Our thanks to Mike for doing the news, Larry for giving the invocation, pledge and 4way test, and Charles for leading us in singing.
Washington High School administrator Darius Ballard introduced Jason Nell, the teacher being recognized by our club for his outstanding performance. Jason has been at Washington for two years. He is the Science Department Chair. He exhibits great preparedness in all he does. His willingness to help others is exhibited by taking under his wing 15 new teachers as they adapted to their new assignments at Washington. Jason shows his versatility by also being the coach of the Ultimate Frisbee team.
Janette introduced our replacement speakers Mitch Smith and Nick Grant of eFuneral. Efuneral is a preplanning online service that was started in Des Moines in 2017. It provides digital online services for 230 funeral homes in Iowa and elsewhere. Their services are accessed through the funeral home's website. In planning a funeral there are 25-100 decisions that need to be made. By using the preplanning services some of these decisions can be decided ahead of time. Also eFuneral has a relationship with Homesteaders Life that can provide a funeral policy.
John Z stated the book "One Smile" will be given to Van Buren School in their honor.