PROGRAM for JUNE 20:
Committee Signups
Report from RI Convention – GAIL BRICKLER
MEETING FUNCTIONS for JUNE 20:
Greeters:
    GEORGE RAMSEY - 11:00 to 11:30
    MARK RUSSELL - 11:30 - NOON
Money Collectors:
    SAM BIEDERSTEDT - 11:00 to 11:30
    BILL KIEL - 11:30 to NOON
Invocation:
    BOB HANNEMANN
UPCOMING PROGRAMS:
  • June 27 – Indiana Organ Procurement Organization – Barb Johns
  • July 11 –Girl Scouts: More than Cookies - KIM MOTULIAK
  • July 18- Aces Power – Joe Motuliak
  • July 25 – Habitat Women Build -C’Koh Andrew
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

♦ Pub Club will meet at Red Seven during June

♦ A new directory will be printed soon.  Is your information correct and up-to-date?  If not, please let RENEE know.

♦ For a new project planned to help LTHC Homeless Services, please save your clean plastic grocery bags.  Bring them to Rotary meetings in JULY.  We hope to collect lots of them!

♦ In August we will be helping Wabash River Cycle Club put on their annual bicycle ride.  Our job is to serve lunch to the participants.  All you have to do is give out sandwiches and potato salad.  This is an opportunity for service as well as PUBLICITY.  We can get our club and mission and people in front of a different audience. This event typically has 300 riders.

NEW MAJOR PROJECT:
MARTI GUTWEIN chaired our meeting today and announced that the major project preferred by more than 53% of respondents is the Rotary Plaza in Columbian Park.  This will be near the Rush Pavilion, en route to Memorial Island.  Work on this new area will start in July.  Thanks to all those who responded to the survey.

GLOBAL GRANT PROJECT MOVES FORWARD:
Last week JACK KELLEY announced that funds have finally been released to implement the Dominican Republic Water Project.  Here are some details about this effort.  The global project will place water treatment systems in three schools in three different communities in the Dominican Republic over a three year period.  The plan is to use funds from the grant with Lafayette Rotary and Rotary International to build community-scale water treatment systems in the communities of Los Peladeros, El Mamey, and La Torre.
Professor Ernest “Chip” R. Blatchley III, leader in charge of the engineering of the system says, “We have assembled the interdisciplinary expertise that we think is required to develop sustainable, holistic solutions to the problem of lack of access to safe, affordable water among impoverished communities.” The team includes faculty and students from agricultural economics, civil and environmental engineering, food science, biology and nursing.
The objective of the team is to develop sustainable, community-scale water treatment to decrease waterborne illness, promote healthy hygiene habits and improve quality of life.
This is accomplished by using a water purification system that collects water from school and home roofs and purifies it through a multiple barrier concept of two physical barriers, a biosand filter and a hollow fiber membrane filter.  The water purification system was designed by members of the Purdue University engineering, biological and food science departments.
In addition to the system installation, team members assist the community with governance, public health, education and training to promote local term sustainability.
“Our geographic focus for the foreseeable future is in the Dominican Republic, but we believe that the approach we have developed can be generalized to many other developing countries.” says Blatchely.
Our Club is continuing the tradition of helping those around the world by sponsoring this program.  Thanks to the International Projects Committee for seeing this through.  We look forward to reports of the filtration systems being installed and citizens of the Dominican Republic having access to clean, safe drinking water.