President Margie Booyens took the podium, and began the meeting with a big thank you to Ted and Sylvia Cowtan, for the use of their beautiful home on Saturday for the BBQ and pool party. It was a great event, and we really appreciate all the work they went to getting ready and hosting.
President Margie showed off some photos of Rotary Centennial Trail, which is under construction along South Boundary Road. Real progress is being made, the trail is mostly paved on the north side of the road, and work is ongoing on the connection into Desert Blume. Cyclists have already been spotted on it.
President Margie went through a list of all the activities, both Rotarian and other social activities were going on in the community this weekend. The Mural-fest downtown as well at the Friday night Art Walk, the Garden tour and other events made for a really busy time.
Our special guests today included Maria Sole Galletti, inbound short term exchange student from Treviso-Terraglio Rotary club, our NGSE participant this summer Katarina Braess, President Margie Booyens, outbound short term exchange student Ella Crawley and President-elect Mark Sorenson.
Rotary Club Information:
Upcoming meetings:
Monday July 22, 2019 - Rotary in the Park, with DG Christine Rendell in attendance.
Monday July 29, 2019 - Business meeting - Presidential Citation, meeting structure and fundraising ideas will all be on the agenda.
Housekeeping:
Please bring auction items. It is an important part of our meeting.
If you have a Meeting Minute, please send Pres Chris a note (email, phone, in-person)
Board minutes can be found on ClubRunner, under Club Documents.
Upcoming Rotary Events:
Rotary Waterton-Glacier Peace Park celebration, Sept 13 - 15 in Waterton.
Dieter Brand has planned the next Fireside Chat will be on Oct 22nd at the Cypress Club.
Next District 5360 convention May 1 - 3, 2020 in Calgary.
Next Rotary International Convention, June 6 - 10, 2020 in Honolulu, Hawaii
Future Programs:
For more Club activities, to keep up with events and stay in touch, check the Club website at: www.medicinehatrotary.com
If you have any future program ideas, please email Jillian Koch at jkoch@jmhca.com
The Rotary Club welcomed Katarina Braess, our visiting New Generations Service Exchange student to the podium, who provided a summary of herself and of her community.
She began her presentation by thanking everyone for providing her with this opportunity, she is having a wonderful time and learning a great deal about her chosen profession.
Katarina began by speaking about her hometown, Regensburg which is in Southwestern Germany in Bavaria. She believes that Bavaria has the most distinctly German culture of any of the area's of Germany. The City means "Castle at the Rain" and has a population of 150,000. It has history dating back to the Roman Empire, and the medieval inner city is a UNESCO world heritage site. She is sponsored for her exchange by Rotary Millenium Regensburg.
Katarina is almost 19, has graduated from high school and is taking a gap year before entering university. Her high school was founded in 1505 and her description of high school sounds like a lot more school and a lot less sports than in North America. She also described her previous participation in the Short Term Exchange program and their family had a Long Term Exchange student from Brazil stay with them.
In her gap year she has taken a French language course in Paris, spent time in Morocco doing social service work and has done legal internships in Regensburg and Munich. Definitely not an idle year, that's for sure. She will be returning home in late August, with intentions to attend university close to home.
We wish her all the best in her future endeavours.
Ella Crowley, outbound STEP, and her mother Shawna
Phyllis McLaughlin
Ed Forner, visiting Rotarian and guest of Wayne Chesley
Uwe Krickhahn, Saamis Rotary Club
Birthdays:
Jillian Koch July 19
Anniversaries:
None this week.
Weekly Draws:
The attendance draw this week was Joe Chacko, who has NOT present to win a free meal.
The club draw this week, a shopping bag donated by Don Davis was won by Outbound Exchange student Ella Crowley.
Club 500:
No draw this week.
Make Ups:
None reported.
Family of Rotary:
It was great to see Herman Wahl back again this week, after his extended absence.
Minute People:
Dave Panabaker announced that "Rotary at the MH Mavericks" is set for Saturday July 27th - 7:05pm. Tickets (including a drink, burger and popcorn) are $30/person and Dave has them at the meeting.
Dave Panabaker also reminded Rotarians that the next Rotary Bingo will be Saturday August 3rd, in the afternoon. Because of the holiday workers may be difficult to come by, so please consider helping out if you are in town.
Dave Stalwick is the chair of a bingo on Friday July 19, and acquired the last volunteer he needed for a full team.
Dawn Barr is organizing a "good bye to Katarina party for Saturday August 3, mini-putt at Hoopla's and then refreshments at the Rustic Kitchen. Separate invitations will go out, for both the golf (4 pm) and the social (5 pm).
Anne Carrier reminded Rotarians that our float for the Stampede Parade, on Thursday morning July 25 is a go, and decorating will take place on July 23-24, 1pm - 8pm at IXL.
Dick Bide announced that their pie cherries are ready, and anyone who would like some is welcome to stop by their place to pick them.
Mike Christie reminded everyone that next week is "Stampede kickoff in the Park", so please dress in a western theme. As well, the DG will be present.
