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It was the First Day of Spring and an Awesome Day for a Rotary Meeting with the most Amazing, Bestest Rotary Club in the Stratosphere. Written by the club’s token Pleva girl from Cedar! 😊 President John opened the meeting with “God Bless America” and the Pledge of Allegiance. Christopher Cox offered up the invocation. The Kingsley Tabernacle Choir (they can’t pass themselves off as a trio with THAT many people!!) got us in the mood for warmer weather with “Here Comes the Sun”! Chris DeGood welcomed visiting Rotarians and guests. President John announced that Randy Kamps lost his father over the weekend. Please keep the Kamps in your thoughts and prayers. The club grew by two today! Ramona Pleva introduced Brendon Koshoshek. Brendon is the Director of Marketing and Promotions with Black Diamond Broadcasting. His resume is peppered with impressive work with MTV Networks, Fox Networks, Turner Broadcasting, American Idol, MTV Music Awards and two Super Bowl halftime shows. Welcome Brendon! Dale Chilcote presented Leslie Donaldson to the club. Leslie serves as the Director of Engagement for Interlochen Center for the Arts. She comes with a plethora of experience working and promoting the arts. She frequently is an arts consultant, juror, speaker and mentor for emerging artists. Welcome to the club Leslie! Our Students of the Week hail from Traverse City St. Francis High School. Grace Zucco is a “theater prodigy”, has 9 years of experience with the Old Town Playhouse and is serving on their artist board. She has a one-act play that will be presented April 29 at the City Opera House. Grace plans to pursue a degree in musical theater. Jacob Wilkins is a member of the Alliance Rugby Club, has maintained a 3.8 GPA during his sports seasons and has discovered a talent for metal working and welding at the Career Tech Center. Jacob plans to attend the Tulsa Welding School in Florida. Announcements: Trevor Tkach states ad sales have hit 85K, not bad but we’re still aiming for 100K. The deadline is this Friday. If you haven’t gotten your ads sold now is the time to put your feet to the fire and get them sold, PRONTO! (Trevor did say it quite like that, but that’s what he meant.) Andrew Kohlmann (sans Hans and Frans) is in charge of Rotary Show set up and tear down and needed extra help for tear down for Sunday. Within moments, Rotarians stepped up to fill the roster. BAM! Tom Haase reminded us that the coolest dinner of the year is April 17, 6 pm at The Boathouse! This could only be the Youth Exchange Outbound Fundraising dinner. Tickets are $50, half goes to the students. A year on exchange is roughly $8,000. By forcing yourself to have an amazing dinner at The Boathouse with riveting Rotarians, you are promoting world peace and earning good karma. See Tom for tickets before they run out! (And they WILL run out!) Al Bonney has acquired 11 brave souls for the Jump Against Polio Sky Diving Extravaganza. (That’s not really called that, but the writer for the day earns the right to be creative!) Al just needs 9 more daredevils for the June 3 event. Also, the raffle for the Rotary Foundation brought in $12,500. No one from our club was the big winner, but hey we can’t win it every year! World Committee Service was meeting after this meeting today. Our 50/50 raffle had $50 in it and it went to Art Bukowksi. (Hey, that’s enough for one ticket for the Youth Exchange Dinner!) Next week we are back at the Great Wolf Lodge and we’ll be there April 3 and 10 as well. Mark your calendars cuz if you show up at the wrong place you’ll feel really silly! And let’s not give Paul LaPorte any inspiration for a Smart Pills presentation. Outstanding Students, Grace & Jacob |
