Prayer: Steve Diers Quote of the Week: Ryan Parker
Guests: None
Secretary's Report: 30 members present
Treasurer's Report:Let Sheila know if you need to be billed for soup supper tickets. She will not be automatically billing members.
NEW CLUB ADDRESS
The Club has a new mailing address. Please update your records to:
Charles City Rotary Club
P.O. Box 761
Charles City, IA 50616
Honors and Illnesses:
Iowa Ideas magazine will be featuring a story on the partnership between Iowa Big North and the Chautuauquas to offer the Certified Nursing Assistant Training to high school students. Congrats on all of the efforts with this innovation!
Karl Smith, son of Ralph Smith and grandson of Jim Smith, was a finalist for educator of the year with the Indenepdence Schools District.
Congrats to our Comets who partied in state speech contest and state wrestling last week!
Announcements:
Satellite Club Meetings & Recruitment- There are many in our community who would be great Rotarians, but cannot attend noon meetings.Members are asked to spread the word to grow our satellite club! The membership committee is asking current members to invite guests to the satellite club meetings and take time to check it out for yourself. Satellite Club Meetings are the 1st and 3rd Tuesday at 5:30pm at The Pub. Participants can order food and drink if they like or just come be part of the group. Please note: The group will meet just once in March. The March meeting will be Tuesday, March 3 at The Pub on the Cedar starting at 5:30pm. Come check it out and bring friends!
New Member Application - The Satellite Club received a membership application from Matt Weir. Matt's wife, Sandra, recently joined the Satellite Club as well.
Therapy Dog Program - The committee is interested in connecting with club members who would like to get their dog trained to perform this special service at our local nursing homes. Marice and her dog Zoey are just about ready to start making visits. See Ralph, Marcie or Julie for more info.
Fun & Frolic: Julie Taylor led the Club in a lightning round of the Encore Game that challenged members to come up with song lyrics and titles.
Program: This week's program was present by a group of students participating in the Iowa Big North program. The students provided programs highlights including initiatives they are currently pursuing such as design for a new Iowa Big location in New Hampton, a maple syrup project and a water quality project with Farm Bureau and AgVantage.
Of all the obligations a person accepts when joining a Rotary club the one in which most Rotarians fail is "sharing Rotary." The policies of Rotary International clearly affirm that every individual Rotarian has an "obligation to share Rotary with others and to help extend Rotary through proposing qualified persons for Rotary club membership." It is estimated that less than 30 percent of the members of most Rotary clubs have ever made the effort to propose a new member. Thus, in every club, there are many Rotarians who readily accept the pleasures of being a Rotarian without ever sharing that privilege with another qualified individual.
The Rotary policy on club membership states: "In order for a Rotary club to be fully relevant to its community and responsive to the needs of those in the community, it is important and necessary that the club include in its membership all fully qualified prospective members located within its territory" One merely has to glance through the yellow pages of the local telephone directory to realize that most clubs have not invited qualified members of all businesses and professions into Rotary.
Only a Rotarian may propose a customer, neighbor, client, supplier, executive, relative, business associate, professional or other qualified person to join a Rotary club. Have you accepted your obligation to share Rotary? The procedures are very simple, and everyone must know at least one person who should belong to Rotary.
