July Speakers

On July 10th we heard from our exchange student Alice about her time in Casper. 

The July 17th speaker was member Charlie Shopp who presented on the current real state market. 

On July 24th Tate Belden spoke to us about beekeeping. 

On July 31st we heard from General Manager Kirk Goodman about the Ford Wyoming Center. 

New Red and Blue Badge Members

Welcome to new Red Badge Members:

• Wayne Burchett (July 24)
• Kristine Turner (July 31)

• Marie Wardenski (July 17)
• Shelby Watson (July 31)

Classification Talks

There were no classification talks in July. 

Paul Harris Awards

No members were recognized for Paul Harris contributions in July. 

Golf Tournament Thank Yous

Thank you to the following for contributing golf tournament auction items:

• Donnel's Candy
• Robin Mundell
• Sinclair
• Lori Klatt
• Nikki Hawley
• Express Employment
• Casper College
• Steve Domonkos
• Ross Schriffman
• Red Wing Shoes
• Bobbi and Senator John Barasso

• Greg Brondos
• Farnham’s Furniture 2 holes
• Summit Electric
• Farnham’s Furniture 2 holes
• Donnell’s Candy
• Stifel
• Rocky Mountain Power
• Chastidy Greenwood, American National
• Hampton Inn and Suites
• Dr Randall Griffith
• Casper Orthopedics
• Doug McLaughlin
• Ultra Orthodontics
• Wyoming Plant Company
• Ronna Boril
• Jimmy and Rosa Goolsby
• Shane Michels Best Buy-
• State Farm
• 1st State Bank
• Red Wing Shoes
• Quality Auto
• One Hour Martinizing
• Hilltop Bank
• Joseph Park-The Can-Do Company
• K & L Storage
• Range Solar
• 71 Construction
• Liz Becher
• Hein Bond Architects Randy Hein
• Keyhole-Brad Cundey
• Wayne Burchett New York Life
• D'Arcy Quinn 307 Print 
• Pathfinder FCU
• Casper Chamber
• Ford Wyoming Center
• Banner Health Wyoming Medical 
• Casper  College
• Mason Lenhart
• GW Mechanical 
• Tandum Design and Build
• Frog Creek-Brian Deurloo
• Charlie Shopp ReMax the Group

Rotary Club of Casper members routinely volunteer to help pack food boxes at the Food Bank of Wyoming. The boxes that our members pack go to families in need in our community, and are just a small part of the one million+ meals provided when they’re needed the most.  Volunteers meet at the Food Bank of Wyoming (5150 Reserve Drive, Evansville) around 1:30 pm. The next food packing date will be on Monday, August 7th.

Our next exchange student, Irene Flora, will be arriving on Thursday, August 10th at 8:05 pm. We encourage members to join the welcome group at the airport. Also, don't forget to invite Irene along to any fun activities you may do before school starts.

The Rotary Club of Casper Great Duck Derby will be on Saturday, August 19th from 12 noon to 5 pm at Crossroads Adventure Park. Members are each allocated one packet of 10 tickets that we encourage you to sell. Interested parties may also purchase tickets online by scanning the QR code on the back of the yellow ticket. All proceeds from Duck Derby stay in our local Natrona County community. This year's proceeds will go to upgrading Adventure Playground at Crossroads Park with ADA-accessible equipment. We'll also be upgrading playground equipment at Sunny Acres Park in Mills. 

There will be a new member orientation on Tuesday, August 22nd. Location to be announced. All red badge members need to attend one of these orientation sessions to move to blue badge status. Blue badge members are encouraged to attend and guide our newer members. 

Our monthly Social Hour is held on the last Thursday of each month. Save the date: Thursday, August 24th from 5-7 pm. Location to be announced.

• President Dan Odell called the meeting to order at 7 am.

• Lori Klatt made a motion to approve the agenda, seconded by Megan Bratton. Vote: all in favor. Motion passed.

• Mike Lougee made a motion to approve the June Board Meeting minutes, seconded by Lori Klatt. Vote: all in favor. Motion passed.

• Glenn discussed the two reports he provided for the meeting, a full fiscal year report for the 2022-23 fiscal year as well as his regular monthly report.
  • 2022-23 fiscal year report: Glenn noted the split in operations and service funds on the fiscal year report as well as the $25,000 certificate of deposit that was opened with operations funds. There was a net income of $18,885 in operations funds in the 2022-23 fiscal year and a net loss of $121,016 in service funds, leaving assets of $183,637 at the end of the year.
  • Monthly report- Glenn noted a current net operations income of $10,216 and a net loss of $322 in service funds.
• Mike Lougee noted for the board’s awareness that while there is approximately $132,000 in the service funds account at the moment, there is $150,000 budgeted to be distributed.
• Dan Odell asked for an updated cash flow sheet at the August board meeting.
• Megan Bratton made a motion to approve the Treasurer’s report, seconded by Chastidy Greenwood. Vote: all in favor. Motion passed.

• Membership is currently at 180 (179 Active + 1 Honorary).
• New members – Members in the application process: Wayne Burchett (Katie Burchett)- will be inducted July 24, Sara Trojan (Vickery Hall)- waiting on payment to induct, Kristie Turner (Sabrina Kemper)- in two week waiting period.  
• Inductions- none
• Resignations- Nancy Boswell (moved), Joe MacGuire (no reason given), Tim Anderson (no reason given), Tom Broumley (slowing down), Chaz Farnham (retired)
• Membership deceased: None
• Leave of Absence Requests: None  
• Megan Bratton asked for clarification on board members needing to vote in order to send a potential new member to the entire club for consideration. Chastidy Greenwood and Lori Klatt clarified that this has always been the policy.

• Duck Derby: Sabrina Kemper discussed Duck Derby planning. It is going fairly smooth, however ticket sales are slow. Sabrina also discussed issues with the boom and the drop site being by the abandoned hotel. On August 2 at 5PM the club with have a work night to count ducks as well as string noodles for the duck catching device. After discussion about the partnership with the Platte River Trails, the board agreed to debrief after this year’s derby and decide how to move forward then.
• The board discussed having t-shirts for the Duck Derby that list some of the projects it supports. After further discussion about t-shirts, it was determined that Megan Bratton and Lori Klatt would work on a design.

• Dan Odell announced that Thursday, July 20 is Rotary night at the Spuds game and it was determined that it would be the club’s monthly social as well.

• Membership- Mike Lougee- Mike announced that the next new member orientation is tentatively set for August 22. Mike also discussed reinvigorating the onboarding program.
• Youth Service- Sabrina Kemper- Sabrina announced that our new exchange student will arrive in the middle of August, she is 17 and from Italy.
• Public Relations- Megan Bratton- Nothing to report.
• President Elect- Lori Klatt- Lori noted that there are ten meetings that will not be held at the Ramkota this year, all but one of those will be at the Best Western.
• Service Projects- Mike Morrissey- Mike M. discussed meeting with Carter Napier about future city project ideas. Mike Lougee brought up that Steve Loftin had mentioned the need for a club work day at Rotary Park. Megan Bratton asked if there was need to host other fundraisers because of the service project fund deficit discussed earlier. The board agreed to revisit this after Duck Derby.
• Foundation- Kelly Ivanoff- Kelly asked about Dan Odell’s goal for fundraising for the Rotary Foundation for the year. After discussion, the goal was set at $30,000. Kelly will make a plan for meeting this goal and present it at the August board meeting.
• At Large- Greyson Buckingham- Nothing to report.
• At Large- Morryah McCurdy- Not present
• PEN/Club Admin- Chastidy Greenwood- Nothing to report.
• Past President- Miamie Sleep- Miamie reported that Alice was seen off by a few club members at the airport and has arrived back home.