On Wednesday, Mary 18th, Fillin President Rachel Woods rang the bell to bring the meeting to order. Guests were introduced, including Wanda Weber, guest pianist, and Dana Sanderson, guest of Ken Cotton. Ken Cotton led the group in prayer.

Wanda led the group in song. This week, - "Clementine" and "Smile" were the songs of choice.

Ken Cotton gave the Rotary Minute, discussing the youth exchange program, which allows high school students to travel abroad to stay with "host" families so that they may learn the language, customs, and traditions of the country they are staying in. Most exchanges are for the entire school term, though there are shorter exchange programs as well. The program started in 1927 in Copenhagen, Denmark, followed by Nice, France in 1929. It continued in Europe until WW2, then resumed again in 1946. California and Latin America began the exchange program in 1939, and from there the activities spread across the US. In 1972, the Rotary International Board of directors officially made the youth exchange program a program of Rotary International. In 2009/2010, 8700 students and families participated in this program.

Sergeant of Arms Jerry Weber levied the following fines:

-$2 to all Rotarians who missed last weeks ditch cleanup

-$1 to everyone who did not wash their hands (like Jerry did) prior to eating lunch

-$2 to Scott for trying to sweet talk his way out of his phone infraction last week

-$22 to Jeff Doom for the 22 fires started on his annual "ditch fire" on highway 46 a few weeks ago

-$2 to Kathe Henke for being able to sweet talk Wanda Weber into coming to Rotary when Jerry hasn't ever been able to

-$2 to Jordan Weber for not asking his mom if she wanted dessert

-$2 to Kara for not sitting with Wanda and leaving her at a table alone

-$2 to Rachel for her son Jackson's team winning the 4th grade quiz bowl

-$2 to Ken Cotton for picking up useless junk on the way into the Rotary building

Happy Fine: Amanda $5 for her first child graduating high school last weekend.

Dana Sanderson's ticket was drawn for the Queen of Hearts, where he picked one of the Jokers. That earned him $10, and the pot us now up to $441.

Secretary Treasurer Report by Craig Krsnak announced that Rachel Woods' team had 4 misses, for a total of 7 misses this quarter, and Becky Brunsing's team had 5 misses, for a total of 10 misses this quarter.

In other business, the message center sign for the Rotary Shelter has been ordered and will arrive in 8-12 weeks. The club will also be working on some landscaping at the shelter, and another grant has been submitted to help with these costs.

Dana Sanderson took a few moments to talk to the club about the upcoming 605 Unity Jam, which will take place on Sunday, June 12th. The event takes 72 people to put on, and is a way to bring our many local cultures together. There will be a church service in the morning, as well as vendors, music, a kolache eating contest, youth fishing clinic and tournament, inflatables and carnival games, cultural demonstrations, and a cardboard boat racing contest. If anyone would like to volunteer their time to help, please contact Dana.

Jordan Weber, program chair, introduced Chad Soulek, owner of Lawns Unlimited. Chad has 2 locations: Wagner, and Freeman, where the main office is located. Lawns Unlimited services 34 towns, and has 12 employees. Services offered include landscaping, lawn spraying, and sprinkler installation. He also talked about his new venture, which is 70 camping pads, located directly north of his building east of Wagner on High way 46. This is open and ready for reservations - both short and long term. There will be a lounge as well, called Pad 71, located on site. They will offer drinks, pizza and sandwhiches, and lottery, and a relaxing place to get together with friends. They will be open in the next 2 weeks, with hours of 4pm - 2am Monday - Saturday.

The meeting closed with the club reciting the Four Way Test together.