CLIFF BOWMAN opened the meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance and “God Bless America.” The inspiration, presented by PRESIDENT JEN HOFFMAN, was about an electrician who discovered a woman’s entire home was in disrepair and brought the community together to rebuild her house. It’s awesome to see how great humans can be together.
JEFF RONSTADT offered a lesson in science. Did you know Sunflowers always face the sun for their energy? In the absence of sun, they face each other for energy. That reminds him of our speaker and wife, Tiana Ronstadt. I hope that he received some credit for that at home.
Tiana took us through 5 Steps to create our Prosperity Picture. It started with creating a Vision Board…a board that illustrates the things that we have and the things that we want that are most important to us. The board is split into things that we can do now that cost little and much as well as those things we’d like in the future. It was a nice, thought provoking presentation that ended with a reminder that we need to be grateful to ourselves and a hug.We had two birthdays, KURTIS DAWSON and LYNN DEVOU. KURTIS just turned half of 86 and we learned that he was the Club President of the Aberdeen, WA Rotary Club. LYNN just turned another year older, has allergies and sounded great! It’s hard to believe that she had spinal surgery in June. Great job LYNN!
ELLIE PATTERSON honored HUGH and Allyn THOMPSON for their generosity to Rotary International. They are committed to the great things that Rotary does. HUGH is a Rotarian because of his dad who coordinated and deployed the first Polio Vaccines in the USA! Congratulations HUGH and Allyn.
BRUCE JACOBS reminded us to sign up for the Replacement Mixer at Vero Amore on 9/30. He said the weather will be in the 70’s….perfect. See you there!
JOE DANISZEWSKI and ELLIE PATTERSON updated us on our club’s status as a Peacebuilding Club. Glad to know we are spreading and encouraging peace at a higher level.
JOE also updated us on the Car Show along with JEANNE ZETAH. It’s our commitment to raise money for the charities that we’ve designated so get out there and sell tickets as well as bid on the online auction.
MARK IRVIN encouraged us to participate in the 40 Under 40 breakfast to be held on December 15, 2020. Sounds like a good bunch of go getters that could be great Rotarians!
PRESIDENT JEN closed with a nice, simple toast. Many hugs to you and peace out!
