Menu: Your choice of fried chicken or beef hash; mashed
potatoes and salad bar. Bruce Smith
presided. Mike Cunningham led us in the invocation. Matt Murrish announced that there is still
time to get in on the dictionary deliveries to third graders. President Bruce said the last social
gathering of the year last Friday was well attended. Don Leonard brought up a special guest from
the Senior Resource Center to accept an $8,500 check for Rotary to be used by Redwood Coast PACE.
Our speaker was
Michael David-Reed, Assistant Superintendent at Eureka High. He is participating in an Ultra Bike marathon
to raise money for programs to teach volunteers how to help children who have
trouble reading. He starts in California and ends up in Maryland twelve days
later. He has a support team of 10 people who relay him food and water. He will ride 18-20 hours a day, getting 2 ½ hours
of sleep. Temperatures will range from
30 degrees to 120 degrees. David -Reed
is Welsh, so his team is called Red Dragon.
Less than 50% of riders finish the race. He said “you are never to old
to do something extraordinary, and you are all capable..
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