As members and guests were logging in for the Zoom meeting, they enjoyed an informal conversation.  One of the pieces of information shared was from Warren Williamson, who said that Son Hee told him there were 1,000 yards of yarn and 26,000 stiches in the scarf she created and offered for auction to support the community service project taking place on July 29. 

 

Ed Koeneman shared that a student is helping him convert a 1994 Chevrolet S-10 Pickup to be the first and only all-electric Chevy S-10 in Arizona when they are finished.  He said they have made a lot of progress.

 

John Pennypacker was checking his ability to attend a Zoom meeting while driving.  He was on his way to pick up Chuck Flint.

 

Andrea Murphy confessed she is obsessed with VW buses, but doesn't drive theirs.  Her husband has owned it since he was nineteen.  

 

Pam Cohen was attending from her "she shed" travel trailer in Flagstaff where she is continuing to enjoy cooler weather as well as the opportunity to spend time with her grandson, Wilder.

 

Given the subject of the program, a few VW stories were shared.  Pam worked at a VW dealership when she was in high school.  Chris tried to get Pam to confess that she had hauled a hog in a VW bug when she was much younger, but Pam denied that story saying it was actually a Porsch she used to haul the hog.  Warren Williamson had a neighbor who drove a VW Bus to work.  When he arrived home at night, he parked it in the driveway, turned the motor off, put it in neutral and pushed it into the garage.  Warren still wonders why...

 

President Dan called the meeting to order at Noon and began the meeting by reciting the Rotary Vision Statement.  He asked Jeanie Morgan to offer the invocation.

 

Colleen Coons began by saying "everyone has a gift."  Rotary creates value through a network of 1.2 million friends, leaders and problem solvers who each use their gifts to solve problems, and effect positive change in the world, their communities and in themselves.