Sept. 1, High Noon Rotary Meeting

Guests:

(I apologize for the omission of this weeks guest list)

Announcements:

* Over $6000 was donated to the Katrina Relief Fund at our meeting today!!!  Unbelievable support from this group.  You can still make a donation by making a check and sending it to Durango High Noon Rotary, and write "Katrina Relief" on it.  Send it to John Beekman or give it to him at our next meeting.

*  Special meeting - September 8th @ 5:00.  Rec. Center  Concerning Buckley Park.

* Make A Difference Day - October 22nd 

     ***All 4 Rotary Clubs are getting involved.

         Goal is to generate additional funds for the 4H program 

         We are having a Giant Garage Sale with 1/2 the proceeds to go to the Rotary Clubs and 1/2 to go to the 4H Clubs

     *** If you have anything to donate you can bring it to the armory building and drop it off..

**District Conference is September 30-Oct.2 in Colorado Springs

Birthdays:

Bud Poe (Sep 1)

Anniversaries: Wedding

Bud Poe  (50th!!!)  Congratulations from all of us

Don Freemyer  (13 years with Rotary)

Ticket Drawing:

We have such talent in this club...Tim Walsworth not only runs the United Way of Southwest Colorado but he also had time to sing for the President of our United Stated of America, Jimmy Carter.!!!  Amazing is it not?

Rotoract Club coordinator, gave us an update.  We have 30 students at the college signed up so far as of last week.  In the past Rotoract students have worked with Mana Soup Kitchen and  Sr. Center along with many other organizations.  It is a community based club, and these young adults are getting involved in the community.  The convention for Rotoract will be held in Los Angles this year.  We are looking for funds to send a few of our students to participate like we did at the Chicago convention this past year.

Program:

Steven Bowen/ Foreign Exchange Student returning from Sweden

Steven gave a slide show of his year as a foreign exchange student in Sweden.  He left not knowing ANY Swedish at all and within 7 months was fluent, reading, writing and speaking the language.  He had two host families while he was there, one in Rimbo, and one in Nortalje.  He was in the Media program studies program while in school.  He traveled extensively throughout Sweden and some of the surrounding countries. He played guitar in two bands while there. Made numerous lifelong friends, no doubt had a life changing experience.  It was a wonderful program and I am happy and proud to say we have one more wonderful Ambassador for Rotary.  Thank You Steven!