Due to the weather we will be having an online meeting this week. The connection instructions are in the email sent yesterday, or available at page/zoom-meeting-details
Scott Maloney's table won the The Queen of Hearts drawing. They are responsible for putting up the banners and selling tickets next week. There are 49 cards left, and the Queen is $80.
Grant Management Seminars
Do be eligible for matching grants from the Rotary District or International we need two people to attend a grant management seminar. Scott Maloney will be attending. The closest location will be 6pm on March 1st at the Middleburg Height Public Library. If you are able to attend please reach out.
Kids Fest / Duck Race Committee
The Chalet is reserved for June 4th. Rick Weiser is looking for a co-chair for the event this year. This person will be working with Rick throughout the planning process, ready to chair meetings if Rick is unavailable, and be the point person the day of the event. Please reach out to Rick if you are interested.
Meeting Recap
Students from The Lantern
We had the leadership team from Strongsville High Schools paper, The Lantern, visit us. They have transitioned to be a purely online publication, and recently were able to upgrade their equipment with new computers, cameras and lights. They will be increasing the number of video stories.
Bruce Kahn gave his bio
Bruce was born in California and raised in Los Altos. He originally planned to follow in his family footsteps and become a pharmacist. Studying organic chemistry convinced him to switch to marketing. While at university in Pocatello Idaho he was a member of the ROTC, and subsequently the Army, where he spent three years in Germany and did a lot of running.
After the Army he got married and moved to Pittsburgh and started a career in graphics arts, eventually moved to Cleveland.
He has two daughters and a son, and three grandchildren. After getting divorced in 2000 he met Karen, and after some years together they decided to buy a house together in Broadview Heights.
Our speaker was Neal Klabunde talking about Hives for Heroes
Hives for Heroes matches veterans with bee keeper mentors. Bee keeping helps veterans develop new sense of purpose, and with the year round planning, watching the bees work, and maintenance needed to keep the bees healthy and hives in shape can help instill a feeling of calm which helps with their mental health and PTSD when adjusting to civilian life.
The Strongsville Rotary Foundation will award several college scholarships to high school seniors who live in Strongsville. One is reserved for a parochial student and one is reserved for a Polaris student. In addition, scholarships of various amounts will be awarded to students in the Connections Program,