COGS May 4 2017
Posted by Horton Hickerson on May 10, 2017
It was a sad and somber meeting as we remembered fondly our friend and fellow Rotarian, Warren Tockerman. Mike, Joe, Rob, Jon, Addie, Tony, Ken, Ted Friedli, and Denise all gave sad dollars for his passing. I chose to remember the happy occasion last year, when the club awarded Warren his Paul Harris. He was so pleased. Rest in peace, Warren, you served this club well.
The menu for the day was a summer salad, grilled and sliced pork flat iron steak, and tiramisu. The pork was excellent, but I am not a fan of tiramisu. Rest assured that I ate it, but I am not a big fan of it.
The Prez wanted to remind us that the service for our veterans for the Memorial Day celebration will be held on May 29th. He is looking for people to attend and represent Red Bank Rotary. Ken indicated that he will try to be there and Addie said she would be there. Jack is a regular at the event.
Ted Friedli was at the meeting to promote his charity, Kick Cancer Overboard. He indicated that he has a free trip for a deserving person. The Prez immediately volunteered, but then found out that you needed to have or have had cancer. Ken didn’t think it was worth going that far to get a free trip, and withdrew his offer to go.
Big Sgt. Jim was at it again with his fines. You won’t believe this, but Tony got fined for not wearing a pin. I think it was the first time this week he was fined for that. I believe that Eric was also fined for going pinless, and Jon, Joe, Mike and Rob were late. Robin was fined for having her picture in the paper with her “new husband”, Bill Moss, and Ken and I were fined for some ridiculous and unwarranted reasons.
June 10th through the 14th is the RI Convention in Atlanta. We have a good crew going and I don’t think it is too late to sign up. August 18th is the picnic at the track and August 21st is our golf outing. By the way, the raffle tickets are being printed as we speak, so we can get a jump on selling them. The Jackson Rotary is having their golf the week before ours on August 14th in memory of Mike Gormley. Some of us will be going to that, and there is room for more. E-mail Ken or me for more information. After a number of changes, the “Bored” Meeting will be held at 10:00AM on May 18, at Navesink CC. One other item, the District Leadership Training Assembly will be held at Brookdale Community College on May 20th. Boy, can our upcoming leaders use that session. Ken, it’s probably too late for you.
Our speaker for the meeting was Vin Gopal, formally the County Democratic Chairman and currently running for the State Senate. The main platform he is running on is that we have 565 municipalities in the state of NJ and the cost is driving up our property taxes. Consolidate the towns, and the taxes will go down. This is a long-standing issue that has been talked about for many years, but because of the provincial mind set of the state’s residents, nothing is ever done about it. The program did stimulate many questions of Vin and many people voiced an opinion on the subject. It was interesting to note that one or two of the opinions voiced were even intelligent.
Hey, guess who won the 50-50. Right, yours truly took home $25 and the four of clubs. Lou had the nerve to say to me that the pot wasn’t big enough for him to win. TTFN.