Tuesday May 10, 2012

We had a good group out to Rotary today.

The decorum was generally up to par. :}

Jack Molgard allowed a quartet to sing him a Happy Birthday. Congratulations, Jack!

Sergeant-At-Arms Travis Rose rasied some funds for the Foundation while reminding Club members of the importance of keeping up on the happenings here at our official blog page. (Hint, hint)

New member Dave Rogers presented his classification speech as a CPA with the prestigious Davis and Bott CPA firm. We're excited to have him with us!

Our program was presented by former Rotarian Jenny Schultz, Chief of Operations at the local Boys and Girls Club here in Brigham City. She presented some of her own history and history of the Club as well as sharing the focus the Club has had in recent years.

http://www.bcbrclub.org/

The Club was started in the early 1990's by local citizens who felt the need of something more for youth to be involved in. One of the original committee was our own Past President Ann Henderson. Shortly after that initial effort, the Boys and Girls Club was officially formed in 1994 and has continued to grow. Therer are now over 1000 youth affiliated with the Club in Box Elder County.

While watching the recent decline in youth "dreams" and desire to achieve great things, the Boys and Girls Club has been challenging their youth to set goals and work toward them.

There have been tours to the local university campuses, programs focusing on eradicating bullying and overall maintaining a positive attitude toward others and themselves.

We are very fortunate to have the Boys and Girls Club in the local area, ably overseen by Jenny and her staff. Thanks, Jenny, for you contribution to our area and your presentation at Rotary.

Next week is the Administrative Assistant's Luncheon, arranged by Dr Dave Lewis. We will be entertained by the Director and cast members of the current Heritage Theatre play "Lucky Stiff".

In two weeks it will be our pleasure to hear from District Governor Rick Cambra. We're excited to finally hear from Rick as he has been very ill recently, but is now out on the road, visiting clubs and spreading the Rotary Word.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Rennie Bott and Ken Kennedy were the recipients of a chorus of Happy Birthday in Club meeting today. Congratulations to both of them!

Our speaker was State Senator Peter Knudson. He shared with us a review of the most recent Utah State legislative session. Senator Knudson has now participated in 18 legislative sessions as our local Representative/Senator. We are privileged to have him in our club.

After recent redistricting, he now represents three counties: Box Elder, Cache and Tooele.

As part of his presentation, he shared information about the focus of the session and the commitment of the Legislature to maintain a balanced budget.

New funds were allocated this year to Education, Law Enforcement and Social Services.

Other projects that have been funded are:

A plan to design and rebuild the 100 South Interchange at I15. It will be a state of the art design closely resembling the Salt Lake City 600 North interchange. Anyone that has tried to get on or off the freeway at 1100 south knows how welcome that change will be.

The purchase of part of the St George Airport plateau, now that the airport has been moved. This area will be used for future Applied Technology porposes.

Funding for construction of the 10th West roadway in the Logan area.

Tourism continues to be a high priority and high revenue producer in the State along with thee increase of the Film Industry use of local areas for movie production.

Sadly, our local US Brigham City Regional Campus did not receive funding this year, but is top of the list for next year's budget.

Utah continues to lead the nation as one of the "Best Places to do Business"!

Thanks to Senator Knudson for his presentation and for his continued service as an elected representative of our area.

Nest week's program is under the direction of Lori Abraham.

In two weeks will be our Administrative Assistant's Luncheon under the direction of Dr Dave Lewis.

Hello! Anyone out there?

Hmmmm. Not a single taker on the proposed fine from a couple of posts ago. Makes me wonder if anyone actually reads this stuff..

That said, I propose that anyone that has not reviewed the blog in the last 30 days be fined $2.00, unless there is a vaible objection posed in club meeting this coming Tuesday.

Let's see where that takes us. :}~

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

The Rotary Club of Brigham City

inducted a new member today!

David Rogers of Davis and Bott CPAs

has officially joined our club.

We're excited to have David with us

and look forward to his participation.

The program was presented by

Brad and Annette Barber

with a review of slides and commentary on

last year's Interact/Rotary

International Service Project to

Puerto Peñasco Mexico.

Last year, 61 teenagers and 25 adult chaperones

participated in the house building project

in conjunction with the Families Helping Familes

Foundation. What a fantastic experience for

everyone involved as we built a house for

a family in need.

This year we will be taking 200 youth and 50 adults

with the goal of building three houses

as well as providing service for local school children

in Puerto Peñasco, Mexico.

Tuesday, March 20

Today's presentation was by Chris Shaefer, author of "Bataan Diary" and the script for the World War II documentary "Forgotten Soldiers". The content of Bataan Diary comes from the actual diaries of Colonel Frank R lloyd and his wife, Evelyn, relatives of Mr Shaefer, as well as other accounts.

Forgotten Soldiers is scheduled to premier on PBS in 2013. Narrated by Lou Diamond Phillips, the story is told of General Douglas MacArthur's Phllipine Scouts who were left behind after General MacArthur was ordered to escape to Austrailia. The Scouts were a special US Army Unit composed of Filipino Soldiers and American Officers who kept the Japanese at bay at the beginning of the war.

After Gen MacArthur's departure, the Scouts were surrounded, starved out and eventually subjected to one of the worst atrocities of modern warfare - the Bataan Death March.

Mr Shaefer teaches classes on World War II and Middle East history at the Osher Learning Institute at thee University of Utah.

Thanks to President Paul Damon for arranging this very informative presentation.

Tuesday, March 13

Wow, am I embarrased! I was just on Linkedin, having a discussion about Club websites, and referred someone to this very blog. Then it occured to me that, due to a number of issues, not the least of which was the unplanned crash of my hard drive, I haven't updated the blog in a couple of weeks! I should be fined. In fact, if someone will bring this up in our next meeting, I'll gladly accept a $15 fine for my slothful behavior...

Tuesday the 13th we were pleased to hear from representatives of Honeyville Farms. Company CFO Robert Anderson and Brigham City Retail Outlet Manager Joleen Gibbons presented a history and update on the complany that was very enlightening.

Based in our own backyard, Honeyville Farms has been involved in many aspects of food production for many years and has been a major player in the supply of grains throughout not only the US, but internationally.

Their supply of grains can be found in a variety of products and brands seen everyday on grocery shelves everywhere.

Thanks to Bob and Joleen for their informative presentation!

Tuesday March 6, CLUB ASSEMBLY

Club Assembly today. A lot of information shared by our Club Leadership and reminders of upcoming events and projects.

We celebrated Bob Davis' birthday with a great quartet of Rotarians serenading him.

David Rogers was presented to the Club as a new porposed Rotarian. Welcome Dave! We look forward to seeing and learning more of you!

President Damon brought us up to date on the joint project with Habitat for Humanity. Still plenty of work to get that project going.

Also noted a $500 donation by the club to the Mexico Project. 31 youth and adults from our club and the Box Elder Interact Club are scheduled to spend a week building houses in Puerto Peñasco Mexico in June this year.

We are still looking for new members and ask everyone to share the values and excitement of belonging to Rotary with their friends and associates.

President Elect Dan Hansen shared information about the PETS leadership training.

We were brought up to date about the Rotary Club 5k/10k race scheduled for April 28 around Mantua Reservoir. Posters are going up around town. This should provide us a great new fundraising opportunity.


Larry Boyer reminded everyone to look forward to next weeks presentation from Honeyville Farms. Hope to see you all there!