If You Missed The Meeting…

Greetings 7:10 Rotarians and Friends,

If you missed the meeting on Wednesday, November 11, 2015, you missed a very informative presentation by Don Tripp, City Manager of the City of Westminster who gave us an update about our financial situation, which is good. Westminster will be the next urban center on the Front Range.

President-Elect Barbara, standing in for President Mark, opened the meeting at 7:10 a.m. Betsy Boudreau, our Family of Rotary Rotarian this week was absent so PE Barbara promptly led us in the Pledge. Caitlin presented a very meaningful and thankful invocation. PE Barbara, being on top of things, then jumped right in and introduced our very efficient Secretary, Ryan Holocher,Click here to enter text. who introduced guests: speaker, Don Tripp, and other guests, Dita Darda, Chris Melonakis, Barb Donaldson, Erin Kaminski, and Lindsey Leirman.

President’s Announcements:

Barbara reminded us of the President’s Dinner on Jan. 9th. We will hear the International President speak.

Barbara introduced the Executive Director of CASA, Erin Kaminski who will be helping with the upcoming Roast of Judge Melonakis. She presented a check of $5,495.00 to CASA to support the CASA program.

Other Announcements:

Roger talked about a donation and fundraising effort by Dita Dara and her company to Imagination Library

Garth announced that C4K is finally settling down. There have been many changes with the move and all the equipment is now in place. However, for distributions, we will be taking computers to the school sites rather than at our C4K site. Currently we have given out 3, 426 computers since its inception. Thornton and Northglenn are interested in helping us with this project. Oh, if you raised your hand to donate the $100.00 for a month’s rent, please see Garth and give him your donation. He also announced the Arvada Chorale concert on Dec. 10th and 11th.

Caitlin gave us an update about the annual Thanksgiving Basket distribution. We will be assembling these boxes next week. Please give your $20.00 donation to help pay for the groceries to Caitlin or Marvin.

Mark Clark, our Sgt. at Arms this week, made some sizable extractions from the very energetic Rotarians who actually attended the meeting. Don’t forget, you can makeup missed meetings at any of the Rotary Clubs in our area. Get the app, Rotary Club Locator, for your smart phone. You will find clubs you can attend located all over the world.

Betsy was extolled by President-Elect Barbara who thanked her for being an important member of the 7:10 Rotary Club and who has shown us the Service Above Self motto. Her prolific profile as the Family of Rotary Rotarian can be found on the front page of the Bemis award winning, Frameable, Ineluctable, EarlyWord newsletter which was profusely available on all of the tables in its elegant 11x17" format. It can also be found on the 7:10 web site at: www.westminster710rotary.org/newsletter.cfm.

President-Elect Barbara presented The Rotary Moment by giving Roberta a chance to tell us what Rotary means to her.Click here to enter text..

Joe T. had a Thought for the Day. Click here to enter text..

We closed the meeting right on time with a rousing rending of The Four (no, Five) Way Test.

Yours in Rotary Service, Loren