Our speaker this week will be Kevin Cleveland from the ISU College of Pharmacy. He'll talk about screenings and vaccines.

 

WE'RE A NEW PLACE! The Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce at  1101 Myrtle St.  Enter the building from the back, by Panera Bread. There's a parking garage (1st hr free, then $3.00). This is Carrie's workplace and she says the room is great and there's a good AV set up. Lunch will be catered by Panera. Come check it out!

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!

 

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.

We received an update from Luna, our Exchange Student in Vigo, Spain this year. She's moving to her second host family in January. She's excited because they live right on the beach! She says ot rains a lot so everything is green. She's playing volleyball and is close to the other RYE kids. She's learning to make paella and struggling with the language which is Galetia, a mixture of Spanish and Portugese. 

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

 

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!