by Anura Guruge
on April 13, 2023

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Thursday, April 13, 2023 Laconia Rotary Club meeting @ the Belknap Mill. It was a packed (16 club members) & ebullient – thanks to a tremendously upbeat & uplifting presentation by Bob Bolduc of the eponymous ‘Bolduc Park’ (https://www.bolducpark.com/). It was quite the program (infinitely better than last week’s). Bob rocked. Bolduc Park has been providing stellar service to NH kids, especially the disadvantaged.
I don’t have the words, space or the time to go into details — so please check their Website.
It was an honor to listen to Bob talking about all the great things that have happened in & around the Park. Bob was accompanied by his wife & the Park’s Director of Marketing, Gail, who also did a short, but punchy presentation. Paula did another update on the motorcycle raffle & Nick assured us that it is ‘OK’ for us members to by tickets for family members. Gary Dionne, the CEO (where the ‘E’ stands for ‘entertainment’), yet again (at his own expense) provided 4 scratch tickets to augment the raffle. The Sgt. At Arms won the raffle (& since Warren was AWOL none was brave enough to question the legality of that). The CEO also won one of his own scratch tickets – but he didn’t tell us if he won any big bucks. There were a LOT of happy $$$s. Paula, yet again, had won an award & a lot of kids & grandkids (as expected by the Club) had excelled in various endeavors. The ‘New Guy’ (whose name I can never recall) did a happy $1 for some pagan holiday, BUT also noted that it was Chief Warren’s 50th Wedding Anniversary. He, however, did NOT part with a $1! Instead, he submitted an IOU … which will, someday, makes its way to Warren. Good meeting. Bolduc Park is looking for volunteers. Check out the pictures.

by Anura Guruge
on April 6, 2023

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Laconia Rotary Club weekly meeting, Thursday, April 6, 2023 (at the historic Mill). It was well well attended. At least 16 club members, & one august guest, a Commercial Loan Officer from ‘Meredith Village Saving Bank’ (MVSB). Haven’t seen this many of us at a meeting in many a week — especially given that we had no external guest speaker. The presentation if you could call it that was some ad hoc, provocative ‘comments’ from one of our (supposed) club members. He is new. I always have trouble with his name. It is not, alas, ‘local’. We keep on calling him the ‘new guy’. That was him. He talked about Fat Buddhas, meditation & something to do with reincarnation. There was also some talk about ‘Deadbeat dads’! From what I could see he caused some consternation when he started talking about some mischief he used to get up with monkeys! Hhhmm. But, it was a good meeting. People seem to leave with a smile on their face. The CEOE, Gary Dionne was MIA. John Irving won the raffle & pulled an ACE. He got some money & appeared to be happy though I think that Chief Warren Clement is still holding onto all of the IOUs & adding 8% a week usury to them. So, that was that. I wish I knew the name of that guy who did the presentation. Never mind. I just hope his monkey is OK.