Our speaker this week will be Peggy Higgins, Metal Detector guru. She'll tell us about the effective techniques and the cool stuff she's found over the years. 

You can't make this stuff up! Recall that we dropped "Plan B", which was moving the monument over by the Boise Inn because it was problematic to figure out who owned it, and instead hatched "Plan C" which was to tell the stories of Government Island and the Trestle bridge and build our own monument......a plan which had far fewer problems.  Through a series of coincidences and odd circumstances we're going back to "Plan B"! Just last week, as we were putting the final touches on "Plan C",  we were connected with Janice Beller, the Regent of the Pioneer Chapter of the D.A.R. Turns out they are working on plans to celebrate their 110th birthday next spring and they were trying to figure out how to use one of the monuments. They claim that THEY own the monument over by the Boise Inn!! They don't like its location and are thrilled at the idea of moving it to our spot!

 

So we now have a new partner! Imagine the party we'll have at our ribbon cutting which will also celebrate the 110th of the DAR! And, it gives us a new population to sell bricks to! 

 

So we're moving ahead. This change of plan does not affect our timeline. We've raised the funds and we hope to have our brick order in this week!

 

Roger reports that with the help of Scott and Dave the Rotary stickers have been affixed to all the dictionaries. They are now ready for delivery. Contact Roger if you can assist with a school.

The annual Bike Ride to End Polio will be November 18th in Tucson AZ. Once again, Mary Reiman and friends plan to make the trip. There are many different event lengths, but she's going to do the 106 miler this time. You can participate by supporting Mary with a pledge, or riding on your stationary bike at home or at the gym! This is a HUGE event; a fund raiser for many different organizations, Rotary among them.