Our speaker this week will be Evelyn Johnson, Executive Director of the Lee Pesky Learning Center.  "Lee Pesky Learning Center’s approach to working with people with learning disabilities is called The Pesky Way. We start with a complete understanding of each person’s strengths and areas of need. Then, drawing on research-based practices, we create an individualized program uniquely tailored to meet the needs of every child we serve."

Our week with our new friends from Tomsk, Siberia, was an unqualified success!! Congratulations to Cornelia and her team for a plan that worked perfectly! We kept them busy with lots of visits that were relevant to their fields of interest, namely, adaptive technologies for people with disabilities and distance learning technologies. Our host families made fast friends. Thanks to the Fellowship Committee for a fine vodka tasting farewell gathering on Friday might!

Mary Reiman is busy preparing for the Polio Ride in Tucson in November. Her personal goal is to raise $3,000 for Polio Plus. You can give Mary a check or go online and donate, letting her know you did that. Bret V. reports that his recent bike ride in the mountains was a blast, even tho bad weather caused him to stop early, but he reached his goal of $1,000, which he matched!

We are on our way to 410 dozen long stem, red roses! Our guy at DWF Florist, Tim Harrigfeld, will deliver the roses and greens to Borah High School early Monday morning, October 24th. The Horticulture class, led by teacher Jeremy Thompson, will put together the bouquets. A Limited number of orders will be available at our meeting on the 25th, the rest can be picked up a day or two later at Borah. (Note: Dave Thornton has bet a lunch with Scott Swan for the most sold)

Our Rotarian guests last week were Rich Wilson, Coeur d'Alene Rotary, Joe McClure, Columbia Georgia Rotary, Mike Sieler, Eagle/Garden City..............then there was Dimitri, a BSU prof who just happened to come from Tomsk; Maureen and Karen and Robin and Ryan; Deb Avery our "test driver"........those of us who were hosting our Russians had a blast!............."smartphone" translates to "smartphone".........Cornelia made up a batch of Kvass...very good...........we discovered we are a lot more alike than we are different.....Russia doesn't have an ADA to accommodate their disabled citizens.....thus the interest in "distance learning"......