Terry opened the meeting with the pledge of alligence followed in prayer by Ron Hesson.

Terry's funny slip of the day "discumbooblance."

• 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 a host family for the first semester for 2011-2012 exchange student.  The student will be a teenage girl from a European Country.  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

Joanie Willis, new loan officer at Branford

Birthdays:  Wil Holzinger - 16th, Adrian Rogier - 16th, Angela Fears - 20th 

Anniversaries: Jon and Teresa Greve - 12th 

MakeUps:  Maura Donnelly and Wayne Steiner at LOL PETS (Land of Lincoln President Elect Training Seminar)
 

Please let the following know that they were missed this week!  Terry Bell, Jan Brinker, David Daiber, Larry Deiters, Robert Engelmann, Ed Ferguson, Dan Fieker, Jeff Guillot, Luke Harris, Roland Harris, Wil Holzinger, Lisa Hunsche, Don Johannes, Angela Kim, Brian Knobloch, Mark Korte, Terry Leitschuh, Glenn Meffert, Henry Metzger, Greg Miranda, Robert Nagel, David Peters, Mark Reaka, Traci Riechmann, Adrian Rogier, Randy Schorfheide, Ron Schneider, Eric Schmidt, Art Schuetz, Peggy Sebastian, Gordon Smith, Michael Sutton, Buzz Widmer

$1603 in the 50/50 with 9 cards remaining.  Rich's table drew the right ticket and then the 5 of spades.  Better luck next week.

No fines or happy bucks.

Terry welcome Steve Schmitt and Luke Harris as new Rotary members.  Steve Schmitt was in attendance today and shared a little about himself.  He is married with two adult children.  He moved back to Highland 25 years ago and was so happy to take over GMC.  He said that Tom worked on him for the last 15 years to become a Rotary member and he is glad to be working with so many great people.

Maura and Wayne shared some exciting updates from their PETS (for incoming presidents) training over the weekend.  Three highlights they shared  is 1) With the tsami in Japan rotary clubs have started to respond by sending over disaster kits 2) Rotary International has set up a fund for Japan; at the conference an incoming president was very moved and shared a three minute speech and they collected 1575 and then was rewarded a $500 matching grant for each of the three districts represented and 3) Bill Gates is very impressed with the response of Rotarians and has decided to address the Rotarians at the RI Convention.

Wayne, Skip, and Tom also shared their experiences of hosting past GSE teams and encouraged others to do the same.