My wife and I have decided to move to the west side of the mountains to take better care of our daughter, who as most of you know has early onset Alzheimer’s. We love Wenatchee and Wenatchee Rotary but we believe it’s much more important and meaningful for us to focus on taking care of her.  We are temporarily moving over to Seattle for a month to work on the move and consequently I’m taking a leave of absence from Wenatchee Rotary on Friday, 1/12/18
 
We have a plan to continue the Milot Rotary project and the money to support is still available in the Wenatchee Rotary Foundation.  Garry Arseneault is taking my place, and he’s well qualified to do it.  He visited Milot twice to help with water sanitation projects and has been following our progress this year.     This is the transition report from me as I hand it over to Garry.  Keslyn’s email below contains his progress to date, his plans for the next few days and his work to provide an estimate of ongong costs.  It consists of my introduction, Keslyn’s work plans this week, his progress over last weekend and his work to get estimates for the remaining work in the next stage. We have sent him or spent all the $5,000 we budgeted and he has $101 US remaining.  We believe we have more funds remaining to continue the project for the coming year.
 
We would like to present a Board report for next Thursday, January 18 at 4:30 pm regarding future work and budgets.  
It’s been a deeply satisfying experience to serve you all in the project.  I’ll be available by cell and email.  Jim