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

Maura opened the meeting leading the Pledge of Allegiance followed by Carrie with an opening prayer.

 ANNOUNCEMENTS

There is a Board meeting on Thursday at 8am at Terra Properties;  all are welcome to attend.

There is a tenative Membership Drive planned for August 13 at Fairmount Park.  Tickets are $20/person, AC room, and dinner included.  Count was taken.

Mark announced that in 2011-2012 we will be tracking service hours again to see Rotarian's collective IMPACT.  This year's goal is 7500 hours. 

There were 52 hours recorded to date.  Mark stated that he has come up with a new spreadsheet to mark the categories of volunteer hours.  He stated that members can go to the website and log their hours or email them to him directly: swconstruct@atelco.com

Mark sent out a sign up sheet for Art on the Sqaure on Aug 6-7th and gave a reminder that Godspell needs people to sell tickets.

Adrian placed the 2009 Group in a hat and drew the Paul Harris Fellow and will be presenting the award this fall.

SECRETARY'S REPORT, Holli Martin

Holli announced that the website is functional and in a few weeks there will be a training on the many different features; including downloading club roster, posting service hours, accessing member applications, etc.  If you would like to go on and investigate prior to the training you can use the CLUB SECRET PASSWORD FOR MEMBERS ONLY

USER ID: highland01

PASSWORD: rotary02

She would also like a professional photo of everyone for their bio.  If you do not have you, Bill will take your photo for the rosters and the database.

Holli shared that our attendance from July was at 59.72% and we have a goal of at least 60% attendance.  Galisburg, a club similar in size, had a 72% attendance last month.  And Silvercreek, the club we helped to start, only had 44.68%.

She also wanted everyone to note that you need to inform Holli of all committee meeetings so she can give you a make-up.

Proposed for Membership: none

Guests:  None

Birthdays:  Jennifer Whitten on the 4th

Anniversaries: Englemans on the 6th & Stephans on the 8th

MakeUps: Adrian Rogier in Pitosky & Brad Rench in Goshen

 Please let the following know that they were missed this week!  Dave Butler, Cliff Couch, Dave Diaber, Kevin DeWaele, Dan Fieker, Mike Gould, Jon Greve, Bret Gruender, Bob Hellige, Ron Hesson, James Kemper, Mark Korte, Mark Latham, Terry Leitschuh, Glenn Meffert, Henry Metzger, Jim Rankin, Mark Reaka, Rick Ringwald, Eunice & Floyd Rogier, Eric Schmidt, Ron Schnieder, Art Schuetz, Peggy Sebastain, Mike Sutton, Jennifer Whitten, and Buzz Widmer.

There is $406 in the 50/50 with 41 cards available.  The 6 of hearts was drawn.

Phil fined everyone who did not volunteer to sell car raffle tickets last week with Linda.

444 Tickets were sold!  Great Job!  Thank you to Eric Rehkemper for his continual dedication to Rotary.  Thank you to Jon Greve and the Bank of Edwardsville for setting up the tent and allowing the Ford to sit out front.

Drumroll....RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR...........

The Big Winners are:

3rd Place - $500 - Bret Gruender

2nd Place - $1000 - Ron Beckman

1st Place - $20,000 or Ford - Glenda Michaels

UPCOMING PROGRAMS -  Jennifer Whitten