Boise Metro Rotary September 22, 2024 (Sep. 22, 2024)

TRIP THIS WEEK - POLE VAULTING!

This week features a FIELD TRIP to Garden City! We've been invited to the Stacy Dragila Sports Complex and Vault Club at 106 53rd St, Garden City (a bit behind Fred Meyer). Stacy graduated from ISU in 1995, where she learned about Pole Vaulting. She went on to become a world champion in the event, winning the Gold medal at the 2000 Olympics. She is the World Masters Record Holder. Her complex features indoor and outdoor pole vault for all-year training. The Complex also features a new weight room to compliment the wide range of equipment already available.

So wear your track shoes and prepare to jump! Let Mary know you're coming and she'll have a lunch for you.

PROJECT AMIGO TRIP IN 2025?

Posted by Cornelia Sprung

Hello, friends! As the Service Chair for our club, I’m looking for ways to engage in fun and impactful community and international service. I’ve been exposed to Project Amigo a few times now—at district conference, at our club presentation, and again last month when Dora Zuniga was in Boise. (That’s when Bob and I signed up to sponsor a young man named Steven who wants to be an architect!)

Many Rotary clubs do service trips with Project Amigo, going to Colima for a week, to help the community and work with the youth. I believe Boise Sunrise does a service trip every other year. I think a trip would be successful with Boise Metro Rotary. We only need a minimum of 8 (or up to 24) people. Dora is strongly encouraging us to choose one of the two ESL weeks in July, either the week of 7/6 or 7/13.

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MISCELLANY AND MINUTIA

Our Rotary Minute last week was about a program in Southeast Asia called "Bright Eyes" which provides Optometry testing equipment to clinics..........Alan reports that his camp survived the fires (whew!)........think about going to Calgary next summer for the RI Convention...its close.........good luck to Cornelia who is on her way to Portugal to walk a section of the Camino.......Amy went to Hiawatha Trail, Glacier and more; Roger went to Moscow for Uof I defeat of Albany; John and Linda heading to Rochester NY for family visit; Mary and Paul returning from Wisconsin.....our Youth Exchange student, Ken from Taiwan, provided a box of pineapple pastries for desert......tasty!........