As we hope you know, our club is joining with other District 5960 clubs to collect mobility assistance devices for shipment to Africa, where they are badly needed.  This is an unusual project in that the cost to our club, in $ terms, is very low.  Other than maybe printing and a small amount of other costs, no club funds will be needed.  We'll have a booth at Earth Fest on April 26th, and we can get some barrels to collect donations.  On Tuesday we'll take advantage of a gap in the speaker schedule to talk through some specific ideas and plans.

Veterans' Park Cleanup on May 3rd :  Scott Morrissette is leading this semi-annual project.  He has appealed for more members to step up and put "Service Above Self".   Teenagers and other willing volunteers are welcome and needed for this project.  Contact Scott at smorrissette@msn.com.

 

Upcoming Rotary Events and Dates:
Veterans' Park Cleanup Saturday May 3rd -- see the Special Announcement above for details.

District Conference May 1-3:  The annual D5960 conference, somewhat misleadingly titled "Make Peace Visible" this year, will be held at the Mystic Lake Hotel & Casino in Prior Lake, MN

George shared some of what he learned at his recent president-elect prep session, and we started with a fun table-by-table discussion of what could be termed "an oddball question".  Then we moved on to more serious discussion of upcoming events, the need for member recruitment/retention/engagement, and some specifics about upcoming events in April.  We also talked briefly about meeting frequency and times, with several interesting ideas emerging.  Another topic was our local profile and how to raise awareness and use what Rotary is about locally and worldwide to attract members.  Again, good ideas came out from those at the meeting.  Thanks to all the "stay at homes" during spring break week for the schools who shared their thoughts.