Last week’s Club Assembly meeting coincided with what seemed to be the first warm, sunny day in about 9 months. Maybe Ray Hillman brought the sun back with him, as he just returned to our club after wintering in Mexico. Welcome back, Ray!  Auggie snapped this great photo of families enjoying Rotary Centennial Park right outside our meeting room.  Rotary Centennial Park Splash Pad 050317

Club members used the meeting time to discuss a variety of topics, including:

  • Officers for next year.  President Leah commended Om Sukheenai for stepping up to take the President Elect position, with Scott Karn‘s recent announcement about taking a new job in Portland.  So now the club is in need of a candidate for vice president. Please think it over, and if you are interested, talk with Leah.
  • Community service projects.  Leah asked club members to think about our existing projects to see if any changes are warranted.
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    It’s rare to get a snap of Auggie…he’s usually behind the camera!

    For example, do we need to designate a separate community service group? There was also a suggestion to prepare a list of the projects we do along with the primary contact person for each to give to new members.

  • Committees. Time to review your committee commitments and see if there are other areas you’d like to participate in.

Geoff Gilmore reported that a summer intern has been hired to do some marketing. Our intern is the vice-president of student affairs at George Fox University and a marketing major. He will be a senior in September and will start working the first week in June. Geoff said he will focus on two things: building the Rotary brand in the community and increasing membership.  Geoff also floated the idea of having a mural of Rotary activities painted somewhere in town. He is interested in your ideas for that.

The group also discussed the possibility of finding a way to help address the very serious problem of increasing teen suicides in Newberg. Please talk to Denise Bacon if you have an interest in helping with this matter.

MARK YOUR JUNE CALENDAR!  On June 21, we will have a very special guest speaker. Bishnu Subedi will be here from Nepal to discuss our water project under construction there. Let’s have a great turn out to welcome him. And June 22 is the Installation dinner. Hard to believe it’s already time for Leah’s year as president to end and Todd’s to start……

GUESTS: Tanner Schneider had heard we were a greet group and walked in by himself to check us out!