landscapes.

For more information, contact Ham or visit https://www.gilfordnh.org/file/2845/Foam_Trifold.pdf

 
HAPPY EVENTS: 
  • Deb: Vacation to Florida and successful surgeries for her grandson
  • Sue Dowdell: Molly's attendance and her upcoming vacation in May
  • Sue Dana: Her daughter got into her first choice - Carnegie Mellon
Weekly raffle of $3 was won by Ron. The pot grows to $217.
 
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MEETING ATTENDEES

Members (9): Brandon, Carol, Cheyenne, Emma, Ed, Marty, Rod, Sue Dana, Sue Dowdell,
Guests: Molly McAllister,  Ham Gillet (speaker)
 
ANNOUNCEMENTS
• April 18th will be last meeting at Nolan Murray Center. New meeting location will be announced.
• The District Assembly will take place on Apr 29. For more info, contact Karen.
• We will have a Food Drive on Apr, 22 from 9-1 in front of Shaw's. More details to follow.
• Green Up Day will take place on May 6. Details to follow.
• Senior Solutions is holding a “Senior” Prom to celebrate 50 Years on Apr. 28. For details, click here.
Trex Plastics Challenge
Another 61 lbs from the Library means that we have collected 438 lbs of plastic. 
UPCOMING PROGRAMS
 
Kelly Stettner
Black River Action Team
 

The next board meeting will be Thurs, Apr 6, 2023, @ Noon in the Conference Room of Senior Solutions.  

All members are welcome to all board meetings, your input is valued, please come!

 

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