Tomorrow will be a modified Club Assembly

I am proposing having a "working" lunch where folks sit with their committees and go over this year's work and goals/progress and at 12:20ish we will have 2 short presentations - one from the RYLA students and the other from a Rotary group from Nicaragua to talk about their projects.

Beth

Winston's Shelter Box & West Coast Trip Fundraisers. 

Venue: Bidarka Inn (where Rotary meetings are held) 

Time: 6:00pm 

Date: Friday June 1 

Donations : $50 or more ( The fundraiser is mainly for Shelter Box but a lot bit of it goes to my trip ) 

Please feel free to invite friends and families. 

ShelterBox is an international disaster relief charity that provides temporary shelter and life saving supplies to families displaced by natural disasters.

The fundraiser will be a series of Nigerian meals and a showcase of Nigerian cultures.  It is going to be like Nigeria in Homer!

Fred Trieselmann,  President of SPARC, the local amateur radio club has agreed to speak.  Amateur service is often the only remaining communication when a natural or man made disaster occurs.  

Meet our Outbounds: Marina Greear, Maya Kelly, McKenzy Johnson

snf our Inbound:  Cassidy Wylde, just returned from Slovakia

Support Winston’s Nigerian Dinner on Saturday July 28 at 6:00PM at the Methodist Church. Proceeds are going to support his Shelter Box project. 

Please RSVP so that sufficient food can be prepared!!

The Dinner is $20 per person.

You may pay at the door, but please register!

Our Inbound Rotary Exchange Student, Claudia (from Spain) will arrive at the Homer Airport at approximately 7:30 PM on August 12.  Let's give her a rousing welcome!

We also have Outbound Rotary Exchange Students departing August 15, 18, and 24.  We should also be on hand to wish them well!

Please join your fellow Rotarians at a Garden Reception to meet and greet District 5010 District Governor Diane Fejes

WHEN: AUGUST 15, 2018

TIME: 6:00 PM TO 8:00 PM

WHERE: THE OLS0N’S, 3690 Knapp Circle ( 1.2 miles on Kachemak Drive from the Spit Road), HOMER, AK 99603

WHAT TO BRING: Your favorite hors d’oeuvres for 10 people

RSVP: Lorna Olson, Home: 907-235-5107; email: candlolsons@gmail.com, or

            Bernie Griffard, Cell: 717-319-2653; email: griffbfgak@gmail.com, or

            Sign up at the Thursday meeting.

All members please attend when District Governor Diane Fejes visits us on August 16!

 N. Diane Fejes

 Rotary International District 5010, Governor 2018-19

After growing up on a cattle and wheat ranch in southern Idaho, Diane graduated from Utah State University, moved to Alaska in 1978 and became a Certified Public Accountant.   She worked with the international accounting firms of Deloitte and KPMG as a Tax Partner - retiring in 2011 after 33 years of interpreting the ever-changing tax law. Diane and her husband, Bob, live in Anchorage where they raised their two intelligent, beautiful and fun daughters, Anna and Erin.  They enjoy the Alaskan lifestyle which includes flying to their remote cabin in summer, and winter trips to Hawaii.

Joining Rotary in 1989 with the Anchorage Rotary club, Diane has served in many Club and District capacities.  These include Club President in the year 2000-2001, District Treasurer, Assistant Governor and as District 5010’s Dean of The Leadership Academy, which trains future leaders about Rotary in an in-depth eLearning classroom over a 7 month timeframe.   Diane also serves on several community and corporate boards.  As a Rotary Foundation Major Donor and Bequest Society member DG Diane believes that the business oriented, non-religious, non-political aspect of Rotary allows us to succeed in being the preeminent worldwide organization to bring health, literacy, peace and prosperity to our world. 

Transportation arranged!   Stay tuned for further information!

We have been invited to the Gordon's for their Annual Halibut Cove Labor Day Party.   Gordon's are providing beer, wine and soft drinks, plus burgers and hot dogs.  We bring potluck.  Every one that I have been to has been tremendous fun!

The times that I have put on here are APPROXIMATE,  The real times are TBA later.  We'll need boats for people to ride in.  If there are no volunteer boat drivers, the cost per person will be approximately $60-$80 to take a water taxi.

Please contact Dee Clyne at 907-299-4748 ASAP if you haven't signed up already!

The Great Potato Weigh-in and BBQ will be Saturday, September 22, at our house, 57485 Taku Ave E, at 5:00 pm.

Details available by Thursday's Rotary meeting.

In preparation for World Polio Day on October 24, 2018, Rotary International President Barry Rassin provided an update on Rotary’s efforts to defeat this crippling disease. Thanks to the vision of Rotary and its partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative we now have fewer cases of polio than any time in history. As of today, only 14 children have been paralyzed by the wild polio virus in all of 2018. Only three countries are still polio-endemic; wild virus still circulates in only one remaining reservoir, on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan. As encouraging as these accomplishments are, until eradication is certified -at least three years from the time the last poliovirus is found anywhere in the world-every single child must be immunized at the cost of hundreds of millions of dollars a year. I f any momentum is lost, we risk losing everything we have worked for, for so many years.

As Rotarians we must continue to raise awareness of this effort. Promote it to your friends, neighbors and organizations.

Mr. Brad Janorschke is presently the General Manager of Homer Electric Association, Inc. and HEA’s generation and transmission entity Alaska Electric and Energy Cooperative. He has been at HEA for almost 15 years now and has accumulated 30 plus years of experience in the electric utility field.

Mr. Janorschke’s educational background includes a Bachelor of Science of Engineering Technology and a Masters of Business Administration Degree from St. Cloud State University. Mr. Janorschke is active in his community and has served as an EMT I/Firefighter/Driver Operator volunteer and is an avid pilot and fisherman. In addition, Mr. Janorschke and his wife, Sarah have three grown children and one grandchild. Him and his wife currently reside in Soldotna, Alaska.

The 35th Annual Rotary Health Fair will be November 3, 2018 from 7:30 AM to 1:00 PM at Homer High School.