Rotary Club of Durango High Noon

Meeting Minutes Thursday November 18, 2004

Dan Morgenstern led us in our invocation with prayer and flute.

Guests: Ana Velasqiez, Kip Koso, John Silton (Guest of Ted R.) Hubert

Williams (Guest of Marv C.), Gini England (Guest of Ralph M.), Larry Garcia

(Guest of Tom B.), Justin Osborn (Guest of Tom B.), Kevin Habel (Guest of

?????), Julie Rea (Guest of Dean B.), John Heaven (Guest of ?????). Also

Irene Barry and Mark Barendt from the evening club.

Announcements:

1) A special thanks to both Steve Osborne and Nancy Hammond who helped with

the Rotary Wheel and a sign for the Rotarians marching in last week’s

Veterans’ Parade.

2) Nancy Vanderwal needs volunteers to help box ornaments on Saturday,

November 20th, at 1:30 pm. This benefits the homeless in Florida as a result

of the recent hurricanes.

3) Reminder: Strater Hotel Skyhawk Womens Basketball Tournament is this

Friday and Saturday evening, November 19th and 20th. Fort Lewis plays at 8

pm both nights. Your Rotary card is your free pass to these games.

4) Red Ball was launched today with corporate sales. If you own or manage a

business in Durango this is a fine opportunity to support your community.

Last year over $46,000 was raised, nearly all of which benefited our

community. Contact Walt Nowotny, Bill Cartwright, or Cathy Crum to

parcipate. Also, Walt is looking for a few good Rotarians to man the desks.

5) Reminder: Fireside Chat at Susan Sanders, 6 pm Friday, November 19th. See

you there.

6) NO MEETING NEXT WEEK! November 25th - Happy Thanksgiving!

7) Elections continued with the last of the voting. We will find out who are

PEN is December 2nd!

8) Wheelchairs has a full container! Get your paperwork into Ted Robson

ASAP.

9) Interact Club-Chartering is underway. The club is being co-sponsored by

all three Durango Clubs. Many thanks to the Interact Committee, including

Jay Hwang and Melisa Caskey for the hard work.

10) Rotaract Club Irene Barry gave a brief report of progress with the

club.

11) Tami was able to complete her schedule for ringing bells for the

Salvation Army.

12)   Mark Barendt translated a thank you letter from the successful

Tri-District Conference.

Sgt of Arms: Patty Burkholder admirably filled in for missing employee Karen

L’Argent. We found out that Patty is celebrating her 34th anniversary AND

her birthday next week. Tami is celebrating her 5th. Walt seemed pretty

happy to be going on a vacation. Steve Wheeldon donated a 7th Wheelchair in

honor of his contract renewal with Jeannie. Some of the fines helped with

Rotaract’s holiday card fundraiser and with the Ornament Project.

Program: Presented by Kip Koso and Ana Velasquez. They are advocating for

the establishment of La Plata County Boys and Girls Clubs in Durango,

Ignacio, and Bayfield. These clubs provide after school and weekend programs

that inspire and enable youth. In Durango, they would seek to establish the

club in the old Amory building adjacent to the recreation center so as to

use existing facilities in their programs. Estimated costs are $125-175,000

per year per club with funding coming from National Boys and Girl Club

monies, grants, organizational donactions (Civic groups, United Way, etc)

and fundraising efforts from the club itself. Currently they are requesting

a letter of support from our club.

Future programs and events:

11/19 Fireside Chat

11/20 Ornament Project Drop off and pack after 1:30

11/25 No Meeting

12/2  Program - Dept of Wildlife

12/9  No Meeting   (Rotary holiday dinner)

12/16 Program - American Red Cross

12/23 No Meeting

12/30 No meeting