Sunday

OPENING
 

Brent Adams presided today, “You can tell that all the real leadership of the club left town today.”
Greeters:  Jeff Long, Eric Groom
Invocation:  Sharon Larson
Flag Salute:  Paul Elias

(No pictures because the battery in our photographers camera died.)

VISITING ROTARIANS AND GUESTS
 

MEMBER RECOGNITION, ANNOUNCEMENTS AND BRAGS
 

Brent Adams gave us the Rugby Update.  The A team is playing at Delta Park in the final four on Saturday and the B team is play for the championship.

Steve Battaglia noted his son’s successes with the Mac Hi track team.

Kristi Brill gave us her informative-as-usual review of the latest Rotary magazine.  Our International President is concerned about the drop in membership among North American clubs.  (Isn’t it encouraging to see the growth of our own membership!)  One club has organized the collection and implantation of 9,000 pacemakers in Central America—“Pacemakers can be Peacemakers”.  Al Jubitz, owner of the I-5 truck stop has donated $50,000 for the training of international peacemakers.  Kristi noted there was interest at her table about the article on “getting along with difficult people” (hinting that this could have been an immediate, at-the-Rotary-Meeting application).

Richard Weed was called forward to recognize his dependable and very considerable service with our exchange program (he probably spent 30-40 hours this last week).  Thanks Richard for modeling SERVICE ABOVE SELF so very well.

Kourtney Fjelland, Student of the Month, of the Marketing and Business department at Mac Hi as introduced by Kris Olsen.  She was with us four years ago as one of our Four-Way Test Speech Contest speakers.  She is in the top 5% of her graduating class.  She has served in a variety of clubs.  She supervises over 20 students as she manages the Action Corner.  And she has enjoyed considerable success on the Cross Country and Tennis teams.  She is planning to attend OSU this fall.* (Detail of Kourtney's recognition is below)

MAIN EVENT

Linda Shannon, along with help from Donna McGeein, presented “Shared Hope for Healing: De-Mystifying Equine Therapy”.  She noted her pleasure at being with us and our “humanitarian spirit”.  Horses can be used in a variety of therapeutic and developmental ways.  “The outside of a horse is good for the inside of men” observed Winston Churchill. Involvement with animals much larger than ourselves builds self esteem, empowerment, companionship, and endurance. Also we can learn compassion, empathy and trust for involvement with horses.  Involvement with horses builds personal growth, problem solving skills, and patience. Adults and especially children involved with violence and abuse are being aided by a wide variety of horse-based programs.

 

Linda signed a book for our Early Reader program. Next week, Warden Jeff Thomas of the Federal Correction Institution will be our speaker.

 

 

* Fellow Rotarians, it’s my pleasure to introduce to you one of McMinnville High School’s student-of-the-month for the month of April, senior Kourtney Fjelland, representing Marketing. Kourtney is the daughter of Jeff and Vickie Fjelland.  She has a younger brother, Ryan (16), a sophomore at McMinnville High School. Kourtney attended Memorial Elementary and Patton Middle School before enrolling at McMinnville High School in her freshman year. Kourtney currently holds a 3.96 grade point average and is ranked in the top 5% of her class of 503 graduates, and she has been on honor roll each semester throughout her high school career.  This semester, she is enrolled in Advanced Placement Statistic, Aerobics, College Writing, the Action Corner – Advanced Marketing, and is a staff aide. While in high school, Kourtney has been very involved in our school’s many activities.  She is our school’s Head Action Corner Manager supervising over 20 employees, is a member of Link Crew, participates in our Bear Buddies program, is Secretary of Crazy Devoted Fans, member of Doernbecher Club, Patch Club, has run Cross Country (4 years), played Varsity Tennis (4 years), was News Register Athlete of the Week, and MAC Club Award winner for Cross Country. Outside of school, Kourtney is a tennis instructor for the Duniway Tennis Club, works with students at Carlton Elementary as a reading buddy, and attends many USTA tennis events. Her future plans include attending Oregon State University where she plans to major in Business. Kourtney’s best memories of high school are going to state in tennis with her doubles partner, cross country for four years, and of course homecoming.

SPECIAL REPORT FROM 2008 DISTRICT CONFERENCE

Nicky Nielsen, McMinnville Rotary's 4 Way Test speech contest winner, presented her speech to a large crowd at this year's District Conference held in Pendleton, Oregon on Saturday April 26. It was announced during the noon luncheon following the contest that Nicky had placed first. She was presented the First Place certificate by 4-Way Test District contest chair Rich Koplan. Adding to Nicky's positive experience at the District Conference, Nicky won a Pendleton Blanket, one of the door prizes given away at the Saturday evening banquet. Nicky was escorted to Pendleton by Ray and Yasuko Fields.

"When meeting day comes around, I do not have to decide whether to attend or not, for that has already been decided for me . . . it was one of the obligations I accepted when I joined Rotary." -- A Rotarianan
 

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