Rotary is an organization of business and professional persons united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and help build good will and peace in the world.

"Doing good in the World is more than a motto.  It is our goal, our mission, and our reminder.  It expresses in the clearest terms why we have a Foundation, and it challenges us to reach as far as we can to do the most good possible with everything we have.  Our Foundation exisits to support the good that we can do through Rotary.  It expands our reach, increases our strength, and makes our service more powerful and more effective.  Because of our Foundation we can, very simple, do more of our Rotary work."

2004-2005

President Glenn Estess Sr. 

President, Maura Donnelly, opened the meeting leading the Pledge of Allegiance and followed in prayer by Ron Hesson.

 ANNOUNCEMENTS

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Guests: Laura Gotthard, foreign exchange student

Make-ups: None

Birthdays: None

Anniversaries: None

Club Anniversaries: None

Please let these people know that they were missed: Terry Bell, David Butler, David Daiber, Bob Engelmann, Dan Fieker, Mike Gould, Bret Gruender, Ray Hereford, Tom Hill, Lisa Hunsche, George Jones, Jack Klaus, Rich Knebel, Mark Korte, Mark Latham, Terry Lietschuh, Holli Martin, Glenn Meffert, Henry Metzger, Greg Miranda, Bob Nagel, Mark Reaka, Rick Ringwald, Adrian Rogier, Bill Schaefer, Eric Schmidt, Ron Schneider, Randy Schorfheide, Art Schutz, Peggy Sebastian, Gordon Smith, and Michael Sutton.

Reminder that 2011-2012 we will be tracking service hours again to see Rotarian's collective IMPACT.  This year's goal is 7500 hours, to date there are 1995 hours recorded. 

 Two sign-up sheets were left out for people to sign up for the "Respect the Law" banquet and for NICE, where we will be meeting at 9 a.m. on 5/5/12 at the Weinheimer Center to help pack 10,000 meals to send to Nicaragua.

Members can go to the website and log your hours or email them to him directly: swconstruct@agtelco.com

There was $348 in the 50/50 with 43 cards left in the deck. The eight of diamonds was pulled.

Happy Bucks: Jake Gutzler was happy because his great niece was crowned queen of the Highland High School prom this past weekend.

Phil fined anyone who had not recruited a new Rotary member in the past 12 months.

The Highland Elementary Landscaping Project is a community project to re-landscape the area outside and around the auditorium at the elementary school.

 Currently the area contains weeds, stumps and loose gravel. This is a high traffic area both into the auditorium and on Lindenthal to the Fair Grounds. The project aims to fix both hardscape and softscape issues and has a three step plan. They have composed a landscape plan with an architect. Highland Area Community Foundation provided a grant as seed money for that plan to be completed.

The first phase of the project, which will take place over the summer, will be step one and two. Step one is to fix the drainage problems in the area. Currently the issues leave mud at the door and there is a funnel effect with water coming up to the door. One third of the budget will be spent on this step.

Step two will be the hardscape plan. There will be a fence installed, as well as sitting/retaining walls and raised beds to help control the flow of traffic and keep kids out of the plants.

The second phase of the project, and the final step, will take place in the fall. This will be the landscaping plan with the installation of plants, mulch, planters and benches.

The budget for this project is $15,000. That relies heavily on volunteer labor. Gelly Excavating has already been recruited to help with the first phase.

The group is fundraising and asking for donations from the community.

UPCOMING PROGRAMS -  Jennifer Whitten