Our annual Rice and Beans drive has started.  Our goal is $2,000; we are currently at $500.

 

RYLA is coming up.  Recruiting is open to the third week of April.  We are paired with St. Pius High School.

 

Next week the winners of the 2025 Essay content will be at our meeting. 

 

Our boy scout troop is celebrating their 70th anniversary.

 

Dean Constantine is arranging tickets for an Isotopes games the latter half of April.  More to follow.

 

RYLA needs counselors.  If you are interested, contact Jennifer or David.

 

Ronald McDonald House is interested in our club being guest chef again.  More to follow.

 

There is a NM Kids Matter event on May 11 at the Tramway YMCA and they are asking for volunteers to hand out water, register participants and other activities.  Contact them if interested.

 

We will have a table at the District Conference to highlight our project with the Juarez club.

 

Congratulations to Dan Wilkerson for his 27 years as a member of our club.

 

Kristin Leigh, Co-Executive Director of Explora and the president-Elect of the Albuquerque Rotary Club, spoke to our club on the 27th.  She said Explora serves over 380,000 people a year and 100,000 students across New Mexico.  They reach over 95 percent of the state's school districts.  They have 25,000+ members from Title 1 schools or low income families.  They have 3,000 paid memberships.  Explora hosts Family Science Nights for 15,000 people from Title 1 schools.  They are distributed 10,000 science packs during Covid and are still doing so to many remote schools.