President Jim Schmidt was present and ran the meeting. Ray Smith led the club in singing “The More We Get Together.” The invocation was by Darl Bethea. Pledge was by Warren Williamson.
Guests: Greg Bouslog, a potential new member, and Shakima Fagan.
Drawing: Carolyn Jones won the attendance drawing.
Happy Dollars: Carolyn Jones and Dick Myron were both happy to be there. Daryl Bethea was happy his son was there to listen to his presentation. Warren was happy to participate in the Feed My Starving Children project.
President Jim gave the club a bit of Rotary history by letting us know that the very first Rotary project was not the community toilets as many believe, but was to purchase a new horse for a preacher. He also added to his weekly humor letting us know that the two inevitable things in life are death and taxes. However, you only have to die once. Taxes just keep coming.
Chuck Flint introduced Shakima Fagan who was an Interactor at Westwood HS. She is originally from the British Virgin Islands. Now that she has graduated from Westwood, she has been accepted to the University of York in York England to work on environmental and ecology studies. She also expressed her gratefulness for the scholarship she was awarded by Mesa West.
Mesa West Rotary may have been the best-represented club at the Big West Rotary Zone Institute held in Denver September 5-8, 2019. The Institute followed the Governor Elect and Governor Nominee training sessions that were held earlier that week. Two Mesa West Members - Allan Cady and Chris Krueger were invited by District Governor David Simmer to participate in training for Emerging Leaders. Lucinda General is active at the zone level and served on the Institute planning committee as well as participated as a trainer. John Pennypacker served as an aid to one of the many Rotary VIP's at the Institute. Don LaBarge played a huge logistical role. He transported the flags representing all the countries where Rotary is represented from Arizona to the Institute and was involved in getting them placed strategically in the rooms where the general and plenary sessions were held. 
Paige Goetzenberger is shown on her first day of school in Austria Monday, September 9, 2019. .jpg)
Mesa West Rotary was well represented at our first 5th Thursday hands-on service project at Feed My Starving Children's Mesa facility on Thursday, August 29, 2019..jpg)
Pam Cohen did some shopping so that the children waiting for exams at this year's Gift of Hearing mission in Guaymas, Mexico will have something to keep them happily busy while they wait. The leftover supplies will be gladly accepted by the teachers for use in the classrooms at the school where our team will do the exams..jpg)
