Rotary Meeting - 10-16-25 Club Meeting Opening & Activities Morning Pledge of Allegiance led by Bob Mals  Invocation by Ron Four-Way Test by Shirley Guest Introductions & Announcements Guests present: Michelle Frechette – Rotary Club of Rio Rancho Emily von Aiken – former outbound exchange student to Switzerland Gary Armijo – Friendship exchange committee Lilly Schliter – inbound exchange student from Switzerland who goes to RR High School. Debbie Seely Hunger fundraiser banner is on our website.Take a look and donate. Need greeters at airport to welcome Zone participants.Need help Wednesday afternoon from 2-5pm and in the moring from 10AM – 12PM. Dave Simon The club will receive $1,200 for supporting the merchandise test at the balloon fiesta. There are several Trunk or Treat events around Albuquerque on 10/24 from 4-8PM. Ramp build on 11/8.More to follow. Road Runner Food Bank needs volunteers for the event on 11/22 to support Thanksgiving. We will be supporting Heart Gallery again this year.More to follow. Out Rice and Beans fundraiser for RR Food Bank will be kicking off soon.More to follow. Albuquerque will be getting a peace pole installed at Rotary Park.More to follow. There will be a Polio Plus event of 10/24 at 4:30PM at Civic Plaza as part of Zone. The last meet and greet at Jinja went very well. The will be a 3-house progressive dinner in February at the homes of John H., Dave S. and Mike M.More to follow. Jen The annual club Christmas party will be at Jen and Brian’s home on 12/6 at 5:30PM. Bruce S. We will have a Retro meeting on 10/30 at Kit’s, Cynde’s or Greg’s offices.Bruce will pass around a sign-up sheet.   Speaker: Lilly Schliter, exchange student from Switzerland Hosted by Emily and Nathan Anderson, Switzerland is smaller than Pennsylvania. Switzerland is broken up into the equivalent of states. She lives in Bern which is the political capital. They speak four languages in Switzerland – German, French, Italian and Romonsch. Zurich and Lucern are famous cities. Acpabzug – bring cows, sheep, goats, etc to the mountains for the summer. Fasnacht – carnival. There are five people in her family – mom, dad and 2 sisters. Track and field is a hobby.  She participates through a club rather than through school.  She runs hurtles. She goes to the Gymnasium – high school equivalent. She plays saxophone in a jazz band at home called The Fish. She has 2-hours of marching band practice every day. Some differences between Switzerland and Albuquerque; Everyone drives here no mater how short the travel distance. Younger people drive here.  People younger than Lilly are driving here around here. Her family doesn’t eat much fast food although they have Burger King and KFC here.  Her mom is a vegetarian. People here are much more friendly than in Switzerland. Most people go to church here but not so much in Switzerland.

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