Great job last week with our business meeting! As usual, Dan has done a great job of capturing our meeting (see minutes below). If any of you come across a service project you would like our group to do, please let me know or mention it at a meeting. Also, if any of you participate in a service project or donate your services to an organization outside of our club, let me know so we can track the number of volunteer hours our club does in the next year. For instance, Ron has donated lots of time fixing bicycles to be given away. I’m sure many of you have and continue to donate your time and talents. Let me know!
We were led in prayer and pledge by Rollie Kleeman
We had 17 members present. No guests today.
Treasurer’s report: $5,640.60
Announcements/discussion:
Gail Stalder brought us our “member moment” and shared with the group all about his career exploits and accomplishments.
The Lunch Bunch meeting will be next Wednesday 9/12 at noon at Shevy’s
Jim will submit an article to the Post-Gazette highlighting our recent Paul Harris Fellow award winners
A reminder that the All-Metro area Rotary Luncheon meeting will be held on Thursday October 4th at Anthony’s, Cost is $25.See the note on this page for more information.
Elkhorn Public Schools Foundation will have the dedication and ribbon cutting for their beautiful new building on Thursday, October 11th at 5:30. WDC members are welcome to attend.
On September 20th, we will be joined by members of the Omaha Morning Rotary Club.
On October 11th, the new District Governor, Julie O’Hara will be in attendance.
The Golf Committee presented several options for selecting a date for the 2019 Scholarship Golf Tournament.After some discussion, the club voted for Monday, June 17th.The Pines Country Club will again be the site.
Jim collected fines and successfully strong-armed several members out of a buck.
Presentation
The club held a business meeting today presided over by President Judy. We reviewed the four goal areas and discussed the clubs goals for the remained of the President’s term:
The club has set the goal of 3 net new members
Much discussion ensued about how to attract new members including younger people into the club.
Rotary Foundation Support
Currently the club provides $50 annually per member to the RF.The motion was made and seconded to continue at this level.
Attendance at District Events
Judy encouraged members to attend other Rotary events but no nominal goal was decided as to how many events would constitute our club goal.
The club has a tradition of serving several community efforts including: COPE, Chamber of Commerce Food Basket, Local school
Scholarships, Salvation Army Bell Ringing.The club made the decision to continue with these and seeks opportunities for more.
Next meeting speaker (9/13): Rob King from St. Mark’s Church in Valley
Drawing: Dave Rosacker had the winning ticket. He gave a valiant effort but went away with nothing to show for it.
Jim Tomanek has scheduled Rob King from St. Marks church in Valley to speak at Rotary on September 13th. Rob will show pictures and tell us about his mission trip to Tanzania. Jonathan Robitaille from the FBI will be our speaker on September 20th. Jonathan has been with the FBI for nearly 20 years. He will tell us about current issues in this area. He has been on the FBI SWAT team for years. We still need a speaker for September 6th.
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