Club members learned about Treasures for Teachers.
Our meeting began on time with all 125 members present. Only the first hundred in person attendees were eligible for President Andrea's $1,000 attendance award, still $100,000 is a pretty good incentive to attend our meetings in person. Sorry Beckie.
Location: NWFD Training Facility
Attendees: Don and Kathy Jorgensen, John and Cindy Dooling, Mark Gologoski, Dan Contorno, Bob Bishop, Andrea de la Cortez, Laura Clymer, Harald Burtzloff, Beckie Penman, Pam-Pilot friend of Harald's.
Speaker: Adrienne Ledford of Treasures for Teachers
The meeting began with Happy Bucks:
- Cindy - Mentioned she is happy our speaker today is Adrianne Ledford, who she has known for ten plus years.
- John - Sorry he made the first carafe of coffee too weak and cold. He got it right the second time.
- Mark- His new assistant is OUTSTANDING. On her own accord she made up Rotary business cards and a brochure.
- Harald - Happy to be here and with his accomplished pilot friend from Anchorage, Alaska, Pam. She is a Tucsonan for seven months of the year.
- Kathy - Happy to have had daughter and grandson in town last weekend.
- Don - Played chess with his precocious five year old grandson.
- Bob - Got his acid reflux fixed.
- Laura - New grapefruit and orange trees doing well and Meyer lemon tree is going gangbusters! Some packrats are annoying her but she is dealing with them.
- Beckie - Granddaughter is now three and Beckie tied 66 balloons for the party. Planted tomatoes and cucumbers but some critter is eating her cucumber plant.
- Andrea - Happy all around!
Announcements:
- MCAT meeting to be held 4/22 and our business meeting to be 4/15
Rotary Minute:
- During his Rotary Minute, Don asked if anyone knew where the first International Rotary Convention was held. No one did. The answer is Edinburgh, Scottland. (A city highly recommended by yours truly.)
Guest Speaker Adrienne Ledford from Treasures for Teachers:
Our speaker was an employee of the Amphitheater School District. She is the founder, twelve years ago, of Treasurers for Teachers (www.t4teachers.org). For a small annual fee of only $35 any Pima County teacher can get a variety of school supplies from crayons to Kleenex. They have a warehouse located in Marana on Camino Martin. The only paid employees are a couple of part-time Mountain View High School students. Financial support comes from the $35 fee and grants. Locally, Long Realty has been a huge benefactor.
Closing:
Meeting closed with the four way test. Which brings to mind the first two sentences in these notes. I admit, I got carried away with April Fool's Day. Are they still lies if it is April first?
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John Dooling