The Scoop - March 28, 2015
Posted by Michael Frueh
on Mar 31, 2016
Lima Rotary is working on a sewer project in Honduras.
3/28 - Invocation was by Bob Fett.
Michael Frueh provided fellowship, and he commented on the shortcomings of a few political candidates. Judge Warren commented about sitting at the "bad boy" table, which some members thought would be a problem. The judge simply commented that he had been in contact with the criminal element for most of his career...
Our Member Spotlight today was the current publisher of the Lima News - Pamela Stricker. Her father was a pastor, and eventually a missionary, which took her to Japan for many years. She also grew up in Ft. Wayne, In and Kansas City, Mo - where she was the editor of the school yearbook. She attended the University of Missouri and majored in journalism - had 3 children, and then moved into advertising sales at the paper she was working at the time. This proved to be very successful for Pam, and she ran the sales departments for several Ohio papers over the years, ending up in Wilmington, Ohio publishing over a dozen publications.
Changing behaviors have made the newspaper industry much more challenging in recent years - but Pam is up to the challenge...
Our last Polio Plus Auction was gift certificates for Vino Bellissimo and Sara's cupcakes - which Michael Frueh purchased rather aggressively. Michael wanted to remind all Rotarians that beer is proof that God wants us all to be happy...
Our speaker today was our own Bob Ruehl - currently the district leader for international projects. He pointed out that our current project is very significant, and is a Rotary pilot project. Located in Honduras just 150 miles from Cancun - our village is in a mountainous region, where digging conventional latrines is difficult. Runoff from these hills contaminate groundwater, which causes many in these villages to get sick often. Bob is working on several solutions to this problem, which if proven effective will be used worldwide in similar areas. Good luck !!
Our Rottery drawing today was won by Dave Collins - congrats !!