Our meeting this week will be a Field Trip to Interfaith Sanctuary's new facility at the former Salvation Army on  4308 W.State Street. Jodi Peterson-Stigers will give us the grand tour. It's almost finished! Lunch will come from Flying Pie Pizza next door.

 

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.

Our Rotarians have been busy this week delivering dictionaries to third graders around the valley. The kids are so excited to receive these books! 

 

 

 

 

November is Foundation Month! And with that we're rolling out a special month-long promotion for those of you not already using Rotary Direct (https://my.rotary.org/en/rotary-direct) to make giving to the Annual Fund and/or Polio Plus easy and automatic. If you sign up for Rotary Direct before the end of November, and set up a $100 donation, both the club and the district will match your donation in points. Yes, a double match! So you'll be almost a third of the way to a Paul Harris Fellowship award. You can do it in a single donation or donate $25 quarterly. Simply forward your receipt to cornelia.sprung@rotary5400.org to request your match. This double match is only available during Rotary Foundation Month, so sign up and automate your giving today!

 

Did you know? Since our club's inception 40 years ago, our members have contributed $256,000 to the Rotary Foundation!

 

To sign up for Rotary Direct, call 1-800-9- rotary

The new facility for Interfaith Sanctuary is nearing completion. We have a tour scheduled for November 25. Between now and then, we want to collect winter stuff for the residents, including gloves, hats, scarves, etc. We'll deliver to them at our visit.

Jade, our Youth Exchange student from Lochristi, Belgium presented us with her home Rotary Club's official flag......Cornelia enjoyed a birthday trip to Hawaii.....Mary is enjoying her new hip......Assistant Governor Todd visited last week.....Nolan is asking members to join the new Social Media Committee....congrats to Scott was became a Paul Harris Society member.....his presentation about GBRF took more than 2 minutes.....next Shark Pond presentation will be December 5th.....guess who is now the owner of TWO classic cars!