October 18 - Mike Alger, The Clean Stove Project

Our Meeting Today Will Be In Tuscany 8

Our meeting on October 18th will feature Mike Alger, speaking about The Clean Stove Project in Guatemala. Mike will be sharing about and showing some pictures and videos of the trip he took to Guatemala which was partly financed by the generosity of the Reno Rotary clubs, including Reno Central Rotary. He will also talk about the possibility of doing future trips.

Channel 2 Meteorologist Mike Alger joined KTVN-TV in May, 1989. Prior to that Mike had worked at KNDU-TV in Washington. He has provided northern Nevada "Weather Coverage You Can Count On" during the 1990 President's Day Blizzard, the drought in the mid- 1990s, the New Year's Flood of 1997 and the historic Snowstorms of 2005.

Mike received his degree in Geology and Chemistry from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, where he was a Rhodes Scholar quarter finalist.

He received his Certified Broadcast Meteorologist certification by the American Meteorological Society. Mike and has been elected on the AMS Board of Broadcast Meteorology. Mike's words of weather can also be found daily in the Reno Gazette-Journal on their weather page.

Mike has been married for more than 30 years and has two grown children. His hobbies include golf, music, biking, tennis, scuba diving, writing. He has written and published one novel and is working on a second. He is also a narrator of several audio books, and his work can be found on Audible.com.