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PRAYER
Tom Rodgers

 

PLEDGE
John Roach

 

4-WAY TEST
Eric Hartter

 

JOKE
John Roach

 

 

FAITHFUL SERVER RENE is back after vacationing in Hawaii, and is dishing up breakfast to David Marks as George Elking explains about ROTOPIG to new member Russel Head.

 

SGT-AT-ARMS SCOTT fined himself two-bits for misspelling Tom Rodgers name. Then he took President Randy to task for messing with ROTOPIG's feet, causing Scott to have to carry him upside down so the fine collections would not dribble out.

 

LUCKY GUEST, introduced by Secretary Joyce, was Mary Pervis, a financial advisor, who was the guest of Colin Light.

ABSENT WERE Matt Brown, Rick Chron, David Daniels, Steve Dippel, Ray Hopper, Mabrie Jackson, Ken Lambert, Juergen Mahneke, Bud McBrayer, John Payton, Bill Peterson, Robert Posner, Mark Rhodes, Brenda Rogers, Richard Wells and Don Wilhelmus.
 

CLASSIFICATION TALK by Becky Perry who's classification is Senior Living. She is Associate Executive Director at Plano Sunrise Senior Living which in on Park Blvd, just East of Preston Road. She invited Plano Sunrise Rotarians to visit Plano Sunrise Senior Living.

PRESIDENT RANDY called for announcements: David Marks talked about Operation Veteran Support, that will be meeting returning troops on Saturday, Sept 6, at DFW with the support of Blue Star Mothers. Also there will be a Christmas Card project again this year as well as the Fisher House opening and a Toys for Tots Motorcycle Run. Bill Moore said that we have 32 pallets of books that need to be repackaged into about 800 book cartons of        12 x12 x 18. A Signup sheet is being circulated for the Adoption Awareness Picnic on September 20th. Richard Biggers says we need more stuff, especially larger items, for Oktoberfest Auction. Jennifer Smith showed the posters now available for placing in businesses. Richard Butterly announced a committee meeting to learn how to approach donors for gifts. Judy Jackson says tool donations have been good and next week is Geek Week for geeky donations.

TODAY'S PROGRAM, introduced by Program Chairthing David Marks, was District Governor L.B. Showalter, who got the respect he deserved.  He was accompanied by his lovely wife Donna, who dressed as an African Woman from Malawi, Africa.  She told the story of her life and her village. L.B. challenged us to donate $208 to District 5810 which will support 4 children to go to advanced schooling beyond the 6th grade and help break the poverty cycle through education. Everyday 26,000 children die due to preventable diseases.  At the District Conference in Frisco, April 17, 2009, the District will be giving $100,000 to the club that has the best Community Needs Assessment for their project. Applications are due December 31st. L.B. also encouraged us to get our nomination [if any] in for District Governor and to fill out an application for the Presidential Citation Award. We gave L.B. a check to District 5810 for $1000 for the Community Needs Project. As is our custom, a book was donated to the Nellie McCall Library at the David McCall Elementary School in the speaker's name and duly signed by him.  the book was "The Wheels on the Race Car."  

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