Terry opened the meeting with the pledge of alligence followed in prayer by Father Peters.

• Rick Ringwald's father unexpectedly passed away this last Sunday.  Visitation is at Kutis Funeral Home in St. Louis from 3-9pm and funeral on Friday at Assumption Catholic Church.  Terry is going to the visitation on Thursday and will be leaving town at 2:30 if anyone is interested going with him.  Please keep Rick and his family in your prayers this weeks.
• Bill is looking for host families for 2011-2012 exchange student.  The student will be a teenage girl.  Please contact Bill if you are interested in more details or could recommend a family.
• Fish Race Tickets were distributed today, 30 per Rotarian - Sell, Sell, Sell! Remember that all proceeds go towards  our international projects.
• Highland Chamber of Commerce extends an invitation for their "Big Deal" Casino event on March 12th from 6-12pm at the Lindenthal Ballroom.
• Board meeting this Thursday at 8am at the Korte Co in the north Korte room.  Anyone is welcome to attend.

Gaye Michael has provided us with a new 10 menu rotation and three substitutes.  Below is new schedule!

• Baked herb Chick with a vegetable - rice primontese
• Pork Chops with au gratin potatoes and a vegetable
• Beef Stew wtih noodles
• Pasta with vegetable
• Grilled Chicken Breast with a vegetable and new potatoes
• Pork Loin with mashed potatoes & gravy, vegetable
• Mini meatloaves with mashed potatoes, vegetable
• Soup with assorted sandwiches, cheese tray (warmer months)
• BBQ Prok with Potato Chips & Soup
• Turkey with mashed potatoes & gravy and vegetable
• All dinners served with a salad bow, dessert, coffeee & tea
• Alternatives meals offerend every week:
  • Grilled Chicken sandwich with potato chips
  • Michael's special salad
  • Hamburger with potato chips

Our club donated 10,000 to the library to help remodel the children's library.  This 10,000 is part of 32,000 necessary to replace carpet, paint, and provide necessary asthetic updates.  Angela shared that she ordered carpet today and should have it in four weeks and will be scheduling a work day.

UPCOMING PROGRAMS -  Holli Martin

Guests

David Plocher, Northwestern Mutual (Jennifer's Uncle)

Visiting Rotarian from O'Fallon

Birthdays:  Robert Luitjohan on March 1st

Anniversaries: None

MakeUps:  Terry Lammers at Mascoutah 

Please let the following know that they were missed this week!  Terry Bell, Jan Brinker, David Daiber, Larry Deiters, Larry Essenpries, Ed Ferguson, Dan Fieker, Mike Gould, Jon Greve, Bret Gruender, Jeff Guillot, Phil Hardas, Roland Harris, Wil Holzinger, Don Johannes, Rich Knebel, Brian Knobloch, Mark Latham, Terry Leitschuh, Glenn Meffert, Greg Miranda, Robert Nagel, Mark Reaka, Traci Riechmann, Rick Ringwald, Eunice Rogier, Floyd Rogier, Ron Schneider, Art Shuetz, Peggy Sebastian, Gordon Smith, Bill Sullivan, Michael Sutton, Buzz Widmer

$1523 in the 50/50 with 11 cards remaining - my table had the winning ticket for the 2nd week in a row but Tom pulled the 3 of hearts.

Happy Bucks

Ron was grateful that his wife's knee replacement surgery went well and she is already back to work.

Bill was happy about his wonderful time in Florida with the warm weather before returning to a storm damaged yard.

No Fines.

James found a recording from 1946 on the 41st anniversary of Rotary explaning on how Rotary got started and what is it is all about.

Click on the following link to hear the recording for yourself.

Child's interview with Paul Harris