Meetng Notes for the July 23 meeting

July 23 meeting notes

Speaker of the day, Mike Kemp, UNO Associate Athletic Director, is shown in the photograph to the left visiting with our club President Roger Breed. Mike presented the club an update on the Baxter Arena scheduled to open with a family show in October.

Guests at our meeting included Larry Johansen from the Rotary Club of Omaha (Downtown) and Nick Eastland of the Suburban Rotary Club. Treasurer Rita reported a balance of $18,024. Secretary Ron reported our semi-annual dues check in hand for mailing to Rotary International and reported that a couple of members haven't paid their dues yet. Jim Tomanek reported on the Lunch Bunch which met Wednesday noon the 22nd at Sam and Louie's in Elkhorn with about 8 in attendance. The speaker was Bob Roos, General Manager with Lymann Richey. Bob talked about the interesting aspects of sand and gravel pit developing, operating, and ultimate conversion to valuable lakeside property (in some cases). The topic Blasting was quite interesting to the group. Jasmine was the winner of the kitty recently and was personally awarded her proceeds in a special ceremony. in photo below.