Our guest this week will be Wendy Wong.  She has worked for The Salvation Army Boise (TSA) for over 6 years in many roles, including Director of Social Services and currently as the Client and Community Education Director.  She is a licensed trainer for “Bridges Out of Poverty” and a facilitator of its curriculum, “Getting Ahead In a Just Getting’ By World”.  

My Leadership Boise family is hosting a Brunch & Learn event on April 3 at 8:00 a.m. to explore the topic of Homelessness in Boise. We are working with CATCH which has an audacious goal of eliminating family homelessness in the Treasure Valley within 5 years. Yes, you read that right. If you'd like to be part of the solution, I'd love to have you at the event. Please reply to me and I'll make sure you're on the guest list. This event is by invitation only, so you'll need to reply to me at csprung@redbuilt.com.

 

Here's how it works: you will be given the opportunity to be a dinner guest, or host, on May 4th. We'll form dinner groups of not more than  3 or 4 couples, to be assigned arbitrarily and secretively. If you volunteer to host, you will be responsible for the entire meal.  If you just want to be guest, all you have to do is show up at the designated address. Hosts won't know who is coming and guests won't know where they're going! This will be a blast!!

 

Last week Dave Wilson presented a fund raising project - Fishing Derby/Tournament. Lots of details to work out but it has real potential! Contact Dave if you would like to service on his committee.

Locate your old phones & devices - we can donate them to Phones4Charity who will return cash to us which we can donate to a cause of our choice.  Be sure to "clean" them first, to protect your information. If you din't know how, James will do it for you.

 

Its not too soon to be making plans for attending this years' District Conference May 17-19. This will be the first year EVER that's it to be held in Boise, instead of Sun Valley. That makes it lot more affordable and provides many more activity options. For the complete schedule and registration information, go to https://rotary5400.org/page/celebrate. There's a substantial discount if you register by March 31.  The District planners are also looking for people to provide "home stays" for our Rotary friends from across the state.  Our club will reimburse you for 30% of your registration fee.

Tree Planting days are coming soon! We need to help District 5400 reach its goal of planting one tree for each Rotarian. We made great progress last year! To see which clubs participated check out the map! This years' dates are:

Our club leadership is looking forward to next weekend's District Leadership Summit....lots to learn.......Michela will be leading a discussion about Public Image........the Fishing Tournament committee held it first meeting last week..lots of details to work out...stay tuned....Charles has volunteered to assist the District Visioning Committee where clubs will talk about their futures.......talk to James about Boise State's "e-sports" program....who knew?.......Diane Davis gave away four copies of her book for make-believe birthdays......Michela chaired last weeks meeting since both Pres and Pres-Elect were missing...so why didn't Will do it??..........