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, Kevin Dewaele, opened the meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance followed with a prayer by Tom Hill.

 ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Tricia from Relevant Care Center has requested our help with the 5k run they have coming up on Sept. 8. We will use this as a community service project and will need 15-20 people to serve as marshals.
• Car Raffle: We have sold 389 tickets so far. Last week's early bird winner took the $100 cash prize. This week's winner was a ticket sold by Linda Jakel. She will check with the winners to see if they would like another ticket.
• Thanks to the Knights of Columbus for frying the chicken and the Ladies Auxiliary for serving us today.

Our fiscal year 2013 goal is to increase membership by 4% for a total of 72 members. We need to focus on retention, as well as recruitment. We currently have 70 members.

Please remember to bring guests to our meeting. If you know someone who might be interested in becoming a member of our Club, please see Cliff.

Guests: Bill Wagner (Guest of Gordon Smith), Nick Dewaele (Guest of Kevin Dewaele)

Make-ups: Peggy Sebastian (on-line)

Birthdays: None

Anniversaries: None

Club Anniversaries: Amy Stephan (1 year)

Please let these people know that they were missed: Terry Bell, Tricia Blasdel, Dave Daiber, Len Daiber, Dan Fieker, Mike Gould, Jon Greve, Bret Gruender, Robert Hagerman, Luke Harris, Robert Hellige, Ron Hesson, Katrina Hodous, Lisa Hunsche, Don Johannes, George Jones, Jack Klaus, Rich Knebel, Kelly Korte, Terry Lammers, Mark Latham, Holli Martin, Henry Metzger, Greg Miranda, Keith Poss, Jim Rankin, Jr., Mark Reaka, Brad Rench, Rick Ringwald, Eric Schmidt, Ron Schneider, Randy Schorfheide, Art Schutz, Peggy Sebastian, and Michael Sutton.

Reminder that 2012-2013 we will be tracking service hours again to see Rotarians' collective IMPACT.  This year's goal is 5000 hours. We currently have 43 hours.

The float is at Mark's shed and ready to be worked on for the parade. We need to find a design and then put together a committee to work on the float. If you are interested, see Mark.

We also need some people to volunteer to put together a booth for the Milestone Walk.

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

There was no 50/50 drawing today.

Phil let everyone off the hook today - no fines!

Happy Bucks: None

Amy Rogier, Madison County Fair Board President, and Alyssa Brecker, 2011 Madison County Fair Queen, joined us to talk about this year's fair.

Amy informed us that the fair schedule has changed this year to help accommodate the people that have to work during the week. The fair is offering more exhibits this year and has a new carnival company providing rides. There are cooling stations at the fair to help beat the heat.

Today is the kick off of the fair and is Senior's Day (65+). Wednesday there will be Disability Day activities. Thursday is Public Safety Awareness Day with CPR demonstrations, half price parking for police, firemen, and EMTs with ID verification. The Pork Producer's BBQ has been moved to Friday this year. Saturday is military appreciation day with active military personnel (with ID) receiving half price parking. Sunday is the last day of the fair and is family day.

Livestock shows, motor events, carnival rides and more are taking place daily. A full schedule of events can be found at www.madcofair.com.

The funds for the fair have been cut with the state only reimbursing 15% of premiums. The Madison County Fair offers $85,000 in premiums. To help supplement the funds raised at the fair, this year they held a chicken and beer dance fundraiser. The event raised $15,000.

The 2011 Madison County Fair Queen, Alyssa Brecker, also joined us. Alyssa is 20-years-old and a junior at SEMO. She is studying biomedical sciences. The highlight of her rein as queen was competing in the Miss Illinois Fair Pageant, where she won first place in best interview.

This year's Madison County Fair Pageant will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday. There are 8 competitors this year. Also being held at 2 p.m. on Saturday is the Little Miss Pageant. This is the first year for that event.

UPCOMING PROGRAMS -  George Jones

Wood River - St. John's UCC 12:00 PM

O'Fallon - Katy Cavins Community Center 12:00 PM

Alton-Godfrey - Alton Sports Tap, 3812 College Ave 6:00 PM