Our speaker this week will be long time downtown Rotarian Todd Fischer, our District 5400 Foundation Chair. He'll tell us about the Foundation's recent accomplishments and all the ways we can participate.

Roger reports that our progress toward our goals is going well, half way through the Rotary year. Our Polio Plus goal of $4,000 has reached 79%. Our goal for the Annual Fund is at 48% of our goal of $8,400. Also, our members have contributed $3800 so far this year to the Greater Boise Rotary Foundation. Keep up the good work!! And don't forget to sign up for Rotary Direct!

 

It was fun to have our meeting at the new venue last week. How did you like it? We want to know. We generally thought it worked well. The acoustics were great and Life's Kitchen did a fine job with our lunch, although we noted a lack of drink options. I counted 21 people in the room at one point. Did it feel cramped?

 

District Conference will be in Sun Valley May 20-22.......Rotary Youth Exchange will happen this year...we need a Coordinator and Counselor.......RYLA will happen this year, too. We'll be looking for high school kids to send.....Payette Brewery is too loud for our Wednesday meet-ups.....we'll try somewhere else......our Foundation Scholarship for Cadet Quilter's year at Oxford has been fully dispersed.....we have a D5400 Grant in the bank for next Spring's loafing shed project.......we want to be thinking about prospects for this spring's grant cycle........

This coming Wednesday we'll try a new spot for our monthly fellowship. At 5:30 we'll meet at the newish Western Proper at 610 W. Idaho Street. This is the former location of the Spaghetti Factory. Let's give it a try!!

Mark your calendar for these upcoming events:

It appears our favorite song is Country Roads.......our new room has favorable acoustics.......lots of people relayed how hard it was to fly back to BOI last week.......trips from hell.......Scott S. moved into his new home and has too many happy things...they added up to $71........congrats to the Georgia Bulldogs......lots of people at Bogus enjoying the fresh snow...Dave forgot his wallet so Scott R. had to buy his lunch......Biggs and Thornton look a lot a alike........Jeff has joined the Bogus Mountain Host crew.......Tyson admitted to a bonehead move on the mountain...he had to call the Ski Patrol to rescue him....our speaker, Dave Fotch, told us about Valley Transit's new electric buses...he told us a dirty little secret (heat and air are provided by a onboard diesel engine)...

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