Rotary Informer

Howard Richards led us in America the Beautiful

Four Way Test:  Thank you Jay Neff and welcome back

Invocation:  Thank you Anne McDevitt

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like Art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give Value to survival.”

C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

Visiting Rotarians:  Gary Voison from Cheboygan

Other Visitors:  Judy Brummeler, T. Jones, John Van Etten's son John, from Germany

Song of the Week:  Howard Richards and Steve Cross led us in Simon & Garfunkel's "Cecilia" and "Smile"

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

I think the President has scared everyone about doing announcements so all we had was his re-cap from the board meeting held on April 11^th

Diamond’s & Denim is looking for more committee members

District Conference is May 4th – 6th at Crystal Mountain and we are looking for more voting delegates, Dave needs all the votes he can get for his Governorship run 

Liz is putting together a basket that will be raffled off for the foundation

We are looking for 2 more people to get certified for Grant writing. If you are interested, talk to Kent 

PRCCI grant apps are available and need to be turned in by the 14^th of April

April 26th our meeting will be at Manna

Program:   

Bill introduced Casie Parker, the DECA teacher from the High School. She introduced Anna Sumpter who will be the DECA State President for the 17/18 year, who gave us an overview of the program and then introduced 2 groups that gave us the presentations that they gave which qualified them for Nationals:

Group 1: Alley Hass

              Alley Van Antwerp

              Hadley Hass

Group 2: Lauren Gasko

              Cedra Beer

President Kent presented the group with a $6000 check to help them offset the cost of attending both the State and National competitions. This was money that came from Diamond’s and Denim 2016

Next Week’s Program:  Club Assembly and the following week report to Manna

Two Week’s Notification for Membership:  Sunny McKellar; approved at April Board Mtg.