6-16 Rotary Luncheon

Sent: June 19, 2014

A lovely day for a Rotary luncheon! Between Rotarians and guests, we had a great turn out. Our guests today were Kirsten Conaway, outbound exchange student and her parents, the Conaways and the Halls, Judy Roop and our current exchange student, Sachi.

LOTTERY

Lottery Master Jake Hill had one of our guests draw a ticket and the small pot of $12 went to Bob Lilley – no winner for the BIG POT this week!

SGT AT ARMS

Sgt. Kienzle reported for duty and took his usual lottery fine. Next he hit Marsha James for having her phone ring twice, Autumn Warthman for having her name in the paper and not mentioning Rotary (and he fined himself for the same infraction), and took $1 from Ron Reed for being “tardy”.

Happy Bucks: Valery was happy to have a “happy” place to go for lunche on Mondays – which was promptly seconded and thirded by Pam Cote and Susan Aldridge.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

We received a thank you letter from the Logan Library for our funding of their summer reading program.

We had a letter from the Upper Arlington Rotary Club – they are putting together a service trip to Guatemala in November. Give them a call if you are interested in going along.

Next week – no luncheon due to Highway Clean Up! Meet at Kachelmacker Park at 5:15 for Clean Up, followed by pizza at Pizza crossing at 6:30.

June 30th – no luncheon!!!! Meet at the American Legion (behind the Baymont) for the President’s Cook out. Hot dogs, hamburgers and sides provided as well as water and soft drings – if you want “adult beverages”, bring your own. Meet at 5:30 pm

Future programs: July 7 – Jon Mesarch; July 14 – Van Cardaras; July 21 – Susan Aldridge.

PROGRAM

Prior to our regular program, we heard from Kirsten Conaway about her impending departure for a year in Taiwan. She has already done a short term summer exchange program in Japan, and she is looking forward to perfecting her Mandarin while in the country.

We also heard from Sachi regarding her time here in Logan. She had some really cute pictures and it seems that she has enjoyed her time in Logan.

Today’s program was provided by Joy Davis. She introduced Susan Rinehart (as if she needed an introduction!) and Susan told us about a new program called the Young Entrepreneur’s Academy.

This program is open, through an application process, to 24 students in the Logan Hocking School District. Students in grades 6 to 12 will participate in this after-school program to create their own business. They will learn all facets of setting up a business, such as marketing, finance, how to find investors, media, legal matters, etc. Each student will have one or more mentors and will spend a year developing their business and business plan to be entered into a competition on the local level. The local winner will go on to regional and national competition, with the ultimate winner appearing on the TV show “Shark Tank”.

The local Academy has received a grant from the US Chamber of Commerce and a grant from the Hocking County CIC. They are looking for speakers, mentors, sponsors, judges and just about anyone who wants to get involved in teaching these young people about business. For more information, contact Susan Rinehart at 740-974-1782, or by email at srinehart@lhsd.k12.oh.us .

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