Our guest this week will be Vince Vuturo who went to Switzerland last year as our Youth Exchange Student. Its always fun to hear about our student's experiences abroad!

The annual JEMfriends "Wish List" is out! It is our custom for us to show our support of the JEMfriends kids by making their wishes come true for Christmas! Our wrapping party/social will be December 17th at the Proletariate Tasting Room on Chinden at 5:00PM. (106 E. 36th St)

Here's the link to sign up!

 

Last Friday our Entrapov team interviewed two entrepreneurs from Malawi who were competing for a $1,000 grant from our club. We heard from them over Google Meets (they had to shine a flashlight on their faces since they had no electricity that morning - they depend a lot on batteries!) We awarded our grant to Thenjiwe Moyo who was developing a chicken business in her village. She's been concentrating on whole chickens but wants to expand into layers. Our support will go a long way to helping her achieve her goals. She'll be keeping us posted!

 

 

 

Interfaith Sanctuary is scheduling teams to help with assembling new furniture coming from IKEA. We'll put a team together to help out on Friday, December 26th from 11-4. A perfect opportunity to see the facility if you haven't already and show off your engineering skills. Please sign up here: https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp

The 38th annual Polar Bear Challenge will be January 10th at Spring Shores Marina at Lucky Peak. Jade, our RYE student, has challenged us to contribute to Make-a-Wish on her behalf. District 5400 will have a team so don't be bashful! Last year, they raised $3900! Reese has done it and Cornelia is considering it. Its a big party on the beach, whether you dunk or not, starting at 11:00AM. You can contribute to Jade's account via Venmo to Metro Rotary.

Our Board this week added two new membership types to our offerings. Our standard full membership continues to be $375 every six months. We've added a "Young Professionals" category for members 18-40 at a reduced rate of $220. There's also a new Corporate rate of $439 which allows a company to have TWO members. Click here to see the details on our website:

The Rotary year begins on July 1st and all club officers serve a one year term. Our by-laws require that we elect next year's officers in December. The positions are:

 

President
President-elect
Secretary
Treasurer
Two at-large Directors serving 2 year term.

 

Contact Cornelia if you're interested in serving.

December 17 - JEMfriends gift wrapping and social
December 26 - Interfaith IKEA assembly

December 31 - Centennial Rotary Wine Pull

January 10 - Polar Bear Challenge

 

Greenbelt is clean......Rotary park irises cleaned up for spring, interpretive signs cleaned.......Mary's new hip is awesome....Nolan was in Scottsdale fighting traffic.....Amy is working from home now, can come to Rotary!.......Thanks to Todd Fischer for a great Polio Plus presentation......14 of us were honored for our continuing support of Polio PLus......Many thanks to Bret V. for his Polio Plus Challenge - we made his $2,000 goal!!....gather up your left over foriegn currency - Mike Markley will take it to the January International Conference and add it to the pot for Polio Plus.............