For The Record – April 10, 2014
by Barb Mastriania
Renovo Rotary Vendor Sale …
The Renovo Rotary club will hold its Third annual vendor sale Saturday at the Renovo Fire
hall this Saturday. More than 30 vendors will be on hand with a variety of products, items and food stuffs. The homemade soups are always popular and sell out quickly. Rotary president Patty Rauch said there will be three different soups available this year.
Case in point …
Several weeks ago I mentioned that feel addicted to the game Solitaire on my laptop because I wile away hours trying to beat the computer. Joe Desmond Jr. writes to say he spends hours doing counted cross stitch. He sent along a cross stitch portrait of actress Leah Remini who is on the show King of Queens. Joe said it took 309 hours to do the portrait.
A common thread …
Harriet “Babe” Nuss, president of Bucktail Medical Center and Mary Barra. CEO of General Motors Corp. have something in common, their introduction to their new positions is to deal with major issues. Nuss was named president of the Bucktail Medical Center Monday night during the annual reorganizational meeting. Nuss has to find a CEO for BMC. Barra has to deal with issues GM didn’t deal with.
Nuss, on her first day as prez, was spending time and energy trying to find a way for the BMC board to find a new administrator as current CEO Tom Foster has submitted his resignation. The task is not one to envy. Think about it. The board cannot just take its time to find a CEO because by law the center cannot go a day without an administrator. Foster had wanted to leave April 11th but he agreed to stay until the 23rd to give the board a bit more time.
Granted, BMC is not GM and there are major, major differences in the jobs Nuss and Barra face. Barra, barely in her job three months had to appear before Congress to try and explain why it took General Motors more than a decade to acknowledge there was a problem with some ignition switches.
Renovo loses veterans …
Renovo lost three veterans in the past couple of weeks: Paul Butler, a Korean conflict veteran and Jim Graw and John Francis, Vietnam veterans.
Kudos to clean up crew …
Kudos are in store for the volunteers who last Saturday, despite the nasty, cold, blustery weather took time to help with the cleanup of the river banks. I believe the volunteers are members of the PRR group that cleaned the borough prior to last year’s Flaming Foliage Festival. The group meets monthly and continues to do projects for the improvement of the area.
