Meeting Minutes - 8-19-2015

Pledge - Arnie

Invocation - Amy

Visitors:
Nick Taber - Dick's guest
Joe - Fort Worth Downtown
John Dolinsek
David - Guest of Gary

Happy Bucks: 
Curt's team +50 League Softball Champions!!!
Amy - first flight with Logan and it went well
Susan - 1,000 backpacks distributed by UW, Salvation Army and Interfaith group
Jim - trip to Canada - fishing with friends - grandson Aaron got Eagle Scout award
Dave - sons fights over gas money and car - 8 days left till school starts
Arnie - reading Bugle - article about famous archer - Rotary inspired him - 2 awesome outs at the softball tournament
Jen - team of runners of women over 40 - ran in the smoke and won! Beat a group of younger women :)
Adam - 1. turned around some negatives to positives - power outage - out for a day of work - but only one day 2. smoke so bad  in Helena couldn't do family trip - but remembered firefighters 

Trivia: Montana Governors from small towns - who is it?
Havre - unable to run for president even if he wanted to? (not US born) Stan Stevens

Rotary Minute:  Larry - Service Above Self  - how Rotarians have helped him in the community:
City Club - loose ends and Susan, Denise and Laura rescued him once
Playground - Carl rescued him by building the Cabin
Insectarium - Larry's a board member, but Glen saved his skin answering questions with the kids

Membership Committee:
Please go update your profile on Club Runner - Brandon did tutorial
Passed around list to jog our memories for potential members

Amy - thank you for the events - passed around photos and thank you notes of kids
First day of school - new outfits needed if anyone would like to help - tree at Old Navy with gift cards that will directly benefit the kids.

Announcements:

Rotary Leadership Institute - October 2nd - 3rd - see Margaret for details
August 22nd - Jamie Bianchini - tandem bike around the world - 22nd 7:30 pm at KOA
Dictionary Project - Margo has talked to the schools - getting them sooner hopefully
Foundation Meeting following this meeting this week - Thank you for participating in the e-mail poll
Bike built for 2 Million - August 23rd - free event at KOA

Speaker: MCPS Super - Mark Thane