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There was a familiar face sitting at the head table on Wednesday, December 3rd when the Wagner Rotary Club convened for their weekly meeting. Rotarian Brian Slaba, a former President was conducting the meeting in place of the present President Jamie Soukup. Rotarian Alison Woods introduced a visitor, Carson Koehn from Armour, South Dakota Carson is an employee at Juffer Inc. in Wagner. The weekly Rotary Grace was invoked and then introductions were asked for by the four Wagner Community School students. Ky Arpan, whose parents are Kenny and Roxy Honomichl plans to attend the University of Kansas after graduation in May of 2026 to study architecture. Kobe Drapeau, whose parents are Gregg Hederick and Galicia Drapeau plans to attend the University of South Dakota for a business degree. Kenny Weddell’s parents are Ingrid and Lanny Weddell, and he plans to travel to Alaska to work in the Salmon Industry. Treyton Drapeau’s parent is Jennifer Paiva, and he will be attending the University of Nebraska for a business degree. Rotarian Rachel Woods led the group in singing I’ve Been Working on the Railroad in honor of Rotarian Bryan Slaba who will be retiring in another week from the Wagner Community Memorial Hospital. We will miss Bryan very much and wish him all the best in the world in his retirement years. Rotarian Patty Frei gave her weekly Membership Minute about sharing Rotary with new members. “Sharing Rotary” is one of the most important obligations for all Rotary members. Every Rotarian has an “obligation to share Rotary with others and to help extend Rotary through proposing qualified persons for Rotary club membership.” The Rotary policy on club membership states: “In order for a Rotary club to be fully relevant to its community and responsive to the needs of those in the community, it is important and necessary that the club include in its membership all fully qualified prospective members located within its territory” Only a Rotarian may propose a customer, neighbor, client, supplier, executive, relative, business associate, professional or other qualified person to join a Rotary club.” Sergeant at Arms Gerrit Juffer was mild on fines for the day. The biggest fine went to Jeff Doom who took his neighbor and employee James Bechen hunting pheasants for two hours but spent the rest of the day in a bar and then proceeded to drive his snowmobile in circles all around his neighborhood “disturbing the peace”. Juffer added trespassing on private property to the fine, especially when it was revealed that Doom had just turned sixty-five. The total came to $10.00. Jordan Weber asked if everyone had seen the retirement advertisement in the paper for Bryan Slaba and was fined $2 for being “happy” about it. There were twelve Rotarians present who were fined for having Christmas decorations up outside; and $2 to Amanda and Kathe Henke for already sending out Christmas cards. A $10.00 “unhappy fine” came from Craig Krsnak for forgetting to provide dessert for the Rotarians for the day, and Amanda Bechen was $2 happy for getting a meal for the day since her meal last week was mysteriously absent. Patty Frei was happy for $2 that the blizzard the past weekend kept her kids home for an extra day. Frei also drew the lucky number and tried her luck at the Queen of Hearts drawing but only found the three of hearts. Craig Krsnak announced that the Queen drawing only has $61.00 in it for now. The good news was that the two teams each had two misses; but the bad news was that the total was ten misses for the Woods Team and twenty misses for the Christensen Team. There are only four weeks left to make up this deficit. It’s not going to happen! m Football book winners were Matt Fischer sold by Craig Krsnak and Joe Jaeger sold by Linda Soukup. Rotarian Jerry Henke was the program chair for the meeting. Henke has had four to six bypasses in the past few years and is beginning to feel better and get his strength back. He and his wife Kathe subscribe to The Epoch Times. They read this newspaper avidly. There are sections on food, allergies, surgeries, physical conditions, etc. Jerry has agreed with many of the suggestions in the paper about food and drinks to avoid. His doctor told him there are “three white killers”—sugar, salt, and cocaine! It would be wise to stop consuming soft drinks and alcohol. Jerry has cut out sugar and soft drinks and has not had a beer in four years. The alcohol and sodas that everyone drinks regularly pose a threat to getting liver disease. Dementia has also been linked to consuming too much alcohol. Consuming some of the popular supplemental drugs on the market like Melatonin for instance is not a good idea. We have no knowledge of what is contained in many of the supplements now available to everyone. Jerry is feeling much better and is gaining his strength Jerry Henke, Program Chair, with Craig Krsnak. Courtesy Photo back by following many of the suggestions. His doctor recommends leafy green vegetables, tea, walnuts, and cocoa beans. Henke brought several of the Epoch Times articles with him. It was an interesting program, and a great deal of advice was given. The Epoch Times is a newspaper that can be subscribed to. The membership adjourned by reciting The Four-Way Test of the things we do, think, or say: Is it the TRUTH? Is it FAIR to all concerned? Will it build GOODWILL & BETTER FRIENDSHIPS? Will it be BENENFICIAL to all concerned?