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

District Newsletter is available if anyone would like a print copy.

Kevin, Terry, Carrie and Maura will meet on Thursday at 9th street to discuss the 'Decisions Tree" which will assist the board in making decisions about donation requests.

Laura Gotthardt, our incoming FES, will arrive on 8/16/11.  Her "wish list"was provided so members could see if they could take her on any of the excursions.  Bill stated that the school has requested that there would be less weekly Rotary attendance due to disruption of school work.

Horse race activity for this Saturday was canceled.  Another event will be scheduled in the future.

 SPECIAL CLUB MEMBER CHALLENGES

1. Phil Hardas received $500 for selling the winning Car Raffle ticket and pledged it back to the club to be designated for another Water Project.  He wants to challenge the club to come up with $500 more dollars so that another project can be completed.
2. Peggy Sebastian gave a challenge at the end of the presentation today that she would give a $1 for every Rotarian or their sub (if deffered) for giving blood at the St. Joseph's Hospital Blood Drive next Wednesday, August 17th from 2-6pm.

Reminder that 2011-2012 we will be tracking service hours again to see Rotarian's collective IMPACT.  This year's goal is 7500 hours.  There were 78 hours recorded to date. 

Reminder that 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

Kevin announced that there would be a Troxler Road Clean-up this Saturday at 8 am and to meet in the teacher's parking lot.  This needs to be done before school starts.

SECRETARY'S REPORT, Holli Martin

Bill brought his camera to take photo for the rosters and the database.

Please remember 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 $450 in the 50/50 with 40 cards available.  The 5 of dimonds was drawn.

No fines.

Happy Bucks

• Phil was happy that his sister, Glenda won the Car Raffle.
• Carrie was happy that she has a great group of volunteers at the Center and that their volunteer appreication dinner went well last week.
• Jennifer gave a promo dolar for the event fliers she has on the tables for the Pub Crawl to benefit Stewards of Hope on Sept. 9th and the 5K Life Run/2m Walk on Sept 10th for the Pregnancy Care Center.  If anyone would like to join her for these evens, let her know.
• Linda gave a promo dollar for the advertising opportunity for the Highland High School Sports Guides.  First year that the HNL is taking it on from Royal and there are new packaging options.  Call her at 654-2366 for more info.  Linda also gave a happy buck for the Car raffle being over and going well.

440 Tickets were sold!  Great Job!  She thanked everyone for their help.  The winners were:

3rd Place - $500 - Bret Gruender

2nd Place - $1000 - Ron Beckman

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

Patrick introduced his guest Matthew Frey, Donor Relations Counsultant.

Patrick shared his heart and urgnecy for the need for blood and told a compelling testimony of an accident he was in at 16 where he needed blood to save his life.

He opened by stating that  he has found that finding blood is so much harder than finding funds to support non-profit organizations.  Many people self-defer and rule themselves our from being donors.  He wanted to remind everyone that"Blood is medicine" and "Can't be manufactured."  He  also wanted to encourage everyone to allow a medical staff to evaluate if you qualify to be a donor.  He shared that a donor can give every 56 days and a unit of blood last for 42 days.  On average, a unit of blood only stays on the shelves for 11 days.  One unit of blood can save 3 lives.

Parick shared that the Community Blood Centers provide 45% of the blood supplied nationwide and the American Red Cross supplies 55%.  He stated that they are teh exclusive provider of all the hospitals (except St. Elizabeth's Hospital and Alton Memorial) in Madison and St. Clair counties.  He stated that the blood donated to the CBC stays in the community it is given to as much as possible.  Because of this you really can give life to your neighbors.

Reminder that there is an opportunity to "pay it forward" next week at St. Joe's from 2-6pm

UPCOMING PROGRAMS -  Jennifer Whitten