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

Terry opened the meeting the pledge of Alligiance followed in prayer by Deacon Ron.

 ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Mark Korte announced that the Golf Tournament is one month from today and is having a meeting on May 26th at 7am at 9th Street if anyone would like to serve on the committee and help with soliciting for T-Signs and Team recruitment.
• District Cards/Cubs baseball outing on June 4 to benefit literacy.  150 tickets left
• June 21st @ KC Hall, 5pm Cocktails, 6pm dinner 87th Annual Meeting of the Highland Chamber of Commerce. Awards will be presented in the following categories: Business Person of the Year, Chamber Person of the Year, Citizen of the Year and Homer Poss Lifetime Achievement. 2011 Guest speaker will be John Foppe.
• We were notified of Parker Steib's passing.  He was a past member and he designated the Foundation as a benefactor.
• Antonia's dad was in an accident and has no movement in his arms and legs; please keep him in your prayers.
• Board meeting Thursday at 8am at Terra Properties.
• We will talk about possible donating funds to the Rotary Club of Joplin to help with Tornado Relief. 

Angela does need a few volunteers tonight to resecure shelves at the Library tonight at 5pm.

June 11th - Troxler Road Clean up after graduation mess :)

Linda reminded everyone that the first early bird drawing for $100 will be on June 15th.  Try to get your tickets sold by then!  Captains should be calling you soon!

UPCOMING PROGRAMS -  Holli Martin

Guests: Former Highland Rotarian Art Tamplin
 

Birthdays: Ron Schneider 23rd
 

Anniversaries: Art and Joan Schuetz - 1st, Brian and Sara Knobloch - 4th, Mark and Marilae Latham - 5th
 

MakeUps: Phil Hardas at Silver Creek - Troy, Maura Donnelly, Terry Lammers, Holli Martin and James Kemper all at the International Convention in New Orleans
 

Please let the following know that they were missed this week!  Jan Brinker, Skip Butler, David Daiber, Larry Deiters, Robert Englemann, Larry Essenpries, Ed Ferguson, Dan Fieker, Mark Frey, Mike Gould, Jeff Guillot, Robert Hellige, Wil Holzinger, James Kemper, Jack Klaus, Mark Korte, Mark Latham, Terry Leitschuh, Holli Martin, Glenn Meffert, Greg Miranda, Robert Nagel, David Peters, Jim Rankin, Mark Reaka, Traci Reichmann, Adrian Rogier, Bill Schaefer, Ron Schneider, Eric Schmidt, Steve Schmitt, Art Schuetz, Peggy Sebastian, Jennifer Whitten, Buzz Widmer

$189 in the 50/50 with Tom Hill's table picking 8 of clubs.

Happy Bucks

• Linda gave a promo buck for the Taste of Home Cooking  School on June 16th.  Great opportunity to reach 750 women - contact Linda at 654-2366 if you would like your business to be included in any advertising.
• Terry was happy that Henry and others encouraged them to go to the RI Convention.

Fines if you have not sold a car raffle ticket yet and if you put change in the bucket. 

PROGRAM: Terry Lammers, Rotary International Convention Report

Just the amount of people 20,000 + Rotarians from several different countries.  I met and spoke with many people including people from  

Bangladesh                 

 Sri Lanka  

Sear Leon

Nigera                        

Uganda     

India 

Japan                          

Russia                                                 

France          

Australia                      

Korea                                                 

It caught me a little off guard to hear a comment from a Rotarian at a pub asking me if "I was from America?"

We met the person the wrote the song "Viva La Rotary". 

We met Ray Klinghoef and the next RI President at the "Heart of America Breakfast."  We thought it was just going to be for our district but there were 5000+ people there.

There was an informational hall full of tables with resources for local clubs. A section was dedicated to water projects.  We have designated our Memorial Funds for Well Projects and are currently looking for an avenue for $2000.  Two sources I found were:

• Rotary Club of Tulsa doing wells in Nicaraqua
• Water & Sanitation Rotarian Action Group  (WASRAG)

Some interesting information I found out about clean water is:

• 80% of all sickness and disease - killing more people including war - is simply a result of unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation.
• The biggest killer of children under 5 is unsafe water: 1.8 million children die every year - ONE child every 17 seconds and 5,000 children will die today because of unsafe drinking water.

We also may have a source for a project right in our back door with Farther Paul from the St. Paul Parish who is from Khana and mentioned the village he came from would be a good candidate.

POLIO PLUS

Bill Gates speech - Polio is the number one initiative of the Bill and Milinda Gates Foundation (you can listen to this speach in its full by going to the foundation website).  Bill shared that they are constantly running analysis to monitor outbreaks and to see if areas need to be revaccinated (sometimes takes 2-3 years).  In areas like Afganistan they have literally stopped wars for 24 hours to vaccinate children.

We are  this close.      2010      2011

Pakistan                      144         40 (cases found)

Afganistan                   25            2

India                           42            3

Nigeria                        21            9

GLOBALLY              1288        166

OTHER VARIOUS INTERESTING INFO

• Individuals serve a 6 year term on the Rotary Foundation board in order to keep continuity of vision.
• Discussion is being held as to whether to hire a Rotary President to verse having an annual term to also help with continuity.  Usually takes a year to get acclimated and then the term is up.  This may also help to get a younger person able to serve in this position which may help to drive membership and build rotary into the next generation.
• There are many clubs who spend a lot of time serving together instead of making financial donations; for example a service oriented club that is hands on is a person I talked to from Billings MT that said we don't do fundraisers - we right a check.