January was an eventful month. We pushed all of our meetings back one week to avoid a conflict with New Years Day, and had our first meeting of 2019 on January 8th. New member, but long time contributor to our club, Nora Shelton was the program. We ask all new members to give a biography of themselves so that everyone can can get to know them better. Nora did a great job with her first PowerPoint presentation ever. Lots of fun pictures, and interesting parts of her life. Most interesting was the part that dance has played in her life. She did a fantastic job. Thanks Nora! Nice to meet you!
On January 15th the clubhouse was open for its first "Committee Coffee". There have been lots of questions about this. The Committee Coffee, conveniently held the second Tuesday of the month at 7:00, is an informal opportunity for any and all of the club committees (Public Image, Club Administration, Membership, Fly-In Pancake Breakfast, etc) to use the clubhouse as a venue for committee work meetings. Many of our club's committees have been pretty inactive, and the Club Administration committee thought that this idea would help to encourage folks to meet and start figuring out how to become more active. Even if you have not joined a committee, you are welcome join in, and enjoy some good coffee and tasty muffins. By attending a Committee Coffee you can learn something about what the various committees are up to and share your ideas with your Rotary Friends. What a great way to start the day ... And Perhaps you will be the spark the lights the fire!
Joleen was passionate about her ideas to enhance our club's service to the community at the first "Community Coffee." Stay tuned for more about this in February! Oh yeah...wake up Steve!
On January 16 the Board of Directors met. Meeting minutes will be made available by secretary Toni soon. The financial report indicated the following use of funds raised through our events:
- 4H Barn restoration at the fairgrounds: $4,500 (includes $2,500 from The Rotary Foundation)
- Community Dinner: $350
- Support for victims of the Camp Fire in Paradise: $1,000
- Thanksgiving in a box for the lees fortunate: $2,100
- Literacy: $1,285 for books plus many hours of hands on reading in the class rooms.
- Camp RYLA $1,500 plus hands on Ice Cream Social
- End Polio Now: $2,551 contributed by members AND 20% of all Bounce House receipts. A double match of this amount is being made by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for a total of $7,653 to finish the job of eradicating Polio from the face of the Earth!
On January 22 at our noon meeting we welcomed Sarah Sheridan, Brian Sheridan, and Missy Leal into the club as Honorary Members. We got to know them a little at the induction. Missy has been in education for 16 years. She shared with us info. on one of the many exciting programs at CRC this year: Pop with a Cop, where our youngsters get to interact in a very positive way with local police officers. Sarah is a local from Loyalton. She has been in education for 14 years, and principle of PHS for 7. She is very proud of all of the programs and hardworking staff at he Jr/Sr high school. Brian is also from Loyalton. He is the VP and Athletic Director at PHS. He is working hard to eliminate "F"s (as in failing grades) He's making good progress on this. Brian has been in education for 13 years.
CRC and PHS are working jointly to bring a program called "Screenagers" to our youth. This program teaches our youth about the dangers of device screens and how to use them responsibly. It is scheduled for 5:30 - 8:00 PM on Tuesday, Feb. 29th at PHS. Rotarians are invited to drop by if you're interested in this important issue.
President Kristen did the induction, with Klytia Dutton as the sponsor for all three new Honorary Members: Missy Leal, Sarah Sheridan, and Brian Sheridan.
As Brian's sponsor, Klytia was honored to pin him with his new Rotary Pin.
Our January social is planned for January 28th. We will be attending the PHS basketball game as "Rotary Rooters". The Tigers are taking on the Chester Volcanoes. We meet at the clubhouse at 5:30 in the evening, and will head to the gym from there! Dinner is available at the concession stand.
Check out all of next month's events in the events calendar on the right of this newsletter, or on your ClubRunner app.