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Rotary Club of Pen Valley Board Meeting will be held this coming Tuesday, Jan. 15, after our Club meeting! Last month's Board Meeting minutes are on our website, Penn Valley Rotary: https://pennvalleyrotary.org/ A Special Invitation from Torie: Penn Valley School District Board Meeting By Torie England I would like to formally invite all interested community members to attend the Penn Valley School District Board Meeting on Wednesday, January 16th at 6pm in the Ready Springs Library. The first item to be discussed by the Board will be a complete Facility Needs Assessment of both schools that our team has been eager to present. This needs assessment will assist our Board in moving forward with asking the community to help our schools with these needs in the way of a school bond. School bonds are very common in this era as facility funds are minimally provided by the State. More than 90% of school districts have to reach out to their communities for support in maintaining safe facilities for students. Our facilities are also available for public use so asking for this partnership makes complete sense. My goal is to always educate the public, staff and families so that we all understand the needs, costs and options. On the 16th, the Board of Trustees will have their first opportunity to see the full scope of our needs in order to determine next steps in the bond process. I hope you can join us, even if just for this agenda item as our goal is to have outstanding schools in the Penn Valley community! Please feel free to contact me if you have questions at tengland@pvuesd.org or 530-432-7311. Penn Valley MAC Workshop The Penn Valley Area Plan (MAC) 2nd Workshop will take place at Ready Springs Elementary School on January 23, 6:00 - 8:00pm. For more information contact Joannie Bumpus or go to the County website: mynevadacounty.com Food Baskets for Local Students - Thank You!! By Debbi Corbett All-in-all project went smoothly this year — Holiday was organized (due to plenty of lead time on shopping list), weather cooperated with packing at Holiday, taking bags to schools (two days in a row), and hopefully (other than COLD), when families picked up the 90 bags we delivered. As for costs — total spent on groceries (all at Holiday with gift cards) was $2,431.94 (divided by 30 is $81.06 per family). I still have a couple thousand dollars in gift cards and I am sure we did well this last year in getting points donated. We will get cards for the last quarter of 2018 towards the end of January. Members can donate their WOW points throughout the year — any time they have 1000 points: Just ask the cashier to donate your WOW points (Code 476) (increments of 1000 points). The Rotary Club receives a $20 gift card for each 1000 points donated. Thank you for your financial and physical support of this needed program! Distinguished Citizen Dinner - Date change and info By Lindy Beatie Our Penn Valley Rotary fundraiser - Distinguished Citizen Dinner, will honor retiring Supervisor Hank Weston on March 29, 2019 at The Clubhouse at Lake Wildwood. Invitations will go out by the first of the year. Funds raised from this dinner will go to support youth activities in the Penn Valley area, such as the Rotary Eighth Grade Leadership (REGL) program for Ready Springs students, Rotary Youth Leadership program supporting local High School students, Penn Valley Little League and Team Building programs at Penn Valley schools called " Breaking down the Walls". Cost of the dinner (which includes a donation) is $80 per person, and there is also a sponsorship packets for $250 which includes two tickets, an ad in the program and two drink tickets. For more information, contact Lindy Beatie at PVRotaryDCD@gmail.com. Smiles Without Borders Trip A special message from DG Tina: I am happy to report that the Smiles Without Borders project has been fully funded. Now it is time to fill the vans with those that would like to join us the first weekend in February. We have 18 spots to fill on a first come first serve basis. Please get this news out to your members. For anyone that would like to go they need to email our “Housing Coordinator” Assistant Governor Anita Daniels at adaniels5190@gamil.com and send a check for $500.00 made payable to Anita Daniels and mailed to ....10282 Old Dairy Place, Grass Valley CA 95945. We have rented two houses so we can stay together. All you need to do is get yourself to the San Diego Airport baggage claim on Jan. 31st no later than 11:00 am and Returning after 3:00 on Feb 4th. Are you a Trivia expert? Then the AAUW Tapas & Trivia is for you... We've been invited by the Nevada County Association of University Women (AAUW) to participate in the Tapas & Trivia event, January 26 at Peace Lutheran Church. If you'd like to be part of the team, talk to President-elect Lindy at the next meeting. $25 per person raises funds for their scholarships.... Music Contest application deadline.. Application for the High school instrumental Music contest are due to MaryAnne Davis at 49er Rotary by January 11, 2019. If you know a High School student who is interested, information is available at www.ncrotary.org . Our Club Music contest will be held February 12 and our club Speech Contest will be held on March 12.
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