Club News . . .  Sept 27, 2016

Club news….

While we all enjoy the Fall weather there are some important Rotary items I want to be sure everyone is aware of:

1. THE BARN DANCE!  This Saturday is the annual Barn Dance event and fund raiser.  More than any other event in our year, this event puts our club front and center in the community attracting crowd of about 500 for and evening of fun.  This event also raises a significant amount of money for our club service projects as well as for the Boy’s and Girl’s Club.  Looking forward to seeing everyone there!

2. Our political forums:  This coming week is big news:  For the first time we have both the US House and US Senate campaigns represented for a Rotary Forum.  Please remember to RSVP to Steve S if you are bringing guests.  We need to give the Steamboat Grand a head’s up on how many to expect for lunch.

We had a great forum with our Colorado House and Senate candidates yesterday and we are looking forward to two more weeks of informative presentations.

Our Flower Barrels team led by Eric R and Gillian M did an outstanding job this year.  They not only oversaw the entire project from beginning to end raising about $9,000 for our club service projects they got the entire inventory of barrels refinished and dozens of new barrels built to increase the total number and to retire some older ones that needed to go.

Our Rotarian of the month for September is long time member Paula Black.  Paula has been a leader in our club serving on key committees (Rotary Park since its inception and Barn Dance now for 9 years) and giving her time and effort to many other club projects.  She was also instrumental in the creation of our club foundation as well as being a generous contributor to both our club foundation and to the RI (Paul Harris) foundation.