Tuesday, May 14, 2019

May 14th Meeting Notes

Announcements 

Check out the new table cloth that advertises our bike ride.   

The Board approved Julie Cumaander for membership.  She is sponsored by Carol Adamson.

The Board also voted to make Ron Griffin an Honorary Member.  Ron has not been able to come to our meetings, but if people would pick him up, he may be ab;e to attend at times.

Check out the May birthdays and anniversaries in the right hand column.  Congrats to all of you.

June 25th will be the change over dinner - Time still pending.

June 22nd will be the HWY clean up - Talk to Matt to let him know you will be there.

May 16th will be a sign building and painting party for the bike ride at PJ's home from 4:00-7:00.  Directions: Go out Malaga/Alcoa Hwy, turn right on West Malaga Hwy (Three Lakes Golf Course), take a right on Hamlin, come to a "T" and go right on Joe Miller, take a left on Cathedral Rock, proceed 2.3 miles on a gravel road to PJ's.  He is about .8 miles past Malaga Springs Winery.

May 18th is a Board retreat at Ridgeline Graphics (downstairs in the house south of the back parking lot).  Anyone can attend, but let Taro know so he can get enough food.  The retreat starts at 7:30, and should be done at noon.

May 21st, is the next bike ride meeting - 5:30 at Bob's Classic in Wenatchee.

Brags and Confessions

Jim A. said that the 2nd Harvest food distribution was a success with about 9000 pounds of food being distributed and 216 families received food.

Bill McDowell went out and rode the loop trail.

Jill went to Florida to see her grandson's graduation.

PJ got lost while looking for the exchange students.

Joseph had a great time at the district conference. 


Program



Foothills Middle School Robotics Team 
They have about 80 students currently in the program. With them consisting of two main teams. 
During the meeting they had us watch a video on what they presented while at the State competition. The following link will take you to the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywzAqBHAvOw
They followed up the video with giving us a short presentation of how their robots operate.
The two teams competed in the World Championships in Louisville, KY, and won awards (see bottom picture).





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