The State of the City!!



Annette Basso

We started off our meeting on Thursday with a very special presentation.  For those of you who were not in attendance you missed out on an inspiring event.  Carl presented Annette with her second Paul Harris Fellow award for her selfless donations to the Rotary Foundation.  Annette is a Rotarian we should all emulate and aspire to be like as we fulfil our obligations in this Rotary club.  Congratulations, Annette and thanks for all you do as a Rotarian and as a person.  We are honored to have you in our club.

In other happenings, after a weak effort of Horse Play by our Sgt. of Arms, we had the Assistant City Manager for the City of St. George, Marc Mortensen, give us a state of the City update.  The benefit of having Marc speak to our club is that he knows everything and has all the inside information and he is happy to share that with our club.  He updated us on construction projects, tax revenues, building permit applications and everything else we had questions on.  Thanks Marc for spending some time with us.

A Blogging Smorgasboard!

We have had quite the goings on since our lazy blogger's last entry  back some time in April.  The Ironman has come and gone and our Aid Station #4 was a big hit with the athletes.  In this picture we see on of the many volunteers who mad the event one to remember.  We love and appreciate all the athletes who trained so hard and survived the swim and the run to make it to our aid station to keep us in business.

In our most recent meeting on the 10th of May, we had Dr. Reed Juassi come and educate the club on the eye and how it is affected by glaucoma.  John Johnson, our club eye expert, was throwing out all this terminology acting like he knew what was going on.  This presentation was very informative and the things we learned will help us determine the early warning signs of glaucoma.

In an other meeting, we were privileged to have our local Marine Recruiter, Sgt. Martin, come speak to our club.  He was very well spoken and did a good job sharing with us the benefits of joining the military and if this blogger wasn't over the hill I would be in his office tomorrow. 

We look forward to the summer and the passing of the gavel from President Wilcox to President Wittwer.  We appreciate the extra long reign provided by President Wilcox and his selfless service to our club.