Boise Metro Rotary Bulletin December 22, 2024 (Dec 22, 2024)

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!

NO MEETING THIS WEEK!

JEM FRIENDS CHRISTMAS!

Thanks to everyone who helped fulfill the JEMfriends Wish List. The gifts were wrapped and delivered to their Christmas Tree!

NAMI WALKS IN MAY

We are finalizing plans for our Community Based NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Walks this spring and are hopeful to partner with Rotarians once again to highlight Rotary's international focus on mental health in the communities we serve, showcase local resources and services supporting mental health, raise awareness and debunk stigma against mental illness, and raise money for a good cause.

NAMI Walks Twin Falls will unofficially kick off our Rotary District 5400 Conference on May 3rd, to be followed by our Pocatello event on May 10, Boise event on May 24, and Idaho Falls event on June 14. We'd love to get even more Rotarians involved this year, coming together in fellowship to support a great cause, raise awareness, and have fun!

ROTARY 101 TRAINING PROGRAM

Another edition of our District 5400 Rotary 101 training for new members will be on January 14, 2025, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. via Teams. This training is intended for anyone who joined your club in the past few years (or longer-term members who are curious to know more about the Rotary world outside of your club). If you have some new members who would benefit from such an orientation (or a refresher), please invite them to attend. I've set up a registration page to help with communication, which is here: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/da40591e-3997-4ced-b18f-f97d533ffc8b@9e6f850a-4db4-459b-a037-85082173ee0d

COMING UP

January 3 - Greenbelt Cleanup
January 7 - New member Induction
January 11 - Lucky Peak Plunge

January 14 - Rotary 101

MISCELLANY AND MINUTIA

Our Rotary Minute last week was a STEM empowerment program for middle school girls in Georgia......Roger reports that there are extra Dictionaries if anybody ran out.......great attendance last week!.......John B. will be out of action for awhile getting a new knee.....Charles has agreed to take over as song leader........thanks, Mary, for the Rotary emblem Christmas Tree ornaments......thanks to Maria Lee from IWCF last week....that's an impressive impact for small group!........thanks to everyone who worked the IPTV Phone-a-thon...........Emmanuel, our Shark Pond Grantee, has been invited to attend the Global Youth Climate Summit 2025 in Brazil, which is to recognize young climate leaders who are turning ideas into action. Congratulations!.............