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We only had ten Rotarians gathered at Broadway Park (Kathy, Wally, Dave J., Steve L., Hal L., Buzz, Anthony, John M., and Bob), with six more in attendance via Zoom (Steve A., Greg, Jake, Jamie, Keith and Zach). Jamie offered the invocation after the Pledge and reciting The Four Way Test. Volunteers for the Highway 210 ditch clean-up the next day were recruited and then we went into Brags & Fines. Hal Leland filled in five circles on his card for ordering lunch the prior week and not being able to attend and for having to leave the day's meeting early. Steve Leitte reported he and Zach Stach got the bush line by the water tower on North Cleveland that we planted for Arbor Day of 2019 cleaned-up. John MacFarlane recognized Pete Wasberg for being part of a two member team that won a golf tournament. We were also reminded of the Duck Derby scheduled for July 15th at 5:00 p.m. and the need for volunteers for that event. Please sell as many tickets as you can! Discussion then ensued of a variety of issues before the Club right now: 1) how to handle ordering lunches (no firm decision other than for at least a couple weeks we will order 15 and see how that goes, available on a first come, first served basis, with any extras being donated to Salvation Army); 2) whether Sunrise and our Club should try to run a golf tournament this year (recommended against, returning to the traditional June date next year after a two year absence); 3) the rationale for increasing the Lucky Duck Derby prices from $5.00 to $10.00; 4) foregoing Rotary Minute Plus Insurance for this soon to be completed Rotary year, 2020-21, but giving it a big push as the new Rotary year starts so all members are Paul Harris Fellows or advance toward their next multiple Paul Harris Fellow recognition before our centennial celebration planned for September; and 5) what price to sell the peaches for this year. The cost to the Club is going from $21.75 to $25 a lug this year, so we cannot raise the same or a greater amount to support worthy projects without an adjustment to what has been our $30.00 selling price. There appeared to be no problem amongst those expressing an opinion of at least raising our charge to $35 a lug, with some discussion of the possibility of going to $40. It seemed like $35 was preferred by most of those in attendance; the Board will make a final decision on the price at its first meeting in July. If you have any input to offer on these or any other issues, please do so. This writer also asked all those assembled to indicate in what way or ways they would complete the following sentence: "To keep me interested in and engaged in Rotary, I would like to see our Club _______________________." Responses included, "have good programs," "grow," "hold at least three socials a year," "get back to some sense of regularity," "increase participation and responsibilities," and "see a return to the old tradition of when any member is asked to take on something for the club, he/she says yes and not no." Bob Russell would ask all members to complete the sentence, as many times as you want, whether you have already done so or not, and send your wishes to robert@russelllawoffice.com. While I am no Santa Claus (other than in size), I think it is important for each of us to try to identify ways we think we could improve our club and share those thoughts and take the ideas we can agree upon and strive to implement them. |
