Our speaker this week will be our Assistant Governor Todd Fischer, from the downtown club. He'll bring us up to date on the continuing battle to eradicate Polio. We're getting close!

The annual JEMfriends "Wish List" is out! It is our custom for us to show our support of the JEMfriends kids by making their wishes come true for Christmas! Our wrapping party/social will be December 17th at the Proletariate Tasting Room on Chinden at 5:00PM. (106 E. 36th St)

Here's the link to sign up!

Our guided tour of the new Interfaith Sanctuary last week was amazing! Exec Dir Jodi gave us the cook's tour of the 45,000 sq foot facility, which is, hopefully, scheduled to open in mid-January. There is still a lot of finish work to do but what you see is impressive! The services they will be able to provide the unhoused community is remarkable. With a capacity of about 200 residents, there's even a full medical clinic run by Terry Reilly. Watch for a community open house in January and don't miss it! (I was left wondering "is there anything they haven't thought of?") Thanks for the tour, Jodi, you are amazing!!

Interfaith Sanctuary is scheduling teams to help with assembling new furniture coming from IKEA. We'll put a team together to help out on Friday, December 26th from 11-4. A perfect opportunity to see the facility if you haven't already and show off your engineering skills. Please sign up here: https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/4090E4FA5A928A2FA7-60780218-building

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! 

 

 

 

 

December 6 - Greenbelt Cleanup

December 6 - Idaho Public TV Phone-a thon

December 17 - JEMfriends gift wrapping and social
December 26 - Interfaith IKEA assembly

 

It was fun see us all decked out in hard hats and safely vests!........pizza lunch at Flying Pie hit the spot!...........Thanks to everyone who paticipated in our clothing drive. We done good!.....believe it or not, next week is Greenbelt Cleanup day...already!.....