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Andrea Thornton and Wink Jones kicked off our weekly meeting with the song, Pledge, prayer and 4Way Test. Rod McDowell then introduced our guests: visiting Rotarians Rod and Linda Pucinelli from California, Dennis Hanrahan's wife Danny, Vicki Johnson's husband Bill, Frank Taylor's wife Judith and Dave Shaw's wife Nancy. President Jan announced that our newest member, Grant Loveridge, will be coming into the fold next week. Rod McDowell needs volunteers to act as greeters. This is a terrific way to become more familiar with our newer members and it's easy duty as well. The next Spring Fling planning meeting will be at 6:30PM on February 7 at the Riverside. Terry Bowman reported that Dick Ennis continues to do very well and that Tom Reynolds will be having back surgery in the near future. 
Paul Harris Fellows
Andrea Thornton was presented with two awards, the Paul Harris + seven and the Paul Harris + eight! In addition to Andrea, John Verity and Mike Markley each got their Paul Harris + 2. Finally Dennis Hanrahan received his Paul Harris award. 
 
Happy Birthday Jan!
President Jan received a monster cake and a hearty rendition of "Happy Birthday" from our members and guests.
President Jan then reminded us of a number of upcoming events:
  • 2/6 Representative Fred Wood is our speaker. His Topic will be Medicaid Expansion
  • 2/9 Hearts in Service Gala at Hillcrest Country Club
  • 2/13 Julie Morgan is our speaker. Her presentation will be about STEM and will feature a demonstration of a 3-D printer
  • 3/7 Dixie Jazz Crawfish Boise at the Basque Center
 
John Verity announced that he and Dennis Hanrahan are headed to Guatamala to meet with the Semilla Nueva leadership to discuss our work with the RI Global Grant program. Andrea Thornton then took over as Sergeant at Arms and after fining a number of folks for various high crimes and misdemeanors, passed the mic around for Happy Dollars. George Weissbeck was $5 happy to have visited the new Idaho Museum, Lisa Vincent was $20 happy because her broken bone is on the mend, David Hawk was $5 happy about something that this reporter was unable to make out, Bob Rose was happy to have taken a cruise to Honduras with his family, Jon Seetin was happy to be celebrating his 45th wedding anniversary and Jan was happy to have been able to help out at Whittier School.
 
Our guest speaker was Amanda Cox, the co founder and co principal at Future Public School in Garden City. The Future Public School is a Charter School that specializes in STEM education. It was founded last year and already has 230 students, or "Engineers" as they are referred to. Her presentation was very interesting and you can get more information about the school at https://www.futurepublicschool.org/  
Russell Hampton
National Awards Services Inc.
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