Meeting Minutes 4APR08

*  Rotary Club of Anthem met at Ironwood Clubhouse on Friday, April 4, 2008.  President, Larry Evans, rang the bell to start the meeting at 7:33 A.M.
*  Members rose to recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag, sing "It's a Grand Old Flag" and "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" and hear a prayer.
*  Doug's Thought for the Day: We realize the economy is bad.  A dog noted that Alpo is now $3 a can; that's $21 in dog dollars.
*  Barry: Rotary Minute: April is Land-Mine Awareness month.  Most land-mines are in Cambodia.  Since 1989, 40,000 people have been killed by land-mines; 80,000 injured.  Check out landmine.org for more information.
*  Larry: Just returned from his hometown of Macon, GA where he attended a Rotary meeting and exchanged club flags.
    He needs help tonight and tomorrow night (Fri. & Sat.) to set up for a fundraiser at the clubhouse.  Willine is sick and cannot do it.
*  Barry: Interact at BCHS planning a dinner for the end of the school year.
*  Tim: April 16, 2008 is the deadline for applications for scholarships to be considered by Rotary Club of Anthem for graduating seniors at BCHS and SDOCHS.  He has applications.
    On Saturday, April 26, 2008 Tim is going to a Rotary conference in Prescott.  Willing to carpool.  Club will pay the $25 for each member who agrees to attend and report back to club.
*  Bob Ticer: May 30, helpers needed at District Conference hospitality suite at Pointe Tapitio at the intersection of 7th Street & Thunderbird.  Our club suite theme is Water for the World and the African projects that our club supports.
*  Scott: Students from Interact will attend the conference & help.
*  Jim: Announced that a Corvette will be the prize for a hole in one on a specified hole at the Golf Tournament on May 17, 2008.
    Next week, an accounting of the Ball Drop ticket sales will be made.
*  Tom Keck: Reported that the leadership conference that he and Doug  attended last week, was titled: "What It Means to Get a Project Completed".  Excellent project ideas from other clubs.
*  Doug: Recommends other members attend the other two conferences.  Said it was the best conference he has attended.  Next leadership conference is in Williams, AZ in Sept.
*  "Who Am I?" presented by Jennifer Shearer.  She was born in Mitchell, SD and raised in the state of  Washington.  She has two sons who still live in Washington.  One is married and has a daughter.
    Jennifer moved to Anthem 2 1/2 years ago.  Her first job here was with Tim Maki at American Family Insurance.  Tim retired from that company and Jennifer started her own American Family Insurance firm.
    Recently, she took up scuba diving and enjoys the sport.
*  Happy Dollars were collected.
*  Raffle: Won by Stan Rose who missed the joker.
*  Our own Tom Keck is the speaker today.  His topic is Shelter Box USA.
Tom is a mortgage broker who is interested in keeping a roof over the heads of people.  He heard about the Shelter Box project that provides tent homes for disaster victims and ended up as the 5490 representative.  All Shelter Boxes are created in England and shipped where they are needed.  In six years, they have sheltered 450,000 in 30 countries, including our own.  Each tent is large enough to house 10 people.  In each box, there is a tent, 10 blankets, cooking utinsels, eating utinsels, cups, bowls & plates, water purification tablets, water jugs, an ax/hammer, ground claw, hand saw, and other small hand tools, activity kits for children and other items based upon the part of the world to which the box is to be shipped.  Each box weighs about 100 pounds and costs $1,000 which includes shipping.  
    In Afghanistan boxes were packed into to the rural area on mules.   Once a box is opened, the contents cannot be repacked because the air was sucked out of the box as it was packed to accommodate the items.  All items in each box is of high quality and new and become the property of the recipients.  
    The Shelter Box project is people to people oriented, not to governments.  In some areas, only the Red Cross is allowed to distribute the boxes and food stuffs.  Rotary works with several international organizations to get the boxes to the places they are needed.
    The project was started in the UK and all Shelter Boxes are sent from there.  To donate to the project and get more information, log on to:
www.shelterboxusa.org
*  Larry rang the bell to end the meeting at 8:25 A.M.
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*  Submitted by Rotary Club of Anthem Scribe, Jan Samar