Rotary International Conference

Brad Borne was the Rotarian to give his ten minutes of fame.  We could have listened to his funny antidotes for much longer.  Brad introduced Greg VanLaere.  Greg's program was about the 2012 Rotary International Conference in Thailand.  Greg shared stories about visiting historical locations in Bangkok, the conference itself, and gave us a preview of the Rotary International Conference in Lisbon in 2013.  The ten day trip created a deeper understanding of what Rotary is. 

We had several visitors with us today.  Incoming District Govoner Craig Sherman attended our meeting.  Dusti, Claire and Maggie VanLaere came to listen to Greg's presentation and Rex had a representative from his fraternety at the meeting.  Mr. Love from Tri West schools also was a visitor and is running for Connie Lawson's old seat.


This weekend seen a lot of Rotary teamwork.  Starting Saturday morning, President Rex and his wife held a strawberry and banana dipping party.  The strawberries and bananas were to be sold as a fundraiser that night.  There was a good turnout for the dipping party and then some of the Rotarians migrated to the end of the street to assist in the Park to Park relay. 

Finally, over 1500 people gathered together on the downtown square for Peace Train.  It was a wonderful night of fun and music.  I am pleased to note that we ran out of dipped bananas. Fun and fellowship.  Special thanks to those that volunteered to make Saturday a success.