August 20, 2005

Last Week’s Program...
Matt Gunterman, a Rotary Scholar, spoke to the Club about Progress on the Green. Progress on the Green, of which he is the founder and president, is a service organization based in McLean County. Their mission is to help rural communities through advanced technology. One of their programs is the County Scholar Program which is designed to help twelve promising high school students in McLean County engage in their creative side to fulfill their individual goals. Another program set to begin later this year will provide McLean County High School graduates with a permanent forwarding email address which will enable anyone in the future to contact individual graduates. IHAQ or "I Have A Question" is another program, similar to the County Scholar Program, except this helps all students by giving them a website at which to ask questions about available resources for higher education. The last program, hopefully to be realized in three to five years, is the Coal Field Initiative. This program will enable children in our region to be in contact with children in similar rural communities around the world.

Thank you Matt!

Attendance: 84

Highest Attendance This Year: 108

Invocation, Pledge & 4-Way Test: Grey Hurt

Fellowship Report: Clay Ford

Meeting Makeups: Martel Wightman, Sim Davenport and Flem Gordon.

Introduction of Guests: Jarred Barron introduced his guest, Mike Sopchak; Jim McGown introduced his guest, Diane Ford. George Henderson, Jr. and Larry D. Yates of the Daviess County Rotary Club attended.

Thought for the Week:  Blessed are the flexible for they shall not be bent out of shape!

ROTARY ANNOUNCEMENTS...
• Bruce Brubaker reminded the Club that for the second year in a row Owensboro’s Southern Little League would be playing in the Little League World Series. Bruce asked that the hat be passed around for a collection to help the parents of the team travel to the games. The "hat" produced $364.00. Bruce will present this gift, along with $1,100.00 already pledged, to the team at a Wednesday night fundraiser. Thanks everyone for your support of Owensboro’s youth.
• John Kurtz reminded everyone about the Float the Boat Fundraiser scheduled for 6:30 p.m. August 25th at Old National Bank. There will be a social hour and auction. Let John know if you have items or services available for the auction.
• Indoor Playground contributions and/or pledges may be mailed to Jeff Ebelhar, Owensboro Rotary Foundation Treasurer, at the following address:

Jeff Ebelhar
100 W. Third Street
P.O. Box 1824
Owensboro, KY 42302-1824

YOUR PRESIDENT SPEAKS:  LET'S FLOAT THE BOAT!
I hope to see all of you at the Club's "Float the Boat" party and auction on Thursday, August 25, 2005, at 6:30 p.m. at Old National Bank's main office at 123 West Fourth Street. Be sure to R.S.V.P. to John Kurtz at 926-8553 or at john@kurtzauction.com. This event will be fun and will help us raise the remaining funds to complete the Indoor Playground.

The major components of the Playground, including the Tree House complex with bridge, the Train Station and Crawl Tubes are on site and ready to be installed. The paddlewheel boat with the Rotary logo on the paddlewheel will be the centerpiece of the installation. Your board decided at the beginning of this project not to spend money on the project until it was received. We hope this auction will generate the funds to complete this project. I know you will all be pleased with the completed project and be proud to have our Club's name on it!

If you have items or services to be auctioned, let John know. See you there!

Have a great week!

Bill

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO...
Steve Cabell - August 20
Tony Dunn - August 20
Gavin Roberts - August 22
Tom Ed Booth - August 23

ROTARY REMINDERS
• Don’t forget to make up your missed meetings at Daviess County Rotary, 7 a.m. on Tuesdays at Heavenly Ham Restaurant in Towne Square North.
• John Kurtz is the program chair for August.
• Clay Ford will be at the Fellowship Table during August.
• If you have an email address and are not receiving the Impetus online, or you have changed your email address, please send an email to kim@mediaworksadvertising.com and you will be added to the Rotary email address list.
• Log on to Rotary’s website at www.owensbororotary.org. You’ll find our current member directory, photos of new members, past copies of the Impetus, some interesting history, and more!

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UPCOMING PROGRAMS
August 31- Clint Hardy - Daviess County Ag Extension Agent

2005 - 2006 OWENSBORO ROTARY CLUB OFFICERS
President: Bill Dexter
Vice President: John Kurtz
Past President: Pat McFarling
Secretary: Tish Correa-Osborne
Treasurer: Bob Nation
Directors: Tim Bradshaw, Patty Ray, Noel Maddox, John Kazlauskas, John Medley, and Sister Suzanne Sims

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