WELCOME 7:30 am
Pledge
Invocation
Recording today: Susan A Grimes
Guests: Kevin and Laura Toohey, Sandy Combs, Ginny Jascot, Dave Johnson and Phil Murdoch from Essex Rotary
UPCOMING MEETINGS:
. 8/15. Board meeting
. 8/16. Committee meetings
. 8/23. Rotary Youth Leadership Awards
. 8/30. Ian Boyd, CCV Coordinator Academic Services
. 9/6. Bob George, Dealer.com Mgt Team
. 9/13. Alan Miller, STDs-based learning/coaching, CVU school district
. 9/20. Club meeting
. 9/27. Frank Cioffi, Pres. GBIC ( Greater Burlington Industrial Corp.)
COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECTS:
Linda Gilbert: Charlotte Beach project- would like to meet with other members to review design and what can the club do.
Bob Sanders and John Dubie: Golf ball drop. Turn in tickets next week 8/16. Tickets will be sold at farmers market 8/19 till 1:00 pm. Need to sell about 1,000 tickets and so far over 400 have been sold.
OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Linda Gilbert handed out sheet noting items to be donated for SHELBURNE day for Rotary food booth.
Ric Flood: on 8/20 at 5 pm Vermont Lake Monsters District 7850.org. CODE: ROTARY TO BUY TICKETS. Gates open at 4 pm. Proceeds go to District to support several nonprofits.
9/24: Middlebury College sponsored by Middlebury Rotary is their 1st Annual Fall Festival 2-6 pm
10/29: 2 pm HALLOWEEN PARADE. We need a float. Promoting local businesses in parade. Advertising helps promote them and bring potential donations.
ESSEX ROTARY CLUB: Dave Johnson and Phil Murdoch presented golf trophy to John Lowell and Will Wisell for June tournament and being the runner ups! The tournament netted $27 K . They also host the All- star hockey tournament in March and the corn booth at Champlain Valley Fair in August.
SARGEANT AT ARMS:
Kris- trip to Michigan
John- saw two shows at the Flynn Space
Linda- Dragonboat races
Steve- Happy Wednesday
Phil- Happy Wednesday
Susan- Spectacular full moon
Erik- Happy for the engagement of our members
Gary- had the winning ticket but drew the Jack of spades
John- happy to pay for Richard not to sing Rotary song
Ric- Happy to have Essex Rotary presenting trophy
Sam- great summer for the Vets
Heather- hiking last weekend
Tod- past Saturday was sunny for farmers market
Dave- happy
Bill- happy for John running ball drop
Mike- weather
John- back from Australia
Charlie- grandkids
Sally- Eric doing a great job
Irene- just happy
Rob- concert at Farm Barn
Ginny- thanks for welcoming her last meeting for this summer
PROGRAM: Dan Cox, President of Coffee Enterprises
33 years of experience and Dan was the first paid employee of Green Mt Coffee. Was Vice President and partner
Someone asked about Juan Valdez and Dan said he is actually Juan Valdez III and saw him in April. His real name is Carlos Sanchez and lives in Columbia.
Dan said Rotary had a big influence in his life. His father in law was a Rotarian. Grew up in Buffalo. Went to Norwich University. Played racquetball. Was an a lieutenant in the US Army. In summer of 1972 he was a recruiter for Norwich and played a lot of racquetball in his free time. He started with Green Mt Coffee roasters then and did sales full time. He has been President of four different Coffee organizations.
Ben Cohen asked Dan to help him bring coffee beans from Mexico in order to extract for ice cream. Coffee tasting was something no one was doing and Dan started the business on 286 College St. He has since moved to the NRG building in Hinesburg. Dr Folk , Dans second father, asked to go to Mexico with him and he noticed no one was screening women for cervical cancer in Mexico. Dr Valenzuela Gynetek in CA donated thru Rotary and the Rotary in Buffalo the necessary equipment to set up a clinic to screen women for cervical cancer. To date they have screened over 80,000 women in many different countries.
Coffee tasting: you need training! Dan has 10 employees. They focus on Memory: repetition Speak the language: "Coffee lingo" adjectives such as grassy, rubbery and wood.
Scoring: there is a National scoring system and a Proprietary system
Cupping room and the Zen of tasting: Six graders. They have 30 seconds per five cups and they test coffee in different categories. Physical testing, Chemical testing and Tasting the coffee and describing it.
They use flavor capsules to train people in tasting. 39 capsules of all different flavors.
GROUNDS FOR HEALTH: started in 1996 is the organization providing screening for women. Three major countries they go to are Mexico, Ethiopia and Kenya.
Eric presented Dan with a book THE WORLD ATLAS OF COFFEE to go to the Pierson Library.