April 14 – David Allen introduces Adnan Sultan who is an attorney with the Innocence Project, an organization dedicated to freeing those wrongly convicted of crimes. 

 

 

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The Zoom Room opens at 11:45 AM.  After the Pledge of Allegiance and opening Password Todd will introduce our speaker. 

 

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Todd Allen announced the wonderful news that Kevin Wenger has agreed to accept the position of President-Elect effective 2021-22, setting our club up with a great succession plan! 

 

Dick Podolec offered Happy Dollars in honor of Dave Bradley, who now has completed 50 years of service above self as a Hanover Rotarian and in honor of Kevin Wenger who accepted the position of President elect,.

 

The Raffle Management Team (RMT) awarded a $10 in-kind donation to Willing Hands to Bruce Atwood who successfully identified the fourth part of the 4 way test as being beneficial for all concerned as opposed to being beneficial to the individual themselves--- the fourth precept of the Ayn Rand Rotary Club.  

 

 

REMINDER: Here’s the link to make your donation in lieu of paying for meals at Jesse’s AND the place to donate your Happy Dollars! As Todd announced at the meeting last week, the funds will be earmarked for Willing Hands. https://hanovernhrotary.ejoinme.org/COVID-19.

 

 

Todd Allen introduced Adair Mulligan, Executive Director of the Hanover Conservancy who gave a presentation on the progress of the organization, New Hampshire’s oldest local land trust. She noted that the Conservancy began nearly 60 years ago with the acquisition of Balch Hill and as a private, non-profit protects the lands and waters of Hanover. The Conservancy how has 543 members representing ¼ of the Households in Hanover!  

 

Adair reviewed the key elements of the recently adopted 5 year plan for the Conservancy, which focuses on climate change. The plan will ensure there are as many unfragmented forest lands as possible while maintaining the trails that the community values. She briefed the club on the acquisition of Mink Brook Forest, noting that it would be opening to the public in the near future and reviewed the many ways the Conservancy serves the community through education programs in schools, in Osher, and through various outreach activities highlighted in their monthly newsletter. She invited club members to learn about opportunities by logging onto the website at www.hanoverconservancy.org. 

 

In response to various questions Adair noted the roughly 23% of Hanover’s land is currently conserved; that the Town will be taking the lead in trail development in the Mink Brook Forest; that Japanese knotweed, a pervasive invasive, will be killed with chemicals as a last resort; and, that the widening of Greensboro Road, a dream of all who live in Etna and ride bikes into town, will probably not happen in our lifetimes because of complications involving who owns and controls it-- the State or the Town. She indicated to Len Cadwallader that she hoped the Quabbin-to-Cardigan initiative might help other communities replicate the kind of community support Hanover receives from its residents.  

 

 

April 21 – Todd Allen will introduce Lou’s owner Jarrett Berke

 

April 28 – Heather Drinan introduces Steve Thiel, President of Southern New Hampshire University.

 

May 5 – Wayne Gersen will introduce Lori Gosselin who will talk about her community building initiative.

 

May 12 – Jed Williamson will introduce Dan Richards of Global Rescue to tell us about his work intervening when travelers get into danger. 

 

May 19 – Gabe Zoerheide of Willing Hands will be introduced by Todd Allen. 

 

May 26 – David Allen introduces Miriam Conrad of the Office of Public Defenders from Massachusetts

 

We’re now booked through all of June and halfway into July! But summer is coming and we can never sign up speakers too early! Your ideas are welcome!

 

FINALLY: HELP WANTED! With my second vaccination, I will be travelling later this month and during a few weeks this summer and would like to have someone serve as Zoom manager, meeting recorder, and note-taker. Anyone interested in finding out how easy it really is to do this, please email me at wgersen@hotmail.com.

 

Wayne Gersen