Our Service Project Meeting this week will be at the Idaho Diaper Bank. We will gather in their work room and bundle up diapers in sets of 25 and wrap for distribution. The Idaho Diaper Bank is located at 599 E King St #100 Meridian, ID near Meridian Road and Franklin. This would be a great opportunity to ring a guest to learn what Rotary is all about. Wear your Rotary shirt and be sure to bring a package of diapers to donate. You should have received an email from Will with a menu from Zupa for your lunch.

 

Please note that anyone not able to be at the work project on Tuesday (including myself) can still donate diapers and drop them off at my office to be picked up and delivered on Tuesday.   Integra Paperless 101 S. 27th Street (27th and Main) Boise 83702   Lets all make this a successful project.   Roger Brazier

 

The Parks and Rec Volunteer office is back in business. We have been given the opportunity to "adopt" a section of the Greenbelt that runs through our park. To learn of the details and exactly what we'd be responsible for, we have a date to meet with Jerry Pugh and Kristin Gnojewski for a tour of that section on Monday, August 24th at 9:00 AM.  Please let me know if you can join us for walk in the park!

Last week Laurie Zuckerman and Lisa Vetter gave a presentation about the D5400 Earth Stewardship Committee and Rotary's Seven Areas of Focus. We were presented with a Serviceberry Award for our work volunteering to plant seedlings around the valley.

The bricks have been replaced around the base of the monument and the construction pylons have been removed. It looks great! We hope to have the last 100 bricks laid by the end of August. In the meantime, the interpretive signs will remain covered so we can have a Great Unveiling at the appropriate time.

 

A guest last week was Telasi Brooks from the Western Watershed Project...she'll be speaking to us in September...she was a Youth Exchange student to France years ago......Congratulations to Charles Weymouth who has stepped up to be our club's new Secretary!............we're figuring out to collect Happy dollars through Venmo.......its amazing how almost everybody loves Zoom!........District Trainer Steve Gage is going to be delivering a district-wide New Member Orientation on August 18 at 4:00pm via Zoom.   It’s a great opportunity for clubs to invite new members who have joined Rotary in the last year (or even the last 3 years).  Attendees will meet District 5400 leadership and fellow Rotarians around D5400........Look at Join Date anniversaries...those three guys have a total of 89 years of membership in our club!!