President Rod reported we received a thank you from Stand Up Placer for $500 donation to their recent Top Golf event
Brandee Ambrosia – Community Service Meeting re-cap
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August 9 Placer High School starts the school year. Rotary to have a welcome back to school that day. 45 minute commitment. Email to come from Brandee regarding this event.
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Campaign at coffee shops downtown – donate to token bucket. Teachers get $5 token during the month of September. “Buy a cup of coffee for teachers”.
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The Gathering Inn on Monday August 29. Prepare food and serve meal. Peter Konrad, John Fink and Linda Maeding are the leads/contacts for the event. Look for more information soon on how you can help with this service project.
Nancy Bender – BBQ: We need members to sign up to help at the event. Another email was sent today by Lori Tompkins. Plea for sign-ups; "all hands on deck" event.
Dennis Bennett – read 3 heartfelt and emotional thank you letters from RYLA participants. Richard Hall and Gary Ransom get thanks for recruiting the 5 participants. Follow up for RYLA participants: Interact clubs at the respective high schools.
Exchange student from Belgium being met tomorrow by Dennis and Betty. Another coming Thursday.
Paul Harris award: Rachel Kanowsky
PH +5 for Mary Jo Payne – pin presented
Next week's program: Jennifer Fink, wife of new member John Fink, on challenges of Alzheimer's
Drew and Kaitlin Garrison are up for membership.
Happy/Sad Bucks:
Bill Whitaker: Happy bucks – just won an 18 year long law suit
Cindy Eklund: Happy/sad – for Tevis cup winner, sad that 2 horses died. Glad that the Tevis cup trail will be renovated, but states it should have been done 20 years ago.
Mike Holmes – Happy Bucks. He is running for city council; has petition if any Auburn registered voters would like to sign
Phil Booker – Happy Bucks. Son graduated from UNR School of Medicine Physician Assistant program. Son has a job at Tahoe Forest Hospital in Urgent Care.
Kimberly Mc Clintock – Sad Bucks. Family members and herself just back from HI have COVID
Raffle
No winner of the $109 pot
Birthdays and Anniversaries:
Birthdays -Bob Hayden, August 3
Jenny Jansen, August 3
Bobbi Allen, August 4
Chris Packard, August 4
Anniversaries - Paul and Suzanne Ross, August 8: 58 years
Rotary Anniverseries -
Steve Grundmeier 8/2/2013
Jim Holbrook 8/1/1992
Kristen Alexander 8/4/2015
Fines: Dan Gustavson for his trip to Florida
Rotarian of the Month (Rod's first one):
Steve Grundmeier for his work on programs/speakers for our weekly meetings
Today's Program - Lucy Coleman
Polar Trec – Research project with teachers and scientists. Funded through federal government. Will be visiting the dry valleys of Antarctia, imbedded with research/scientist team
Teaches Middle School science. Does education and outreach for Polar Trec which is how the project impacts communities.
McMurdo Dry Valley: dry valleys look like desert and can simulate Mars. No plants or animals. Close to Taylor Glacier.
Home to microbes and a small fly called a midge.
Group is studying microbes that live under ice covers of frozen lakes. They drill through ice and into the water with drills that are 4 meters long.
Studying what happens with climate change; collecting samples of microbes.
Big questions: how do the microbes interact with each other? Who thrives in harsh conditions? What happens when temp increases? What can we learn that might apply to other places in the world?
Follow Lucy's expedition to Antartica: www.polartrec.com October 24-Dec. 15, 2022
Group Recitation of the 4-Way Test and Adjourn
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