Meeting Minutes March 10, 2016

Attendees (10): Liz Sherlock,  Danny Schoenfeld, Shannon Tilly, Laurie Summers-Pisani,  Chris Casper, Rose Defa, Justin Powell, Jim Schott, Susan Marks and Judy Zone.

The meeting was chaired by Danny Schoenfeld. Meeting held at Café Madrid.

Guests: Max Calleja, exchange student.

The Four Way test was recited.

Rotary moment: Judy Zone mentioned that the Guatemala club that did the water project with us sent a thank you for our help.

Shannon Tilley said her father is volunteering in Africa for 3 weeks. She elaborated that he has been installing solar panels so the kids could read at night with a goal of furthering their education.

Susan Marks asked how many of us had our Rotary pins on. She urged us to wear them because people will ask about them and it will provide an opportunity to tell about Rotary.

Max Calleja did a presentation on Chile, the country he is from. He is from Talca, a city of about 200,000 people. He had many slides of the varied terrain in Chile. He is from a family of 7, played soccer for his high school. The local Rotary there has about 32 members.

Max ;and Shannon have planned a dinner to raise funds for a Rotary trip to Mexico which costs $800-900. The April social, held at Laurie Summers-Pisani’s house will be a combination social and fund raiser, “Max Party,” for his trip. It will be held April 3^rd, a Sunday at 4:30. Suggested donation is $25.00. Max will dance and teach his national dance. Max will send an evite.

Committees:

Social: March 17^th will be cheese tasting at Caputo’s in Holladay.  $25.00 plus $15 if you want wine. Jennie has sent an evite. Please indicate if you want the wine option.

The Wine into Water Committee: Laurie Summers-Pisani has secured “The Mill” at Tracy Aviary for a reasonable price. However, it does mean the event will be held on a Sunday. The date will be September 11^th.

Membership: Shannon is working on a membership event possibly in May.  Some dates were discussed, possibly May 26^th.

Intergenerational Committee: Jim and Judy have planned a mentoring event on March 28^th, a Monday, from 7-9 at Westminster, Eccles Health Center. We need 15 volunteers.

Service Committee: Margareta not present. The service project at the Food Bank on March 24^th is still happening.

Justin Powell said he is working on a water project for Wine into Water for Madagascar. Also, Monday there will be a benefit for the Madagascar Youthlinc group at Spice Bistro.

Chris Casper, president-elect said she attended a 2 day president-elect training session with Margareta. The presenters highlighted our club as being the model of the future. Very cool.Susan announced that the District Assembly is on April 9^th. Danny will provide more info at the next meeting.

Next meeting, April 7th, Café Madrid.

March 17^th, social at Caputo’s.

March 24^st: service project at Food bank.

April 3^rd, April Social hosted by Shannon.

Stephanie’s triathalon will be May 7^th.

There will be District Assembly training on April 9^th.

The 2-16 District Conference will be May 5-7 in Cedar City.

Meeting adjourned.