President Roger opened the meeting and called for an invocation by Jim Tomanek.  Paul Dritley was introduced as a possible future member, Visiting Rotarians were our old friend Larry Johansen of Downtown Rotary and Judy Cline of Suburban who was attending to announce the Omaha Metro Rotary Networking event in March. Jasmine introduced her mother Diane.  Treasurer Rita announced that the bank balance was $10,617 (rounded up by the Secretary a few quarters).   Secretary Ron thanked Jill for her excellent service in taking notes from the previous meeting and uploading them to the Club Runner web site for the bulletin.  Ron also mentioned the plethora of bicycles building up in his back deck area and we had a call from COPE for two bikes during the week which were delivered Friday morning the 13th.
 
Jim Tomanek announced the next Lunch Bunch meeting will be November 18th at Shevy’s Sports Grill. Our speaker will be Tricia Thomas with Companion Services.  The Service Philosophy of Companion Services is striving to replace institutional thinking, language and structures; and deliver its services to the aging, through natural supports, in natural settings.