Mark your calendars and you are invited! Our Fall Festival Open House Event is here at the GOC Nov 15 from 1a-5p. Lots of hard work is going into the event. We had supporters from all over come to help us clean up. Rotaract Club of Gainesville Rotary Club of Downtown Gainesville Gainesville Rotary Club Gainesville Rotary Club First Federal Bank Rotary District 6970 University of Florida Santa Fe College UF David and Wanda Brown Center for Leadership & Service Greater Gainesville Chamber of Commerce Clubhouse International – ICCD

Joanne Edde is a GOC Board member, a Chamber Diplomat and works for a great community bank, First Federal. You never know where you might find her next. Our Board will do whatever is necessary to help. Working together is the key to success. (Jennifer Elder, Mike Conlon, Mercy Quiroga.) Dedicated GOC Board Secretary Jennifer Elder records minutes even when she is pulling weeds. Board Chair Mercy Quiroga is is dedicated to the GOC. James Agan works for the office that organizes the student volunteers. He brought them in a van and pitched in. Thank you to all of the great volunteers. We had 8 total helping us. Board member Mike Conlon pitches in every where he can. his leadership has helped us grow and he is happy to do the small things that make us successful. GOC Member Alina led a team of volunteers on a cleanup project. Now they are taking a break. Here is the group of UF volunteers. James sure put himself into what he was doing. Thank you Board member Bill Stephenson. Looking good. Hope you come for our Open House Nov 15 from 11a – 5 p. If you know Joanne Edde, you know she is non-stop. Board Vice President Shoab Rana is helping take out growth with Bill Stephenson in the background and the shadow of Brett Buell next to Shoab. At least it was sunny. Greg Young not only came out, he helped us organize what needed to be done. Thank you Patrick and Katherine Mockler. Katherine is the President of the young professional Rotaract Club, part of Rotary International. While post people worked outside, Mia led a crew inside. There is Manny again removing invasive nuisance trees. Our fence almost blew over in the recent storms. Rotarian Patrick Irby purchased new fence poles, dug new holes and installed the posts. Alina again doing even more work. Scott Hesch is quite helpful. Long-time Member Joel Andreasen works full time and does not come to the GOC as much as he used to. He was happy to reconnect with us. Rotarian Greg Young is always ready to help others in the community. Rotarians working together, Greg Young, Patrick Irby, Katherine Mockler, and Brett Buell are making a difference. Volunteer from UF and GOC Member Alina working together! GOC Members like Alina are vital to our program. We had three loads of debris. That is a lot of work from some very dedicated people.