A Message from the Club President

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June 19, 2008

The Klamath County Rotary Board will meet next Wednesday evening, June 25th, at 5:30 pm at KYDC. All members are welcome. This is your chance to help us shape what our club will do during the next year– this is a planning time for us, with President-Elect Jim Bellet taking the reins in two weeks.

Our club received a District 5110 presidential citation for this year because of the number and quality of our humanitarian projects, the quality of the weekly Bulletin, and increased membership. The club president also had to succeed in not messing things up too much as well to get the award.

One area that continues to be a problem for our club is attendance at weekly meetings, which is alleged to be the worst in the district. Most of you who are reading this would not be part of the problem or you wouldn’t be reading this. However, there are many club members who continue to pay dues but come only rarely to meetings and are not active in other activities of the club. The board is struggling with this problem. One point of view is that some of our members show their commitment by paying their dues, but are too busy at this phase of their lives to make meetings. Another viewpoint is that attendance at weekly meetings is an essential part of being a Rotarian, and that plenty of very busy members make the meeting every week, so maybe we should be thinking about being more strict about allowing members to stay in the club who have poor attendance. If you have an opinion about this issue the board meeting is a good place to express it.

This week’s program is one of a series of recent programs featuring successful and productive young people in our community. It certainly gives us hope for the future to see these intelligent, thoughtful and energetic young people.

Don’t forget that dues have to be in before July to qualify for the 10% discount.

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