Meeting of February 19th

A small group of hardy Rotarians who made it through rain and sleet this morning welcomed Kamal Shankardass from the noon club and our speaker Chris Krucker.

There were no announcements – none of the “senior team” of past, present and future Presidents and Vice-Presidents was present, so the kids played hooky and moved straight to Happy Dollars.

Wayne Massey was back from 2 weeks trying unsuccessfully to help Ralph improve his golf game; apparently alligators got in the way. Bruce, Bill, George and Kamal had all returned from vacations in the sun – George having renewed his wedding vows of 25 years on the beach in Antigua.  Dave had returned from skiing and was looking forward to some sleep after babysitting his new granddaughter over Family Day weekend. Art was happy with the highest ever number of tickets sold for the Routes Dinner this weekend, but could not afford a Happy Dollar, so Jessica obliged. Carl brought us up to date on the tricky funding negotiations of the Grightmire Arena project – which should now proceed in two phases.