Last weeks meeting featured Arne and John from the Fairlawn Rotary Club providing a follow up report on one of their international projects: fiber optic endoscopes. Our club supported this project with a $2000 donation. They also requested our club support to obtain a District 6630 Grant. Board members Jim had sent an email requesting a brief board meeting regarding the grant support:
"We were asked this morning to partner with the Rotary Club of Fairlawn to help complete their observatory project. In short, they are building an observatory building for kids in Bath so they are able to see space through high-end telescopes. They cannot apply for two district grants so asked if our Rotary club would do one. This would give $3,500 from district to help complete this project. Fairlawn will cover the other $3,500 plus an additional $1,000 to meet their final $8,000 need. The total project is about $100,000 which they have raised all but this last $8,000 over this 2 year period. Could you all stick around after next Thursday, Jan. 18 meeting as a board to see if we would like to pursue this opportunity? It’s very time sensitive so the quicker we come to a decision the better"
Our speaker for this weeks meeting is Arthur Bright, his topic, " Quarterback the $ale"