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MEETING IN PERSON: MORE THAN $50,000! Beginning Tuesday, March 23, 2021, we will resume During the fiscal year that began July 1, 2020, our meeting at Lafayette Country Club. As before, meals members have contributed more than $50,000 to must be reserved and paid for in advance. The cost is Lafayette Rotary Club Foundation and our still $16. Note that our meeting on March 30, 2021 will endowment! Most of the donations have come be at the regular time, 12:00 pm. We hope to see you through birthday table checks. We have also received in March! $33,844 from the Community Foundation of Greater Lafayette as a distribution. These dollars enable us to BOOK MACHINE AT MIAMI SCHOOL: continue funding our projects and scholarships. Your donations helped to Thanks to all who have given so generously. purchase this book machine for the children of Miami Elementary FOUNDERS 1905 COFFEE COMPANY: School. Students are rewarded We have passed the $4,000 mark in sales! for good behavior or good Here is a quick and easy way to support Founders academic progress with a free 1905 Coffee Company: like and follow Founders 1905 book from this machine. They are Coffee Company on Facebook, then share one of the allowed to select the book they posts to your page! Quick, easy, and every order want. An additional $1000 has helps support our own Rotary projects - scholarships, been allocated from our funds to backpacks, wheelchair ramps and more! purchase books to put in the machine. This unique way of rewarding the children is having a very positive impact at Miami. Additionally, $1000 has been given to Miami for the purchase of playground equipment. Thank you for your monetary gifts! Donating to Lafayette Rotary

To donate to our Club’s current projects: MEALS FOR FOLKS WITH NEW JOBS: Make check payable to: Thanks to the efforts of those at LTHC Homeless Lafayette Rotary Club Foundation Services, some clients have been able to secure jobs. Thanks to YOU, we To donate to our Club’s endowment: collected more than 100 Make check payable to: Community lunch meals for them to Foundation of Greater Lafayette take to work. Thanks to with “Lafayette Rotary” in the memo.

GAIL BRICKLER for To donate to our Club’s international projects: doing some of the Make check payable to: District 6560 shopping, for collecting Foundation with "Lafayette Rotary the items and for International Fund" in the memo. delivering them to LTHC.

SCATTERGORIES EVENT - FEB 13TH: The two teams were evenly matched with each winning one round and a tie for the third round. We declared both teams equally smart! Thanks to all who participated!