Announcements/Business:
- Elevation Celebration will be on July 24th and 25th.
- The Food Drive will be taking place Saturday, May 8, 2021 from 10 AM – 3 PM in the parking lot at the First Bank in Aspen Park. All food collected will go to local Food Pantries: Mountain Resource Center, LifeBridge, and Widow’s Oil.
- Donated items can include: canned vegetables, canned fruit, canned pasta, fruit juice, cereal, peanut butter, tuna, beans, soup, oatmeal, pasta, rice, grocery store gift cards, cash.
- The Colorado Haiti Project is having a virtual meeting called Evening with Haiti, they’re going to honor Marcia Walsh from Evergreen who is active with Rotary as well. If anyone wants to join April 25th at 5:00PM, let Pat know she’s getting the info on how to join.
- Pat is still working on the scholarship committee with Dean. They are trying to get scholarship applications from students from Platte Canyon, they already have a few from Conifer High - the deadline is this Friday 5 pm.
- Morti is reviewing an old list of speakers and noticed there are numerous members who spoke in the past. Any members that would like to speak in June, July, or August please email or text Morti to get on the list.
- Kristi: the chamber is doing their trash pick up on the 22nd. If Rotary wants to do it on that day as well it’s an option.
- Yvonne has the big jar to fill for our guessing game and Leonor has offered to get it posted on coniferfest.com.
- Janine presented the Paul Harris Fellow recognition to Kristi. Congratulations!
- Marlis shared information about Water for Peace in Papua New Guinea. In 2018, several villages inhabited by five cultural groups agreed to put aside past conflicts so they could enjoy the water supply. The system supplies clean water to 3,000 residents in 8 villages for the first time ever, comes from a spring and has a gravity feed system making maintenance easy, and is a fine example of what Rotary Foundation contributions support.
- Contact Denise for information on Action for Peace Scholarships.
- We are having the Evergreen Rodeo this year on June 19th & 20th. The Evergreen Rodeo Board is in the midst of planning and Marty is starting to ‘round-up’ volunteers. More information can be found: https://evergreenrodeo.com/