The program for Thursday, April 3, 2008 will be:
TBD
Last Week's Program: Roosevelt Park Zoo
Dana, accompanied by Hemi, the African Hedgehog refreshed us on what’s going on at our zoo. As we are all well aware, we have one of the better zoo’s in the nation for a our size of community. It’s no small of an operation, either. There are 8 full time positions on the staff with about 30 added seasonally.
Roosevelt Park Zoo provides a delightful local supplement for or children’s education. During these waning days of school, teachers can arrange Spring Tours for their classes. Zoo Teens provide an opportunity for our farm kids to get away form the horses and cows and work with REAL animals like warthogs and Dik-Diks! The dung may smell the same, but atmosphere is more electrifying. City kids are invited volunteer too, and, boy, do they get a nose full! Programs for the younger children include "story time"each Tuesday and zoo camp.
She informed us that opening day is April 26 and hinted that there might yet be a surprise or two in store for us yet this year. As usual, there are a number of ways we can personally support the zoo including family membership, corporate sponsorship and daily admission. More direct can be arranged thought the Greater Minot Zoological Society.
Dana was enthusiastic in suggesting, "Be sure to stop by this year!"
Coming Events
- WHO World Health Day April 7, 2008
"Protecting health from climate change" - Board of Directors Meeting - April 14, 2008
- Human Fuseball Showdown
Sertona vs. Rotary (both Clubs) YMCA April 14, 6pm
(Come on out and watch Dana show us how it's done!) - Earth Day April 22 A Call for Climate
- Dist 5580 Conference - Apr 30 - May 1, 2008
- Service Project and Family of Rotary get together,
May 8, 2008 5:30 pm, Roatry Shelter, South Hill.
UNUSUAL MAKE-UP MEETINGS
Which Rotarians have to travel farthest for a make-up meeting? You are right if you guessed the 34 members of the Rotary Club of Papeete (Paw-PEET-ay) Tahiti, which is located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and is the club that is most remote from any other. The southernmost Rotary meeting is that of the Rotary Club of Base Marambio-Antártida in Antarctica. To visit the northernmost club, you must travel to the Rotary Club of Svalbard on the Svalbard island group far north of the Norwegian mainland.
It is said that there is a Rotary meeting being held someplace in the world every hour of every day. If you attended one meeting per day, it would take more than 80 years to visit all of the more than 31,000 Rotary clubs in the world, and by that time, no doubt, there would be thousands more new clubs to attend.