Co-President Moha Bouacha opened the meeting and welcomed everyone. Lee Padgitt offered a thought for the day, and Robert Mardirossian led the Club in the Pledge of Allegiance.
After lunch, Moha shared a few District announcements:
- All are encouraged to read the District 411 email that comes out regularly.
- The District is holding mental health lectures the first Monday of each month – information about this and other events are available through the District calendar
- There is a “Spring Training” event being planned for April 5, information on the District calendar
Amy Skalinder shared two opportunities for Rotarian socializing are coming up at the Community House: Rock the House on March 8 (with two local bands) and the Village Follies, a variety show starting March 14.
Chuck Norton shared inspiring and entertaining quotes from past Presidents of the United States for Dig-N-Grin.
Today’s Greeter Robert Mardirossian welcomed Club members Barb Tubekis and David Birkenstein back after health-related absences. He also introduced visiting Rotarian Marty Daiga from River Cities.
Happy bucks were shared by Barb, Tony, Robert, Bob, and Moha.
Moha introduced our speaker today, Andy Ullman, International Service Chair of the Rotary Club of River Cities, who came to share information about a project in Ecuador.
The Club previously did a computer lab project in Uganda as well as a scholarship program in Uganda, and they are now doing a computer lab project in Quito.
These projects started through Rotary’s International Travel and Hosting Program: Andy went to Uganda and had the opportunity to go to a local high school and speak to students. He saw there were no computers regularly available for students or computer-related classes. This led to a project to provide computers and related accessories and now this school has a significant computer lab which allowed computer related classes like website development to be taught – but also resulted in a huge improvement in academic performance.
They are now working on a similar project for a school in Quito, Ecuador.
The meeting adjourned with our usual recitation of the 4-Way Test.