ATTENDANCE:
March 8, 2013

Alyse Hunter is a lifetime resident of Lucas County and the wife of Nick.  She is involved in farming and helps manage the tree farm at Christmas. Alyse is the mother of four children and has one grandchild.  She has been a Financial Advisor with Ameriprise Financial since 1988.  She has worked with Ameriprise and her father since 1984.

Alyse is a 1983 graduate of Iowa State University with a degree in Family Environment where she majored in Housing and the Near Environment.

She has been a member of Chariton Historic Preservation Commission since its inception in 1996.  She is a current member of the Chariton Area Chamber/Main Street board, Design Division, Lucas County Preservation Alliance, and State of Iowa Historical Society board of trustees.

Danelle Stamps has a B.A. in English and a minor in History from Drake University.  She has a M.A. in interdisciplinary studies and Combined Masters degrees in History, English, Architectural Studies from Iowa State University.

Danelle has taught on campus and online classes in Composition, Technical writing, Children's and Science Fiction Literature at Des Moines Area Community College in Ankeny and Newton from 2005 to the present.  She has primarily been designing and teaching online classes from 2008-2013.  Danelle is the Beekeeper and also the Bookkeeper for The Stamps Family Farm where they raise Pastured Berkshire Pork, Poulet Rouge Chickens, and Icelandic Sheep.

She  has been an Independent Consultant for Historic House Restorations from 2001 to the present.   One of Danelle's projects was the ground up restoration of the Hatton House in Des Moines from 1999 to 2010.  It is a National Register for Historic Places landmark home, using the Secretary of the Interior's Guidelines.

Alyse and Danelle will share past experiences and background and give an update about the Historic Preservation.

Game Seventeen 3-5-13 - Illinois 55 - Iowa 63
Winning #29 - Dan Kent

Game Eighteen 3-9-13 Nebraska 60 - Iowa 74
Winning #28 - Art Ahrens (purchased by Jane Jones)

The Rotary board will meet this coming Friday, March 15th at 11:00 a.m. at Carpenter's Hall.

This is a great way to make up a missed meeting and to learn more about Rotary.

We thank Shantel Dow for her contact to bring Mel Johnson Jr., an Actor, Producer and Director to Rotary last Friday for a fun and interesting program.

Also, special thanks to Jeri Reeve who brought Mel to Chariton and took him back to Des Moines where he was performing at the Civic Center in Jekyl and Hyde Friday evening.

A big thank you to Sandra Knebel for a great article in the Chariton newspaper! 

The Relay for Life of Lucas County is proud to present "A Deadly Incentive" murder mystery play on March 16th at Carpenter's Hall.  The doors open at 6 p.m. and the dinner and play begin at 7:00 p.m.  Thelma will be serving her usual awesome buffet and we will be entertained by the likes of Tony Irving, Sheila Hoch, Amanda Coker, Ben Cohen and Joe and Shannon Allwood, among others.  The cost for the event is $25 per person in advance and $30 at the door.  All the proceeds go to the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life of Lucas County.  Please join us for murder, mayhem and a lot of fun and help support a great cause!

Advance tickets can be purchased at the Chariton Chamber office, Demichelis Law Firm or by contacting Jeri Reeve at 641-774-5194.

Rotary Coordinators and Rotary Public Image Coordinators put service into action on March 5 during a training event at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare in Rosemont, Illinois.

The coordinators formed teams to bag 16,000 packages containing rice, soy, dehydrated vegetables, and 21 vitamins and minerals for Kids Against Hunger, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to reduce the number of undernourished or starving children in the world.  The Fox Valley chapter of Kids Against Hunger is sponsored by the four Rotary clubs in Rock County, Wisconsin.

"We decided to do a hands-on service project to give them an activity to do together in great fellowship," said Jennifer Jones, who served as the moderator for the training event.  "The world has come together and it's fascinating to see these people side by side packaging food."

The bags were donated to the Northern Illinois Food Bank to benefit undernourished children in the Chicago area.

March 22
Program:  Fred Steinbach
Rotary Minute:  Jeanne Klaassen
Reader:  Becky Struve

March 29
Program:  Betty Hansen
Rotary Minute:  Sandra Knebel

April 5
Program:  Steve Bright
Rotary Minute:  David Laing
Reader:  Fred Steinbach
Prayer:  Larry Hirschy
Song Leader:  Veronica Fuhs

April 12
Program: 

April 19
Program:  Sandra Knebel
Rotary Minute:  Larry Hirschy
Reader:  Kris Milledge

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District Governor 2012-13 Terry & Peggy Geiger tlgeiger@grm.net
Assistant Governor - Mary Ellen Stanley - grandme@grm.net
District Adminstrator-Carolyn Scharff-877-976-8279-District Office-Pella
President, Rotary International 2012-13 Sakuji Tanaka, Yashio, Saitama, Japan

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Bill Shelton, President
Corliss Klaassen, Secretary/Treasurer
Kris Patrick, Immediate Past President
Veronica Fuhs, President-Elect

Board of Directors:
(Term ends 6/30/13)
Bill Ballard
Nancy McDonald

(Term ends 6/30/14)
Sandra Knebel
Becky Struve
Christopher Watkins

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      Is it the TRUTH?
second
      Is it FAIR to all concerned?
third
      Will it build GOOD WILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
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      Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?