New District

 

Jim Frey, assistant governor of our Rotary District 7190, explained forthcoming changes as our speaker on Thursday. We are merging with two other districts to form a new Rotary district across upstate to be called Central New York. (The number is not yet decided.) This will take effect at the beginning of July, the start of the Rotary year. Jim is a member of Saratoga Springs Rotary, and expects it and our Malta club to be part of Area 4 in the new district, and he will serve as Area 4 representative.

Last week's speaker was Miles Cornthwaite talking about the town's purchase of development rights on the Malta Avenue Extension property behind his mid-19th-century farm house. It is in the Saratoga Lake watershed.

The Eitzmann File

 

Our newest member, Murray Eitzmann, told us a little about himself at Thursday's meeting. He and his wife of 48 years Kathy (president of Malta Seniors) met and married in their home state of Nebraska. They have two children and four grandchildren. 

Murray worked as a power systems engineer in Nebraska. His career then took the family to Sweden and Wisconsin, before he got a job with General Electric Co. in Schenectady and they moved to Malta in 1989. Now retired from GE, he works part-time for Jedson Engineering and serves on the Malta Zoning Board.

 In other business, President Dwight Havens presented Barbara Conner with the Paul Harris Fellow award from Rotary International.

Business

 At last month's business meeting, we donated $500 (in addition to another $500 not long before) to local efforts coordinated by our member Paul Phillips to help AOET Uganda.

At yesterday's business meeting for January 2024, we voted to give $500 to Gift of Life International. (Individual members may donate to increase this total amount.) We also discussed a potential "wonderbooks" project for the Round Lake-Malta libraries.