- Ladies Night Out is on March 14th. We are having a bunco night at Janet’s house. Please RSVP to the invite or let us know if you would like to attend. This is also a great opportunity to bring a friend – either to help with the membership drive we are having or someone who may be interested in playing on May 5th!
- Next board meeting is going to be March 13th at 5PM. It will be at Daniela’s office in Blue Heron
- District Conference is April 21st – 23rd. It will be in Lufkin – which is our DG Gig’s Rotary Club. Registration is open if you would like to go. It is $175 before March 10th. After March 10th, price goes up to $200.
- Admin – Daniela: Sheriff Rand Henderson will be the speaker next week.
- Public Image – Deanna
- New Generations – Rick - Interact kids of Montgomery are doing a great job and are working on new projects.
- Service – Jan - please turn in your non-Rotarian applications
- Foundation – Gary - we are 9 away from being a 100% EREY club
- Memory Park- Gary - if you would like a shirt they are $10.
- Membership – Shanon – March is the Membership Drive Competition. Please bring guests.
Speaker:
Stop Hunger Now -
The New Motto is "Rise Against Hunger".
Rise Against Hunger is driven by the vision of a world without hunger. Thier mission is to end hunger in our lifetime by providing food and life-changing aid to the world’s most vulnerable and creating a global commitment to mobilize the necessary resources.
In 1998, envisioning a world without hunger, Ray Buchanan — a United Methodist minister — founded Stop Hunger Now. In 2017, Stop Hunger Now rebranded to become Rise Against Hunger. After enlisting as a U.S. Marine during the Vietnam War, Ray Buchanan quickly recognized that accomplishing a mission required “commitment to something larger than yourself.”
Driving Rise Against Hunger’s work is the recognition that ending hunger is more than just feeding people, which led Rise Against Hunger to focus its feeding programs in areas where we can have a real impact and expand its hunger-fighting programs beyond meal packaging and distribution. They use three approaches to work towards ending hunger:
- Meal packaging – volunteers produce millions of nutritious meals annually that are distributed to partners in countries around the world.
- Responding in Natural and Man-Made Crisis – these in include droughts, floods, and conflict zones.
- Grassroots community empowerment –improve agriculture skills and methods to help train communities to be more self sufficient.
To learn more about how to get involved or follow the progress visit the website at
www.stophungernow.com. You can also follow them on Facebook and Twitter.