Our meeting of August 27th was commenced with Tim McCall presiding as President, Monty East was our greeter, Steve Sarantopolous led the pledge, Steve Spiller gave the Thought of the Day and Bob Long served as Assistant Sergeant at Arms.

Rocky Robertson could not be our speaker of the day as his presence was needed at the salt flats due to heavy rain. Hopefully he will be able to speak to us at a later date.

Richard Toothman announced our visiting Rotarian, Dave Walker, of the Penn Valley Club.

Scott McFarland introduced his guest Dan and Kelly introduced his guest Teresa.

Announcements:

Susan Fivelstad announced that the little library group will meet immediately after today's meeting.

Jan Friend – She is our “official” lost and found person as she is the holder of two matching his and hers brown hoodies that were left at the Lacy J. Dalton concert.

Steve Spiller – Reported on the Membership Committee Seminar that was held in Incline Village. The next seminar will be held September 15th to talk about New Generations and Public Image.

John Peplowski is looking for a green oblong table and was wondering if Jan had it in her lost and found bag as a joke.

Rod Fivelstad reported that over 138 Rotarians attended the game in Reno to support Polio Plus.

Valerie Logsdon announced that our exchange student is here. Her name is Belle and she's from Brazil. She got here on Monday and went to Nevada Union High School the very next day. She even served at our benefit concert at the Kid's drink area. She will be at our next meeting. Yay Belle! We are so glad she's here.

Pat Ward gave the Rotary Minute featuring Lacy J. Dalton's song “Is it the Truth” honoring the four way test.

Eric Trygg got fined several times for being the lucky one that got to be Lacy J Dalton's companion/escort while she was here. He, and others, were very impressed and delighted with Lacy. She was kind, genuine, sweet, gracious, down-to-earth, and super sweet. In the end, Eric became a bell ringer at the demand of the entire club chanting “bell ringer!” as his punishment for getting the most enjoyable job of the concert. Also mentioned was Lacy's passion to help save the wild horses and it was suggested that we may want to individually donate to this worthy cause.

President Tim and others spent the rest of the meeting acknowledging certain individuals who went above and beyond to make the concert a success. He also acknowledged every single member of the club and other Rotary clubs in the area that put service above self to help support our beloved Mike Johnson and the benefit fund.

Marsha gave a run down of the financials of the concert to date.