August 25, 2014, Club Bulletin, # 522

Program for August 25, 2014:  Trinity Muscatine...Clinical Operations with Leatha Wagner

Invocation by: Nathan Mather

Happy News: Erika Cox is a happy finisher of the Warrior Dash 5K.  Diana Gradert is proud of her grandson who is now the at the University of Illinois working as the Sports Manager and her granddaughters are heading off to college!! Karen Diercks is proud of her granddaughter who won Best in Show at the Iowa State Fair by showing her dog and obedience skills!! Cristian Lopez is happy because his two children could hardly wait for school to start today at Mulberry!!  He also is very grateful for the hospitality of our community!!

Keith Porter reminded us of the School Supplies drive our Good Will Project for August and thanked us for the $177.00 and many supplies donated last week!  Mike Ruby provided the latest news on Norm Smith and suggested he would like visitors.  He is at Lutheran Homes recuperating!!

Tony mentioned that we still need a Good Will Projects Chair. He also reminded us to check our weekly Club Runner newsletter.  It may be heading into your Spam folder!! Check it out!!

Program: Bob Allbee introduced Rotarian Bret Olson who presented an informative update of programming at the Muscatine Family Y!!  Bret has been at the Y for 6 years now.  There are 9500 members with 1000 of those on scholarships.  The Y has 6 program areas including the gym, pool and weight area, Family Services, Special Olympics, Big Brother Big Sister, Character Development and Youth Development.  Our Y is very affordable and is looking at expanding.  The current facility was built for 6000 members and has it's growing pains. Expansion plans are being discussed by the Y Board and will be shared with the community in the near future.

Bret is proud of the Y, the staff and the Muscatine Community...making it a great team effort!!