Our program this week will be Martin Gruau, our Youth Exchange Student from France. He'll tell us all about his experience this year in the USA!

Fund raising for the Rotary Park on the Greenbelt is underway! Last week, we "sold" the last bench for $2,500.  We have applied for District Grants to suppor the benches and interpretive signs. We have set up a GoFundMe account which is already attracting attention.  We had a display table set up at District Celebration.  There are TWO things you can do right now:

 

We ended up with three dinner groups on Saturday evening. Our hosts were Allan and Pixie Bosch, Jeff and Julie Dinwiddie and Michela and James.  They were very surprised at who showed up at their door! The groups enjoyed wonderful meals and awesome conversation! We'll do it again in the Fall.

Last week Cornelia provided more information about the Young Africa Leadership Initiative happening in June.   The Department of English at BSU won a managing grant from the Mandela Washington Fellowship. There will be 26 young professionals from all over Africa visiting Boise for six weeks  starting in June. June 25th has been scheduled for "Home Dinners". We can volunteer to assist in a variety of ways: drivers, mentors, one-on-ones, etc. They'll be living on Campus but we don't want them to tire of student union fare! 

Check out this video link to the details and registration, and share it with your friends!   LINK  Our First Annual Rotary Fishing Derby will be held May 11th at  Eagle Island State Park. Starting at 8:00AM and going till about noon.  Lots of features to make this a fun day for the whole family! Food trucks, beer garden, raffles, lots of prizes. If you catch the biggest fish you become eligible for a $10,000 grand prize! Michela is working on a website which will show all the details and allow for on-line registration.  This promises to be a major fundraiser for our club.   ALL HANDS ON DECK FOR THIS ONE!

Charles enjoyed a vacation in Hawaii.......Bill C. won 1st place in a riding competition...and it wasn't his horse.....speaking of which, the K Derby was really disappointing - I saw no foul......Michela sold 36 pairs of red sneakers last week......................Bret celebrates his 13th grandchild (!).......Scott put 100 bucks in the cookie jar to celebrate his mom's 100th.........Marta really knows how to work a room......Schubin carded for "inappropriate behavior"...really?......Our new song book is getting toward the end of samples...more suggestions are welcome........Allan, it's time to order more grandchild bricks..........Bret?