No formal program this week, but we'll enjoy some fellowship, elect next year's officers, shower Heather with gifts, present a check to Semilla Nueva, congratulate ourselves for our Polio Plus contributions. It will be busy! Lunch may also include beer! Yeah!

After a hard fought campaign, we have our new officers for the next Rotary year:

 

President: Scott Swan

President-Elect: John Schubin

Vice President: Cornelia Sprung

Treasurer: Buck Harris

Secretary: Will Ellsworth

Sargent-at-Arms: Jeff Dinwiddie

Directors: John Biggs, Allison Dunn, Dave Gott, Cahill Jones and Jeff Larsen.

 

(We were pleased that nobody used Trump tactics!)

Cornelia and I, along with Michela Swarthout from Boise Centennial, met with Toby Norton and Kelly Burrows from the Parks & Rec Engineering office last Friday. The Greenbelt construction project is underway and so far on schedule for completion by August. Its a muddy mess! We reviewed our proposal and discussed the two possible options for the actual site. Now that you can see the exact path of the trail, they'll go out and take a look and let us know what they think of the options. Then we'll have the opportunity to take a walk to see for ourselves.

 

Put this on your calendar: December 29th.  5-9PM. The Botanical Gardens is asking for 15 total volunteers. This is family friendly and fun.

 

These are the opportunities:  Greeters: greeting and directing guests to activities in the Garden;  Admissions: greeting and directing guests to closest payment window;  Ticket takers: tearing and checking tickets at Garden Gate; Entrance Refreshments: serving hot cocoa and cider in the Folly;  General Support and Reliever: transporting cocoa and cider to folly, serving the volunteers refreshments, assisting where needed.

 

Please let Janice know what you'd like to do!

 

Our guests last week were Nancy DeWitt (Fairbanks Rotary), Hank Ebert and Dave Shelton......songleader Will bagged the song book and went with Jingle Bells..... Jeff doesn't fool around, he fines you for anything on you way in the door........interesting program last week by Jim Hanson and Steve Merrill from Sunrise Rotary on their effort to buy a new truck for Gorongoza N.P. Shows how to make the Rotary District grant program work.......Congrats to Janice for being named on of the "Women of the Year" by Business Weekly......we matched her celebratory donation to RI..... Scott and Keri Swan are all signed up to go to Seoul, Korea this spring for the Rotary International convention. The club has helped with their expenses.....speaking of Jeff - be careful in January - fines double for tardiness and no pins........be there at noon sharp......  Brian McCoy has seen enough of us through our Rotary Test Drive program - he's decided to join for real!!......