"I am Pascal Bisimwa Rudahindwa, i was born in Bukavu, Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Kivu region best known worldwide as the capital of crazy war atrocities, was forced to leave my home at a the age of fifteen due to intense war violence and ran to the neighbouring Uganda where i suffered, hustled and survived for eleven years in refugee camps, and in kampala city, and later thanks to the UN refugee agency and US Immigration Services, i was granted resettlement here in Boise Idaho, it was a lengthy process to where i arrived in March 2016. I am blessed with a young family of three and half!, it is great to finally be here, find peace and rebuild a tattered life!"
Denise McClure has officially joined our club, transferring from Boise Sunrise where she has been a member for several years. She grew up in the midwest but moved to Idaho in 2007 to escape the humidity and be closer to mountains. She is a CPA in business as Averti Solutions, LLC, specializing in forensic accounting and fraud detection. (Don't ask her to do your tax returns!) She has an 18 year old son who is about embark on an adventure, teaching English in Costa Rica.
In addition to Rotary, Denise volunteers with Genesis Community Health and the Idaho State Bar Professional Conduct Board.
An aspiring minimalist, Denise reports that she does, indeed, have a dog - a spoiled Golden Retriever named Sunny.
Our 2016 Rose Sale is underway! Our goal is to sell 410 dozen! $25. per doz. All red. The roses will be available for delivery October 24-27. This is our major fundraiser for the year and will support our club service projects. The order form is available for download on the website under "Club Documents".
Our roses come from DWF. Tim Harrigfeld gives us great attention! We pick up the raw materials and deliver them to the Horticulture class at Borah High School. Under the direction of Jeremy Thompson, the students build our bouquets.
Mark your calendar for "Back to School Night" for Rotary members and their spouses as we celebrate being back on a regular routine. The event will on Wednesday, September 28th from 4-6:30 at Telaya/Coiled Winery located at 240 E 32nd Street, Garden City. (Next to the Riverside Hotel) Members are responsible for their own wine purchases but snacks will be provided. For the beer drinkers, we will bring in an assortment of varieties.Invite your friends, too! Please RSVP Shiloh.
I finally had to pull myself off the race. I made it to Galena Lodge and then turned back to Sun Valley. The first day became very difficult with the rain. The roads became very soft and muddy making it much more difficult to peddle. The rain also made saddle sores more easier to get. I was surprised when two of the front runners scratched. In total 22 of the 59 have scratched this year. My hat goes off to those able to finish.
There was snow in the passes and the counties were grading the roads in several sections. Not good luck because this again softened the roads.
In the end, for many of us, all of this took a toll on our leg strength which was difficult to try and get back.
I finished 220 miles of the race and had a good time with all of the other riders. I met people from throughout the intermountain west and California. The people at stores along the way were very kind and helpful with food and snacks. Small town help and encouragement was awesome.
A fellow rider broke his chain. Fortunately he had parts and we could fix it. Another rider had a wreck on the down hill and tore his ACL. We were lucky there was a man cutting logs from the trail within a few miles that could transport him to Galena Lodge and there just happened to be an orthopedic doc there. There are many other instances where everyone helped in resolving problems along the way binding riders together in their effort to finish the race.
Thanks to all the supporters in our club, it kept me going out there. I will figure out a creative way of dealing with the miles I could not ride to benefit our fight against polio. I will get a report ready on the fundraising this week.
Last Friday a bunch of Rotarians joined City leaders to celebrate the opening of the final stretch of the Boise River Greenbelt. Toby Norton from Parks and Rec has presented a very rough draft of what our project might look like. We'll be meeting with him again very soon to go into more detail.
Cornelia has been hard at work setting up the schedule for Open World. Our guests from Tomsk, Siberia, will arrive on Friday, October 7th. Most of the team is connected to Siberian State Medical University. Their interests are in entrepreneurial business and adaptive technologies for people with disabilities. A sampling of the planned activities might be: Trailhead, Idaho Assistive Technologies, Bike rides and wineries, Birds of Prey, City Club of Boise, Disability forum, 3D Printing, Mike Simpson's Office, BSU, Micron tours, capitol tours, JUMP, ARC, geothermal tours, and the list goes on!
News! The folks at the US State Department who are overseeing this program reviewed our proposed schedule of activities and were "rendered speechless" it was so awesome!
Our guests last week were Larry Swan (Scott's dad), Trevor andJoel Swan, Zach Hepworth of "Wipe Every Tear", Leslie Yost, Deb Every and prospective member Dan McCoun.........our attendance has been great of late - for three weeks in a row we've run out of food!... Roger is preparing for our annual Dictionaries for Third Graders. He need people to sign up for deliveries......Our speaker last week thought our civic club lunch was the best he'd ever had!.........
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Last Friday a bunch of Rotarians joined City leaders to celebrate the opening of the final stretch of the Boise River Greenbelt. Toby Norton from Parks and Rec has presented a very rough draft of what our project might look like. We'll be meeting with him again very soon to go into more detail.
