Social and Service Night January 16, 2020

We enjoyed food ordered from Wann Jale, a new Burmese restaurant in Sandy (and Spice Kitchen graduate), while listening to the inspiring journey of Hay Soe, a positive and hard-working former student of our club member Dave Veenstra.  Hay Soe is of Karen descent and was born in Burma (Myanmar).  He moved to a refugee camp with his family as a very young child and then to Utah when he was 7 years old.  He overcame many challenges in school, graduated high school as valedictorian of his class and is now a student of the College of Business at the U of U. He volunteers to assist others in our community and is currently organizing a Bridging Borders trip in March to deliver dental supplies and other much needed items to refugee camps in Africa.

After a short slide presentation (and wiping away some tears), we quickly transformed into a seemingly well-oiled production team tracing, sewing, embroidering and stuffing dolls and bears for Dolls of Hope, another inspiring organization that supplies the materials, trains volunteers and delivers the toys to children in refugee camps.

Our 25 attendees stuffing and sewed 27 dolls and prepped 30 additional dolls for the next step in the creation process.  We discovered unknown skills in each other and enjoyed much laughter in the process!

Business Meeting Minutes – January 9, 2020

Members in attendance:  Joe Balstaedt, Jayne Barnett, Linda Book, Chris Casper, Dave Chassé, Denise Chassé, Ronda Eiting, John Haglund, Julie Jones, Tim Jones, Susan Marks, Justin Powell, Laurie Summers-Pisani, Erica Wolff, Pearl Wright, Terry Palmer

Guests in attendance:  N/A

Business items:

1.       Call to order, Four-Way Test

2.       Announcements

a.       Guest Speaker & Service & Social– Thursday January 16^th, Hay Soe, refugee student will speak.  Dolls of Hope service project for refugees in camps worldwide.  We’ve invited the Sugar House Rotary Club to participate.

b.      Service

                                                         i.            Volunteers of America (VoA) Service – Thursday February 27^th at 5 p.m. (dinner to be served at 6 p.m.)  We’ll be cooking hamburgers and hotdogs for the youth.  Tim Jones is the organizer.

                                                        i.            Madagascar Clean Water Project – Took 3 years, but is now completed.

                                                       ii.            Wine into Water – We’re going to look into possibly changing the venue to the Baldwin Radio Factory.

                                                     iii.            Socials – February 22^nd we’ll be doing a snowshoe hike and after party.

                                                     iv.            Club Survey - Results of the survey were discussed.  A lot of good input was received.  If you want to see the survey results, please contact Justin.

                                                       v.            Rotary Club Clothing – John Haglund mentioned that all forms of Rotary Club clothing articles are available RTPClubClothes.com, use code NY10 for 10% off your order.

Upcoming Events

Jan 16^th 5:30 p.m.– Guest Speaker Hay Soe, Dolls of Hope service project and Sugar House Rotary Club combined service and social - Youthlinc Office at Brickyard Plaza

Feb 6^th – 5:30 p.m. – Business Meeting – Youthlinc Office at Brickyard Plaza

Feb 22^nd – Snowshoe and Social – details to be announced.

Volunteers of America (VoA) Service – Thursday February 27^th at 5 p.m. (dinner to be served at 6 p.m.).  Downtown location (Tim Jones, help!)