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President Chris Krueger opened the meeting with Wendell Jones offering the invocation and Jim McGown leading the Pledge of Allegiance.Guests
District Governor Jim Erickson and his wife, Maryanne were introduced. Other visiting Rotarians were Jim Bissonett of Rotary Club of the Southwest who serves as District Foundation Chair, and
Noel DeSousa of Prescott Frontier Rotary Club who serves as Executive Assistant Governor. Erwin Reiman of Rapid City, South Dakota will be visiting for the season. Robert LaBarge and Andrea Murphy had a rare opportunity to break from their teaching duties to attend our meeting. Andrea introduced Westwood High School Interact Club members, Colton Cagle (currently serving as Interact District Governor), and Shakima Fagan, their Club President. Assistant Governor Lee Holmes was visiting from Superstition Mountain Rotary Club. Jack Rosenberg introduced his granddaughter, Sammi Rosenberg. Alex Hopkins, Immediate Past District Governor of District 5030 was also visiting.
Drawings
Carolyn Jones was the winner of the weekly attendance drawing. Chuck Flint announced that the weekly raffle winnings would be $25 and if the holder of the ticket drawn were to be lucky enough to draw the Ace of Clubs, they would win $102. Frank Rosenberg was the holder of the winning ticket. He had his daughter, Sammi shuffle the cards and try to draw the ace. Unfortunately, she drew the Queen of Diamonds.
Buck Board
Chuck Flint explained our buck board for the benefit of the many guests who were present. There are 100 squares on the board, with ten columns across and ten rows down. Individuals can purchase as many squares as they wish at a cost of $10 each. Members can charge their purchases to their club account, but guests must pay cash for any squares purchased. When the board is full, $1,000 will have been collected. Cards will be drawn to give values to the rows and columns. Those cards will then be re-shuffled and drawn with lines drawn through the column or row with that assigned value until only one square remains. The holder of that square will have $1,000 donated in their name to the annual fund of The Rotary Foundation and receive Paul Harris Fellow credit and the tax deductible receipt for that donation. After explaining the board, Chuck circulated with the board for anyone who wished to purchase squares on the Buck Board.
Happy Bucks
- Robert LaBarge told some brief stories about some of his experiences in his new teaching job in Pinon, Arizona. It is a very small community. He has attended a pow wow for the community and regularly sees his students and/or their parents at the local Bashas or laundromat. He says there is a lot of apathy about education in the community. He would like to see some revitalization of a culture of education.
- Lucinda announced that some time in the future she will be bringing an auction item from Las Vegas. It will need to be cleaned with WD40.
- Dick Myren donated $1 in the tradition of honorary member Rod Daniels. He also donated $27 celebrating his and Sandy's 27th wedding anniversary on Friday, October 5.
- Bob Zarling contributed as he was happy to be finished with his homeowners association finance committee and trip planning committee duties.
- Andrea Murphy contributed stating it was an honor to teach students like Colton and Shakima. Penny May contributed for a near future vacation cruise which will include a stop in Cuba.
- Wendell Jones donated. He was happy to have gone on a road trip with his family. While on the trip they attended a conference in Salt Lake City and was sad to say BYU lost the football game they were able to attend.
- Jim Schmidt was happy to say that even though the October 15 corporate tax deadline was looming, Mesa West Rotary members in the accounting profession were present at the meeting.
- Jim Bissonett was happy that half of the Cast of "You're A Good Rotarian" were present at the meeting.
- John Pennypacker was happy to be nearly finished with his current dental upgrade project.
- Noel DeSousa reminded members that the RYLA food packing project needs to raise money to support the project. The meals packed stay in Arizona. Donations which qualify for Arizona Tax Credit can be made to Manzanita Outreach to support the project. Noel was also happy about Mesa West and Gift of Life Arizona combined investment of $2,500 in a Rotary Foundation grant which supported neonatal equipment for a hospital in Caborca, Mexico.
- Erwin Reiman announced that he met Penny May when he was visiting our club last spring. Soon after meeting Penny, he ran into her in the community where they both stay during their seasonal visits to Arizona. Erwin told Penny that he and his wife were planning a trip to Alaska this past summer, and Penny invited them to visit her at her home in Alaska.
Announcements
- President Chris announced she had received an e-mail about a Polio Immunization trip to India in January-February 2019. She encouraged anyone who wants to know more to e-mail her to get more information.
- Bob Zarling invited Colton and Shakima to go to the podium to talk about their Purple Pinkie Project at Westwood High School Interact Club to raise money at their school to support Rotary's polio eradication efforts. They announced they were going to stay after the meeting to allow interested Rotarians to participate. Their goal for the Purple Pinkie Project this year is $1,000. They said they have standing room only at their Interact Club meetings which occur before school on Wednesdays.
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Official greeter, Jack Rosenberg, welcomed Rotarians and guests to the meeting, which opened with Dick Myren offering the Invocation and Bob Zarling leading the Pledge of Allegiance. Ray Smith led those present in song. 
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