Our speaker this week will be Capt Jerry McAdams, a Wildfire Mitigation Specialist.  We'll learn how to protect our property from wildfire. The season will be here soon!

Martin will be here next month to report on his year with us. Our incoming student is a young lady from Osaka, Japan (who reportedly is fluent in English). She will arrive in late August.  The first host family has been identified. Shiloh has volunteered to be the counselor.

The Raffle Tickets for our annual District Fundraiser are now available! They were passed out at last week's meeting . Alli is in charge - she has plenty more! This is a major fundraiser for our district - the winners will be announced at District Conference. This year's prizes are better than ever! You have to understand how it works: the winner gets a $4500 travel voucher with AAA which can be used for ANYTHING! The person who SELLS the winning tickets GETS THE SAME PRIZE! And, the Club that sells the winning ticket gets $4500 cash! WOW! There are also a bunch of lesser prizes.  DUE BY APRIL 15TH.

Check out this video link to the details and registration, and share it with your friends!   LINK  Our First Annual Rotary Fishing Derby will be held May 11th at  Eagle Island State Park. Starting at 8:00AM and going till about noon.  Lots of features to make this a fun day for the whole family! Food trucks, beer garden, raffles, lots of prizes. If you catch the biggest fish you become eligible for a $10,000 grand prize! Michela is working on a website which will show all the details and allow for on-line registration.  This promises to be a major fundraiser for our club.   ALL HANDS ON DECK FOR THIS ONE!

 

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!!

 

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.

 

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:

Last week's trip to the Yanke Motor museum was great fun! Never seen such a collection of motorized everything! Hard to pick a favorite......thanks to  the Stonehouse for some great sandwiches!........Who's that guy holding the giant wrap?.........I signed up to go fishing, did you?........I signed up for dinner on May 4th.....did you?.........I signed up for District Conference...did you?...I have no money left...............