The first meeting of August was brought to order by President Holt. Following the Pledge of Allegiance President Holt quoted Desmond Tutu regarding hope is when you see light where there is darkness. Our Exchange Student from Nigeria, Mirabel attended the meeting and graciously offered to help set up and take down. It was brought to members attention that: There will be a board meeting this Thursday beginning at 6 pm. Board meetings are held at John Dooling's office located at 2005 W Ruthrauff and are always open to non board members. This month has five Tuesday's and therefore the 5th Tuesday will be a club social. Location TBD. Wednesday the 8th is a Food Bank volunteer day. With both Randy and Mary, our stalwarts in this arena, will both be out of town. Two, preferably three volunteers will be needed. This entails assisting with the distribution of food at the Ortiz Center in Picture Rocks from 9:30 to noon. .jpg) DG Joe will visit our club 10/24/2017 and there will be a board meeting the evening of the 23rd. Non-board members welcomed.Draft Budget to be finalized at Thursday Board meeting. Secret Greeter process has been installed an possibly helped with what was a lively meeting. As a reminder, prior to the opening gavel try to greet every other member with a handshake, fist bump, hug pat on the back (NOT HEAD). Once the Secret Greeter is made known by our president anyone who did not greet them must pony up $1 fine. This is NOT intended to be a fund raiser, but rather an encouragement for interaction. Many happy members offered cash just to share their reasons for joy: Richie Benner-A wonderful Boy Scout Jamboree Tony Hunter-A fine vacation in San Diego Lori Malangone-Backpacking aand tent camping at 14,400+ feet. Mark Murray-Bi-cycling across Iowa (Mark left wallet at home and Javier has promised to extract a major "donation" at our next meeting. Peter Mack-They have observatories in Ohio Bob Bishop -Got married in Sedona, AZ but it rained the second day there. Not that the newly weds noticed. Bob proved the old adage "Lucky in love-not in cards" as he drew the wrong card after having the right raffle ticket. Randy shared with us some of the events and speakers scheduled for the District 5500 Conference October 13-15. This is an event we will be hearing much more about. Mark your calendars now and plan to attend. Be there or be square. Richie Benner presented on our club Facebook Page and the difference between a "group" page (more internal for chosen members) and a "Page" page that connects to the outside world. Please go to the Rotary Club of Marana website and "Like" and "share" with all your friends encouraging them to do the same. To add a story or photo at this time text Richie at 520-591-0381 or email Richard.Benner@Scouting.Org  Randy presented on a mentoring opportunity at Open Doors, an alternative school in Marana. If this goes forward each of us will have an opportunity to address the students and speak of our chosen career. Also, Randy discussed a project with the Marana Prevention Alliance regards kids and drugs. Randy is still trying to get a handle on exactly what we could do and plans on attending additional meetings with this group.We also discussed a project in Cameroon spearheaded by Bubba Hamadou a former member of this club, a Cameroonian and current member of the Old Pueblo Club. Bubba will be one of our club speakers soon. Next week our speaker will be Jason Halper. His topic will be bugs. We also hope to install Jason as our newest member. John Dooling, Secretary |