Up the Creek

Margaret "Mogie" Kinosian, from Friends of the Kayaderosseras, was our speaker Thursday, pictured above with club President Mike Williams, left, and member Paul Sausville, whose guest she was. The Kayaderosseras Creek, she told us, has a watershed that takes in about a quarter of Saratoga County. It is the main source of Saratoga Lake, and supports Brook Trout in its upper reaches. The Friends undertake many activities to support the creek environment, including two annual cleanup days.

Power Line-Up

Thursday's speaker was Vince DeLucia, Malta town supervisor since January, who spoke mainly about battling floods and storms his winter and spring. Malta Sunrise Rotary President Mike Williams is at left in the photo, next to Vince, with former Supervisor Paul Sausville and his wife Nancy, both members of our club, on the right.

Pancakes: Be There or Be Square

Our pancake breakfast is coming up this Saturday, May 14, at the Malta Ridge Fire House on Route 9, south of Northway Exit 13.

Breakfast including scrambled eggs, sausage, pancakes, orange juice and coffee will be served from 8 to 11:30 a.m. Prices are $6 for adults, $3 for children aged 6 to 12, and free for children 5 and under. Malta Sunrise Rotary will partner with Leatherstocking Honor Flight, which will share in the proceeds.

Tickets will be available at the door, or may be purchased in advance from Malta Sunrise Rotary members.

That's one of our members in the photo above, taken after our meeting this morning at the Malta Diner: Bob Bonney, club sergeant-at-arms, pancake supremo and breakfast organizer extraordinaire.

Catching Up on the News

Here's John (Jake) DeVito, of Ballston Spa High School, Class of 2016, being awarded Malta Sunrise Rotary's $1,000 scholarship by club President Mike Williams. The award is for a graduating senior residing in the Town of Malta (which includes the Village of Round Lake).

Jake is president of the Class of 2016, served as captain of both the varsity golf and baseball teams this year, and taught in St. Mary's Church religious education program. The son of John and Amy DeVito of Malta, he plans to attend St. Lawrence University in the fall, majoring in business and political science.

In other news, we got the benches up on the Zim Smith Trail, as you can see from this Ballston Journal story.

Cement Heads

Business meeting today at which we discussed ongoing projects, including the installation of three benches on the Zim Smith Trail. The photo shows, left to right, Rotarians Paul Sausville, Doug Martin, Al Schmidt, Chris Luhn, Mike Williams, Jim Hale, Marcus Batson and Bob Conner, who prepared the concrete bases last Saturday. This Saturday morning (check your email for precise info) we'll put in the actual benches. Thanks also to behind-the-scenes facilitators Arlene Schmidt, Tom Disinger and Barb Conner, and to the GlobalFoundries-Town of Malta Foundation.

We also discussed at today's meeting the drought in Lesotho and its effect on Qholaqhoe Mountain Connections, an organization which we've helped in recent years and hope to again soon. Al Schmidt announced that club members have donated $2,559 to the Rotary Foundation this fiscal year. Al also repaired our signs for the upcoming pancake breakfast on May 14 at Malta Ridge Fire House, and Miles Cornthwaite and Doug Martin put them up around town.

We're donating $150 to a Haiti aid project through an upcoming Rotary district conference, and will start collecting food again (especially canned protein products such as beef stew and tuna) for the Malta Community Center food pantry.