President Amanda Walls called the meeting to order and Larry Rankin led the invocation, pledge, and Four-Way Test.
Steph Colon introduced the guests and visiting Rotarians. Jack Nussbaum (Frankfort, IN), Jim McClelland (Indianapolis, IN), and Doug McCall (England) were our visiting Rotarians. Ella Walls, Betty Sikora, and Alan Woolridge were guests of President Amanda Walls. Rebecca Knowles was a guest of Melissa Inella. Lynne Garner was a guest of Irma Cole. William Wynn and Karen Warren were guests of Rick Maxey. Megan Moser was a guest of Kim Brunson. Ian Townsend was a guest of Julie Townsend.
Happy Dollars were collected by Larry Stahl. President Amanda began with announcements. She introduced five new members: Bill Wynn, Melissa Innella, Fred Lintz, Karen Warren, and James Ring. Please reach out to them to welcome them to our club. President Amanda then discussed the upcoming work day this past Saturday at Phillip O’Brien Elementary and also mentioned that Spring Obsession is coming up and we need raffle items. Please donate if possible.
This week’s program was on our club’s Honduras Trip in January. The attendees who helped in the presentation were Irma Cole, Julie and Ian Townsend, Michelle Emerson-Lewis, Amanda Walls, Larry Rankin, and Mark Davies. The trip was to La Paz, Honduras. The club stayed at the Honduras Compassion Partners Mission House. Our club donated musical instruments, and school supplies, built a house, pila, and latrines, installed water filters, and painted a school. The families impacted also helped in the building and projects. Our club worked in neighborhoods with very little to no public services and no running water. They concluded the presentation by announcing the date for next year’s trip: February 17 through the 24th. Please consider going on the trip if possible.
President Amanda concluded the program with her word of the week: “la sandia” which means watermelon.