Just a reminder that the Rotary Lunch Bunch will be meeting next Wednesday, September 23rd at Noon at Sam & Louie's Pizza in Elkhorn. Our speaker will be Jill Muegge sharing pictures and stories about her recent two week trip to Viet Nam.
Mark your calendars for our annual Rotary Salvation Army bell ringing. This year we will need volunteers for one hour increments from 10:00AM to 8:00PM on the days of November 23rd, 24th, and 25th. We will be back at the Family Fare Store on 204th & Pacific Street. Sign-up sheets will be out around the 1st of November.
The next lunch bunch meeting will be on September 9 at noon at Shevy's in downtown Elkhorn.Our speaker will be Michaela Williams, President of Care Consultants for the Aging. Her business is a home care registry, they screen and schedule in-home cargivers that work directly for families. In addition, they have produced the Eldercare Resource Handbook.
Our Guest speaker for September 3rd was Tripp Sutter. Tripp has been a Division 1 college football official for 11 years. He is a head linesman for mostly Big 10 games and worked the Fiesta Bowl in 2014. This weekend he will be traveling to the Georgia Dome to officiate the Georgia vs. Louisville game, he said he will be working two Nebraska games this year. Tripp indicated all referees are paid a flat fee for each game and are responsible for all travel and lodging costs.
He typically will spend time during the week before each game reviewing game films from the teams playing in the game he will be refereeing. It is essential that he becomes familiar with the type of plays and game habits each team will use. Each referee is graded by a head official each game for their performance and notified if they need improvement.
Tripp talked about a couple of rule updates for this season. They have eliminated helmet face guards that have small openings because of finger injuries. They will be enforcing the sideline rule, when the ball is snapped and anyone but the coach or referee are in the painted area a flag will be thrown. The first offense is a warning the second offense will result in a penalty. Beginning this year a physician will be sitting in the review booth watching for players that may have symptoms of a head injury that a referee or coach have not noticed. The physician can buzz down to the referee and have the player taken out of the game to be checked out.
President Roger announced availability of the Rotary Leadership Institute on October 17th for up-and-coming club officer candidates. (he did not give any details on who is paying, but those interested can go to the District 5650 website for further information or contact Ron Mortensen for registration details or go to: http://www.rli-heartland.org/ for the officiial registration.)
Our Distinguished District Governor Rod Bates and his wife Robin rescued this bike from a Lincoln trash fate and delivered it to Ron Mortensen's house for our bicycle project. While at Ron's house, Rod declared Diet Cherry Soda as the "unofficial" soft drink of the District while noting that Gretchen Bren at Omaha Downtown would agree.
