Co-Presidents Barb and Patti led today’s meeting.

 

Announcements:  

Dig N Grin:   David Birkenstein offered a quote from H.L. Mencken, who was an American literary critic, satarist, intellectual, and essayist from the 1920’s to 1950's.

 

Speaker:  Lynn Sanders, Founder/President of Difference Makers Media, has a mission to inspire people through the power of bringing positive stories to life.

 

As an example, Lynn told the story of  her children’s book, “Dancing With Tex:  The Remarkable Friendship To Save The Whooping Cranes,” which is based on the true friendship story between a world-famous ornithologist, George Archibald and a rare Whooping Crane, who believed she belonged with people. 

 

Lynn also is a ‘Blue Ribbon Ambassador.’  She awarded Barb and Patti with Blue Ribbons to acknowledge their public service.  In turn all the Rotarians at the meeting paired off and honored each other with Blue Ribbons proclaiming that we all make a difference in the community.

 

 

At each Thursday meeting we are also still collecting pop tabs from aluminum cans and bread clips. The pop tabs will be donated to Ronald Mcdonald House for recycling and they go towards offsetting the costs of helping children and their families. The bread clips will be donated to 'Scarcely Resourced' who will be recycling them in partnership with 'Danielle Cares for Chairs'. A few thousand of these bread clips will purchase a wheelchair for a child in need. The bread tags are also now being utilized by a prosthetic clinic to strengthen the molding process of making a prosthesis.