The highway cleanup crew comprised of Andy, Sue, Babette, Phil, Jim lowell (taking the picture), and Tom Liljigren (who had not yet arrived when the picture was taken).
On May 12, with weather cooperating more or less, the hardy highway cleanup crew assembled and completed the trash pickup of the CLK Rotary 2-mile stretch on US-41 just north of Pine Street.
Your editor drove past the 2-mile stretch on Sunday and counted over 12 bags of trash waiting to be picked up by the road commission. Note for the future: "Many hands make light work." A few more Rotarians could be of use. Thanks to Andy for organizing this event.
Meeting Attendance: 16 members showed up for the meeting, which is about 50%. We can do much better.
Program: Eva was the program chair and gave a talk about PETS (Presidents Elect Training Seminar) which she attended recently. She pointed out that Rotary International is the largest non-governmental entity serving mankind in the world, which is reason enough for we Rotarians to be proud. The main thing she took away from PETS was to "find your passion and run with it." Accordingly, she pointed out that she would like to emphasize "Youth and Rotary" during her tenure hoping as a result to excite them about Rotary for the future. In this regard, she would like to have as her main goal that "kids in the area know who we are and what we stand for," adding that a mentoring program of some sort might be a way to begin.
In addition, she pointed out that her immediate and on-going concern is to get more members both to grow and to replace those that for one reason or another leave the club. It is hoped that each of us will bring prospective members to lunch and thereby introduce them to Rotary. She asked us to join her in establishing a minimum goal of a net 3 new members for the 2007-08 year.
A group discussion followed her presentation during which participation in the Horizons program was raised.
Program Chairman for May 23: Kevin Store
Up coming Events:
June 1-3: Distrct 6220 Conference in Minaqua. Check our http://www.ridistrict6220.org/ for more information.
June 30: PastyFest concessions management by the CLK Rotary.
See you Wednesday.
