Rotary Minutes 10/13/2026
Chris Gravelin was a guest today, he put out the big Mum-a-Thon signs, he works with the Boy Scouts and Jay. He will be helping with the race.
The Rotary Club attended Les Kish services at the Veteran Cemetery in Middletown.
Whit needs a volunteer to Kiss a Pig for him. He has a dentist note…He’s willing to match to not kiss a pig, we raised $86 today. It’ll be this Sunday, Oct. 18th. You can go to the Bristol Boys and Girls club for more info. and donate on that site as well.
Meet at St Paul’s cafeteria entrance 3pm Saturday Oct.17th to help set up. Parking will be tight since they have activities.
October 18th Mum-a-Thon
Rotary volunteers 7am Sunday
Volunteers need to be there at 8am Sunday
Registration opens at 8:30am Sunday
If someone is same day registering
- Direct them to QR code
- Run sign up
- Have them complete at separate table.
- When registered you can find them and their BIB number.
QR code will bring people to run sign up/look up the registrant to find BIB, Blaise has access to Run Sign up.
Mary- 351 runners signed up so far
223runners for 5k, 48runners for 8k, 32runners 8mile
Registration – Alphabetical order versus numerical order?
Next year, do race check in app on your smart phone
Same day registration
Christine can walk thru the crowd letting people know what line to stand in per race they are running in.
The Monster Mile (4 laps) will be on the school track not around the school, Cassondra is taking care of that. Next year heavily promote that as safe kid/fam event. No timers
Swag bag is limited, next year no bag.
Food – Heather
- Jersey Mikes can only pick up at 10am
- Platters from BJs, granola bars, Rice Krispies,
- Judi Ann Aroma Joes, bagels and bananas.
- 4 cases of water from Crazy Bruces
Raffle 4 tables are needed, approx. 12 gift baskets
- Norm and Ann will be selling tickets for the raffle
- No cash they can venmo
- $1 dollar per ticket $5 for an arms length. Do we have a sign for that?
- Need a Venmo QR code to pay for tickets versus cash
- Shirts are $5
- We need to be able to make change, ten $5 dollar bills
- We will draw the raffle at noon (because that’s when the last runner comes back)
100 Cones – Tom and Heather met with town of Burlington
- Tom - we are all set with Burlington
- Police men will be at Stafford Street.
- We need race in progress signs,
- Burlington will put out their own cones
- We put out race in progress signs (3) in Burlington
- Need to check shed for signs
- Tom will contact public works, Dimato and Carpenter were a No on cones
Mary - Waiting to see if the school has cones (Mr. Cooper), last resort is public works or purchasing cones.
Vendor – Wheeler, SpareTime with mascot
Judi Ann had the ticket called but didn’t win the pot