Just Folks

Last week's speaker, left, was Scott Hayden, executive director of the Adirondack Folk School in Lake Luzerne. Scott brought along a selection of crafts that students can learn to make at the school, including many woodworking items, along with baskets, tools, rugs, and others. With him in the photo are Malta Rotarians Al Schmidt and Larry Levine. (Scott, who moved recently to Malta, is a longtime member of the Glens Falls Rotary Club.)

This week's board meeting will be held on Wednesday morning at 7:15 at Panera restaurant on Dunning Street. The business meeting the day after will be held as usual at the Malta Diner.

Person of Action and Picking Up Trash

Rotary District 7190 Governor Fred Daniels, left, and Malta Sunrise Rotary President Bob Conner present Miles Cornthwaite, center, with a Person of Action award at this morning's meeting. Miles, a founding member of our club, has been heavily involved in recent fund-raisers and a bench-installation project, serves on the scholarship and membership committees, and will be a member of the new nominating committee. He even gave blood at a Rotary-sponsored Red Cross event (see photo in Oct. 2 post below).
Coming up this Saturday morning, Oct. 21, we'll be doing trash pick-up on Dunning Street. Meet at 8:30 at Forest Cleaners.

Pancakes and Politics

Tom Disinger has stepped up on short notice to run our pancake breakfast, coming up this Sunday Oct. 15 at the Malta Ridge Fire House which is located between Route 9 and Hearn Road, south of Northway Exit 13. Club members willing to help and not yet signed up should contact Tom.

The 8-11:30 a.m. breakfast includes sausage, scrambled eggs, coffee and orange juice, in addition to pancakes. It costs $6 for adults, $3 for children aged 6 to 12, and is free for younger children.

The breakfast will benefit both the Malta Sunrise Rotary Club and Leatherstocking Honor Flight, which has taken more than 1,000 local veterans to visit the World War II memorial in Washington DC.

At this morning's meeting, our speaker was state Assemblywoman Carrie Woerner, shown below with fellow Rotarians (left to right) former Malta Supervisor Paul Sausville, Town Attorney Tom Peterson, and club President Bob Conner.

Business Meeting

Sandy McAlonie, assistant governor for our Rotary District, dropped by this morning's meeting (shown here with our Treasurer Cynthia Young and President Bob Conner). She picked up a $100 check to help fund the Peace Summit for Youth scheduled for Nov. 12. We also voted to give $100 to the planned Malta Veterans Memorial Walkway.

And the club elected Arlene Schmidt, who has served twice as president, as the new secretary (see updated list of board members/officers on this page).

Blood and Houses

Cynthia Young and Estelle Genest were among the Rotarians helping run the Red Cross blood drive Friday at Malta Ambulance Corps, while Miles Cornthwaite, below, another of our members, was a blood donor as well. Also giving blood were Rotarian organizer Barb Conner and Rotarian-to-be Mike Hensler and his wife Cheryl (sp?). Also helping from our club were Steve Ames, Doug Martin, Dave Kruczlnicki and Helen Endres.

Then on the weekend, the Showcase of Homes wrapped up, an event which raises money for Habitat for Humanity and Rebuilding Together Saratoga County. Rotarians Barb Conner (below), Helen Endres and Tom Disinger (along with his wife Barbara) helped out with that.