ROTARY WEEK

NO SILENT AUCTION THIS WEEK

ROTARY CHRISTMAS MEETING THIS

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18TH AT NOON.

ROTARY WILL "RING THE SALVATION

ARMY BELL" THIS FRIDAY AT FAREWAY STORE.

  

NO ROTARY MEETING DEC 25TH AND JAN 1

MAQUOKETA ROTARIAN AL TUBBS PROUD

OF HIS SON ABE WHO LAST WEEK WAS

APPOINTED TO A 3-YEAR TERM ON THE

FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF CHICAGO.

AL SERVED TWO TERMS ON THAT

BOARD 1998-2004.

LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON!

DECEMBER 18TH REGULAR MEETING

WITH GIFT EXCHANGE

WHITE ELEPHANT GIFTS

MARK SHEETS WAS IN CHARGE OF THE GIFT EXCHANGE.   FIRST, HE HELD
THE DRAWING OF NUMBERS, TO DETERMINE WHO STARTED AND WHO WAS NEXT TO DRAW A GIFT FROM THE PILE ON THE FLOOR.

TOM BLEY TOOK THE BIGGEST BOX AND THERE WERE TWO SMALLER BOXES INSIDE HE HAD TO UNWRAP TO GET TO HIS GIFT.

JACK WILLEY HELD UP HIS GIFT.

DEB IS RETIRING AND THIS WAS  HER LAST ROTARY MEETING TO HEAD-UP THE COOKING FOR DINNER.   SHE HAS BEEN DOING THIS FOR MANY YEARS
AND THE CLUB GAVE HER A "STANDING OVATION" AND AN ENVELOPE WITH
HER CASH GIFT FROM THE MEMBERS.    SHE ALSO RECEIVED THE CHRISTMAS CAP SHE IS WEARING.   SHE WILL BE MISSED, BUT SAID SHE
WOULD VISIT THE CLUB NOW AND THEN.

THE OTHER ENVELOPE CONTAINS THE CASH CHRISTMAS  GIFT FOR ALL THE SERVERS THIS PAST YEAR.  AT LEAST ONE WAS MISSING TODAY. 

LONGTIME MEMBER TED MAZE TOOK HOME THE VERY WORST

GIFT IN THE EXCHANGE.     BEING THE GOOD HEARTED GUY HE IS, HE OPENED THE GIFT HE TOOK FROM THE PILE (A GONE ONE) AND IMMEDIATELY  DEMANDED THE MASSAGER, SO KIM HUCKSTADT WOULDN'T HAVE TO TAKE  HOME THE BAD GIFT.     IN THE WHITE ELEPHANT GAME, TAKING A BETTER GIFT FROM SOMEONE IS ALLOWED.  IT MAKES FOR A LOT OF LAUGHS.    WHAT A SANTA TED WAS TODAY.

                            MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE

        MAQUOKETA ROTARY CLUB