Here's What's Happening at East Polk Rotary

Hello Rotarians!

Last week we welcomed our new President Kim Byers who took control of the club on her first day and made several announcements.  On July 16th the event Huger Free for Rotary will take place at the Outreach, Inc. warehouse located at 7401 Highway 69 South, near the Southridge Mall.  There are two shifts--1:00 and 3:00.  Volunteers will be bagging prepackaged meals in a similar fashion to other meal-packaging efforts made popular by Meals from the Heartland.  The club gave $500 towards this effort.

Tom Downs was our Rotarian of the Day and introduced Chad Quick, the Altoona City Planner for the last 13 years.  He said Altoona now has a population of 16,500.  He spoke about the 300,000 square foot high end outlet mall going in by the Bass Pro Shop next year.  The movie theater project moved locations and now will be built near Culvers on Adventureland Drive.  There will also be a new Hampton Inn & Suites built west of the Holiday Inn Express and just west and south a new commercial building is being constructed for the Iowa Donor Network which is moving its administrative offices from Johnston.  It will be about 17,000 square feet.  None of this even includes Phase 2 of the Facebook project going on just north of the Bass Pro location on the other side of Interstate 80.  Chad said that building is designed to withstand a direct hit from an EF4 tornado.  Evidently there is a lot of steel and concrete involved.

Tomorrow this is no AM meeting and instead we are meeting for a picnic and pool party at Pam Donahue's house in Granger.  The address is 10652 NW 107th Street and it is the third house on the left.  The festivities begin at 6PM and will include fun at her pool, yard games and plenty of food.

We hope to see you there.