Business Meeting Minutes - March 21, 2019

Members in attendance:  Joe Ballstaedt, Jayne Barnett, Linda Book, Dave Chassé, Denise Chassé, Rose Defa, Marty Gelman, John Haglund, Ann Hart, Julie Jones, Tim Jones, Susan Marks, Justin Powell, Danny Schoenfeld, Laurie Summers-Pisani

Visitors in attendance:  Sergazi Nurburliyev (sp?), Tarik Guney, Amelia Clawson

Business items:

1.       Call to order, Four-Way Test

2.       Visitor Introductions

3.       Recap of last meeting’s discussion of service project opportunities with Millcreek Elementary – Justin.  Possibly conduct April 18th Business Meeting at Millcreek Elementary, then participate in their Art Festival that night.

4.       Committee Updates:

a.       Service – Rose - House of Hope – Thursday, April 25th, Burrito Project – Thursday, May 23^rd , Hope Lodge – June

b.       Social – Shannon/Erica – April - Dinner at Cucina’s 1026 E. 2nd Avenue (7:00 p.m.)

c.       Membership – No update

d.       Treasurer – Tim provided a report – finances are up-to-date.

e.       Youth – No update

5.       Rotary Citation – Jayne outlined the goals we’re lined-up to satisfy to get the citation.

6.       Additional Opportunities at Volunteers of America – Tim indicated VoA has a need for help with breakfast in particular.  Tim will organize a breakfast service soon.

7.       Jayne polled the (present) members who unanimously approved giving $500 to the organization Opportunities for Developing Countries (OFDC).

8.       District 5420 Conference – Jayne reminded us of the conference, which is May 9-11th in Salt Lake City, UT – Gail Miller will be Keynote speaker - for more info or to register go to www.utahrotary.com 

Upcoming Events

April 4th – Business Meeting 5:30 p.m., Board Meeting 6:30 p.m. – Youthlinc Office 1166 E. Brickyard Road

April 18th – Business Meeting 5:30 p.m. – Location to be announced (may be at Millcreek Elementary School, but that needs to be firmed-up)

April 25 – Service and Social – Service - House of Hope, 857 E. 200 So. SLC UT 84102 (Mother’s Day bags) – Social – Dinner at Cucina 1026 E. 2nd Ave, Salt Lake City UT  84103, 7:00 p.m. 

Senior Stories from The Ridge

In March, we visited The Ridge senior living center and interviewed several residents about their lives. The residents enjoyed participating and the Rotarians had the utmost pleasure of engaging in one-to-one, hour long conversations.  We heard some fascinating stories!  We then wrote down the stories and sent them to the Director of The Ridge, who has forwarded the stories to the individual residents.  Some Rotarians also recorded their senior friends in audio files.  We look forward to sharing in this type of activity again.

Business Meeting Minutes March 7, 2019

Members in attendance:  Jayne Barnett, Dave Chassé, Denise Chassé, Rose Defa, Ronda Eiting, Frank Lilly, Susan Marks, Justin Powell, Erica Wolff, Pearl Wright

Guests in attendance:  Ari Waite

Business items:

1.      Call to order, Four-Way Test

2.      Guest Speaker –Ann Kane, Principal of Millcreek Elementary.  Ann told us about her school and her students and staff, and offered ideas on how we could, as a club, get involved in helping on an ongoing basis.  Ann suggested working with the 3^rd grade on reading and math, helping with food insecurity over long school breaks, setting-up a food pantry, and possibly supporting Art night on April 18^th.

3.      Service Update – Dave C. reminded everyone about the March 14^th project with seniors at The Ridge Cottonwood, where we’ll listen to (and write down or record) residents’ life stories.

Rose reported that the planned service project for April is House of Hope (Mother’s Day gift prep), May is the Burrito Project (feed the homeless) and June will be at Hope Lodge (prepare dinner).

4.      Social Update – The April social will follow the gift prep at House of Hope on April 25th.

5.      Membership Update – No update.

6.      Treasurer Update – No update.

7.      Wine Into Water 2019 – Jayne booked Tracy Aviary for the evening of Thursday September 19^th (all the Fridays in Sept were already booked).

UPCOMING EVENTS

March 14^th – Service – “What is your Story?”, The Ridge Cottonwood (5600 S. Highland Dr.), please arrive at 5:45 p.m.  Don’t forget to wear your RCMC T-Shirt!

March 21^st – Business Meeting 5:30 p.m. – Youthlinc Office 1166 E. Brickyard Road

April 4th – Business Meeting 5:30 p.m., Board Meeting 6:30 p.m. – Youthlinc Office 1166 E. Brickyard Road

April 18th – Business Meeting 5:30 p.m. – Youthlinc Office 1166 E. Brickyard Road

April 25 – Service and Social – House of Hope, prep Mother’s Day bags, dinner out afterwards

Millcreek Canyon Snowshoe and Chili Social 3-2-19

Beautiful Smiling Faces.  It's too bad nobody ever has any Fun in this Club! 

Volunteers of America Service Activity 2/28/19

Smiling Faces Everywhere!