President Kristin Keller called the meeting to order at Palmera Inn and Suites
The prayer was offered by Kevin Courtney and he also led the pledge to the flag.
Announcements:
Next week's meeting, August 31, will be held off site at the Solicitor's office in Okatie. The address is 108 Traders Cross and the agenda will be coming out this week..
Also on August 31 at 5 to 7pm we are invited to tour the Sandbox
September 3/4- Oyster Reef project. Looking for volunteers with boats to help on the 3rd at high tide to drop bags of shells off the side of the boat in the area where the reef will be built- along the 18th fairway of Harbortown. On the morning of Sept 4, volunteers will be transported to the build site to create the reef. If you can help, respond to Jean Fruh.
Raffle tickets for our fall raffle will be available next week.
Guests Bill and John from the Sunset Club shared information about their third annual Golf Tournament which will be held Saturday September 18. It is held at Pirates Island, tickets are $15 each. Buy four get one free. They do accept online payment.
Sergeant at Arms, Suzi Oliver collected Happy $$.
Above, Dick Storm is Happy because he and his beautiful wife Ginny are celebrating their 57th wedding anniversary on August 29.
Speaker:
Our speaker was Kalaylah Chisolm who was a VLR scholarship recipient three years ago. She is a senior at Winthrop University and presented a slide show of her past three years and what is next for her.
She has been on the Deans list and has also been a Winthrop Ambassador. She is a Winthrop mentor to first year students. Kalaylah is pursuing a BA in Theatre - Performance and a minor in Educational Studies. She is an Actor, Director, Educator, and Stage Manager. She is a member of the Theater honor society and received a scholarship because of the promise she shows in directing. Kalaylah will be directing two shows in spring and will be applying for Winthrop's Accelerated Masters Program for a Master in the Arts of Teaching. She has a sweet new puppy named Omicron. You can visit this very successful young lady's website at kchisolm.com.