Announcements from President Ben

The year 1968  Rotary Club of North Carolina did what?   Start the first Rotoract club.

Machines mate Bob Huston, who was in Germany last week, was thanked for his service and given a Vietnam Veteran pin and certificate.

Board meeting next Tuesday at Northrim Bank 5th floor at noon

Reminder to register for district conference in Seward May 17-20

Need some help - Akila has her West Coast Tour paid, but needs mileage to get air tickets - contact Ben if you can help with mileage.

Happy Bucks

Greg has a bottle of Red wine from Portugal to auction - when eating in restaurants there you ask for the house wine and it is always very good.  This is one such wine, since he bought it in Euros he wanted it auctioned in Euros.  Boyd won at 40 Euros.

Bob was back from Germany and mentioned his granddaughter has a tee shirt that says I don’t need super hero - I have a grandpa, a response was shouted out that she has grandpa wrapped around her finger.

Hi to Jordan who is back checking out the club. (YEAH !)

Jonathan said Anna is 1 month old today, his in-law’s are in town helping out.

Michael D shared that the state troopers have seized 4 times more meth in 2017 than 2016 and 5 times more heroin.  basically 72,000 doses of meth and 82,000 doses of heroin are off the streets.  He also said that Naloxone saves lives, troopers have alone saved 20 lives and additionally 128 lives have been saved by other professionals.

Art said he went to Spain but could not bring back wine to auction, because he was the pack mule for all his wife’s purchases.

Dave H attended the Junior Nations Cross Country Ski Races in Utah - his grandson was in the top 10.  and is now has Rossignol as a sponsor.  His daughter was back from the Iditarod trail and was in McGraph not McCarthy as Nelson pointed out.

Ric was a treasurer in the Nome Club and learned to leverage fund, to that end - he offered not to tell a lawyer joke if any lawyer would donate $5.  Bill P said he want to hear the joke, Ric said it would cost $5.    Ric went on to say he almost froze his lungs one day when it was 105 below zero with the wind chill - that day he actually saw a lawyer with his hands in his own pockets not someone else’s.

John S was back to 1 dessert, but Jess said he did eat lunch too..

Steve S said it was good to see Al Biss here - with the stock market upsets he was afraid Al would have jumped.  Al pointed out his office is on the first floor, Jess pointed out the windows are sealed shut.

Dodie won split the pot.