Tuesday, June 9, 2009

MPC Luncheon- June 9th


Once again, we had a successful luncheon at Spaghetti Warehouse. We would like to thank Janet Boscarino from Clean Memphis Inc. for being our guest speaker. She spoke on how Memphis Propeller Club (MPC) and Clean Memphis (CM) plan to work together to clean up McKeller Lake. She explained how in the 1950's Memphis was a five-time winner of the "Nation's Cleanest City" award, but Memphis now holds the title for one of the dirtiest cities. Memphis's population growth has declined and this is mainly due to crime and grime as CM says. CM has partnered with local businesses and universities to help work towards making Memphis one of the cleanest cities again. By making Memphis a cleaner city, crime will decline instead of population growth and this will promote a sense of pride in our community, not just our Tigers. We hope to get as many MPC members as we can to help with this clean up. CM knows of groups such as fraternities and sororities that need volunteer hours to help as well. If you know of any organizations that would be willing to help, please contact someone on our Clean-Up Committee.

Jody Davenport invited Kevin Bebout from Memphis Police Dept to our luncheon for everyone to meet. He is the patrolman on President's Island and he is working hard towards reducing crime down there. He has requested that we put his contact information on here so that if anyone sees anything (or any ladies) out of the ordinary, to give him a call and he will leave where ever he is to come down there and take care of it. He seems very passionate about his job and we are very fortunate to have him as the patrolman there. His number is 901.314.4482 and his email is kevin.bebout@memphistn.gov. We have put all this information on the left side of the site where the commitees are for the future.


As always, we had our raffle. We received $150 so we were able to have 4 drawings. Ms. Debbie Howse with the help of Brian Leatherman picked our winners:







Janet Boscarino (Clean Memphis): $50 Winner


Janet had to leave earlier for a meeting, so Mike McCaskill claimed her prize. (Janet, see Mike to receive your winnings)







Don McCrory(Port of Memphis): $40 Winner


Don's guest, George Grugett, is happy because he's hoping Don is going to take him out to dinner.








David Morris (Economy Wickliffe): $40 Winner

Rick Prince and Steve London sure are eyeing that $40... Too bad for them that David was heading back to Wickliffe and wouldn't have time to share his winnings.







Paula Hasting (SGS): $20 Winner



Elizabeth and Jason are just as excited becuase they know Paula is taking them out for drinks before they head back into work.







Lastly, we would like to welcome and thank Ryan Johnston and Heath Burns as they have volunteered as the new board members.