The meeting was opened with the Pledge of Allegiance.  President Bill Sullivan started the meeting; Connie Blackmon led us in prayer.

-  Bill reported that last week's "pass the hat" for Elba's Orphans resulted in collections of $409.  With the club's match, $819 was donated to the orphanage.

 

-Bob Englemann volunteered (sort of) to help update our membership files, so that our information will be current and of value to members.  Thanks Bob.

-  ROTARY HAPPY HOUR is Thursday, January 29th at Marx Brothers at 5 p.m.  If you haven't been to one of our happy hours, now is the time to try one out.

 

The Pregnancy Care is also looking for babysitters every Tuesday and Thursday from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. 

 

Hard Road Theatre is looking for ushers and ticket sellers for  Friday, Saturday and Sunday, January 30 - Feb. 1 and Friday and Saturday, February 6-7.  Contact Holli if you can help out.

Be sure and let Jan know all the service hours you put in...remember we have a goal of 10,000 hours. To find out more info on any of the above areas to volunteer email Jan Brinker at jan_korte_brinker @yahoo.com.

 01/27/09  NEW MEMBER INDUCTION    
 02/03/09  Carrie Adolph - Pregnancy Care Center  
 02/10/09  Evening Valentine Dinner (VFW)  featuring the "Not So" Newlywed Game
 02/17/09  Dr. Randy Pausch - "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" 
02/24/09  Wayne Steiner:  Connect Highland Initiative
03/10/09  Kevin Dewaele:  Investing in a Turbulent Market

06/23/09  Mark Rieka:  Relay for Life (Update)

06/16/09  Rotary Family Picnic (Korte & Luitjohan Lake) 

 

In order to give our speaker more time for her presentation, Bill skipped this week's quickie interview.

Rich Federer on January 24th and Bill Pierce on January 27th

ANNIVERSARIES:
No anniversaries.

 

$456. in the pot this week.  ...Bill Schaefer's table picked  the 6 of  hearts, better luck next time.
                    
FINES:
We were fined $1.00 if we didn't know what is Antonia's home country....no one fessed up.  (She's from Chile, by the way.)

 

Rich Knebel was happy that he was no longer in Mississippi with eight high school seniors.  (There must be a story in there somewhere.)

 President, Bill Sullivan introduced our youth exchange student, Antonia Ibarra.  Antonia reviewed the history of her country, outlined a few statistics and showed photos of her home city, Santiago.  She talked about when she arrived in the US she was surprised at free beverage refills in restaurants and has especially enjoyed peanut butter, which she told us is almost not available in Chile.   Antonia is a senior at HHS and has graduated from her high school in Aug. 08.  When she returns to her country, she plans to attend college and pursue a career in law.  Antonia has had to adjust to a sizeable population difference between her hometown of Santiago, which has an estimated population of 7 million, and Highland, with about 9,400 residents..."I'm used to the sounds of the city", she said.

 

Great Program.  Thanks Antonia!

TUESDAY
Benld Toni's 12:00
Collinsville Porter's 12:00
Fairview Heights Ramada Inn 12:00
Granite City Niedringhaus United Meth. Church 12:00
Belleville Fischer's Restaurant 12:10

WEDNESDAY
O'Fallon Sunrise First United Methodist Church 6:45 AM
Litchfield Maverick Steak House 7:00 AM
Land of Goshen Lewis & Clark Com.College, LeClaire Room
600 Troy Road, Edwardsville 12:00
St. Clair Co West Shrine of Lady of Snows 12:00
Lebanon Lebanon Visitors Center 6:00
Bethalto Villa Rose Retirement Community 6:30

THURSDAY
Mascoutah Skooters 11:45
East Alton Keasler Recreation Complex 12:00
Edwardsville First Christian Church 12:00
Carlyle Governor's Run 12:00
Springfield South BSA (5231 S. 6th St. Rd.) 12:00

For other opportunities, go to www.rotary.org and click on club locator.