ROTARY WEEK VOL 3 NO 30

SALLY DAVIES WAS PRESENT TODAY FOR MAY 18TH MEETING.
SHE WILL NOT BE PRESENT AT THE NEXT TWO MEETINGS.
SHE WILL BE ON VACATION IN ALASKA, VISITING A FRIEND.
IN THE MEANTIME, ROTARY WILL SURVIVE. 

THE PROGRAM TODAY WAS ABOUT THE MAQUOKETA HOSPITAL, DONE BY
PRESIDENT OF THE HOSPITAL BOARD, KEVIN BURNS....

THINGS TALKED ABOUT...,.
THE HOSPITAL IS OLD, SINCE 1950, AND NEEDS REMODELING.
IT IS  NOW TOO BIG, OVER 150,000 SQUARE FEET.
IT WAS IN EARLY YEARS, AN IN-PATIENT HOSPITAL WITH MANY BEDS.
NOW AN OUT-PATIENT HOSPITAL, WITH FEW BEDS AND FEW OVERNIGHT
PATIENTS.    
IT IS BUSY AND MAKING MONEY.
THE TWO MAJOR QUESTIONS!
REMODEL EXISTING?
BUILD NEW?
A NEW COULD BE HALF THE SIZE.
THERE IS OVER $15-MILLION ON RESERVE FOR A NEW HOSPITAL.
A NEW ONE WOULD PROBABLY COST TWICE THAT...MORE OR LESS.
A NEW ONE, DOING EVEN MORE BUSINESS THAN NOW, MIGHT EVENTUALLY
LOWER OR END THE NEARLY $1,000,000 SUBSIDY FROM THE COUNTY.
THE OLD ONE COULD BE SOLD AND USED FOR?  APARTMENTS?   OR 
MIGHT HAVE TO BE TORN DOWN?
A NEW ONE WOULD REQUIRE LAND AT A NEW LOCATION.
WHERE?   WOULD PROBABLY REQUIRE A STUDY BY THE BOARD AND
COMMUNITY.
THE OLD, OR A NEW ONE, COULD BE SOLD.
MAYBE LEASED.
AND MANAGEMENT OPTIONS WILL PRESENT PROS AND CONS TO BE
CONSIDERED.
WHATEVER...DECISIONS SOON, THIS YEAR,  WOULD BE GOOD.
FACT:  ANAMOSA BUILDT A NEW HOSPITAL A FEW YEARS AGO AND
IS DOING VERY WELL, GROWING, AND JUST THIS SPRING HAD A  GRAND OPENING OF A NEW ADDITION.       
KEVIN HAS BEEN ON BOARD SINCE 2001.    FELLOW ROTARIAN DWAIN
TRENKAMP HAS BEEN ON EVEN LONGER.    THEY WILL WELCOME 
IDEAS FROM THE ROTARY MEMBERS.     
FACT:   THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY PURCHASED THE LAND THE PRESENT
HOSPITAL STANDS ON, BACK IN THE  LATE 40'S.    THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY
HAS HAD AN INTEREST IN A LOCAL HOSPITAL A LONG TIME.

THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY PRESENTED AT THE SCHOOL ASSEMBLY THIS
MORNING, FOUR  SCHOLARSHIPS.      REPRESENTING ROTARY WERE
ROGER STEWART IN SUIT AND BEHIND HIM, PARTIALLY HIDDEN, PRESIDENT SALLY DAVIES.    THE STUDENTS, LEFT TO RIGHT:    TAYLOR FISHWILD,
($500 SCHOLARSHIP)...BAILY LENZ ($500)....JACKSON ROLLING ($1,000) AND
BROOKE LAPKE ($1,000).
OVER $400,000 IN SCHOLARSHIPS WERE PESENTED TODAY.

KEN WRIGHT, SALLY DAVIES, AND JIM ENGLAND (NOT SURE WHO ELSE) 
DID ANOTHER  HIGHWAY CLEAN-UP LAST SATURDAY, ON BEHALF OF
ROTARY.    

THE ANNUAL ROTARY SENIOR CITIZENS ICE CREAM SOCIAL AND BAND CONCERT IS SCHEDULED FOR THE LAST WEDNESDAY IN JUNE.  
THE FIRST ONE WAS IN 1976 AND WE HAVE NEVER MISSED A YEAR.