Rotarian Bruce Boettcher, of an engineer with BG Consultants, provided some interesting information on a recent completion of the water supply district that services Elmdale, Strong City and Cottonwood Falls in Chase County. The communities worked together to get each of their needs addressed, which included an aging infra-structure and low water pressure. BG Consultants provided their expertise in design, and worked with the Public Wholesale Water Supply District #26 to provide the communities what included a new water treatment plant and the distribution system to provide a quality water supply to the area communities for many years to come. The water quality is notably better than it was.
We have a new updated Rotary Club membership directory for club members to have. If you have not yet received one, we still have a supply of them at our weekly club meetings. Our membership directory was provided by Navrat's for free. Richard Duncan was kind enough to put them together and publish them for us. Putting this directory together and publishing them takes a big effort. Many thanks to Richard!
Emporia High School head football coach Corby Millison, who provided our club lots of information on EHS football this year, indicated that they are starting an eight-game schedule later this week (September 2). Losing several great graduating seniors, including two who played in the Shrine Bowl this summer, this team returns only twelve seniors. The good news is that they have 80 kids on the team this year compared to only 62 last year. This team is heavy in younger players in the Centennial League that has high quality football. This year's seniors had several strong leaders in front of them, and so it is hopeful that some good leaders will step up among this year's senior class. EHS has a good size front line, a three-year starting kicker who is All-State, at least one great running back from last year, and a group of six young quarterbacks who have yet to prove themselves (all sophomores and freshman). It will be interesting to see how this team develops this year.
Rotary Club meetings start at 11:45. All members are encouraged to be at our meetings by 11:45. Meals will be served at 11:45, and our program will begin by 12:20 in order to leave sufficient time for a business meeting after the program.
After August 23, our weekly club meetings will resume on September 6.
Rotarian Ken Buchele arranged to have Honorable G. Joseph Pierron, Jr., Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals join us for lunch and provide us with an inspiring program on the U.S. Constitution. Complete with a cast of characters taken on by several Rotary members, we all learned about the U.S. Constitution and the role it plays in defining our laws. Judge Pierron himself joined Rotary in 1971, and served as President of the Olathe Rotary Club. He is a Paul Harris Fellow.
Rotarians Barbara Wry, Clint Stephens and Teresa Maley represented our club at the Rotary Foundation, Membership, Leadership training seminar in Topeka.
Thanks to the Boy Scouts from Troop 165 at Grace United Methodist Church, the third Little Library provided by the Rotary Club and United Way was completed. The final library is located next to the church parking lot close to South Ave. The church was excited to have the library, as they used to have a library before, and have agreed to help keep the library filled with books. The church librarian and the Scoutmaster Tony Leek have already provided books to fill the library.