Here's What's Happening at East Polk Rotary

 

Greetings Rotarians,

 

At last week's meeting, our Rotarian of the Day Larry Wilson introduced us to Tamara Garza from the St. Gregory Retreat Center, an addiction rehab center in Des Moines.  St. Gregory's was founded in 2007 because of the unnecessary death of a close family member.  St. Gregory's is empowerment-based and is not founded on the idea that alcoholism is a disease.  Instead their approach focuses on the root causes of the addiction and examines the life situations are causing the addiction to take place.  They seek to replace old "faulty" thinking with productive healthy thinking.  Their success rate has been 70% if the participants follow their plan.

 

Keep in mind that the Bowling Bash fundraiser is less than two weeks away on the 27th of February.  Teams are forming and the activity level seems to be picking up.  Our club typically thrives on the pressure of pulling together to make an event a success.  Let's continue to get bowlers to come, assembling teams and ultimately bidders on the silent auction baskets.  We'll get the latest from Ryan Swalwell.  Also Tom Downs will have a brief report on the Iowa Energy game from a few weeks ago.

 

Tomorrow, Daron Lewis is the Sergeant at Arms and Todd Ross was slated to be Rotarian of the Day, but he is no longer a member.  I believe President Byers has a plan for our speaker tomorrow.

 

Bundle up on the way in tomorrow.  Winter still has a grip on the area as it appears that crazy groundhog was right again when he declared six more weeks of winter.  We'll see you all tomorrow.