The Blair Rotary Golf Tournament is scheduled for October 3rd.  If you can help out please contact Bob Hill at the Rivers Wild Golf Course.

Matching funds are available for those individuals who have not yet become Paul Harris Fellows. Please contact Dan Veskrna to find out how your gifts to the Rotary Foundation can be doubled.

Notes from the August 12th  Meeting - Program Chair Bob Schmoll

Rotary members met on the Dana College campus for lunch and then toured the expansion and renovation project currently going on in the Dana Athletic Facility.  The project is the final phase in a series of projects which began nearly five years ago with the installation of practice fields for football and soccer, a new competition soccer field, renovations to the men's and women's locker rooms, expansion of the weight room, renovation/restoration of the track and new restrooms for the swimming pool.

The project, which is nearing completion, consists of 34,200 square feet of new construction with 14,400 square feet of renovation.  The new spaces include a new three court gymnasium (seating capacity with bleachers 3,226), five new offices, a new concession area, an elevator, reception desk and a concourse (between the old building and the new) which will accommodate up to 290 people. Renovated spaces include offices (10); a new classroom, a completely remodeled weight room, a new women's locker room with room to accommodate 68 lockers; a new conference room and new public restrooms (an increase of 44 stalls).

 If you were unable to attend the meeting and would like to tour the building, the College will be having an open house for the facility in September or October.  Official dedication is scheduled for October 11th, the weekend of Homecoming at Dana.   

Rotary Question of the Week

What are the four objects of Rotary?

Rotary Fact of the Week (from  the RI or District Website)

The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:

FIRST. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;

SECOND. High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society;

THIRD. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life;

FOURTH. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.

 Thought of the Week

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."    - Stephen Covey

August Birthdays
Dave Ward 5th
Neal Smith 20th
Kirk Hutton 24th