May 3 Meeting Minutes

In attendance: Julie Bateman, Linda Book, Sandra Clark, Jennie Ferguson, Bill Kille, Miriam Kramer, Susan Marks, Annie Nielsen, Laurie Summers-Pisani, Ladd Tanner, Sonia Woodbury, John Zone, Judy Zone. Guests: Bob Book and Morgan Ware.

1.      President Elect Laurie Summers-Pisani led our meeting, announcing that Megan Dunn has resigned due to personal reasons. We wish her the best. Laurie is now our President!

2.      Morgan Ware, a Heber Valley Rotarian, was our guest and discussed District Conference June 1 & 2 at Zermatt. Go to www.urdc.com for more information and to register. You can attend both days or only one day. Room rates at Zermatt for Conference attendees are reduced to $119/night.

3.      Judy Zone gave an overview of District Grant applications that can be used for local or international service projects. Deadline of application submission is July 1. Since our club does not have a lot of cash reserve, those interested in submitting a grant will either have to make that tax deductible contribution ($500 - $1,000) themselves, enlist club members and/or other Rotary Clubs in the project. If you have an idea for a District Grant, please email Judy judy@youthlinc.org

4.      Sonia Woodbury mentioned that one of our Interactors from City Academy has raised the necessary funds to go on the District Interact Mexico trip June 9-17. Another student needs more financial support.

5.      Miriam Kramer updated us on our ‘informal’ Exchange student visiting Jan-March 2013. Karlita is the 17 year old daughter of Carlos Acosta, an Iquitos, Peru Rotarian who is the Youthlinc Peru in-country coordinator. Paul Halliday will host her at his home, Sonia has agreed to have her on a temporary basis at City Academy, and we all will need to be entertaining her in some way during her stay. If you have ideas, email Miriam at miriam@youthlinc.org

6.      Club members discussed the idea of a wine tasting party as a fundraiser this summer. We do need a venue, and we might have guests bring two bottles of wine as part of their entrance: one for tasting and one for the ‘kitty’. In an opportunity drawing, guests could win the ‘kitty’ wine. Another idea is to sell only 100 tickets for $100, and use a portion of the cash as the opportunity drawing prize, with members bringing the wine that will be tasted. We could use this event to raise money for District Grants, or a community project like a bench at the Millcreek Library. Bill Kille will look into the bench. Miriam will look into appliances for the Bhutanese refugee community.

7.      Reminders:

·        Gardening with our Rotaract and Interact Club: Saturday, May 19 9-12pm at the New Roots Garden. Contact Miriam for more info miriam@youthlinc.org

·        Club community service retreat, June 7 and discussion of meeting space. We still need a venue, possibly the Cottonwood Club.

·        Youthlinc Benefit is our social for May.

8.      Happy Dollars:

·        Laurie’s daughter has graduated from Westminster and has a job teaching 1^st grade at Dilworth Elementary. $10 contribution

·        Linda Book’s daughter’s family has been living with them while their new home is remodeled. $10 contribution.

·        Susan Marks spent a week with her 87 year old mom who is as spry as ever. Please BILL her for her $10 contribution.

·        Jennie Ferguson has her house under contract. $10 contribution.

·        John Zone will be going to dinner with his son who will be in town, and whom he hasn’t seen since Christmas. $10 contribution.

See you all next Thursday, May 10, 5:15pm at Café Madrid!