Attendees: Justin, Patty, Kevin, Joe Kraft, Jim Strunk, Amy, Andrew, Lisa, Terri, Joe Hudak, Tianyi Krupka, Jeff Appel, Wayne, Tim Smith
Farrell Foundation and loose coalition of other businesses (ZuZu chocolates) trying to get Westlake designated as dementia friendly (Dementia Friendly America)
- one of the criteria is 100% sidewalks
Membership committee - Andrew, John Hanna, kind of Lisa
Discussion of October 24 Polio purple donuts -looks like this will be on and we will try to participate
Foundation Gala - Nov 13
NE Ohio Art Festival calendar - we are registered and part of the calendar
MIke’s Jersey Subs - fundraiser this weekend supporting Best Buddies
Ed Gallagher - Jim golfed with him and he has foundation that helps in Africa
Hope Markers - hopemarkers.com
Rotary clubs at Lorain County Alzheimer’s Walk Saturday 10/4/2025 raised over $15k
trying to get the community more involved
Andrew sent out bylaws for us to review. Please send feedback as the bylaw committee will meet again to finalize
Andrew sent his happy dollars from his presidency to the Adoption Network Cleveland
Andrew will discuss at board meeting 10/22 the cluster international project of a van for a town in Africa
Community Services Center of Westlake
- No updates on a family to adopt at Christmas
- They are low on staff and may need our help at Thanksgiving and Christmas time for food distribition
Golf outing recap
- Big bouquet of thanks to Katie and Shane for all their efforts to put on what was a great event with wonderful weather
- Thank you to everyone who helped put this event on - especially Justin, Jim and Katie who spearheaded the event
- Thanks to Lisa for all the work on the back end with brochures and social media
- Thanks to all the people who assisted for check in
- We had a group from Geneva who found us through Lisa’s social media posts
- Preliminary numbers on profits will be about $5500
- Wayne suggested that we need to contact business sponsors earlier since they allocated their funds early in the year