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Officious Newsletter of Yerington Rotarians March 23, 2014

Meetings: Tuesday Evening 7:30 PM Dini’s Lucky Club

President silent auction a money raiser we need to Kathie Mann Newsletter have people at the dance to buy them. 463-4265 Prices 463-3794 We need to sell dance tickets as well. Secretary Don’t forget, we no longer have our big Ann Rudolph Program Schedule: NIC fundraiser and each fundraiser we 463-5803 Mar. 25 – Steve Singer – Amy hold is critical to the club’s success. Treasurer Geddes - new library director April 1 – Mary Swirsky – Blind Get out and sell tickets!!!! Tom Price Requests for help with the food will be 463-3794 Dog Coffee April 8 – Tina Breese – Wine Shop coming from Peggy. We also need @ Home volunteers for set-up on Saturday at Board Members 8:30am and for clean-up on Sunday Term thru 6/14 April 15 – April 22 – morning at 8:30am. Sleep in on Sunday Tim Dake May – Rest Area Picnic and Trail and go out for breakfast after we finish. 750-4926 Hike with Shipley & Lots of members working makes the Candy LoBue Peligrini time worked shorter and a lot more fun. 463 -2677 Please help Lucy with filling these See you there. James Neely dates!!!!!! 316-1239 Mountain View Park Trees: The second half of our community Tim Ogle Upcoming Events: service project is proceeding. We have 463- 4694 March 29 Spring Dinner/Dance April 26 Rotarians at Work Day purchased 10 Choke Cherry trees to be Ann Rudolph planted along the west boundary of the 463-5803 Greeter List: park. Four of the trees have trunks about 1.5 inches in diameter. The 3-25 Valerie Stanley & Jennelle Term thru 6/15 Hanson nursery claims we can move them, but Earl Chambers 4-1 Tim Ogle & John Murray the other six have trunks about 3 inches in diameter and we will need something 463-5903 4-8 Carrie Giomi & Bev Hanson 4-15 Dennis Rechel & Al McNeil like a backhoe to move them. We will Carrie Giomi be planting them sometime in April, 463-4382 4-22 Judy Price & Walter Breese 4-29 Ted Rudolph & Tina Breese maybe Rotarians at Work Day. Dennis Rechel 463-4924 Spring Dance: Our fund-raiser YHS 20/30 Relays: James Schreiber will be here in no time (this coming We have always helped pay for the 463-3377 weekend, actually). The number of trophies at this meet. We have $500 in Kerry Stevens tickets placed in the baskets for our budget for that purpose this year. Last year we not only gave the budgeted 230-6375 drawings do not equal the cost of the raffle items. We all need to get $500, but at a joint meeting with the out and sell them. To make the Lions Club we passed the hat and raised another $480. The total bill for trophies this year is just over than $1,000. Do we want to from $12.50 to $13.00. He also raised the minimum contribute more than the $500 budgeted? Talk to number we have to pay for per meeting from 32 to our President or our Board members. We do get 36. For five weeks in a row we have not made this some nice publicity about paying for the trophies in minimum and it has cost the club $208 for unused the event program. meals. Kathie will talk to George to see if he will lower this number. Recent Programs: Mike Hardesty Memorial Scholarship: Gary Lacy Parrott, Assistant Fire Chief of Mason Valley Hardesty and Joe Giomi were at the meeting to Fire Department, presented an interesting program discuss this scholarship with the Board. This will on the Explorers junior firefighter program. There be a scholarship for use at an industrial were a surprising number of current officials who arts/technical school at $1,000 per year. It will have been through this program. Some have usually be for one year, but depending on the continued in the fire fighting business. This type of program could go for longer. Gary and the program in Mason Valley is what got Lacy Scholarship Committee have this covered for the interested in being a firefighter. Adam was at the next two years and hope to use benefits to cover it meeting. He also went through this program and is as needed. Joe will see that a plaque is made to list now a working firefighter with the Hawthorne the recipients. The Board voted to support this Depot. scholarship in memory of Mike with the Scholarship Committee and donors taking care of Lucy provided a very thought provoking program as the cost for the next two years and Joe providing a fill in for a late cancellation. We were fortunate to the plaque. Motion passed. have this program. Originally she was asked by a rancher to provide a talk at his bull sale and this was Interact Fundraiser: Tim Ogle presented to the the basis for Lucy’s talk. She provided statistics to Board the club’s plan to have a 5K and 10K run show how much more efficient ranchers in the U. S. fundraiser. Medals and t-shirts for the event will are at producing beef today. It is the third world cost $2,000. Tim asked that Rotary set aside the that has a very high carbon footprint for the amount money in our budget for Interact toward this event. of beef they produce. Lucy raised the questions: He also requested that Rotarians help to run the rd Are U.S. ranchers responsible to feed the world? event on May 3 . The funds raised will be used to and should they expect to make a profit. This was a send Interact members to the Rotary Conference. A program that caused many to think about this motion was passed to fund this event to at least subject in a new way. $500. Motion passed.

Spring Dinner Dance Silent Auction YHS Yearbook support request: It was agreed to continue support by a sponsorship ad in the amount items: Rebekah Harrison is in charge of of $60. organizing the silent auction. She asks that items be dropped off at her home or with Kathie at Unique Request to fund kid’s pheasant hunt for $500: Nails. She can be reached at This request was tabled pending further [email protected] or (775) 230- information. 6876 if you have questions. She needs to know in advance what the silent auction items will be so she Request to schedule dinner at meetings for can set up bid lists for the dance. 7:00pm, one/half hour earlier than usual: The Board wanted member input and will consider this Board Meeting 3-10-14: item at their next Board meeting in April. Treasurer’s report: We made $2,200 after the Super Bowl event was paid for. A reminder was made to the group that we have $470 invested in the smoker and propane and have not sold enough raffle tickets to equal out this expense. George Dini’s price raise and minimum number raise: George has increased the price of our meals