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Jamie Larson offered the invocation, and he fixed the microphone, so it was working for President Katie, to whom we sang Happy Birthday (celebrated the day before our meeting). There was a Rotary Minute quiz based on the July Rotarian, with only one of three questions answered correctly. The 792 lugs of peaches (36 to 54 peaches) we have to sell will arrive one week earlier than previously announced, on August 12th, with the hope that our sales sheets will be returned to Brian at our meeting on August 7th. Mark B. passed around a thank you note from Jackson Luke who received this year's Wes Waage Rotary Memorial Scholarship at M-State; next year he plans on attending the University of Minnesota in Duluth to major in environmental science. Deb M. had a lot of Rotary related things to brag about. She has completed and submitted the grant application for the Bolivia school project. Other clubs supporting the project include Jamestown ($1,000), Devil's Lake ($1,000), Fargo-Moorhead PM ($900), Fargo-Moorhead Am ($400), Fargo West ($400), Fargo ($400) and Moorhead ($400). Deb told us she was also just back from Michigan where she attended a youth exchange event for multiple Rotary districts; Deb was inspired by next year's RI President, Mario Cesar Martins de Camargo from Brazil, who was a Youth Exchange student in White Bear Lake fifty years ago. Deb also told us her grandkids are loving the Splash Pad. President Katie was happy to report her son got a job in Boise, Idaho. John M. was celebrating Otter Tail Power's common stock almost reaching $100 a share and Steve A. picking John up in Steve's Bentley and giving John a ride to the meeting. Buzz L. called everyone's attention to a nice picture of Katie and Dr. Money in The Daily Journal accompanying an article on cholesterol, the same week another picture that included Katie appeared with the Journal's coverage of the Lucky Duck Derby. Katie than had us all playing a game called, "Who Knows a Potential Rotarian?' Her slides identified different professions from which we were asked to call out prospective member names and by the time we were finished we had quite a list. That list will be circulated as part of a follow-up e-mail as previously reported. Remember, when you bring a prospective Rotarian to a meeting, the club pays for their lunch. Katie also mentioned volunteers were needed to help in creating an onboarding document for the club and, once we have new members, to serve as mentors to them. |
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