Our speaker this week will be Bryan Madden, Program Manager for Mission 43. The 43 Project brings together the stories of veterans and their spouses transitioning to civilian life, as well as community members and employers impacted by the academic, career and community support of Mission43 and its partners.   Mission43 is a partnership of the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Family Foundation and four premier veterans organizations designed to give currently serving military, former military, and military spouses in Idaho, the 43rd state, the resources for a successful transition after leaving the service.

Our annual Rose Sale is underway!! Scott Swan is the head honcho (that's what past presidents do!). They are a dozen red roses for $30 per dozen. Our goal is to sell 450 dozen! This is our clubs major fundraiser for the year which supports a variety of our projects. On the club website, under "Club Documents" you will find the order form to record your sales and report along with some receipt forms.  If you click here, you'll go to the "sales pitch that Scott uses, quite successfully!

Rotary Park on the Greenbelt is moving ahead! We have one last fundraising event to get us over the top. The Park tells the story of the 50 year history of the Greenbelt, Government Island and the Trestle Bridge.  A benefactor has challenged us to sell more bricks. He'll contribute $50 for each additional brick we sell during the month of October! If you haven't bought your brick yet, now is the time. We are confident we can announce the end of our campaign by the end of this month!

 

Our final event will be a "Sip2Give" at Telaya Winery on Friday, October 20th from 5-7PM. We'll set up a table to sell bricks! Telaya will contribute 10% of the sales to our project. Promote the event to all your friends through your social media contacts. Plan to be there for some great wine and fellowship!

Our trip to ACHD last week was very enlightening! After a quick bag lunch behind the Garden City Senior Center (at a picnic table installed Rotary some years ago) we headed over t the ACHD "Compound". We started in the Sign shop where we were told about building and maintaining street signs and traffic control signs (there are 160,000 of them in the county).  Then we headed across the parking lot to the Traffic Control Command Center.  There we met with a woman who monitors the goings on of up to 24 screens at a time watching for traffic tie-ups, accidents, debris on the road, etc. Every intersection in the county has a camera. And, yes, she can read your license plate.  Across the hall we learned how to program stop lights and set intervals. (If you have one of those strobe lights that the fire trucks use, you can make all lights turn green). Then back outside to the "yard" where we got a lesson on their "toys", the Vacuum truck, road grader, snow plows, street sweeper. All in all, a fascinating afternoon!

Be sure to note upcoming events:

 

      Oct 20 - Sip2Give at Telaya Winery to support Greenbelt project

    Nov 15 - Semilla Nueva event at Zion Building