May 28th Minutes
Susan Hay Patrick opened our meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance, and Lisa Holcomb shared a Rotary blessing for the invocation.
Trivia: Who is the newest Rotary Club where and what year (Susan’s brilliance was evident in shouting out the answer)
Our guests today included students from Hellgate Speech and Debate team. Jed, Mazy and Ezekiel share with us the successes of their troop and how far they have progressed. A short demonstration was performed by two of the students that was an entertaining and refreshing way to start our morning.
Larry is happy that his son has landed a job with Facebook and is moving back to San Francisco. Kris spent a weekend at Wise River visiting with Susan and Rusty, however no fishing was done… Arnie was surprised to be harassed by the umpire last night at old man’s league, and come to find out, it is no other than our own Margaret Burns calling the shots. Margaret shared with us that Arnie can still hit a home run, although Curt’s team won.. Matt is happy to be home safe from traveling and is happy to be on a new lawn mower.
Matt shared the Rotary Minute with the club and was inspired by the Presidents Message in this Month’s Rotarian. Leave the wood pile a little higher than you found it…along this theme, Matt encouraged us all to invite one new member to Rotary this year.
Lou reminded us all to vote for Club Awards and our annual celebration dinner will be June 25th. There will be no regular meeting on this day.
Signup sheets for the Jefferson Cleanup were circulated. No major project this year, but weeding and staining needs to be tackled. Contact Jim Clark for more information.
Reminder that Marshall Delano’s celebration of live will be on June 13th.
Susan Hay Patrick introduced our guest speaker Mary Sexton, Executive Coordinator at Roundtable on the Crown of the Continent. Mary shared with us the importance of this annual gathering in which connections are made across different borders and landscapes. For more information regarding the Crown of the Continent round table, http://crownroundtable.org/index.html