We enjoyed many thank-you notes from our third graders...Katie, one of their teachers, came to visit us......John M. adopted a rescue Aussie and is loving it!......Carrie went to District Pres-elect training last week in Nampa, will go to Seattle for PELS in February.......Rotary Minute was about a medical/surgical clinic in Nicaragua.....Congrats to Allen and Tyson for their Paul Harris awards.....Bret's Polio Plus Challenge ended up, after adding the Gates match, a total of about $12,000......thanks, Bret!!........Jade's goal for the plunge has been exceeded!.....there's a new JEMFriends challenge out there - an anonymous Rotarian?.........thanks to Vince Vutura for his report on his RYE year in Switzerland. Sounds like he had a great time and a meaningful experience.......he brought us Swiss chocolate to try!