Club Meeting of April 14

 
The meeting was called to order by club president, Tom Craig. Guests were recognized and included Jessica Evans, the CATCH Coordinator at the Akron Area YMCA. Upcoming events and happenings were shared:
  • Don & Ruth will join Vic and Shelly next Wednesday as they review the scholarship applications;
  • There will be no club meeting on Thursday, May 12 as the 4 Cities Compact Vocational Awards Ceremony will be held on Friday, May 13 at Summa Barberton Hospital. The room is reserved for the awards ceremony;
  • The academic scholarships will be presented at an upcoming meeting;
  • There will also be no club meeting next week- we are to go out and sell Golf Outing Raffle Tickets. See Bid for additional raffle tickets. 
  • The golf outing sign up forms were mailed out after last weeks meeting. The form had been added to the club website and will also be emailed out to club members.
  • June 25 will be Barberton Day at the Rubber Ducks- club members are encouraged to attend. Barberton 125th Anniversary T-Shirts will be available, too;
Denny Liddle talked about upcoming District Grant opportunities for our club:
1. Parks & Rec. They are dedicating money to the rehab and upgrade of the McCafferty park. There are many children in that area and there is no playground equipment near there. They are looking at handicap accessible equipment to fill that vacant need also.
2. YMCA. They recently purchased the corner lot on Hopocan Ave. and 3rd. The plan is to work with Summit County DD and put playground equipment that can be utilized by YMCA and DD.
 
Our speaker, Jessica Evans talked about the Summit County CATCH Collaborative. CATCH is The Coordinated Approach to Child Heralth. It has the largest evidence base of any obesity prevention program. CATCH focuses on helping kids and communities make healthy choices in food and lifestyle.