The Holland Chorale Dickens Quartet will be singing for our meeting.

The Club members present elected Mark Recoulley and Mike Moraw to serve on the board of directors. Congratulations!

 

Kathy DeVries gave a summary of the international work. The Homa Bay, Kenya market is a large public market that has no sanitary facilities. The Kisumu Rotary Club (who we have partnered with before) was doing a disease spread survey during COVID and identified this market as a major disease spreading point. Our club and Kisumu now have a global grant project to build bathroom facilities that include clean water distribution. Our Kenyan silage project, that was completed a few years ago, has raised the income of the participating farmers from 3-10 times. Our partnership with the Running Strong non-profit has completed many water and food projects on the Pine Ridge reservation.

 

Catherine Ristola Bass reported that the Life Leadership, Interact, and International Youth Exchange programs have been doing well. We are hoping to bring back the Leaders of the 21st Century program.

 

Gary Bogle reported that our book houses are being well used. We received a donation of 10,000 books this year for that program. The highway cleanup and Holiday bell ringing headed up by Mike Moraw continue.

 

Carol Swartz gave a summary of the Afghan family resettlement that we worked with this year. The family is doing well and is self-supporting.

 

Janet Huyser could use 2 people to help her with membership activities in the club. She thanked David Meier for everything that he has done to keep the club together by arranging meeting space and meals.