Meeting Minutes March 10, 2011

Optimist Club Meeting Minutes 

March 10, 2011 by Susan

No speaker today

A small group of us showed up and had a blast this morning.  Special thanks to the following people who were able to make it on this rather drippy and windy morning.  Marv D., Marv T., Gene , Bob A., Gary, Noel, Alan, Steve, Barry, Joe and Susan.   Hope I didn't leave anyone off of this list.  

Bob led us in the pledge and Marv D.  said the invocation. 

Alan brought and article in about the importance of riding a bike in order to keep the doctor away.  Steve said he'd rather eat an apple then ride a bike and Barry suggested that Steve ride a bike while eating an apple.  

Member News:   

Bob A. made an announcement that next Monday, March 14th there will be a mid year Honor Cord Ceremony for the Scout Troop that we Sponsor.  It just so happen that this year there are to be 60 Merit Badges being awarded to the scouts.  Bob said this is extremely rare.  Unfortunantly, it does fall on our board meeting night as well.  Bob will get the information to Alan on the time and the location if you are interested in attending contact one of them or look for the e-mail talking about it.  Would be nice to have someone from the club go and support the Boy Scouts.  

Gary's Grandson, who came to show us his amazing talents in Taekwondo, will be getting his 2nd degree black belt this coming week.  He was also inducted into the National Honor Society I believe that is what Gary said.  So not only is he an expert in Taekwondo, he also is very smart!

Henry's wife just got out of the hospital.  She had a bad asthma attack, after not having any real problems for 10 years. It was also discovered she had some pneumonia in her lung.  She is doing much better now.  Plus I heard a muttering that Henry got a new travel trailer though didn't get the specifics.  

Wally got a blood transfusion due to some bad nosebleeds and is back home recovering from his health issues.  Hope you feel better soon Wally.  He mentoned that many of his friends have come by to offer him support and feed him meals and wants to thank everyone for their kindness for all he's been going through.  Get better soon Wally, we miss you at our meetings!

Jack's son, Ted and his family, are doing much better and are at home.  Jack and his wife Carol have taken their new motor home down to Champoeg State Park for some r/r for a few days.  So happy to hear that Ted and his family are doing better.  Thanks for the update Marv D.

Marv T. gave an update on the Golf Tournament.  He has not heard from Bill French yet, though he did say that the tournament would be either the end of September or early October and that it would be at the Forest Hills Golf Course in Forest Grove.  He talked about the cost for sponsoring a hole, which I believe he said would be either $ 100 or $ 125.  Kind of zoned out at this point as I had gotten my breakfast and forgot I needed to be taking notes.  

Susan gave an update on the dinner meeting on April 21st.  It will be at the Peppermill, a Silent Auction will start at 6:30pm, if you are interested in donating an auction item please contact Joan.  Dinner will start around 7pm and Joan hopes to get a friend of her's to come and chat to us from the Native Plant Sale.  It's going to be a fun evening so please plan to be there and bring a guest or a spouse.   Please let Susan know by April 18th if you plan to be there and how many you will be bringing.  Thanks. 

Don't forget, we want to fill the room on March 31, 2011 for the Award Ceremony for the Essay Contest winners.  Barry has asked that 10 extra chairs be out that day.  He hopes to bring in the outside judge that helped in this years contest.  

There is a Board Meeting on Monday at 6:30pm at the PAL Club.  Marv T. made a special announcement to say he would not be at this months board meeting because he and his friends were driving down to Bandon to golf 4 different courses in 4 days.  He did put in a side note that there have been several earthquakes 200 miles off of Bandon and so not only would he have to contend with this while he was golfing, but he also checked out the weather report and said he'd be dealing with driving rain and heavy wind as well.  So none the less we'll hold the board meeting without Marv T, and we'll all be happy our board meeting is inside where it is dry.  

Last week raffle winner was Marv D. he donated his winnings to the club.  And then he subsequently won this weeks raffle, so he'll have to come back next week to claim those winnings.  

This day in history was 1959: Tibetans ban together in revolt, surrounding the summer palace of the Dalai Lama in defiance of Chinese Occupation Forces.  Thanks Alan for this day in history.  

There was some discussion on what would happen at next weeks breakfast meeting.  I think we decided we were watching the Internet Safety Disk and Bob A. would bring his projector.   Alan also suggested we look at photographs on cd of our optimist in different activities.  Gary seemed to insert his own idea that we could watch the video he made up of the Nethercutt Auto Collection he went too I believe it was last year.  So come and find out next week what we are doing, either way it's great to hang out with all of the Optimist Club Members.  

Don't forget to check out our website at:  www.beavertonoptimist.webs.com  However this afternoon I have tried to get on and it just won't open anything up.  

Have a great week.