Wally Cole gave the invocation and Mike Wollan led us in song.  We had no guests, visiting Rotarians or student guests, but Mitzie Moe was inducted into the club as our newest member.  President Katie gave a wonderful PowerPoint presentation on what Rotary and our club are about and presented Mitzie with a new member packet, her badge, The Four Way Test desk tent and a certificate of membership.  Welcome Mitzi!  After that all in attendance assembled for a group picture.  President Katie reported that Scott DeBrito had agreed to represent the club at the upcoming Dollars for Scholars presentation.
 

In the brag and fine segment, this writer told of visiting Representative Bud Nornes and Senator Bill Ingebrigsten at the Capital for Habitat on the Hill Day to advocate for funding of affordable housing programs in the state budget.  Jamie Larson has been busy relocating his office and missed a few meetings, putting in some money for that.  Bob Russell acknowledged Katie Johnson for her efforts in putting together the new member presentation.  Lori Larson reported 16 people have signed up for the Rotary membership planning session at Mabel Murphy's on May 1.  Dave Johnson reported that he had enough people sign-up to do road clean-up right after our meeting.  Randy Kempfer said he enjoyed visiting the kindergarten classes and reading Josh the Otter (pictures from the project are posted on our Facebook site).  Katie Johnson talked about the Community Heath Expo at the Bigwood Event Center that has now come and gone.  Mike Wollan reported that Paul Beithon is back in Fergus Falls recovering nicely.

 

For our program, Pete Wasberg introduced Amy Baldwin who is a UND graduate, with a Masters from Hamline.  She spent ten years with the city of Brooklyn Park in various positions before returning to Fergus Falls.