Flag Salute & Invocation by Steve Swan
Visiting Rotarians: None
Guests: Ruth Geyer, Wyatt Ship and his mom.
Announcements
Board meeting this Thursday at RMC 4:00 all welcome.
Happy Hour meeting on October 30th - more detail soon.
Fellowship event (Uptown Art fellowship event late November, stay tuned for exact date and time).
Anna Williams suggests a dinner Rotario (on Super Bowl Sunday) at Sarah Rothenbuhler’s (Flo doing some of the cooking!). More details soon.
Bill Geyer introduced Wyatt Ship, a sophomore at Squalicum HS, who has a project donating books to a school in Africa called Books4Zimbabwe. Wyatt talked about his community service and using the project to apply for a Congressional Service award. He knew he wanted to do a project in Africa. He met the head of a school there in Zimbabwe, and Wyatt asked him what he needs for his school: He said soccer equipment and books. In Zimbabwe, English is the national language, so American books work well. It will be part of the school's first ever library. He will do two shipments per year for four years. He is soliciting book donations, some of which they keep for the Zimbabwe school (“just right books”), the the other books they sell for money to buy more “just right books”. So far, one shipment of 200lbs was sent. Andy Clay and Bill Geyer took interest in this project may be soliciting a District Grant for raising some money.
Business Bucket: by John Templeton, with update on the local real estate market.
