May 17th Meeting

Announcements:

This morning we had 16 Rotary youth exchange students visit our club.  They came from all over the world including Taiwan, Turkey, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, South Korea, Italy, Germany, France, and Austria.  Several of the students talked about their experiences with the host families.
This weekend, Maggie Nelson is taking the Youth Exchange Group from here to Kamloops and back to Yakima for the annual bus trip. Good Luck, Maggie!

Carol Adamson reported that Claudio was selected from his Youth Exchange Group as a speaker at the Rotary District Conference.  She said he did an amazing job and was quite proud of him.  No one was surprised he did such a great job!

Jim Huffman showed a TED Talks on the Global Citizen movement.  Very appropriate with the youth exchange students here.

Jim's Award

Jim Adamson was presented with the Harold Henderson Award for Distinguish Service.  His service to Rotary has included being a trainer, serving as district governor and many more things!

Sunrise Attendees to the District Conference included Maggie, Wayne, Matt, Jim and Carol.   Attending the conference is a great way to learn about Rotary.  Next year's conference will be held in Kelowna, BC.  For early registration, click here!

Alan Walker passed around sign-ups for helping out at the bike ride.  People are needed for Thursday, Friday and Saturday so be sure and get signed up!

On May 23rd, at 6:30, there is an award ceremony at WHS Commons. Two of our Challenge Scholars will be receiving their scholarships there.

As of today, the Apple Century Bike Ride has 227 riders. Take a minute to share the event on your own Facebook page, using this link.
Also, there is another Bike Ride meeting at Sticks on Wednesday, May 18th at 5:30 p.m.
Our Century Ride is mentioned on page 22 of the May Rotarian.  Check it out!

A reminder that the Change Over Dinner is June 21st at the Museum.  It is a FIESTA and we get to celebrate the presidency of Wayne and welcome incoming president Matt!  Click here to RSVP.

Our Rotarian of the Month is Norm Sturm!  Norm is always willing to help out and often does the job no one else wants.  He promoted our bike ride in Spokane, and rode the part of our Century ride route to get pictures of the route.  We are grateful for his service to our club. Congratulations, Norm.