President Rachel Woods brought the Wagner Rotary Club to order on March 26th for its last meeting of the third quarter of the Rotary year. Rotarian/Pastor Bill Heerman gave a prayer of thanksgiving for the sunshine, fellowship, and food. President Woods introduced John and Carol Schneider as the guests for the day. It happened to be Carols’ birthday, so the club sang Happy Birthday to her.

Rotarian Gerrit Juffer cranked up his Bluetooth for the singing of Home on the Range. Rotarian Ken Cotton gave a Membership Minute on Rotary Mottoes. The two slogans “He Profits Most Who Serves his fellows Best” and “Service, not Self”; went through several adjustments until the 1989 Council on Legislation established “Service Above Self” as the principal motto of Rotary, since it best explains the philosophy of unselfish volunteer service.

Rotarian Jeff Doom came forward to perform the Sergeant at Arms duties. He immediately fined the Triple J’s for not showing up to perform their duties and forcing the days job on himself. (Jerry, Jordan, and Jamie); $2 to Rachel Woods for selling the Queen of Hearts tickets for him so he could have his meal; $2 to Linda Soukup for trying to assess a fine on Jeff for his question about the age of the founder of Rotary; $2 each to Bill and Patty Frei for the extra “goodies” they brought to the meeting; $2 to Joe Stedronsky for turning into a super book reader; $2 to Scott McAdaragh for offering to be Scott’s program next week; $5 to Gerrit Juffer for skipping the meeting; $5 to Ken Cotton as a congratulations on his retirement; $3 to Rachel for making Jeff give up on one of his Lenten intentions. A Happy Fine of $5 came from Craig Krsnak for Kathe giving him a suggestion about a program.

Rotarian Kathke Henke had another chance at the Queen of Hearts drawing which has grown to $345.00. She only drew the eight of Clubs which brought a sign of relief from members.

Secretary/Treasurer Krsnak declared the attendance race for the third quarter to be over with the Jordan Weber team again the loser. This will be the third time the Weber Team has to pay for the other teams steaks! Rotarian Linda Soukup offered to draw up the list for next year’s attendance team to which President Woods happily accepted the offer.

Rotarian Kathe Henke announced that she had recently talked to Betsy Wiltz and Betsy extended an invitation to the club members to come to a luncheon at the Rotary Park Shelter on Saturday, July 15th for a time of remembering former District Governor and Wagner Rotarian Roger Wiltz. There will be a private family service at the Wagner Cemetery and the luncheon will be later in the day. Details will be forthcoming as the time draws near.

Rotarian Bill Heermann announced that he would appreciate some help in loading aluminum cans from the container into the trailer. The container is getting quite full and with another weather event coming this weekend we don’t want the cans blowing around the city streets.

District #5610 Governor John Schneider came to the podium with a few details concerning Rotary: The number one issue right now is selling all the tickets for the raffle by the Rotary Foundation; Pets (President Elect Training Session) will be held in April and President Elect Becky Brunsing will be attending; the deadline for Rotary Youth Leadership Camp is fast approaching; and there are three Rotary Exchange students coming. One student has a home so far but there is a need for two more homes to accept students; and there is a Group Study Exchange of seven people that will be needing Host Homes on the 14th of September. Governor Schneider also presented the Wagner Club with a Rotary Foundation Banner and another Banner of Celebration of the Wagner Club having a 100 percent participation per capita for the club members.

Rotarian Craig Krsnak gave a brief summation of the program he had planned for the day. His program had a last-minute interruption and was not able to be present. Krsnak spoke about his grandfather Kenny Ray and his wife Frances and how much he admired them. Craig used to spend many summers in Wagner with his grandparents. His grandfather Ken was a Mason and Craig followed in his footsteps. Craig who is a member of the Masonic Lodge in Armour stated that “there are many misconceptions about the Masons”. The Wagner Lodge disbanded his headquarters which used to be above the old Rivins Grocery Store and the remaining members were absorbed into the Masonic Lodge at Armour, South Dakota. Krsnak’s program was to be given by Larry Hornstra of Armour and plans are being made to have the program again sometime in the hear future.

The Club adjourned with its usual recitation of The Four-Way Test.