Terry opened the meeting with the pledge of alligence followed in prayer by Jennifer Whitten.

• Chamber  Business After Hours at Lisa Sauer State Farm Insurance 2607 Plaza Drive from 5-7pm on March 17th.  RSVP to the Chamber office at 654-3721.
• The website is almost compelte, please get Holli your BIO if you would like to have it included.
• 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.  We also have 2 clubs that are going to join with us to sell tickets and earcn $2 per ticket for their cause.  Rick shared that our goal for a club is 800! 
• We will be hosting the Group Study Exchange (GSE) Team on April 4th and 5th and need volunteers for hosting them overnight and transporting them around Highland during the day.  The team is from Peru and are a group of professional men looking to learn about our community and country.
• Mark your calendar for the Progressive Dinner on May 13th. Sullivan's will host cocktails, Kim's appetizers, Lammers main dish, and Whitten's dessert.  Final RSVP will be on April 19th.

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

Franzi

Birthdays:  None

Anniversaries: None

MakeUps:  Phil Hardas, 3 make-ups at Silver Creek Rotary 

Please let the following know that they were missed this week!  Jan Brinker, David Daiber, Larry Deiters, Ed Ferguson, Dan Fieker, Mike Gould, Bret Gruender, Jeff Guillot, Roland Harris, Robert Hellige, Ronald Hesson, Wil Holzinger, Lisa Hunsche, James Kemper, Brian Knobloch, Mark Korte, Mark Latham, Terry Leitschuh, Robert Luitjohn, Glenn Meffert, Henry Metzger, Robert Nagel, David Peters, Jim Rankin, Mark Reaka, Traci Riechmann, Randy Schorfheide Eric Schmidt, Art Shuetz, Peggy Sebastian, Gordon Smith, Wayne Steiner, Michael Sutton, Buzz Widmer

$1559 in the 50/50 with 10 cards remaining - the lucky speaker table drew the raffle ticket but drew the 7 of clubs!  Better luck next week!

Maura stated that since there was 19 days left to sell tickets that there was a $1 fine for anyone who had not sold fish race tickets yet.

Dawn shared her Top 13 ways to assist with effective Time Management

1. Learn to say "no" Don't spend time doing things that you do want to do but respectfully decline to stay on mission
2. Manage your time on the telephone: Guard your time with long winded talkers by helping them get to the point and having an escape plan
3. Set up a calendar system: use the plan you feel comfortable with but USE it 
4. Sit down with a clear head: Schedule your time when you think the best
5. Look for time wasters:  Find what waste your time and limit it
6. Minimize socialization at work: How much time is spent doing this?
7. Make a daily log: Plan your time; plan your meals ahead of time; take out the thinking of daily or weekly tasks by planning ahead
8. Deal with personal issues on personal time: Takes away from work/keeps you leap/ can't do anything about them at work anyways
9. Observe other successful time managers: Find someone who does it right/mentor you
10. Arrive early or stay late: great uninterrupted time
11. Understand the value of your time: Pretend you are work $300/hour
12. Small scale planning: keep plans small and measurable
13. To do list - priortized: put priorties on top

Other thoughts provided were to only touch an item once - deal with it instead of stack it, limit negative influences in your life, and schedule time for you so that the rest of life is balanced.

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