• RYLA Service---To start Linda’s year…..our club is serving breakfast, Thursday, July 2 at 7:15AM at Twin Lakes Family YMCA, 1902 S Bell Blvd (or  204 E Little Elm Trail per Google), Cedar Park.  We have six slots for breakfast and have two filled. All volunteers will need to fill out a form for background checks AND take the 30 minute online “Protecting Youth Program Participants” course. All club members are encouraged to take the course, it’s good to have. More volunteers are needed. 

   

•  FUNDRAISER---Last month’s board meeting…created a plan for a fundraiser AND to announce the Club Swag store. We have a committee!…now onto work.   Good planning=good results! 

   

•  ROTARY ROCKSTARS---It’s official! ….South Austin Rotary was one of 8 (out of 58) District Clubs that completed the Rotary Rockstar Challenge!!  Thank you Pam Blankenzee for making sure the South Austin pictures, stories, service projects all got told and loaded onto all our Public Image mediums!

Induction of our newest member—Mark Pecina by District Governor Elect, Jeff Coleman.  Mark has added his photo and his bio in ClubRunner, please get to know our newest member!

Presentation to  Shirley Diepenbrock a pin, pendant and crystal for her Bequest recognition to the Rotary Foundation by PDG Shannon Coleman

Elvia first became a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin where she taught civil rights, employment and family law and writing seminars on gender, sexuality and the law. She is Professor Emerita of Law from Northern Illinois University (NIU), DeKalb, Illinois. At NIU she taught constitutional law, family law, gender,  sexuality and the law, civil rights litigation and a research seminar that grew out of her work with women on the Mexican border — Women, Law and the Global Economy. 

Dawn Lewis presented two flags that she has recently be given one from the Woodbridge, Virginia club and one from the Alamo Heights, Texas club! She’s on her way to Missouri next and will visit clubs there while promoting TerraClear Foundation..  Yeah, for our traveling representative!

Our guest, Peggy, won the opportunity to draw; she selected the 4 of Diamonds, so no winner today.  The pot is at about $900.

Mickie – her non-profit received one ton of food from the Central Texas Food Bank and they are expanding the facility by adding 180 beds in the near future!

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.   If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. 
– Desmond Tutu

Patrick – space glass

Dawn – getting an EV after being rear-ended

Sherrick – Christmas music

Simon – grandchildren

Jenny – shoes (because of her bunions)

Steve – his daughter, Amy, who is in vet school

Amber – Jeff & Shannon Coleman